Welcome once again to the British Genre Fiction Hitlist: a bi-weekly rundown of new and notable books out of the United Kingdom’s thriving speculative fiction industry, from the fold of the British Genre Fiction Focus.
I’ve got more than 20 promising novels and a couple of awesome comics for you all to start looking forward to today, including standalone stories by Mitch Benn, F. G. Cottam and Tobias S. Buckell, sequels (of sorts) to Under Heaven and The Devil’s Nebula,alongside additions to several series, such as Paul McAuley’s Quiet War, Mira Grant’s Newsflesh, Sarah Pinborough’s Tales from the Kingdoms, Terry Brooks’ Dark Legacy of Shannara and—neither last not least—Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London. Lovely.
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