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|author= Guy AdamsPhilip K Dick|title= Class: JoyridePhilip K Dick's Electric Dreams|rating= 4.53

|summary=Poppy is a quiet girlPhilip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, right up until she steals a car but they are more present than past. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and drives it through a shop window. Max is a nice guyon slightly smaller screens, but then he kills his whole family. Just Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for funTV. Amar always seems so happyStartlingly, so why is he trying to jump to Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factual: his death topics from the school roof? Some intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the students increasing machination of Coal Hill School society are not themselvesall headline material in today's news. Some of them are dying. Ram has just woken up in It is as if half a body he doesn't recognisecentury after their inception, and if he doesnDick't figure out why, he may well be nexts electric dreams are becoming reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418601473223288</amazonuk>

|author=Stephen BaxterGeorge Mann|title=The Massacre Ghosts of MankindEmpire

|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies with Taking on a band of undead Mummies will take it out of the authorbest of us and a holiday may be needed. After a certain period the copyright is lifted so If you are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that an independent author can tackle the characterscould impress you, hence the proliferation but London is one of Sherlock Holmes booksthem. For many fans Surely, a nice visit to England, far from the hustle and bustle of the originalBig Apple, these books feel like cover versions and are best avoidedwill help you to relax. It is only when not as if Russian Tsarists are on the loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the estate sleeping power of the author gets involved that their interest is piquedAlbion from its slumber. H. G. Wells' ''The War of the Worlds'' left enough of a door open to explore further and when you hire as an experienced a science fiction author as Stephen Baxter to pick up the official story, Is it may just be worth a read.?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732050931783294183</amazonuk>

|author=Robert DickinsonIan Doescher|title=The TouristWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|rating=34.5

|summary=Time travel A long time ago, in any format is a tricky businessgalaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. In You may or may not have noticed the real world it is pretty much impossiblecinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', or but here at last we would all be reading about how people from get the future kept trying to assassinate Hitleractual script, but he managed complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to avoid them. In film-before droids anew, time travel can be super cool and lead to some mind bending adventuresreturning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, but spend a few moments unbending your mind and you discover more plot holes than an entire Terminator Tetralogypeople keeping it in the family til it hurts. In the written form this is even worse as And if you need further encouragement, don't have forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the visual splendour to distract the eye. The key to time travel in science fiction series is so popular we're on to keep it simple. Or you could just ignore part seven – surely making this advice and write ''The Tourist''.over twice as good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508153159474985X</amazonuk>

|author= Luke RhinehartJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title= InvasionDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour Children's Rhymes and Verse |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universeConsider the Doctor. And they've come to earth Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayhand out each year, and were he and to keep in touch with even half of his family quickly come to love the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networkscompanions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, stealing millions from banks to give to othersfor example, they realise whimsical books of verse that Louie pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends mean troubleand enemies. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortuneluck would have it, as well as a ranking high on he has the FBI's most wanted listspace in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terroristsso my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and must be eliminatedget himself ready. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American political And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, economic and military systemsthinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, they soon come to realise that well my advice is pretty much the Powers that Be don't play games: they make warsame. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17856517571785942719</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 12/9 -->|author= Yan VanaAndy Weir|title= The MessageArtemis

|summary=The Message follows an official Inquiry into Welcome to Artemis, the wanton destruction of a Protected Nature Reserve. The first witnesses give evidence of city on the extent of moon. A powerhouse for the damage rich and later witnesses identify those responsiblea once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and also a place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. As the inquiry unfolds She came to Artemis with her father aged six, it becomes apparent that 's the Nature Reserve is Earthonly place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishing. In fact, and that the Inquiry phrase most often used to describe Jazz is being undertaken by regulators from other Galaxies who have responsibility for a waste of talent. Jazz lives in the protection low end of Reserves throughout the Cosmostown, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porter. Science Fiction? A love story? A study However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and to this end, she has set up a side business of human civilisation? A warning messageillegal smuggling activity.When one of Jazz'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 facts behind what she is being asked to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B019NDIP1A0091956943</amazonuk>

