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|author= Geoffrey ArnoldPhilip K Dick|title= Ripped ApartPhilip K Dick's Electric Dreams|rating= 3.5

|summary= Qwelby and Tulia are teenage aliens, growing up Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in a world and environment far removed from our own. When the twins interfere with a forbidden experiment50s, but they find themselves transported are more present than past. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to opposite ends reviews of our Earth – Qwelby in Finland pure praise; and Tulia in Africaon slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TV. To survive, they must re-establish their telepathic connection, find each other, avoid captureStartlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and return home. They say that their people arrived on Earth 75,000 years ago, were into the cause factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the development increasing machination of the human race, and now need the help of those humans society are all headline material in today's news. It is as if half a century after their race is to surviveinception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17846247561473223288</amazonuk>

|title=Ghosts of KarnakEmpire

|summary=The superhero market is crowded and sometimes Taking on a little boring. Who cares about what a God-like person can do when band of undead Mummies will take it out of the rest best of us are scrambling around trying to avoid papercuts, never mind trying to repel and a rogue asteroidholiday may be needed. The best heroes If you are from New York there are those not many other cities worldwide that are just normal blokes or ladies dressed up in some fancy outfit. When it comes down to it Batman or The Shadow are just mencould impress you, but it London is their vulnerability that makes one of them ace to read about. Add Surely, a nice visit to this list George Mann's 'The Ghost'England, a World War One veteran who returns far from the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple, will help you to New York no longer willing relax. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring to watch raise the criminals taking over his home townsleeping power of Albion from its slumber. Is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832941671783294183</amazonuk>

|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneIan Doescher|title=Doctor WhoWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: The Legends of River SongStar Wars Part the Seventh|rating=34.5

|summary=''HelloA long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, sweetierulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy.'' And with those words we know where we are – in You may or may not have noticed the company cinematic version of River Song, one of modern TVhis original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken's more infuriating characters. Now she's likeable enough, it was just but here at last we get the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered actual script, complete with that made her hard to live with. I would say this was a return annoying-in-different-ways-to her side-before droids anew, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it returning heroes from elsewhere in our future, which is her pasthis oeuvre, and vice versa at people keeping it in the same, er, time? family til it hurts. Either wayAnd if you need further encouragement, five tales don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here bring a selection of her escapades to a YA audience. The results can be bordering on the written series is so popular we''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate re on to part seven – surely making this over twice as usual.good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940880159474985X</amazonuk>

|author= Alex LambJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title= NemesisDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse |summary=Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andy Weir|title= Artemis

|summary= I'm not Welcome to Artemis, the first city on the moon. A powerhouse for the rich and a once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and also a place a great lover small community of back-cover blurbcitizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, but every now and again it tells you everything you need to know…if you read between 's the lines. only place she's ever known but she wouldn'Hugely promising't say she' said SFXs flourishing. ''Hits In fact, the ground running'' said phrase most often used to describe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives in the Guardianlow end of town, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porter. I can't disagree with either However, Jazz dreams above all else of those two statements. Unfortunately for being rich and to this particular readerend, it ran very quickly into she has set up a swamp side business of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weedillegal smuggling activity. And didnWhen one of Jazz't live s regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome reward, it is just too tempting to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know is all the promisefacts behind what she is being asked to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732061110091956943</amazonuk>

|author=Emma GeenWes Stuart|title=The Many Selves of Katherine NorthMy Name is Sam|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=As a BristolWho is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, the champion of the Sereia in their cosmos-area 'phenomenaut'spanning war with the Gibbus, nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into and the lab-grown bodies of all sorts of creaturesmain character in this story. She's recently spent a lot Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of time as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) and got particularly close with a vixen named Tomokowho he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. ItHe is also Earth's becoming much harder last hope for her to leave salvation from the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the animal world behind at planet and everyone on it. This is not his choice however: that is the end decision of her 'jumps'the alien Sereia, his mentors and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous task. Even after Buckley, her neuroengineerThey have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be saved, signals her but are too weak to 'Come home' challenge the Gibbus themselves. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and she resumes her original bodyill-prepared young boy, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialism, toileting outdoors and raiding bins.Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088584361540504506</amazonuk>

