Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes have a new novel out — and it’s a bit of a leap from their previous work together. The Hunger of Time was a winning combination of hardcore scientific extrapolation and narrative romp. From the hardest of hard SF, the two Bs have now brought out I Suppose a Root’s Out of the Question?, a very Aussie small-scale noir crime novel dipped in a thick layer of black humour.

(Buy it at Point Blank Press / Amazon.com / Amazon.co.uk.)