|author=Adrian J WalkerWes Stuart|title=The End of the World Running ClubMy Name is Sam|rating=4|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When Who is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, the end champion of the world as we know it comesSereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, Edgar and the main character in this story. Sam is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, an unimposing boy who has no past and in a panic, no memory of who he throws random itemsis, including his daughter, down into his cellar, and then yet he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in the dark until their supplies run outpossesses extraordinary abilities. Fortunately they are lucky, and they are rescued He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from the cellar. As they emerge back into Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the world they see the ruin planet and disaster around them, caused by hundreds of large asteroids hitting everyone on it. This is not his choice however: that is the earth. Large areas decision of the country have been destroyed. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses alien Sereia, his mentors and townsguides, turning feral, trying as he is forced to find what's left confront this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to help them be saved, but are too weak to survivechallenge the Gibbus themselves. Edgar's family are rescued by In their search for a small remaining army unithuman champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite as he and his wife and children become separated, and so begins Edgar's desperate race to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another country.appears…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850326661540504506</amazonuk>

|author= Nina AllanC Robert Cargill|title= The RaceSea of Rust|rating= 4.5

|summary= The Race alternates between our world Have you ever watched the ''Terminator'' movies or some similar 'Robo-geddon' franchise and wondered what would have happened if the robots had actually ''won?'' Well wonder no more, because ''Sea of Rust'' hinges on that of one set in exact premise; a future Earth scarred by fracking and ecological collapse. In our world, where the story follows Christy, a young aspiring writer whose mother left when she was only 15 and whose robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is dominated by fear no trace of her brotherorganic matter anywhere, since the robot uprising that devastated the planet. Now two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS and VIRGIL. They capture robots and turn them into drones; uploading their minds into a man capable of monstrous actshive consciousness. MeanwhileThe few remaining bots are called 'freebots, in Sapphire ' and inhabit a world similar to our own yet very different, with the entire economy funded by illegal smart dog racing, we encounter Jenna Hoolman whose young niece is kidnapped at desert called the tender age Sea of 4. We also learn about AlexRust, a man who where they do what they can help Christy uncover the truth behind her past as well as Mareeto survive, an intelligent young woman who has the power to change the world foreverincluding cannibalising other bots for spare parts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565036X1473212782</amazonuk>

|author= Geoffrey ArnoldPaul McAuley|title= Ripped ApartAustral

|summary= Qwelby and Tulia are teenage aliensAustral has no doubts about who she is. Her birth was, as she puts it, growing up ''a political act. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an egg. I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She was, as the jargon of her world and environment far removed from our ownhas it ''edited''. When the twins interfere with She is, as a forbidden experimentresult, they find themselves transported a Husky. A human modified to opposite ends withstand the cold temperatures of our Earth – Qwelby in Finland and Tulia in Africathe Antarctic continent. To Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survivein, they must re-establish their telepathic connection, find each other, avoid capture, and return homebut maybe not for much longer. They say that their people arrived on Earth 75,000 years ago, were This is a world in which the cause threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the development of the human race, ice has retreated and now need continues to retreat…a world in which the help harshest of those humans if their race environments is to survivebeing opened up for exploitation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17846247561473217318</amazonuk>

|author=George MannGeoffrey Arnold|title=Ghosts of KarnakHunted|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The superhero market Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is crowded taken hostage and sometimes later saves a youth's life during a little boringhunt. Who cares about what Adopted into a God-like person can do when Bushman family and the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the rest young men and women, a mixture of us are scrambling around trying to avoid papercutsawe, desire, never mind trying to repel fear and hate. Living a rogue asteroidvery different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. The As he is rescued by his four best heroes are those that are just normal blokes or ladies dressed up in some fancy outfitfriends from the Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. When it comes down Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek to it Batman or The Shadow are just menrestore their telepathic link. Forming a connection with the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, but it is charged by her master with monitoring their vulnerability that makes attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them ace to read about. Add to this list George MannXaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's 'The Ghost'family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a short test run, the village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, a World War One veteran who returns to New York no longer willing to watch he flees from the criminals taking over his home townvillage...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832941671785891855</amazonuk>