|author=Philip MartinC Robert Cargill|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosSea of Rust|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing Have you ever watched the ''Terminator'Doctor Who'movies or some similar ' had access to a time machine, they Robo-geddon' franchise and wondered what would be able to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found the likes of [[Doctor Who and the Genesis of have happened if the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of the Daleks]] to be too violent, she and her coterie robots had actually ''won?'' Well wonder no idea the series would soon turn to more, because ''Sea of Rust'' hinges on that exact premise; a prison world, where soon-to-be victims the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of snuff movies are trapped in a reality-show styled existenceorganic matter anywhere, and a hard-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching since the feeds from robot uprising that devastated the executions, the morgues planet. Now two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS and VIRGIL. They capture robots and worseturn them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousness. If those watching The few remaining bots are called 'freebots,'Doctor Who'' had and inhabit a desert called the benefit Sea of foresight Rust, where they might have responded do what they can to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differently. They were quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being a trade delegate who is half-mansurvive, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laugh, and such an artificial premiseincluding cannibalising other bots for spare parts. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859404061473212782</amazonuk>

|author=Eric SawardPaul McAuley|title=Doctor Who: The VisitationAustral|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Have you ever given your children Austral has no doubts about who she is. Her birth was, as she puts it, ''a time machine? No? Are you sure? political act. What about that thing Conceived in the corner upstairs called a dressing-up box – have they never been transported bodily to the 1970s laboratory dish by some orange cords and wide-collared shirts or whatnot? direct injection of sperm into an egg. Have they never been in I was customised by a museum and put on a mediaeval smock and told theysuite of targeted genes…''re now in the middle ages? Well adults can get involved in thatShe was, too, of course – as the cast jargon of this her world has it ''Doctor Whoedited'' adventure had to put on 17th Century garb. She is, and that was pretty much it as far as looks goa result, a Husky. A human modified to withstand the cold temperatures of the Antarctic continent. Yes, there is an evilThose temperatures are still hard for un-seeming alien, yes there are some control bands he makes us poor modified humans wearto survive in, and yes there but maybe not for much longer. This is a giant android dressed as Death, but on world in which the whole it was one threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the more simple episodes. Still, who's ice has retreated and continues to say retreat…a world in which the novel isn't much more substantial, rich and varied?harshest of environments is being opened up for exploitation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403921473217318</amazonuk>

|author=Terrance DicksGeoffrey Arnold|title=Doctor Who and the Genesis of the DaleksHunted|rating=54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If you were to randomly travel Tullia learns about survival in time the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the young men and spacewomen, where would you end up? Wella mixture of awe, if our own battle-torn history was anything to go bydesire, you'd like as not end up in a time fear and place of warhate. The thing isLiving a very different life, Qwelby, howeverTullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the Doctor violence on Earth. As he is notrescued by his four best friends from the Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for onceTamina, travelling randomly – a girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he's been and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. Forming a connection with the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with carrying out errands monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the Time Lordstwins and obeying her orders. And the most tricky of those is to go Meanwhile, on the planet Skaro, deeply enmeshed Vertazia and in a thousand year warsecret, Quelby's family and put paid to one of friends build what they hope will be the most heinous plans that could risk first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a short test run, the universe – that of Davros to create his Dalek racevillage where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, he flees from the village...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403841785891855</amazonuk>

|author=Malcolm HulkeDaniel Suarez|title=Doctor Who and the Dinosaur InvasionChange Agent|rating=43.5

|summary=What effect do you think you'd have if you were to time travel? I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wish. I dare say it depends who or what you were In the genetic lottery that is our lives we are given a selection from our mother and our father to begin work with. However, although they may be over six foot, and when you went and could still end up being shorter. You can't currently choose what coding you did. The creatures in this story only seem to stay in the same placeget, and do just but what comes natural – but as they're giant rampaging dinosaurs and they suddenly appear in if you could cherry pick the middle best aspects of modern-day Central London they do kind of get noticed. your family traits? As It would be a result the entire place has been evacuated, all ten million great way to save people shipped outfrom hereditary disease, and the Government resettled in that hotbed of politics, Harrogate. As a result, when the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn but would we end up they immediately get accused of being looters – and UNIT are just with a touch too much out world full of contact. identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashions? What is causing time In the future someone would need to leave the dinosaurs moving around London, and what is a mediaeval man, complaining be in charge of witchcraft under King John, doing there stopping science going too?far.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940376110198466X</amazonuk>

