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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Douglas AdamsBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=There are few series ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have garnered such been more than a cult following as few decades of technology in my lifetime. I'The Hitchhikers Guide ve kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the Galaxyfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Whether Of course, I could research the fans have come from possibilities and the radio series, the (impossibly hard) computer game, probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the (well intentioned but not particularly good) film, they are everywherelatest conspiracy theorist. Ask a room of I needed people what the meaning of life is, I knew I could trust and you can be pretty sure who could deliver information in a good way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few will pipe greater joys than a book which lives up with '42' as the answerto a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>0356522776

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=SparkThe Unravelling|author=John Twelve HawksWill Gibson

|summary=Jacob Underwood It's 2038 and Joe is deada bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. At least, he thinks he isJoe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Suffering But then something goes horribly wrong with the after effects of a traumatic accidentAI system that now runs everything, Jacob believes he is deadmaking life easier for many, just a spark existing inside a bodyand riots start to spread. Finally, but unable Joe gets to fully interact with anything around himdo some real policing. Emotionally detached In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and living in a shadowy, silent world, Jacob Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the ideal assassin. When a new hit is assigned only one trying to himsave Suki - Dylan, Jacob must prepare himself - a British superfan and his journey will change both his selftech nerd, and how he sees is also on the world around himcase.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073312</amazonuk>What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CP95J1CG|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Alert: if you havenRonan't read s not entirely sure why he decides to go to the first two Tesla books, this contains spoilersparty but his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. So if you'd And it seems like a good opportunity to come back once you've read them?Sebastian and his friends finally get out of his room and away from the Hive but did online activities he makes a living at. So he do it in the right makes his way or has he caused a chain reaction that will destroy there, dodging the world? Seb and Melanie don't have too much time to reason buses that out though as they travel across Australia to continue make up most of the war against the cyborgs traffic and watching the mysterious Irislocal energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully. Perhaps if Seb realised they were taking one of the most dangerous foes with him, they'd reconsider the passenger list?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992593514</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Hive ConstructK P O'Donnell|authortitle=Alexander MaskillThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|summary=New Cairo VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is a city on lockdown. A strange new virus has appearedUnfortunately, before she could find any answers, seemingly from nowherethe world ended, affecting a large percentage consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of the population and indiscriminately shutting down their ''bio augs'';artificial limbs Drexel and organsRenada. Until the virus can be containedOver half-a-century later, no one civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is allowed determined to leave the citycontinue her father's legacy, building a decision that does not go world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down well with those as yet unaffected and keen to remain that wayagain. Despite the quarantineCraig Anderson, someone is actually trying to break INTO the city; leader of a gifted hacker group of salvagers called Zala Ulora who plans to destroy the virus Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the hope that the resulting gratitude of the authorities will clear her criminal record. The city is a dangerous place to beslightest, howeverand no errant machine, as a rising mass of rebels seek to break free from quarantine no savage human tribe and the source of the spreading virus seems untraceable.not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522213</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Lock InEmily Tesh|authortitle=John ScalziSome Desperate Glory

|summary=The Hayden disease started off looking like the common flu''While Earth's children live, but when people fell into comas and did not come out again we realised this was something very different. Twenty years later and society has moved on, with millions of Americans locked into their bodies a new culture has developed; one of coma patients being able to control androids or other people. So when a murder happens is it the body, or the mind that inhabits the body that is at fault? It is up to FBI agents Chris Shane and Leslie Vann to discover.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00LCRWCGU</amazonuk>}}enemy shall fear us''

{{newreview|title=Replica|author=Jack Heath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=There is a tendency for adults to feel embarrassed about reading young adult fictionFollowing the destruction of the Earth, but this book demonstrates that a focus on a younger character shouldn’t prevent a wider audience from enjoying a good story. ''Replica'' is amongst a strange and compelling combination rare number of action, mysterysurvivors, thriller and science-fiction. Heath Kyr has even included a hint been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of a romance. There is something for everyone humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and although the book raises some challenging and thought-provoking problemsworld that should have been hers. All her life, the text is easy-she has been conditioned to-readfall in line, immersive to fulfil her duty and unpretentiousensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273766X</amazonuk>0356521834

