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Katie Williams’s TELL THE MACHINE GOODNIGHT (out now, Borough Press) certainly has a promising premise; it features a device that can predict how a person could have a happier life by analysing a DNA sample, dispensing recommendations that vary from “learn the cello” to “amputate your finger”... Thea Lim’s AN OCEAN OF MINUTES sounds intriguing too. It focuses on a couple living in a version of 1981 ravaged by a flu pandemic, where time travel exists; when Frank gets sick, Polly signs up to be sent 12 years into the future to work, in exchange for his medical treatment. Warm up for the forthcoming Mortal Engines movie with Philip Reeve’s NIGHT FLIGHTS (out now, Scholastic); it includes three short adventures for Anna Fang, his aviatrix in a world of motorised cities. Becky Chambers’s latest, RECORD OF A SPACEBORN FEW (Hodder & Stoughton, 26 July), is centred on a flotilla of generation ships. Meanwhile, Vic James’s Gilded Cage trilogy, set in a Britain ruled by magically gifted aristocrats, concludes with BRIGHT RUIN (Tor, 26 July). Turning to tie-ins: Timothy Zahn’s book about the rise of one of the Empire’s greatest strategists has spawned a sequel; THRAWN: ALLIANCES (Century, 26 July) sees the Grand Admiral partnered with Darth Vader to investigate a threat on the planet Batuu. And DOCTOR WHO: THE TRIPLE KNIFE (BBC Books, 19 July) collects five short stories by Jenny T Colgan, all previously published elsewhere.