Also out

There’s lots more titles we couldn’t fit in, with a host of continuing series getting additional instalments. We gave

to Frank Owen’s South (2016), set in an America where the civil war ended with the country split in two, devastated by viruses. Follow-up NORTH (6 December, Corvus) sees heroes Dyce and Vida setting out to eliminate the vicious Northern dictator. There’s also a fifth book in Genevieve Cogman’s Invisible Library series (we called the first “delightful”). Set in a steampunk fantasy version of 1890s Paris, THE MORTAL WORD (out now, Tor) sees librarian-spy Irene investigating the stabbing of a diplomat at a dragon/Fae summit. And Josiah Bancroft’s Books Of Babel, set in a vast, labyrinthine tower, has hit book three, THE HOD KING (6 December, Orbit). New titles, meanwhile, include A BRILLIANT VOID (out now, Tramp Press), an intriguing collection of obscure Irish SF featuring 15 short stories from 1837-1960. A teenage wyvern (a human who can change into a dragon) must gain acceptance by stealing her first treasure in Sarah Beth Durst’s contemporary YA fantasy FIRE & HEIST (out now, Random House). DEATH OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (out now, Titan Books) reveals what happened to Charlton Heston’s Taylor when he disappeared for most of the duration of sequel Beneath The Planet Of The Apes. And CREEPY CREATIONS (out now, Rebellion) collects Ken Reid’s drawings of weird monsters from the back page of ’70s comic Shiver & Shake.