|author=Terrance DicksStephen Baxter |title=Doctor Who and the Web of FearXeelee: Vengeance |rating=42|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What do you look like if you time travel? Perhaps like a lunk-headed AustrianMichael Poole, naked and with fizzy blue stuff all over you. Or perhapsEarth's greatest living engineer, to changed the confusion of Professor Travers, you look exactly as you did galaxy when he met you in Tibet forty years agoopened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar system. That escapade has had However, such a legacy, as he has brought back thing was created with a deactivated robot Yeti – degree of naivety and has mistakenly managed to reactivate a lack of foresight because out of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, itis unstoppable and unfathomable. Or perhapsBent on an unknown path, you look very much like yourself if you're a time traveller, for just by reading this book you won't change your appearance, but you'll be sent back the vessel is unresponsive to 1968the human life around it. It ignores hails and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it, by way not even the surface of 1975the sun. All it seems to want is energy, when this book-and Earth has plenty of-the-series was first publishedthat to be absorbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403681473217172</amazonuk>

|author=Bill StruttonDaniel Godfrey|title=Doctor Who and the ZarbiEmpire of Time (New Pompeii)|rating=3.5

|summary=Consider Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the beginning.The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time machine. You probably know of it as looking like either some fancy Edwardian sit-upon machine that to a new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the Morlocks nick, or perhaps a battered old English police call boxone sounded great in theory. I would suggest it can also look like a small paperback book – pretty much like the subject at hand. This reprint of a ''Doctor Who'' novelThe practice has been going on for years now, first presented in 1973 from but the series shown modern and old worlds living alongside each other in 1965, certainly has the ability to take you backan uneasy peace. I grew up with Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the series on TV and the books in a Target imprint, experiment out of curiosity but this predates that – it was, apparently's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. Since he arrived, he's watched the Romans kill the second ever Who book-inventors of-the-seriesmachine that saved them. In itNick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give him his Roman name, is the good Doctor and his three companions arrive on a certain quarryonly non-like planet. One stays Roman living in the TARDIS, only to find it New Pompeii and her nicked by aliens; another needs rescuing from alien mind control by that's not a different species of aliens; and the third with our irascible hero work out what actually took control of their ship and stranded them there safe position or location in the first place…which to live.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178594035X1785653156</amazonuk>

|author= David WingroveCixin Liu|title= The Ocean of TimeWandering Earth|rating= 3.5

|summary= The War for Time continuesIf anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. From One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager of the frozen tundra short form is Sci-fi. So when you pick up a collection of 13th Century Russia Sci-fi shorts, you know that it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. Add to that the battle intrigue of Paltava seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in 1709 and beyond, Otto Behr has waged many ways to much of the rest of the planet…and add to that an unquestioning, unending war across time for author who is not only a best-seller in his people. But now a third unidentified power home country but has joined the game across distinction of having produced the ocean first translated work of time, and everything Otto holds dear could SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be unmade…good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195617X1784978493</amazonuk>

|author= Holly JenningsJack Campbell|title= ArenaThe Genesis Fleet: Vanguard|rating= 3.5

|summary= Kali Ling competes in The human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to the RAGE tournaments – a competition of Virtual Gaming, where stars it takes with it both the world's best gamers compete in a fight to and the digital deathworst examples of itself. Every fights is broadcast to millions, The isolation and each player leads lives edginess of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of famefar-flung colonies and bullying neighbours. Although the weapons are digitalWe follow our protagonists, the players feel every blow… Kali Ling – the first female captain each failures in tournament historytheir own careers (crisis management, is famed for her prowess – but has her world shaken when her teammate and lover overdoses. Nowspace navy, she must win the tournament politics and uncover the truth about the tournament, for the Virtual Gaming League has dark secretsmarines) as they become heroes. And the only way to change the rules is to fight from the inside…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>11019887621785650408</amazonuk>

|author= Michael CobleyAnne Corlett|title= Ancestral MachinesThe Space Between The Stars|rating= 34

|summary=Having completed the Humanity's Fire trilogy with the Ascendant StarsJamie Allenby wakes, alone, I expected to go off and do something completely differentrealises her fever has broken. But could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, Jamie had left her partner Daniel, mourning the miscarriage of their baby. He didnShe'td just had to get away, so took a job on a distant planet. In Ancestral Machines, we're back in Then the same universevirus hit. The Construct (an ancient AI on Jamie survived as it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate and isolated, until she receives a mission) garbled message from Earth. If someone from her past is still doing its best alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a way to protect sentient speciesreturn. She meets others seeking Earth, and the drone Rensik is still one of its key agentstheir ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dream. But they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanity's past mistakes, threatening their precious fresh start. Jamie will also get a second chance at happiness. But can she escape her troubled past, to embrace a hopeful future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565017791509833528</amazonuk>

|author= Jo WaltonElizabeth Moon|title= The Philosopher KingsCold Welcome: Vatta's Peace|rating= 34.5

