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|author=Cixin LiuMark Lingane|title=DeathChimera|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''The survivor stumbles forward, her steps echoing in the oppressive silence. Her heart pounds like a jackhammer. She doesn’t know where she’s heading. All she remembers is running. Terror chasing. Everything lost.'' ''Broken and fragmented recollections tumble around her head. Fear courses through her body. Her breaths come in shallow, ragged gasps as desperation claws at her throat. Dehydration consumes her, and a raging thirst feels unquenchable.'' ''There must be a way out. As she moves through the foreign area, memories begin to gel. Disaster had ploughed through her life—not just hers, everyone’s.'' As our survivor struggles to orient herself, she's guided by a robot, which looks human-made, but she can't be sure. It says it is. It says she must try not to injure herself. Guided to an interview with an eerie, terrifying group of aliens, she desperately tries to make sense of flashes of memory - environmental degradation, deals done and then betrayed, horrifying rituals covering desperate attempts to survive - and to attempt to explain how she came to be here, apparently the last human being alive.|isbn=B0DNVWMYP2}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's EndFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary= If I'd been paying more attention when I picked this book 'Opening up, I would have put it back on new ways of thinking about the shelfshape of things to come. Not because '' I didn't want to read ve heard itsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, but because I'd must confess that there have figured out that it was the final part been more than a few decades of a trilogytechnology in my lifetime. Coming in part way through a saga is never the easiest thing I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to do and itme but I's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing m left with the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when feeling that it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understandall getting away from me. This latter is particularly true Some of Cixin Liu's work – his range it is phenomenal- frankly - quite frightening. George R R MartinOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows a thing what they're talking about or two about world-creation, described it as ''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, the latest conspiracy theory and cosmology''theorist. All of that I needed people I knew I could trust and morewho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1784971650

|author=Andy BriggsSylvie Cathrall|title=Ctrl+SA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary= In the near future, lifeThere are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's pretty good. Climate change has been brought under control, 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the bee population has been brought back from near-extinction, wealthy and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker than ever beforepeaceful New York City. But the biggest triumph has got to be SPACE, Joe longs for a simulated world that has the ability bit of adventure and to mimic emotions as well as imagesget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But, as then something goes horribly wrong with every technologythe AI system that now runs everything, there is the potential making life easier for it many, and riots start to be abusedspread. Every dayFinally, people are being Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnappedand Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, plugged into SPACE a British superfan and have their emotions and feelings harvested for tech nerd, is also on the richest and sickest members of societycase. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And now Theohow is Suki's mum has gone missingkidnapping connected?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CP95J1CG|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=4. As 5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Ronan's not entirely sure why he follows decides to go to the trail left party but his interest is piqued by her, he uncovers the way it arrived. And it seems like a vast conspiracy that would use any means necessary good opportunity to stop him get out of his room and away from finding out where the online activities he makes a living at. So he makes his mum has goneway there, dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights.Should be enough power.Hopefully.|isbn=1409184641

|author= Stephen BaxterK P O'Donnell|title= World Engines: DestroyerThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating= 43.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= The last thing Colonel Reid Malenfant remembers VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is his Space Shuttle crashing - until he wakes up in . Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the mid-24th Centuryworld ended, on consumed in an Earth massively depopulated apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and patiently waiting for the coming apocalypseRenada. Suffering from severe culture shockOver half-a-century later, he tries civilisation is starting to adjust rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to this new continue her father's legacy, building a worldwhere machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. But all Craig Anderson, leader of this is changed when he receives a message from his wife Emma...who died on a mission to Phobos all group of salvagers called the way back in 2004. As it slowly dawns on him that their timelines don't match upExhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he resolves to find unearths a way to Phobosprototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. ButEven after being buried for 65 years, this new society doesnher determination hasn't believe diminished in space travel the slightest, and no-one is willing to help himerrant machine, until he meets a driven young woman who desperately wants to explore as much as he does...no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=1473223172B0CKRYFRZM

{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->Emily Tesh|title=Some Desperate Glory|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us''

<!-- Graves -->Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres.|-isbn=0356521834}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|M R Carey[[image:194927201X.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/194927201X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Infinity Gate| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|5===[[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] After his entire family is killed in summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a shuttle crash, one that he was piloting no less, Aaron Sheridan enlists in genre I dislike – nothing of the Martian Fleet, fully expecting sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to die in the ongoing Rim War. Insteadget right – and when it's bad, he winds up on Corinth Station, the Fleetit's command schooloften terrible. At first, he is apathetic towards But the brutality and scheming ways premise of the students and staff, but after standing up for his only friend, he becomes Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a target for the dreaded Caelus Erikhigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, the most feared cadet on Corinthit'd be fantastic. Scared So this is where I sum up that any further actions will put others on his flight team at risk, Aaron shuts himself off from everyonepremise. |isbn=0356518043}}{{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ''Butfearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, when he discovers that the staff on Corinth have a motive other than training officers, he begins or we can take steps to realise that risking his all might be the safest thing he can dochange it... [[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]''