|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneDaniel Suarez|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River SongChange Agent|rating=3.5

|summary=''HelloI wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, sweetieI wish.'' And with those words we know where In the genetic lottery that is our lives we are – in the company of River Songgiven a selection from our mother and our father to work with. However, although they may be over six foot, one of modern TV's more infuriating charactersyou could still end up being shorter. Now sheYou can's likeable enought currently choose what coding you get, it was just but what if you could cherry pick the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made her hard to live with. best aspects of your family traits? I It would say this was be a return great way to her sidesave people from hereditary disease, but have would we had that pleasure yet – isn't it in our future, which is her past, and vice versa at end up with a world full of identikit humans all following the same, er, timelatest genetic fashions? Either way, five tales here bring a selection of her escapades In the future someone would need to a YA audience. The results can be bordering on the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usualin charge of stopping science going too far.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940880110198466X</amazonuk>

|author= Alex LambStephen Baxter |title= NemesisXeelee: Vengeance |rating= 3.52

|summary= IMichael Poole, Earth'm not s greatest living engineer, changed the galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar system. However, such a thing was created with a degree of naivety and a great lover lack of back-cover blurbforesight because out of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, but every now it is unstoppable and again it tells you everything you need unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, the vessel is unresponsive to know…if you read between the lineshuman life around it. ''Hugely promising'' said SFXIt ignores hails and even direct attacks. ''Hits Nothing affects it, not even the ground running'' said surface of the Guardiansun. I can't disagree with either of those two statements. Unfortunately for this particular readerAll it seems to want is energy, it ran very quickly into a swamp and Earth has plenty of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weed. And didn't live up that to the promisebe absorbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732061111473217172</amazonuk>

|author=Emma GeenDaniel Godfrey|title=The Many Selves Empire of Katherine NorthTime (New Pompeii)|rating=3.5

|summary=As Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the beginning.The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut'new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old one sounded great in theory. The practice has been going on for years now, nineteen-year-but the modern and old Kit projects herself into worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the lab-grown bodies of all sorts experiment out of creatures. Shecuriosity but it's recently spent a lot of time as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) and got particularly close with a vixen named Tomokomore dangerous than he ever dreamt. It Since he arrived, he's becoming much harder for her to leave watched the animal world behind at Romans kill the end inventors of her 'jumps'the machine that saved them. Even after Buckley Nick, her neuroengineer, signals her or Decimus Horatius Pullus to 'Come home' and she resumes her original bodygive him his Roman name, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialism, toileting outdoors is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and raiding binsthat's not a safe position or location in which to live.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088584361785653156</amazonuk>

|author=Philip MartinCixin Liu|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosThe Wandering Earth|rating=45|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' anyone thought that the short story as a form had access been relegated to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. One genre that has always been a time machine, they would be able to temper all their responsesstalwart supporter and encourager of the short form is Sci-fi. When Mary Whitehouse found the likes So when you pick up a collection of [[Doctor Who 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 Genesis intrigue of seeing how the Daleks concepts are approached by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of the Daleks]] someone from China which – to be too violent, she and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to polite – has a prison somewhat different world, where soon-view in many ways to-be victims much of the rest of snuff movies are trapped in the planet…and add to that an author who is not only a realitybest-show styled existence, and a hard-done-by populous are sat at seller in his home doing nothing other than watching country but has the feeds from the executions, the morgues and worse. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had distinction of having produced the benefit first translated work of foresight they might have responded SF ever to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differently. They were quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being a trade delegate who is half-man, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laugh, and such an artificial premise. Little did they know win the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…Hugo Award…this has got to be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859404061784978493</amazonuk>