|summary= Twenty years have passed since ''I'm convinced we can survive anything'' After saving the Goddess Athene founded empire, Admiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less than to return to her home planet. But after her cousin's request, that's exactly where Ky finds herself, enroute to tie up some family business. Promised a hero's welcome, Ky plans to stay as little time as possible back in the Just Cityplace filled with such horrible memories. The god Apollo is still living thereBut as soon as she arrives, albeit Ky finds herself in human formperilous danger, caught in the middle of an assassination attempt. Now married, stranded at sea and without communication links with the father outside world, Ky must use every ounce of several children, the man/god struggles skill she possesses to cope when tragedy befalls his familybattle for survival. Beset by grief But with an unfamiliar crew who don't trust her, sabotaged equipment and a need traitor in the midst, the odds aren't in her favour. While the survivors hunt for revengeland, Apollo sets sail Ky's family members are doing everything possible to find the man who caused him such painensure her rescue. Old friends are called in and new alliances are made, but discovers something that may change everything…will it be enough? Will they get to Ky before it's too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721507910356506282</amazonuk>

|author=Mike BrooksSam Peters|title=Dark SkyFrom Darkest Skies|rating=4.5

|summary=Making money is not easyNo one likes to see a loved one die, especially if you live life but when they do we can reflect on how they lived and eventually move on the edges with a piece of known space scraping a living doing odd jobs with your crew; some legal, some not so legalthem inside us. You may not have much money, a good ship or even adequate washing facilitiesHowever, but what you do would happen if we could take all the memories we have is saved on the friendship internet and comradery of your fellow crewmates. combine them into an Artificial Intelligence that represented them? That is unless Would this work to keep them close, or just give you have all just discovered that the captain used to be a space pirate who once suffocated his entire crew so false facsimile that he could escape. Welcome to the jolly ship Keiko.prevents you from moving on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195665X1473214750</amazonuk>

|author= Samuel M R DelanyCarey|title= NovaThe Boy on the Bridge|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=In It's ten years since mankind was almost wiped out by a virus that turned the 31st century great majority of it into the rare element Illyrion hungries – zombies by any other name. A lone, heavily armoured vehicle is travelling from the British redoubt on the south coast the length of the Kingdom, tracing a crucial energy sourceprevious expedition that failed to return, and naturally enough hoping to find evidence somewhere, somehow, of something that can either counter the virus or rid the survivors of their enemy. As a whole lot of politics result the vehicle is divided in personnel between scientists and the military, and power are bound up with whoever controls as neither side is completely cohesive it's no surprise to see the supplycrew split along partisan lines. Lorq Von Ray That's not helped by one of the scientists, daring spaceship captainSamrina Khan, has this mad idea that flying into being heavily pregnant. But she's also rubbed people up by insisting on an imploding star will intriguing character being on board – as long as he can get out again – allow him a teenaged savant, no less, called Stephen Greaves. But that source of the unusual is nothing perhaps to gather Illyrion in unimaginable quantities. Luckily his rag-bag crew don't know about this when they sign the bizarre the team will find on.their explorations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732119130356503534</amazonuk>

|author= Emma NewmanJohn Scalzi|title= PlanetfallThe Collapsing Empire

|summary= Ren believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision ' ''Just out of a world far beyond our onecuriosity if this is the smaller problem, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal what is the truth about our place in bigger problem?'' ''  '' ''The complete collapse of the cosmosFlow, and untainted by overpopulation, pollution and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everythingthe end of the interdependency, and followed the pathfinder Suh-Mi into possible extinction of the unknownhuman race. Twenty two years later'' '' In the distant future, the new colony still functions – based around mankind has been forced to leave Earth behind and has subsequently built an impressive empire compromising of 47 human colonies all connected by The Flow: a mysterious alien structure into river of alternate space-time which Suh-Mi has resided in isolationmakes travel across the Interdependency possible. Ren works hard aloneDependent on trade, generating the tools needed for Holy Empire's survival – and harbouring a secret that could destroy everything they have worked is all thanks to buildthe Flow… which is now collapsing. When a stranger appears, bearing a strong resemblance to the hidden Suh-Mi, secrets can no longer be hidden – secrets that may just destroy the colony…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04252823921509835075</amazonuk>

