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|title=Note to Self: An EducationChimera|rating=4.5

|summary= In Kry's world'The survivor stumbles forward, her steps echoing in the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results 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 cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 itraging 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.''s found that radiation can return cells back  As our survivor struggles to their regeneration state seven years beforeorient herself, in 2035 itshe's possible 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 cure cancerous tumours but injure herself. Guided to an interview with the side effect an eerie, terrifying group of aliens, she desperately tries to make sense of erasing seven years flashes of memory- environmental degradation, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique deals done and then betrayed, horrifying rituals covering desperate attempts to "desurvive -age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youthto attempt to explain how she came to be here, who needs memories?apparently the last human being alive.|isbn=B08LY8J4KSB0DNVWMYP2}}

|authorisbn= Christopher PaoliniAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the moon shape of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human lifewhat happens after you're eighteen. However Well, I must confess that there have been more than a discovery few decades of an ancient alien bunker under the moontechnology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's surface leaves her bonded advantageous to me but I'm left with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go feeling that it's all getting away from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star systemme. She Some of it is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfitsfrankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, probabilities and only a mythical weapon known as end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the Staff of Blue can stop themlatest conspiracy theorist. As the death toll climbs I needed people I knew I could trust and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had who could deliver information in a greater hand in the conflict than she way I could've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505understand.

|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth MaySylvie Cathrall|title= Seven DevilsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 45|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, There are few greater joys than a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined book which lives up to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effortcompelling premise. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on And this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last one of the free alien speciesthem. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=14732311400356522776

|authorisbn=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)1803816759|title=A Life Without EndThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=I looked at It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the calendar the other week, wealthy and disappointedly realised I have peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one bit of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonadventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. And But then a few of something goes horribly wrong with the big 0-numbersAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and if all goes wellriots start to spread. Finally, I'll be an OBEJoe gets to do some real policing. (Which In the aftermath of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to be happybring her home. Our author here doesnJoe isn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living the only one. Determined trying to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviewssave Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and they end up with a childtech nerd, which is at least a way of continuing also on the life of his genes, and a motive to keep on goingcase. But What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how can he get to not flick the is Suki'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nices kidnapping connected?|isbn=1642860670

|authorisbn= Adrian TchaikovskyB0CP95J1CG|title= The Doors of EdenOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating= 4.5

|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic, in every sense of the word. "Epic" is a word thatRonan's thrown around a lot these days, not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but if a book ever earned his interest is piqued by the name way it's this onearrived. It's And it seems like a doorstopper full good opportunity to get out of big ideashis room and away from the online activities he makes a living at. So he makes his way there, dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic and at times it almost felt too big for my brainwatching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.|isbn=1509865888

|isbnauthor=B0867X8NW7K P O'Donnell|title=Access Point|author=T R GabbayThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention is. Unfortunately, before she's helped a man who has been blind for decades to see could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an image apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a hummingbird-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. SheDr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's thirty-six years old legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and her life is about to change radically asexternal enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, cycling homeleader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, she's involved in an accident with has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a busprototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. It's two Even after being buried for 65 years before we meet , her again and determination hasn't diminished in the meantimeslightest, sheand no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's spent 392 days in a coma and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some income.ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM

|author= M R CareyEmily Tesh|title= The Book of KoliSome Desperate Glory|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= ''The Book of KoliWhile Earth'' is s children live, the first in a post-apocalyptic trilogy, titled ''The Rampart Trilogyenemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of the Earth, by M.R. Carey. The novel is set in amongst a world where nature rare number of survivors, Kyr has turned against humans. Trees move as fast as animals been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to crush their prey avenge her people and then soak up their blood. Humans have eked out a small existence in isolated villages. They are primitive except for their reverence of 'old tech'. This is technology from the old world that seems to only work for certain chosen peopleshould have been hers. HoweverAll her life, Kolishe has been conditioned to fall in line, a young woodsmith, uncovers a secret about this technology to fulfil her duty and ensure that will upend his life and take him on a perilous journeyhumanity perseveres.|isbn=03164775320356521834