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AfterpartyM R Carey|authortitle=Daryl GregoryInfinity Gate

|summary=People have been taking pills and seeing God for years, but in I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it'Afterpartys a genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and when it' Daryl Gregory is taking s bad, it's often terrible. But the idea premise of smart drugs one step furtherInfinity Gate had me hooked. What happens if after a particularly bad trip you have an omnipresent God with you? Is A concept this intriguing felt like a sense of wellbeinghigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, or are you now just schizophrenic? In the near future people take drugs not only for their cures, but also their side effects and seeing deities may it'd be the worst side effect of allfantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294582</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreview|title=The Dark Between ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the Stars|author=Kevin J Anderson|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=From my experience Opera should be left to fans question of the art form, or BBC4identity and acceptance. However, there is one sort of opera that I will take notice of, the Space Opera – a term that encompasses science fiction on an epic scale eOf what it means to be human.g. Dune. Starting an all-new Space Opera Of what is a daunting task for both reader real and writer. In ‘The Dark Between the Stars’what is artificial, Kevin J Anderson not only had to create new worlds full of interesting characters, but we and whether the reader have to get our head around all the concepts at once. Therefore, having the story told from the point development of view of up to twenty different people technology is probably not the wisest thing to doexciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00K1HRZKK</amazonuk>191458564X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=Koko Takes a Holiday22 Ideas About The Future|author=Kieran SheaBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary=Pulp science fiction is not as easy a genre to carry off as you may think; it takes ''Our future will be more complex than just a voluptuous catsuit-wearing alien firing off laser cannons (but that can only help)we expected. Pulp is often just that; pulp. It should be shredded Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and used automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to soak up the juices in landfill, but when it is done right, it can be excellent. When someone writes a book that is darkly funny, intelligent and a little ultraviolent, you may just have the perfect mix. A perfect mix called ‘Koko Takes a Holiday’, by Kieran Sheatrack grandma.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168601</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=Theatre I've got a couple of the Gods|author=M Suddain|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=M Francisco Fabrigas – unfortunate Arsenal FC connection aside – is worthy of your attentionconfessions to make. For I'm not only has he proven keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to be one of the longer-lasting humans in this universe, he has also been in other universesbook. And at the same, other universeThere's Fabrigasgot to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's have come to visit us – or is science fiction: far too often it 's the other way round? technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. Either way, he has been engaged in an epic adventure where he ends up on a moon full of toxic plants, and inside dread behemoths, It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and fought to make his way through various universes against galactic popes and worse, all in the company of two unfortunate young people – a vicious and caring deaf lad who is more or less a kung-fu-powered computer chip, and a caring but blind young female saviourworld scape are purely incidental. Both are needed to save the universe – or was it fewer So, what did I think of them, but more universes? This a book is the much-sought-after, long-lost, often-censored account of his derringtwenty-dotwo science fiction short stories? Well, as close to being from the horse's mouth as is possible, and with the sheer complexity of the circumstances and contrivances on every page, we should be gratefulI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575647</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Forever WatchMark Lingane|authortitle=David RamirezGalaxy

|summary=Great science fiction Spark, who is made up of many partsan elite pilot with the Space Academy, but three things are vital for barely makes it to become through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a classic; world buildingcoma that lasted years, story he remembers little and characteris in no physical shape to resume his duties. If one of these three elements But Earth is slightly below the others, a great novel can be punishedunder threat and he must. In ‘The Forever Watch’ Returned by Daniel Ramirez we have a fantastic world in his superiors to the form of the spaceship Noahspace station, he finds himself amid a great character in last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from the form of Hanaalien threats against it, but does the story quite match up to the rest?also from its own sins against itself. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144478790X</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nnedi OkoraforTade Thompson|title=LagoonFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=4.5