|author= Stephen HickmanGeoff Gaywood|title= The Art of Stephen HickmanOmnipotence: Odyssey Book I|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary= Stephen Hickman has been Against a well known artist in the Fantasy backdrop of relentless global warming and Science Fiction worlds for deepening social conflict on Earth, an expedition sets out to secure a foothold on a number of years now, having created covers distant planet thought suitable for authors such as Harlan Ellisonhuman habitation. Almost immediately, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffreythe crew are sorely tested by a violent internal conspiracy, alien aggression and Larry Nivensimmering emotional tensions. His paintings are vibrantThey complete a spectacular transition to a remote solar system where they find that their goal, kineticas dangerous as it is exotic, sometimes scaryalready has the ominous attention of another civilisation. Moreover, often sensual, traditional, and yet modern. ''The Art of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds a series of these paintings, and the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers perplexing events suggest that their mission may be subordinate to a fascinating glimpse into the artistic processmuch greater power with its own strategic agenda. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298456178589918X</amazonuk>

|author= Ursula K Le GuinKim Stanley Robinson|title= The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass RoseNew York 2140|rating= 45

|summary=I'll start By 2140 sea level has risen by saying that I think around fifty feet, leaving coastal cities the SF Masterworks series are pretty much world over with major problems. Some places will always be desirable, however, and without fail when you've invested a really interesting readlot of time and money somewhere you're reluctant to leave. I've bought quite Consequently New York remains a few from this publisher thriving, popular place even though half of Manhattan is under water and the streets are now canals. There are still financial traders, local politicians, celebrities, street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing the city and I find they will always pick interesting titles getting by. It seems like New York has stabilised into a new, watery normal but when a couple of programmers go missing from a building on Madison Square and some of the science fiction genreother residents start looking into it, making them a great place question begins to start if you are either just dipping your toe into science fiction for the first time or if you're looking be asked: Does it have to build up your collection.be this way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320576X0356508757</amazonuk>

|author=Jason M HoughStefan Mohamed|title=Zero WorldStanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Memory is an important element of making us who we areCynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. And the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. Do we avoid certain courses of action knowing that And the memory of it would haunt us for stunning revelations. And the rest of our lives? Most of us would apocalypse. Now he's not kill, but sure what if you could forget that you just ended someone's life? Then you may be a sociopath, but a useful sociopath that can be trained he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to be an assassin who kills, forgets and kills againproceed after saving the world. This type of person may even forget All he knows is that they have visited new worldshis story isn't finished.Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832952521784630764</amazonuk>

|author=Philip K DickTom Toner|title=Nick and The Weight of the GlimmungWorld (The Amaranthine Spectrum)

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Meet NickOne thing great science fiction needs is solid world building. He lives on When I pick up a future Earthbook like this, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacher, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare I need to imagine that the class that you are breaking universe has existed before the law. Nick, you see, plot has started and will continue to do so after: it needs a pet cat, strong sense of history and in future. With this massively over-populated and under-resourced worldbook, pets are illegal. There's a simple solution – wait for the ''anti-pet man'' to turn up with his weaponry and armour and dispose of itseries, but the family I feel like I have decided to take the other way out – emigrate to an entirely different worldjust had a brief glimpse into something much larger. Hence they embark on A great deal happens in the trip to be pioneer farmers on Plowman's Planetplot, but even when they're forewarned of a host of different more is happening, and most unusual animals already resident therehas happened, across the Firmament. That advice still doesn't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057513299X1473211395</amazonuk>

|author= Paul McAuleyAmanda Hocking|title= ConfluenceFreeks|rating= 3.5|genre= Dystopian Science Fiction|summary=Yama is a foundling orphan adopted as a baby by In the Aedile (chief civil servant) spring of 1987, the carnival comes to small-town Caudry, Louisiana. Then events take a small city downriver of dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, the mighty, ancient city carnival is home. It's also a place of Yssecrets, capital of the manhidden powers and a buried past -made world of Confluencemaking it hard to connect with outsiders. However, sparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. Longing to As they become a soldier and take inseparable, Mara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. And his late brotherfamily legacy could destroy Mara's place in world. They find the long-running war against the hereticsword 'freeks' sprayed on trailers, the restless seventeen year old is about to be taken as an apprentice clerk despite his young agecarnival employees start disappearing. Then workers wind up dead, killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined to keep him out of trouble. Destinyunlock the mystery, however, has other plans for himwith Gabe's help.But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057511942X1509807659</amazonuk>

|author= Walter M Miller JrAlec Birri|title= Dark BenedictionCondition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...|rating= 54

