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...Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson, Orbit, RRP£18.99/RRP$26 Another masterpiece of future-building from Robinson. A vast starship travels to colonise a distant moon....
...A Kim Jong-Il Production , by Paul Fischer, Viking, RRP£14.99/Flatiron Books, RRP$27.99 The story of how the late North Korean dictator kidnapped South Korean cinema’s golden couple, the director Shin Sang-ok...
...The Ocean At the End of The Lane , by Neil Gaiman, Headline, RRP£16.99/William Morrow, RRP$25.99 Beautiful autobiography-tinged fantasy about growing up, magic, imagination and loss....
...The mood, meanwhile, flits between the whimsical, such as James Morrow’s “The Raft of the Titanic”, and the grave: in Kim Stanley’s “The Lucky Strike” the Enola Gay crashes on its test flight....
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