<!--Merritt Graves -->''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|-isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The Future[[image:1949272028.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1949272028/refBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=nosim?tag5|genre=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary="vertical''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-align: top; text-align: left;"|vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''

===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]===I've got a couple of confessions to make. [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] If I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the game wasn’t fair before, it’s definitely not fair nowbook. Or so thinks Dorian Waters, part of the ever-expanding portion of humanity who can’t afford the nano-implant and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revision There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. And because he can’t afford Revision, he can’t get into college Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. He can’t get a job. And when he sees It's human beings who fascinate me: the brilliant technology and mesmerizing Lena for the first time, he knows he doesn’t have a chance with her, eitherworld scape are purely incidental. Feeling thoroughly lost and exasperated So, Dorian robs what did I think of a house with his best friendbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, Ethan. Then they do I loved it again. It’s thrilling and terrifying and deeply unsettling. But since they take so little each time that their targets don’t notice}}{{Frontpage|author=Mark Lingane|title=Galaxy|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Spark, they’re able to keep at who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it until they have enough money saved upthrough a battle alive. Once they do their first Revision, their initial choices in selfHis co-enhancement start impacting their future choicespilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, which in turn impact their future Revision––on he remembers little and on is in a downward spiral of self-destructionno physical shape to resume his duties. Dorian desperately wants to slow things down But Earth is under threat and figure out the kind of person he really wants must. Returned by his superiors to bethe space station, but with the police one step behind them and he finds himself amid a contentious relationship with his brother, Jaden, threatening last ditch attempt to unravel everything, it’s the expedient choices that he’s finding himself more save humanity - and more compelled to makenot just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself. [[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]isbn=B09X3NZ76W}}<!-- Peter F Hamilton -->{{Frontpage|-author=Tade Thompson| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Far From the Light of Heaven[[image:1447281357.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/1447281357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton]]=== Science Fiction[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]] In Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the twenty-third centurysleeper ship Ragtime, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to changebound for the world of Bloodroot, forever. Feriton Kaneshe will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's investigative team has discovered AI captain. However, when she wakes up at the worst threat ever end of her trip to face mankind – find dozens of her passengers butchered and wethe Ragtime've s AI almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanitynon-responsive, in order she begins to carry us to their god at the end of the universerealise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. And as their agents conclude schemes down Down on earthBloodroot, vast warships converge above disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to gather this cargodiscover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Some factions push for humanity to fleeMeanwhile, to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a chosen few would make it out shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in time. But others refuse tow, to break before see why the stormRagtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just one goal: wiping this enemy from for Bloodroot, but potentially the face entirety of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never see. [[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamiltonhuman space…|Full Review]]isbn=0356514323}}{{Frontpage<!-- Megan E O'Keefe -->|author=Claire North|-title=Notes from the Burning Age| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4[[image:0356512223.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512223/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Velocity Weapon At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Megan E O'Keefe]]=== [[image:4Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming.5starHowever, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction.jpg|link=CategoryNorth's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read:{{{rating}fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.|isbn=0356514757}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]] {{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of Earth|rating= 4The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship exploding. She expected to be recovered by salvage-medics and to awaken in friendly hands|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, patchedwarped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-up and ready to rejoin sized aliens known as the fightArchitects. Instead she wakes up 230 years laterHumanity is scattered, on a deserted enemy starship called The Light of Berossus - or, as he prefers constantly fleeing as world after world falls to call himself, 'Berothe architect's reshaping. Bero tells Sanda Then, just when they had the human race on the war is lost. That run, the entire star system is deadArchitects vanished. But is that the full story? After allAnd so, in the vastness memories of spacethe war fades, heroes are forgotten, anything is possible . . and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. [[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe|Full Review]] <!-- Vaughn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751568228Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.coBut, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight.uk/dp/0751568228/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Across the Void As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by S K Vaughn]]===alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…[[image:4star.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{{{rating}1529051886}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]{{Frontpage|author=Terry MilesSea epics? So 20th century. Try a space epic. [[Across the Void by S K Vaughn|Full Review]]title=Rabbits <!-- Chiang -->|rating=4.5|-genre=Science Fiction| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1529014484Welcome to the world of The Game.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.coOr should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book.uk/dp/1529014484/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang]]=== [[image:5starIt's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]A bit like the game of life then. Yes, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the work by Ted Chiangconspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. If you haven't than take this opportunity to do so nowPeople like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. Trust me; your imagination will K and his bezzies are trying to be grateful. [[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style=historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it'width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:168369094Xs ever been – morally and otherwise.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/168369094X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back s even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the Future! by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..5star.jpg|linkisbn=Category:1529016932}}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HumourFrontpage|Humour]], [[:Category:Science Fictionauthor=C J Carey|Science Fiction]]title=Widowland|rating=4A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to rewrite attend the story state funeral of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameterJoseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. It was then duly repeated for all watching over the sanctioned return to the other films in the main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Ninethrone of Edward VIII with his wife, the title of which became public knowledge the day before I writeQueen Wallis. In the hiatus, howeverFor yes, Britain caved in the effort has been made lead-up to see if the same shtick works with other textsWorld War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the Futureare now a protectorate – well, with its tales we share enough of time travelthe same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, bullyingfor Nazi-styled phrenology, and parent/child strife like no other? [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Martine -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1529001579childless, the husbandless and the widows.jpg|link=http://www Female literacy is actively discouraged.