|summary= Walter M. Miller Jr is rightly placed among Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions in Argentina after the science fiction giants H.G. WellsSecond World War may not come as a surprise, Michael Moorcock, and Philip K. Dick but why was the twisted eugenicist not only allowed to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do so? And what has that got to do with a respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the invention of a cure for nearly all the world's ailments can'Masterworks'' series, a large selection of genre-defining writers and works at t possibly have its roots buried in the centre horrors of what Auschwitz? The unacceptable is now such a popular and diverse range of literatures, films, and television productionsabout to become the disturbingly bizarre. Miller is considered one What has the treatment's 'correction' of paedophiles got to do with the finest science fiction writers President of the 1950sUnited States, the Pope and in ''Dark Benediction'', fourteen of this authoreven the UK's best short stories are brought together in one collection.Green Party? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732119481785898779</amazonuk>

|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin MoffettAlastair Reynolds|title=The Silent HistorySlow Bullets|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=WellWhen hundreds of worlds have been at war for a long time, they kept this quiet – for reasons that will become obvious. A couple the announcement of years ago people in America were giving birth a ceasefire takes a while to problematic kidsreach everyone. They (the children) were soon found to be unnaturally quiet – It's perhaps crying with hunger or pain, but never even trying to 'ooga-wooga' their way into their parents' hearts. They were later found to be completely unable to speak, they could not read and indeed they could not understand anything said to them, or shown them, surprising that the worst of the soldiers using the war as an instructionexcuse for crimes, don't immediately give up. They were physically unable to parse anything as languageScur, and were in a silent world conscript who has just been given the hope of their own. But right about now they and we are combining worlds – schools are being set upreturning to her family, and funds are being made available, and people are coming down on has the endless divide as misfortune to whether they are just problematic, disabled – or even the blessed. In a couple run into one of years, however, the problems the virus that is causing these people to be born with will be shown to be a major problem – and that is war criminals before the kids themselves changepeacekeepers arrive. For they will be able He leaves her to switch their mental abilities much like die, but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a blind man can hear more than the averageprison ship, and will be able only to comprehend body and facial language much more coherently than anyone elsediscover that he is there too. Throughout this timeline, however, people will be working hard to try and study the problem, and put it right – if indeed And that'right' is s the correct word…least of her worries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959286X147321842X</amazonuk>

|author=Kieran SheaAlec Birri|title=Koko the MightyCondition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?|rating=5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Many people have dreamed of packing up their old jobs and opening It's 1966, but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn't celebrating England's win in the World Cup – instead he's awakening from a B&B or hotel with their partner somewhere coma following an aircraft accident. Waking in a picturesque holiday destination. You may just deserve this new lifeworld where nothing makes sense, he's unable to recall the crash – but running a hotel is not easystruggles to remember the rest of his life…And what's stopping him from taking his medication? Is it brain damage causing paranoia about the red pill, especially when it or is on a pleasure island known for its indiscriminate violence and hedonism. Koko Martsteller had her last hotel/brothel blown up, but after a series of extraordinary events she has a new hostelry and a new partner. Ithe right to think there's a shame then that nothing something more sinister going on…And, having suffered almost 100% burns, how is ever easy for Koko.he alive? Are his hallucinations trying to tell him something?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811686281785899686</amazonuk>

|author=Rob BoffardCharlie Laidlaw|title=TracerThe Things We Learn When We're Dead|rating=35|genre=Science General Fiction |summary=Just because On the Earth has been destroyed does not mean that humans are now extinct. As way to a bunch, humans are resourcefuldinner party, so rather than sit on a dying Earth we all pack our bags and get a place on Lorna Love steps into the orbiting station called New Earthpath of an oncoming car. However, after a couple of hundred years the old space station is starting to feel a little cramped and Waking up in what appears to be falling to pieces. What a hospital, but a hospital in which wine is the common link to both Earth served for supper, everyone avoids her questions, and New Earth being destroyed? Perhaps her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is time someone did something about these pesky humans who ruin everythingin Heaven, or, at least, on HVN.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356505138</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lev Rosen|title=Depth|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The private investigator genre Because HVN is a great onelost, dysfunctional spaceship, and God the aging hippy captain. Not because they all feel pretty similar so that picking one up is like slipping on a pair of comfortable slippersAt first Lorna can remember nothing, but because you can put a PI anywhere as her memories return – even the future. Writing about a New York that is partially underwater could be done in many ways; actionsome good, cerebralsome bad, but why not use an investigator for hire? Mixing she realises that she has a solid crime story with an intriguing glance at the future is sure decision to be a winnermake, and that maybe, but you better put on your best trench coat as you are going she needs to get wet.find a way home…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832986341786150352</amazonuk>