ON THE STEEL BREEZE PROXIMA

Release Date: 30 October

£ 8.99 | Author: Alastair Reynolds Publisher: Gollancz In book two of the Poseidon’s Children sequence, a holoship blow- out puts a clone at the centre of momentous events. We said: “Reynolds’s ability to make you care about his characters and make the spectacle seem driven by their choices is rare. As good as contemporary SF gets.”

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£ 8.99 | Author: Stephen Baxter Publisher: Gollancz This first half of a duology concerns a risky colony mission to Alpha Centauri, and cold war between the Chinese Empire and the UN after alien artefacts are found on Mercury. We said: “Baxter details a fascinating planetary ecology. The depth of this part has one thinking of Rendezvous With Rama.”