MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review 2000 Meters to Andriivka, Savages, The Legend of Ochi, and The Naked Gun

THE REMNANTS of the human race live on orbiting space ships in Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne (Titan, £7.99), waiting for the ruined planet to be inhabitable again.
For some of those in the poorer and less sustainable ships, the wait proves too long. This is a future in which to be working class is to risk your dilapidated refuge burning up during involuntary re-entry.

MAT COWARD presents a peculiar cabbage that will only do its bodybuilding once the summer dies down

A heatwave, a crimewave, and weird bollocks in Aberdeen, Indiana horror, and the end of the American Dream

A corrupted chemist, a Hampstead homosexual and finely observed class-conflict at The Bohemia

Beet likes warmth, who doesn’t, so attention to detail is required if you’re to succeed, writes MAT COWARD