|author=Eric SawardJack Campbell|title=Doctor WhoThe Genesis Fleet: The VisitationVanguard|rating=35|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Have you ever given your children a time machine? No? Are you sure? What about that thing in The human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to the corner upstairs called a dressing-up box – have they never been transported bodily to stars it takes with it both the 1970s by some orange cords best and wide-collared shirts or whatnot? Have they never been in a museum the worst examples of itself. The isolation and put on edginess of a mediaeval smock and told they're now Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in the middle ages? Well adults can get involved in that, too, this tale of course – the cast of this ''Doctor Who'' adventure had to put on 17th Century garb, far-flung colonies and that was pretty much it as far as looks gobullying neighbours. YesWe follow our protagonists, there is an evil-seeming alieneach failures in their own careers (crisis management, yes there are some control bands he makes us poor humans wearspace navy, politics and yes there is a giant android dressed marines) as Death, but on the whole it was one of the more simple episodesthey become heroes. Still, who's to say the novel isn't much more substantial, rich and varied?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403921785650408</amazonuk>

|author=Terrance DicksAnne Corlett|title=Doctor Who and the Genesis of the DaleksThe Space Between The Stars|rating=54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If you were to randomly travel in time Jamie Allenby wakes, alone, and space, where would you end uprealises her fever has broken. But could everyone she knows be dead? WellMonths earlier, if our own battle-torn history was anything to go byJamie had left her partner Daniel, youmourning the miscarriage of their baby. She'd like just had to get away, so took a job on a distant planet. Then the virus hit. Jamie survived as not end up in it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate and isolated, until she receives a time and place of wargarbled message from Earth. The thing If someone from her past isstill alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a way to return. She meets others seeking Earth, however, the Doctor is not, for once, travelling randomly – heand their ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dream. But they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanity's been charged with carrying out errands for the Time Lordspast mistakes, threatening their precious fresh start. And the most tricky of those is to go the planet Skaro, deeply enmeshed in Jamie will also get a thousand year warsecond chance at happiness. But can she escape her troubled past, and put paid to one of the most heinous plans that could risk the universe – that of Davros to create his Dalek race.embrace a hopeful future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403841509833528</amazonuk>

|author=Malcolm HulkeElizabeth Moon|title=Doctor Who and the Dinosaur InvasionCold Welcome: Vatta's Peace|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What effect do you think you'd have if you were 'I'm convinced we can survive anything'' After saving the empire, Admiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less than to time travel? I dare say it depends who or what you were return to begin withher home planet. But after her cousin's request, that's exactly where Ky finds herself, and when you went and what you didenroute to tie up some family business. The creatures in this story only seem Promised a hero's welcome, Ky plans to stay as little time as possible back in the same placefilled with such horrible memories. But as soon as she arrives, and do just what comes natural – but as they're giant rampaging dinosaurs and they suddenly appear Ky finds herself in perilous danger, caught in the middle of modern-day Central London they do kind an assassination attempt. Now stranded at sea and without communication links with the outside world, Ky must use every ounce of get noticedskill she possesses to battle for survival. As But with an unfamiliar crew who don't trust her, sabotaged equipment and a result traitor in the entire place has been evacuatedmidst, all ten million people shipped out, and the Government resettled odds aren't in that hotbed of politicsher favour. While the survivors hunt for land, HarrogateKy's family members are doing everything possible to ensure her rescue. As a resultOld friends are called in and new alliances are made, when the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn up but will it be enough? Will they immediately get accused of being looters – and UNIT are just a touch too much out of contact. What is causing time to leave the dinosaurs moving around London, and what is a mediaeval man, complaining of witchcraft under King John, doing there Ky before it's toolate?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403760356506282</amazonuk>

|author=Terrance DicksSam Peters|title=Doctor Who and the Web of FearFrom Darkest Skies

