Worth a look mostly for the useful footnote: these are the Clarke Foundation's own honours, not the British literary prize for the year's best SF novel. Sir Arthur would probably have enjoyed the confusion, and then corrected everyone in a long letter.

The Le Guin Prize goes to books that imagine real alternatives to how we live, taken straight from her 2014 National Book Awards speech, so the winner is always worth a look. This year it heads to New Zealand, with a jury that includes Nicola Griffith and Fonda Lee.

Anything new from the author of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is an event, even when it's only a short story and an essay. Reactor's reviewer argues the little volume is more than the sum of its parts. Consider it a pocket-sized return to Clarke's England, footnotes of the soul included.

Somewhere Tolkien, who redrew his own maps obsessively, would approve of the sheer stubbornness. Over a thousand artists hand-drew Fellowship of the Ring shot for shot, all three hours, 120,000 pages. The first 11 minutes are out; mute it and play the film underneath for the full effect.