Speculative & literary fiction: October's best-written recent releases

Read the opening pages from our picks below

IN TODAY’S ISSUE

—’A cacophony of vibration coming through the curved surface to you: the death throes of the vessel which has carried you all this way, out into the void, and is now fragmenting. There’s a world below that you know nothing about, not in your head right then. And above you are only the killing fields of space’: the best-written recent release in speculative fiction (SF/fantasy/horror).

—‘Wine. There was a card too, which she drew out and opened. An angel on one knee, like it was proposing. She tossed it into the planter behind her just as her leg spasmed’: our first pick from the recent releases in literary fiction.

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