|summary=What do you look like if you time travel? Perhaps like No one likes to see a lunk-headed Austrianloved one die, naked but when they do we can reflect on how they lived and eventually move on with fizzy blue stuff all over youa piece of them inside us. Or perhapsHowever, to what would happen if we could take all the memories we have saved on the confusion of Professor Travers, you look exactly as you did when he met you in Tibet forty years ago. internet and combine them into an Artificial Intelligence that represented them? That escapade has had a legacy, as he has brought back a deactivated robot Yeti – and has mistakenly managed Would this work to reactivate it. Or perhapskeep them close, or just give you look very much like yourself if you're a time traveller, for just by reading this book false facsimile that prevents you won't change your appearance, but you'll be sent back to 1968, by way of 1975, when this book-of-the-series was first published.from moving on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403681473214750</amazonuk>

|author=Bill StruttonM R Carey|title=Doctor Who and The Boy on the ZarbiBridge

|summary=Consider It's ten years since mankind was almost wiped out by a virus that turned the time machine. You probably know great majority of it as looking like either some fancy Edwardian sit-upon machine that into the Morlocks nick, or perhaps a battered old English police call boxhungries – zombies by any other name. I would suggest it can also look like a small paperback book – pretty much like A lone, heavily armoured vehicle is travelling from the British redoubt on the south coast the subject at hand. This reprint length of the Kingdom, tracing a ''Doctor Who'' novelprevious expedition that failed to return, and hoping to find evidence somewhere, somehow, first presented in 1973 from of something that can either counter the series shown in 1965, certainly has virus or rid the ability to take you backsurvivors of their enemy. I grew up with As a result the series on TV vehicle is divided in personnel between scientists and the books in a Target imprintmilitary, but this predates that – and as neither side is completely cohesive it was, apparently, 's no surprise to see the second ever Who book-crew split along partisan lines. That's not helped by one of-the-seriesscientists, Samrina Khan, being heavily pregnant. In it, the good Doctor and his three companions arrive But she's also rubbed people up by insisting on an intriguing character being on board – a certain quarry-like planetteenaged savant, no less, called Stephen Greaves. One stays in But that source of the TARDIS, only unusual is nothing perhaps to the bizarre the team will find it and her nicked by aliens; another needs rescuing from alien mind control by a different species of aliens; and the third with our irascible hero work out what actually took control of on their ship and stranded them there in the first place…explorations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178594035X0356503534</amazonuk>

|author= David WingroveJohn Scalzi|title= The Ocean of TimeCollapsing Empire|rating= 3.5

|summary= '' ''Just out of curiosity if this is the smaller problem, what is the bigger problem?'' ''  '' ''The War for Time continues. From complete collapse of the Flow, the frozen tundra end of 13th Century Russia to the battle interdependency, and the possible extinction of Paltava in 1709 the human race.'' '' In the distant future, mankind has been forced to leave Earth behind and beyond, Otto Behr has waged subsequently built an unquestioning, unending war impressive empire compromising of 47 human colonies all connected by The Flow: a river of alternate space-time which makes travel across time for his peoplethe Interdependency possible. But now a third unidentified power has joined Dependent on trade, the game across Holy Empire's survival is all thanks to the ocean of time, and everything Otto holds dear could be unmade…Flow… which is now collapsing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195617X1509835075</amazonuk>

|author= Holly JenningsGeoff Gaywood|title= ArenaOmnipotence: Odyssey Book I|rating= 34.5

|summary= Kali Ling competes in the RAGE tournaments – Against a competition backdrop of Virtual Gamingrelentless global warming and deepening social conflict on Earth, where the world's best gamers compete in an expedition sets out to secure a foothold on a fight to the digital deathdistant planet thought suitable for human habitation. Every fights is broadcast to millionsAlmost immediately, and each player leads lives of fame. Although the weapons crew are digitalsorely tested by a violent internal conspiracy, the players feel every blow… Kali Ling – the first female captain in tournament history, is famed for her prowess – but has her world shaken when her teammate alien aggression and lover overdosessimmering emotional tensions. NowThey complete a spectacular transition to a remote solar system where they find that their goal, she must win the tournament and uncover the truth about the tournamentas dangerous as it is exotic, for already has the Virtual Gaming League has dark secretsominous attention of another civilisation. And the only way Moreover, a series of perplexing events suggest that their mission may be subordinate to change the rules is to fight from the inside…a much greater power with its own strategic agenda.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1101988762178589918X</amazonuk>

