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A Court of Splintered Harmony: Prythian tunes up for 27 October, leaks, teeth and all (spoiler-free book news).
Sarah J. Maas readers have spent two months staring at a cover of burning bones and a set of teeth as if it…
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October 2026
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The Batman film we never got: Joe Manganiello’s memoir reveals how Deathstroke planned to ruin Bruce Wayne’s life (news).
There is a whole branch of film history devoted to the films that never got made: Jodorowsky’s Dune, Tim Burton’s Superman Lives, George…
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Fourth Wing finds its Violet and Xaden, and BookTok’s favourite fancast actually comes true (news).
Somewhere in Navarre, a dragon has just been told to hold still for a costume fitting. Prime Video’s adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth…
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Red Rising finally climbs out of the mines as Paramount hands it to Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence (news).
Pierce Brown’s Red Rising has spent more than a decade in development tunnels deeper than any Helldiver’s shaft, and somebody has finally struck…
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Artemis Fowl Gets a Second Wish as Disney Tries Again in Animation
Disney greenlights an animated Artemis Fowl series for Disney+ with Eoin Colfer as executive producer, six years after the Branagh film.
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The Million-Year Picnic Is Over: Bradbury’s Mars Runs Out of Calendar
The final chapter of Ray Bradbury's original The Martian Chronicles is dated October 2026. So why does the prophet of the post-literate age…
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Malcolm Edwards 1949–2026… the Stars His Destination (obituary).
Malcolm Edwards, the Gollancz editor and publisher who launched the SF Masterworks, has died aged 76. A look back at a remarkable life…
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V.E. Schwab’s Victorious: Villains trilogy finally ends, only eight years late
The third and final Villains novel from V.E. Schwab is published by Tor Books on 6 October 2026, closing the long feud between…
August 2026
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E.J. Swift wins 40th Arthur C. Clarke Award (book news).
E.J. Swift has won the 40th Arthur C. Clarke Award for When There Are Wolves Again, published by Arcadia, proving once again that…
July 2026
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Ramsey Campbell Invites Readers to Embrace the Dark in 2027 (book news).
Veteran horror writer Ramsey Campbell will be opening another door marked “Absolutely Do Not Enter” in 2027, when Flame Tree Press publishes his…
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Helen Grant Conjures Up a New Literary Agent for Purslane the Witch (news).
Novelist Helen Grant has joined the John Jarrold Literary Agency with her new novel, Purslane the Witch, a tale combining malevolent magic, disappearing…
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Till Golem do us part? NewCon Press acquires The Crafter’s Wife (book news).
NewCon Press has acquired World English rights to The Crafter’s Wife, the debut fantasy novel by Dani Raanan, proving once again that arranged…