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|author= Christopher PaoliniMark Lingane|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsChimera|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On ''The survivor stumbles forward, her steps echoing in the moon of oppressive silence. Her heart pounds like a distant gas giantjackhammer. 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, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human liferagged gasps as desperation claws at her throat. HoweverDehydration consumes her, and a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moonraging thirst feels unquenchable.'' ''s surface leaves her bonded with There must be a strange alien entityway out. After As she moves through the entity bonded foreign area, memories begin to gel. Disaster had ploughed through her loses control and kills half the staff of the research stationlife—not just hers, everyone’s.'' As our survivor struggles to orient herself, she's guided by a robot, which looks human-made, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system but she can't be sure. It says it is. It says she must try not to take Kira in for examinationinjure herself. Things go from bad Guided to an interview with an eerie, terrifying group of aliens, she desperately tries to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked make sense of flashes of memory - environmental degradation, deals done and destroyed by an alien shipthen betrayed, horrifying rituals covering desperate attempts to survive - and to attempt to explain how she has to flee came to be here, apparently the 61 Cygnus star systemlast human being alive. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi |isbn=B0DNVWMYP2}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and a rag-tag bunch Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of misfits, and thinking about the news shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is grimwhat happens after you're eighteen. The same aliens Well, I must confess that destroyed there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of humanit is - frankly -occupied spacequite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the 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 I'd been paying 'Our future will be more attention when I picked this book upcomplex 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 would have put it back on the shelf've got a couple of confessions to make. Not because I didn't want m not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read it, but because I'd have figured out that it was a few stories and then forget to return to the final part of a trilogybook. Coming in part way through There's got to be a saga is never the easiest thing very compelling hook to do and itkeep me engaged. Then there's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when : far too often it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understandthe technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. This latter is particularly true of Cixin LiuIt's work – his range is phenomenalhuman beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. George R R MartinSo, who knows what did I think of a thing or book of twenty-two about world-creationscience fiction short stories? Well, described I loved it as ''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, conspiracy theory and cosmology''. All of that and more.|isbn=1784971650

|author=Andy BriggsMark Lingane|title=Ctrl+SGalaxy|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. But Earth is under threat and he must. Returned by his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to 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 AI captain. However, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be 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. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=Notes from the Burning Age|rating=4

|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 is his Space Shuttle crashing - until he wakes up in Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the midmoon-24th Century, on an Earth massively depopulated and patiently waiting for sized aliens known as the coming apocalypseArchitects. Suffering from severe culture shockHumanity is scattered, he tries constantly fleeing as world after world falls to adjust to this new worldthe architect's reshaping. But all of this is changed Then, just when he receives a message from his wife Emma...who died they had the human race on a mission to Phobos all the way back in 2004run, the Architects vanished. As it slowly dawns on him that their timelines don't match upAnd so, the memories of the war fades, he resolves to find a way to Phobos. Butheroes are forgotten, this new society doesn't believe in space travel and no-one is willing humanity begins to help himfracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, until he meets a driven young woman who desperately wants to explore as much as he does...|isbn=1473223172}}{{Frontpage|isbn=168369094X|title=William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Future!|author=Ian Doescher|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=A long time agoArchitects, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky does not want to rewrite the story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suitedbe remembered. It was then duly repeated for all the other films in the main Star Wars cycleBut, when he and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the title crew of which became public knowledge the day before I write. In the hiatus, howeversalvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the effort has been made spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to see if the same shtick works with other textsstar system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to realise that the Future, with its tales of time travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other?real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886

|isbnauthor=194927201XTerry Miles|title=Lakes of Mars|author=Merritt GravesRabbits

|summary=After his entire family is killed in Welcome 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, although only as a shuttle crashslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, one that he was piloting no lessofficial source, Aaron Sheridan enlists in the Martian Fleetno hard and fast structure, fully expecting and to die in the ongoing Rim Waraverage person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. InsteadYes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, he winds up on Corinth Stationthe computer game, the Fleet's command schoolhack from the darkest of webs. At firstPeople like our hero, K, he is apathetic towards named like that in the brutality least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and scheming his bezzies are trying to be historians of the students game, and staffhave studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, but after standing up for his only friendthe lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, he becomes a target for and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the dreaded Caelus Erikmost dangerous, nay lethal, the most feared cadet on Corinthbroken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Scared that any further actions will put others on his flight team at riskUnfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, Aaron shuts himself off from everyone. Butif it's even being played, when he discovers that the staff on Corinth have a motive other than training officersand how his loved ones might be kept safe, he begins is only to realise find out that risking his all might be the safest thing he can doline between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932