|summary=Three people walk along 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 Lagos beach as babysitter for the world changesship's AI captain. Adaora is strolling However, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to clear find dozens of her head passengers butchered and try the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to understand why realise that her husband hit her earlier tonightfirst mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Rap artist Anthony (known Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to his parents as Edgar) is having a post-gig wanderdiscover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. The thirdMeanwhile, Aguformer astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, is covered half-alien daughter in blood. The fact that he's on tow, to see why the beach is immaterial; he just needs help. Then it happens. A boomRagtime has gone quiet, a bat falls stunned from leaving behind the sky politicking and then nothing is bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the same again. The strangers' futures all become one and five of them discover on the creature arrives; Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the creature they call Ayodele.entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444762753</amazonuk>0356514323

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Burning DarkClaire North|authortitle=Adam ChristopherNotes from the Burning Age

|summary=In spaceAt its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, no one can hear you scream interrogations and for the skeleton crew of the U-Star Coast City this is redundant anyway night time escapes as no one cares if they doLe Carre or Fleming. Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland is about to start early retirementHowever, but he is given one last job overseeing as with the dismantling of this space station that orbits a forbidding star that gives off an eerie radiation. With only a couple of hundred people left on the massive stationbest novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is pretty quiet. This makes it easier to hear the things going bump in the night – a night that continues 24 hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292016</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Ex-Purgatory|author=Peter Clines|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=A book in the Science fiction genre can easily get wrapped up inside itself if it not careful e.g. a dream on top of a visionnew and timely genre, set in a future alternative world. Juggling all these concepts and creating a novel that is entertaining and at least in some way believable is not easy. This is proven in Peter Clines’ ''Excli-Purgatory''fi, the fourth outing in the Ex seriesor climate change fiction. Our heroes are used to being surrounded by the undead, but at the start North's novel tells of this novel they wake up in their old lives. What is a dream and what is a reality?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00HE6AX3C</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Libriomancer|author=Jim C Hines|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon world devastated by some who believe that novels should be about emotions, inner journeys climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and despair. Fantasy live alongside nature without any of the modern and science fiction can have all these things as wellcorrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, but they can also be funweapons of mass destruction, entertaining and laser pistolsintensive farming). ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines There is a great example. It is a book that follows Isaac Vainiogrowing unhappiness with this limiting world, a Libriomancer who has the power to draw magic from books. He must use this gift to good effect when and one daygroup, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguingthe Brotherhood, he is attacked by three vampires. Does that sound fun aims to master these processes no matter the cost to you? If so, read on; if not, this may not be the book for youEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>0356514757

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The ExplorersAdrian Tchaikovsky|authortitle=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc RochetteShards of Earth|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsScience Fiction|summary=All of humankind is living on a single train. Oh sorryEighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as this the Architects. Humanity is the sequelscattered, make that two trains. Launched on the same tracks constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the original Snowpiercerarchitect's reshaping. Then, but clearly at a slight remove, was a second mile-long behemoth of a train, designed with just when they had the latest high tech to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly human race on the tracks encircling a frozen Earthrun, waiting for the time Architects vanished. And so, the world was inhabitable once more. But memories of the high tech on boardwar fades, complete with lemon farmsheroes are forgotten, and differing qualities of virtual holidays depending on cost humanity begins to fracture and class of customerfight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, has not put paid a man genetically engineered to one aspect of society – try and in fact communicate with the sole aspect of society Architects, does not featured in [[Snowpiercer Volwant to be remembered.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob But, when he and Jean-Marc Rochette|the first book]] – religion. Some people are fearing crew of the end timesalvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, when the Icebreaker crashes suddenly he is thrust back into the original Snowpiercerspotlight. Some believe they're duped into the whole train ideaAs he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and are in fact on a spacecraft. Some people know something else – the rare few explorers who get rich slavers, he slowly begins to go outside realise that the train into the world beyond, and see glimpses of what came before…real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>1529051886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeTerry Miles|title=Tesla 1Rabbits