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumM R Carey|title= TroofriendInfinity Gate|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= Are you tired I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of your childthe sort. My standards are high precisely because it's classmates constantly being horrible a hard genre to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing get right – and when it's bad, it's often terrible. But the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-premise ofInfinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-the-art machines are capable of emulating the full range of human emotions without lyingstakes gamble: if it was done well, stealing or bullyingit'd be fantastic. They're the perfect companion for any child! Any mention So this is where I sum up that these androids are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?premise.|isbn=17880034700356518043

|author= N K JemisinMichael Grothaus|title= The City We BecameBeautiful Shining People|rating= 4|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary= New York is being born, the city has reached critical mass ''But fearing something and has matured into a living almost-breathing entity and is ready having it come to make itpass are two different things. And I's way out into the world. Before it m willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can be established, an ancient evil appears to attempt take steps to destroy it just as change it destroyed Atlantis and other forgotten places. The city is not alone through the birthing process, people who embody the values are selected to become '' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the living embodiment question of the city, some cities have one, some have twelve identity and New York has sixacceptance. Together these Of what it means to be human-embodiments must defeat the woman in white . Of what is real and save New York from very real destruction. But these are five different boroughs which don't always see eye to eyewhat is artificial, it's a personality clash on an epic scale and unity whether the development of technology is both critical and not remotely guaranteedexciting or frightening.|isbn=0356512665191458564X

|authorisbn=Cixin Liu1739593901|title=Death's End22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary= If ''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I'd been paying more attention when ve got a couple of confessions to make. I picked this book up, 'm not keen on short stories as I would have put find it back on easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the shelfbook. Not because I didnThere't want s got to be a very compelling hook to read keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, but because I'd have figured out that loved it was . }}{{Frontpage|author=Mark Lingane|title=Galaxy|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Spark, who is an elite pilot with the final part of Space Academy, barely makes it through a trilogybattle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Coming Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is in part way through a saga no physical shape to resume his duties. But Earth is never under threat and he must. Returned by his superiors to the easiest thing space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to do save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W}}{{Frontpage|author=Tade Thompson|title=Far From the Light of Heaven|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing AI captain. However, when she wakes up at the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing end of her trip to you (when itfind dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that you her first mission won't understandbe going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. This latter is particularly true Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Cixin LiuShell's work – his range is phenomenal. George R R Martinfather Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, who knows a thing or two about worldhalf-creationalien daughter in tow, described it as ''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculationto see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, conspiracy theory leaving behind the politicking and cosmology''bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. All What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of that and more.human space…|isbn=17849716500356514323

|author=Andy BriggsClaire North|title=Ctrl+SNotes from the Burning Age|rating=54

|summary= In At its core ''Notes From the near future, lifeBurning Age''s pretty good. Climate change has been brought under controlby Claire North is a spy thriller, the bee population has been brought back from near-extinctionwith as many double crosses, interrogations and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker than ever before. But the biggest triumph has got to be SPACE, a simulated world that has the ability to mimic emotions night time escapes as well as imagesLe Carre or Fleming. ButHowever, as with every technologythe best novels, there it wears many masks and its most affecting one is the potential for it to be abused. Every daythat of a new and timely genre, people are being kidnappedcli-fi, plugged into SPACE and or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have their emotions been forced to start anew and feelings harvested for live alongside nature without any of the richest modern and sickest members corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of societymass destruction, intensive farming). And now Theo's mum has gone missing. As he follows There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the trail left by herBrotherhood, he uncovers a vast conspiracy that would use any means necessary aims to master these processes no matter the cost to stop him from finding out where his mum has gone..the Earth.|isbn=14091846410356514757

|author= Stephen BaxterAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= World Engines: DestroyerShards of Earth

|summary= The last thing Colonel Reid Malenfant remembers Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is his Space Shuttle crashing - until he wakes up in scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the mid-24th Centuryarchitect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on an Earth massively depopulated the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and patiently waiting for the coming apocalypsefight among themselves. Suffering from severe culture shockIdris Telemmier, he tries a man genetically engineered to adjust try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to this new worldbe remembered. But all , when he and the crew of this is changed when the salvage ship he receives a message from his wife Emma...who died on a mission calls home discover what appears to Phobos all be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the way back in 2004spotlight. As it slowly dawns on him that their timelines don't match up, he resolves and his allies bounce from star system to find a way to Phobos. Butstar system, chased by alien crime syndicates, this new society doesn't believe in space travel human secret police and no-one is willing to help himrich slavers, until he meets a driven young woman who desperately wants slowly begins to explore as much as he does...realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=14732231721529051886

|isbnauthor=168369094XTerry Miles|title=William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Ian DoescherRabbits