|isbnauthor=1949272028C J Carey|title=Sunlight 24|author=Merritt GravesWidowland

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=In 2031It's April 1953, genetic engineering and robotics is changing Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the world at an unprecedented ratestate 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 a regimen known his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as Revision making people strongerwe know it, faster and smarter than ever beforewe are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. Baseline humanity But this is slowly being rendered obsoletemost certainly a different Britain, with people like 16for Nazi-yearstyled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-old Dorian Waters being left by brow office bigwigs to the wayside as these new superhumans dominate drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the workforce. Without Revisionchildless, Dorian can't go to University the husbandless and can't get a jobthe widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And so begins Dorian's slow spiral of self-destructionin this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, robbing houses is employed with his best friend Ethan the task of bowdlerising classical literature to pay take all encouragement for his Revisionfemale emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, all and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the time desperately trying to keep this activity secret from his familyparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. But That is her job, at least, with his psychopathic brother already suspicious until the first emerging signs of him and the police gaining groundfemale protest come to light, Dorian slowly begins with their potential to realise that hespoil Hitler's going to have to risk everything to stay ahead..visit.|isbn=152941198X

|isbnauthor=1447281357Everina Maxwell|title=Salvation Lost|author=Peter F HamiltonWinter's Orbit|rating=45

|summary=Humanity Prince Kiem is at a turning pointfamous political disappointment. After Feriton KaneHe's investigation uncovers the supposedly benign Olyix's plan to harvest humanity in the name of their godoutgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the entire human race prepares to fight backpast few years. But So when the Olyix's harvesting ships appear and start heading towards Earth, and Olyix-derived technology begins preparing them for transportation, humanity realises an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that they are vastly outnumbered and outgunned. Some people is supposed to flee, taking to the stars in prevent an effort interplanetary war – no one expects him to hide from their aggressors, even though only a small percentage of humanity would survive. But others choose to fight them head-on. As humanity comes face-to-face with be chosen for the largest ever threat to their existence, old grudges will have to be put aside to focus on obliterating this enemyrole. Even if it means planning for a future that none Least of them will ever live to see..all him.|isbn=0356515885

|isbnauthor=0356512223Rob Winters|title=Velocity Weapon|author=Megan E O'KeefeHis Name Was Wren|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=After her gunship is destroyed in a battle, Sanda Greeve expects to wake up In September 1944 something came down in a friendly medical wardOban Woods, fully healed and ready to get back into near the fightvillage of Hurstwick. However It came down hard, instead, she wakes up a quarter taking the spire of a millenia laterthe village church with it, missing destroying a leg, aboard an enemy starship called The Light of Berossus (or "Bero"stone shack, as the starship's rather grumpy AI prefers to call himself). Bero tells Sanda that the war is long over and that leaving a wide trail through the entire population wood, but no trace of the system is deadwhat it actually was. The only option, it seems, is to travel to German secret weapon was the nearest star system. Butlocal gossip, as the starship makes preparations for its decades-long voyage across the starsbut there should have been an explosion and a crater, it becomes clear to Sanda that something else is going on..and there were neither of those things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB

|isbnauthor=0751568228Mark Lingane|title=Across the Void|author=S K VaughnNote to Self: An Education

|summary=In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea epics? So 20th centuryof 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. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded 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 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 system. Try She 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 epic, and only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue 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…|isbn=1529046505

|isbnauthor=1529014484Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=Exhalation |author=Ted ChiangSeven Devils|rating=54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Over 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 twenty-eight life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short storiesa 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, these magnificent stories have won twentythe runner-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it up heir to the Empire, is likely that you have already come across some plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the work by Ted Chiangfree alien species. If you havenIt't then take this opportunity s a race against time as the rebels move to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful.put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140