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529001579/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]=== [[image:4 And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint.5star That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.jpg|linkisbn=Category:152941198X}}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionFrontpage|author=Everina Maxwell|title=Winter's Orbit|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction]] The problem with Martine|summary= Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's fiction debut outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years. So when an important political alliance is that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages arranged – one that is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be complex and rich and errs on chosen for the side role. Least of making them unpronounceable by most readersall him. I can see why she does both, but it's a disappointment because they're the blocks against which the brilliance of the book stumbles. [[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine|Full Review]]|isbn=0356515885}}{{Frontpage<!-- Lingane -->|author=Rob Winters|-title=His Name Was Wren| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4|genre=Confident Readers[[image:B07NV8NY4Y.jpg|linksummary=http://www.amazonIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick.co.uk/dp/B07NV8NY4Y/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Rose It came down hard, taking the spire of the village church with it, destroying a stone shack, and leaving a wide trail through the Nightwood, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]==but no trace of what it actually was. German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a crater, and there were neither of those things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB}}[[image:4star.jpg|link{{Frontpage|author=CategoryMark Lingane|title=Note to Self:{{{An Education|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction=4|genre=Science Fiction]]  Julian|summary= In Kry's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status. They feel that world, the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To discovery that end, they have managed to find him human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a job tutoring the children of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their strangeregeneration state seven years before, austere mansion with little in the way of expectation. Victor2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the politician cosmetics industry is not at homeusing the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. But Esis, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in her children In a society obsessed with image and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his roomyouth, the library in which he will teach the children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with food. who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} [[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane{{Frontpage|Full Review]]  <!-- Arnold -->author= Christopher Paolini|-title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars| stylerating=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|5[[image:1789016525.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789016525/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary=On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnold]]=== [[image:3s surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] In an extension After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart''research station, he continues to tell the story of United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the Quantum twinssystem to take Kira in for examination. Born on a parallel worldThings go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time she has to flee to our earth - the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a series rag-tag bunch of adventures ensued in misfits, and the following booksnews is grim. When we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in The same aliens that destroyed the bush Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human- adopted by a Bushman family occupied space, and made part of only a tribemythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. Twin Qwelby however, is not doing so well - shocked by As the violence on the earth. Rescued by an old frienddeath toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, he then tries Kira slowly begins to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives realise that she may well prove to drive have had a wedge between greater hand in the twins as they try to reconnect... [[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnoldconflict than she could've possibly imagined…|Full Review]]isbn=1529046505}}<!-- Marrs -->{{Frontpage|-author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May| styletitle=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''Seven Devils|rating= 4[[image:1785038885.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785038885/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Passengers by John Marrs]]=== [[image:4Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, [[has a mission:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] In hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the near future, self-drive cars are the norm - a convenient and easy way of transportwar effort. However, when someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on a fatal collision coursethis mission. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the public have to judge who should survive. But ship are three defectors with every aspect of these passangers being examined by a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the public runner- will they turn out up heir to the Empire, is plotting to be what they seem? [[The Passengers by John Marrsdisrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|Full Review]]isbn=1473231140 <!-- Beckett -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786491559.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786491559/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, with terrifying results... [[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett|Full Review]] <!-- Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789090016.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789090016/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Zero Bomb by M T Hill]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Meet Remi. He's a fan of running, and indeed has been – from the wife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. Now working in London as a courier, he's taking a routine piece of samizdat literature across town when he's seemingly attacked by a driverless car. Struggling to keep to his schedule, he takes to the Tube, where mysterious people sit with him – and regale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. Slowly, woozily, he's drawn into a completely surreal scenario, as he tries to find out what is wanted of him, and by whom – and indeed, who he himself even is. [[Zero Bomb by M T Hill|Full Review]] <!-- Jason Boggs -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:154564134X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/154564134X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Dragon's Harvest by Jason F Boggs]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'. As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and self-discovery, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's Dragon'', Nelson is on an expedition to uncover the mystery of the sungates, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhile, the humans and the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to glory. As Nelson and his friends race against the clock in order to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[The Dragon's Harvest by Jason F Boggs|Full Review]] <!-- Anders -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785653199.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785653199/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] January is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}}