|genre=HumourScience Fiction|summary=A long time agoWelcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, in although only as a publishing house slangy term for it – as far awayas anyone knows, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to rewrite the story average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of Star Wars webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in Shakespearean pentameterthe least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. It was then duly repeated have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for all the other films lists of who has successfully won the game are in the main Star Wars cyclemost peculiar places, and clearly someoneare still very short. However this time it's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge different. This time the day before I write. In game seems the hiatusmost dangerous, howevernay lethal, the effort has most broken it's ever been made – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to see sort out what the game is doing, if the same shtick works with other textsit's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to find out that the line between observing and learning about the Futuregame, with its tales of time traveland playing it, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other?is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932

|isbnauthor=194927201XC J Carey|title=Lakes Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and 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 childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. 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. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of Marsfemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Merritt GravesEverina Maxwell|title=Winter's Orbit|rating=4.5

|summary=After his entire family Prince Kiem is killed in a shuttle crash, one that he was piloting no less, Aaron Sheridan enlists in the Martian Fleet, fully expecting to die in the ongoing Rim Warfamous political disappointment. Instead, he winds up on Corinth Station, the FleetHe's command school. At firstoutgoing, carefree, he is apathetic towards the brutality and scheming of the students and staff, but after standing up for his only friend, he becomes a target for has gotten into many drunken scandals over the dreaded Caelus Erik, the most feared cadet on Corinth. Scared that any further actions will put others on his flight team at risk, Aaron shuts himself off from everyonepast few years. But, So when he discovers an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that the staff on Corinth have a motive other than training officers, he begins is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to realise that risking his all might be chosen for the safest thing he can do.role.Least of all him.|isbn=0356515885

|isbnauthor=1949272028Rob Winters|title=Sunlight 24|author=Merritt GravesHis Name Was Wren

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=In 2031September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, genetic engineering and robotics is changing near the world at an unprecedented rate, with a regimen known as Revision making people stronger, faster and smarter than ever beforevillage of Hurstwick. Baseline humanity is slowly being rendered obsolete It came down hard, with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by taking the wayside as these new superhumans dominate spire of the workforce. Without Revisionvillage church with it, destroying a stone shack, Dorian can't go to University and can't get leaving a job. And so begins Dorian's slow spiral of self-destruction, robbing houses with his best friend Ethan to pay for his Revision, all wide trail through the time desperately trying to keep this activity secret from his family. Butwood, with his psychopathic brother already suspicious but no trace of him and what it actually was. German secret weapon was the police gaining groundlocal gossip, Dorian slowly begins to realise that he's going to but there should have to risk everything to stay ahead..been an explosion and a crater, and there were neither of those things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB

|isbnauthor=1447281357Mark Lingane|title=Salvation Lost|author=Peter F HamiltonNote to Self: An Education

|summary=Humanity is at a turning point. After Feriton KaneIn Kry's investigation uncovers world, the supposedly benign Olyixdiscovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's plan found that radiation can return cells back to harvest humanity in the name of their godregeneration state seven years before, the entire human race prepares to fight back. But when the Olyixin 2035 it's harvesting ships appear and start heading towards Earth, and Olyix-derived technology begins preparing them for transportation, humanity realises that they are vastly outnumbered and outgunned. Some people possible to fleecure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, taking to by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the stars in an effort same technique to hide from "de-age" their aggressors, even though only customers by seven years. In a small percentage of humanity would survive. But others choose to fight them head-on. As humanity comes face-to-face society obsessed with the largest ever threat to their existenceimage and youth, old grudges will have to be put aside to focus on obliterating this enemy. Even if it means planning for a future that none of them will ever live to see...who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}}

|isbnauthor=0356512223Christopher Paolini|title=Velocity Weapon|author=Megan E O'KeefeTo Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=After her gunship is destroyed in On the moon of a battledistant gas giant, Sanda Greeve expects Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to wake up in a friendly medical ward, fully healed and ready make the planet habitable to get back into the fighthuman life. However, instead, she wakes up a quarter discovery of a millenia later, missing a leg, aboard an enemy starship called The Light of Berossus (or "Bero", as ancient alien bunker under the starshipmoon's rather grumpy AI prefers to call himself)surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. Bero tells Sanda that After the war is long over entity bonded to her loses control and that kills half the entire population staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is dead. The only optionattacked and destroyed by an alien ship, it seems, is and she has to travel flee to the nearest 61 Cygnus star system. ButShe is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the starship makes preparations for its decades-long voyage across Staff of Blue can stop them. As the starsdeath toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, it becomes clear Kira slowly begins to Sanda realise that something else is going on...she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505

|isbnauthor=0751568228Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=Across the Void|author=S K VaughnSeven Devils|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Sea epics? So 20th centuryEris 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. Try Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a space epicTholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission.Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt 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…|isbn=1473231140