On April 8, Philip Pullman's semi-prequel to the His Dark Materials trilogy will be released. The book, entitled Once Upon a Time in the North, follows aeronaut Lee Scoresby's journey to Svalbard as a boy; he appears in the trilogy as a grown man. The Guardian has published an excerpt.--David E

In the future, we won't have books; we'll simply have digital videos of books. If you want an analog copy of Marion Bataille's ABC3D, you'll have to wait until it's released in October.--David E