|summary=What if Welcome to the planet you called home wasn’t just a random blob in world of The Game. Or should that be the universegame, orbiting a far off star. What if the things that happened on for while it weren’t entirely down ought to chance or fate or whatever you want be capitalised to call high heaven, itnever leaves lower case throughout this book. What ifIt's also called Rabbits, actually, life on Earth was less random and more, well, scheduled than you might like to admit. Someone up there, calling the shots, deciding when to send in ‘natural’ disasters, influencing how things work, people behave, countries are run. Not although only as a Godslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, mindit has no official title, but something far crazier: a television executive. Earth is the reality show to end all reality showsno official source, and while its inhabitants have no clue every second of their lives is being watched hard and editedfast structure, that doesn’t stop them behaving in a way that keeps and to the viewers highly entertainedaverage person no obvious entry point.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855803</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Plastic Jesus|author=Wayne Simmons|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Johnny Lyon is a computer coding expert spiralling out of control following A bit like the death game of his loverlife then. Johnny’s colleague Sarah convinces their boss Garcon that he needs Johnny for a project that Yes, this is perfect the game of life for him (creating a virtual reality Jesus) and just might help him to concentrate on something other than his loss. They embark on a project with potentially monumental impact within a world certain tribe of people – the fan of degradation and violence in a city ruled over by organised crime king pin Paul McBride. Many storylines collide as the project effects more people than Johnny realises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773630</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Doctor Who: 11 Doctorsconspiracy, 11 Stories|author=Eoin Colferthe computer game, Michael Scott and others|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed a lot since first being seen fifty years ago – and I don't mean the title character, but hack from the nature darkest of the programmewebs. It has gone from black and whitePeople like our hero, and cheaply producedK, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and declared disposable, his bezzies are trying to being an essential part be historians of the BBCgame, full-gloss digitaland have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, and accessed in all manner for the lists of ways. So with who has successfully won the celebratory programme still ringing game are in our earsthe most peculiar places, and leaving people pressing a red button to see a programme about three Doctors, er, pressing a red button, we turn to other aspects of the birthday bonanzaare still very short. Such as However this booktime it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespannay lethal, from being a loose collection of eleven short e-book novellas written by the blazing lights of YA writing, to a huge most broken it's ever been – morally and brilliant paperback collecting everything within one set of coversotherwise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rags and Bones|author=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Some of today's top authors have come together Unfortunately for K, in trying to retell classic tales - from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind of anthologysort out what the game is doing, if it's a fairly hit-or-miss affaireven being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, but he is only to find out that the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up line between observing and learning about the book forgame, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>1529016932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Time Traveller's AlmanacC J Carey|authortitle=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerWidowland

|genre=AnthologiesGeneral Fiction|summary=From H.G Wells to ''Doctor WhoIt'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, there is something about parading around a good time-travel story that has bit, and watching over the power sanctioned return to ignite the imagination throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in a way unique the lead-up to the genre. Perhaps World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it is due to , and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the fact that when dealing with same blood as the subject of time travel, literally Germanic peoples on ''anything is possiblethe mainland''. Well But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, almost anythingand 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..apart from going back And in time 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 killing your Grandfathernot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy so they just get a hefty tweak towards the universeparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreview|title=ParasiteFrontpage|author=Mira GrantEverina Maxwell|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summarytitle=Winter''Parasite'' is the first part of the Parasitology series and if the quality of this book is anything to go by the next is going to be highly sought after. It puts us several years into the future, in a time where medicine has made massive leaps forward and where humans no longer take medication, suffer from allergies, or even catch the common cold. These medical advancements are all thanks to SymboGen and the invention of their intestinal shield, which is a genetically engineered tapeworm designed to monitor your body’s functions and correct abnormalities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501922</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Conquest|author=John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyards Orbit

|summary=The Earth Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has been invaded by gotten into many drunken scandals over the Illyri, a vaguely humanoid race far in advance of humankind, who were able past few years. So when an important political alliance is to conquer the planet gently by proving how futile it would be arranged – one that is supposed to resist. They are keen prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to ensure be chosen for the human race remains compliant, but are mostly keen to avoid bloodshed. Humankind, however, is not a race to take conquest lying downrole. There is a very active resistance, particularly in Scotland, where the Scots come out Least of the Highlands to strike on the Illyri garrisons and power bases in cities like Edinburghall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147220963X</amazonuk>0356515885

