ALSO OUT

Not enough books for ya? Here’s some more, you great word-gannets. In Paul Hoffman’s SCORN (out now, Red Opera) a scientist transformed by a Large Hadron Collider experiment eats the priests who brutalised him as a child – then sets his sights on the likes of Tony Blair and the Pope! Delilah S Dawson’s prequel STAR WARS: PHASMA (out now, Century) sees an adversary of the First Order officer bent on unearthing her mysterious origins, while short story collection INFINITY WARS (out now, Solaris) unites military SF tales by the likes of Elizabeth Bear and Garth Nix. Teenage assassin Mia returns in book two of Jay Kristoff’s Nevernight Chronicle saga, GODSGRAVE (out now, Harper Voyager). We rather enjoyed book one, calling it “entertaining and witty throughout”. Also continuing: Trudi Canavan’s Millennium’s Rule series – which concerns a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic – with third instalment SUCCESSOR’S PROMISE (21 September, Orbit). And Ken MacLeod’s space opera trilogy The Corporation Wars – set in a future in which exploratory robots have become self-aware – concludes with EMERGENCE (28 September, Orbit). Finally, two guides. SUPERNATURAL: THE MEN OF LETTERS BESTIARY (15 September, Titan) details monsters and ghosts battled by the Winchester brothers, with the aid of some gloriously creepy black and white illustrations. And hefty hardback ULTIMATE MARVEL (out now, DK) runs through every significant character, location and vehicle in the company’s history, with lashings of comic art and cut-away diagrams.