 {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Frontpage|author=Catherine Fisher|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Let's catch you up. Jake's father is still lost in time. Venn's wife is still dead. Summer, the Queen of the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that he's trying to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRob Winters|title=Familiar|author=J Robert Lennon|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Is there a greater change in the life of a middle-aged woman than the death of her teenage son? Elisa might have thought not, having been forced to bury fifteen year old Silas, and try and move on with her husband Derek and the year-older son, Sam. But a greater change occurs on the way back from her annual, solo pilgrimage to his grave – something very weird happens to the universe. She pops from one car to another, from under a cloudless sky to a slightly greyer one – and from her self as Elisa to a world where people call her Lisa, where she is plumper, in a different job, stiil married to Derek in the same home – but still the mother of two young men…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689473</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Phoenix|author=SF SaidHis Name Was Wren|rating=4.5

|summary=Lucky thinks he is a normal Human boy. But one nightIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, he dreams that near the stars are singing to him and he can feel a mysterious power rising within himvillage of Hurstwick. When he wakes, his bedclothes are scorched. And when his mother finds out, Lucky's world is turned upside It came down and he finds himself on an alien spaceshiphard, on taking the runspire of the village church with it, destroying a stone shack, and in leaving a wide trail through the middle wood, but no trace of a warzonewhat it actually was. Everything Lucky has German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have been brought up to believe is being tested. The war between Human an explosion and Axxa is raginga crater, so why does Lucky's mother trust alien renegades more than she does humans? Where is his father? What are the secrets his mother has kept from him all his life? and there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>038561814X</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen P KiernanMark Lingane|title=The CuriosityNote to Self: An Education

|summary=Microbiologist Kate Philo is In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a member cascade of an Arctic expedition sent medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to locate life forms frozen their regeneration state seven years before, in ice flows. Striking 2035 it lucky's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, she and by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the team find a human whom they reanimate once they get him back same technique to "de-age" their American labcustomers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} However new {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life brings new challenges. The man died over However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a century earlier strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and much has changedkills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. The press Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is now omnipotentattacked and destroyed by an alien ship, his 'resurrection' offends religious fundamentalists and scientific ethics never saw this problem comingshe has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. To KateShe is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, thoughcrewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, he's not a problemand the news is grim. He's JeremiahThe same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, afraid, bewildered and in need only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of an allyBlue can stop them.As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848548753</amazonuk>1529046505

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=All Our YesterdaysSeven Devils|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris 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. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Cristin TerrillFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=A Life Without End

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Em I looked at the calendar the other week, and Finn are being held prisoner by disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the Doctor. They never see each other major numbers, but are able to communicate through the cell wall. This is a blessing but also a curse: they can each hear time when I have the interrogations and torture meted out to same number as Heinz varieties looms on the otherhorizon. Neither talks but how much can they take? And then Em finds a note hidden in her cellfew of the big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. It (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's from her future self and it tells the extent of fourteen escapesmy mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. And fourteen failed trips back Determined 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 past assistant to try the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, and a motive to put things rightkeep on going. There But how can he get to not flick the 's only one final way left. Em must kill someone she loves. out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835193</amazonuk>1642860670

{{newreview|author=Mitch Benn|title=Terra|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Terra is different from everyone else Move on Fnrr and not only because she has vowels in her name. You see, Terra isn’t actually from Fnrr. Her adoptive father (Lbbp, a Fnrrn scientist) rescued her from her parents, the Bradshaws, on the planet Rrth in a moment of unthinking philanthropy. If only he'd done a little more thinking and little less philanthropy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575132086</amazonuk>}}to [[Newest Short Story Reviews]]