|author= Michael CobleyKim Stanley Robinson|title= Ancestral MachinesNew York 2140|rating= 35

|summary=Having completed By 2140 sea level has risen by around fifty feet, leaving coastal cities the Humanity's Fire trilogy world over with the Ascendant Starsmajor problems. Some places will always be desirable, however, I expected to go off and do something completely different. He didnwhen you've invested a lot of time and money somewhere you'tre reluctant to leave. In Ancestral MachinesConsequently New York remains a thriving, we're back in popular place even though half of Manhattan is under water and the same universestreets are now canals. The Construct There are still financial traders, local politicians, celebrities, street urchins (an ancient AI on albeit known as water rats) sharing the city and getting by. It seems like New York has stabilised into a mission) is still doing its best to protect sentient speciesnew, watery normal but when a couple of programmers go missing from a building on Madison Square and some of the drone Rensik is still one of its key agents. other residents start looking into it, a question begins to be asked: Does it have to be this way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565017790356508757</amazonuk>

|author= Jo WaltonStefan Mohamed|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Philosopher KingsBitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 3.5

|summary= Twenty years have passed since Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the Goddess Athene founded fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. And the Just Citysuper powered allies. The god Apollo is still living there, albeit in human formAnd the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. Now married, and And the father of several children, stunning revelations. And the man/god struggles to cope when tragedy befalls his familyapocalypse. Now he's not sure what he is. Or where he is. Beset by grief and a need for revenge, Apollo sets sail Or how exactly one is supposed to find proceed after saving the man who caused him such pain, but discovers something world. All he knows is that may change everything…his story isn't finished. Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721507911784630764</amazonuk>

|author=Mike BrooksTom Toner|title=Dark Sky|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Making money is not easy, especially if you live life on the edges of known space scraping a living doing odd jobs with your crew; some legal, some not so legal. You may not have much money, a good ship or even adequate washing facilities, but what you do have is the friendship and comradery The Weight of your fellow crewmates. That is unless you have all just discovered that the captain used to be a space pirate who once suffocated his entire crew so that he could escape. Welcome to the jolly ship Keiko.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195665X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Samuel R Delany|title= NovaWorld (The Amaranthine Spectrum)|rating= 54

|summary=In the 31st century the rare element Illyrion One thing great science fiction needs is solid world building. When I pick up a crucial energy sourcebook like this, I need to imagine that the universe has existed before the plot has started and naturally enough will continue to do so after: it needs a whole lot strong sense of politics history and power are bound up with whoever controls the supplyfuture. Lorq Von RayWith this book, daring spaceship captainand series, has this mad idea that flying I feel like I have just had a brief glimpse into an imploding star will – as long as he can get out again – allow him to gather Illyrion something much larger. A great deal happens in unimaginable quantities. Luckily his rag-bag crew don't know about this when they sign onthe plot, but even more is happening, and has happened, across the Firmament.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732119131473211395</amazonuk>

|author= Emma NewmanAmanda Hocking|title= PlanetfallFreeks|rating= 3.5

|summary= Ren believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision In the spring of a world far beyond our one1987, calling the carnival comes to humanitysmall-town Caudry, Louisiana. A planet promising to reveal Then events take a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, the truth about our carnival is home. It's also a place in the cosmosof secrets, hidden powers and untainted by overpopulation, pollution and wara buried past - making it hard to connect with outsiders. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everythingHowever, and followed the pathfinder Suh-Mi into the unknownsparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. Twenty two years laterAs they become inseparable, the new colony still functions – based around a mysterious alien structure into which Suh-Mi has resided in isolationMara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. Ren works hard alone, generating the tools needed for survival – and harbouring a secret that And his family legacy could destroy everything they have worked to buildMara's world. They find the word 'freeks' sprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. When a stranger appearsThen workers wind up dead, bearing a strong resemblance killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined to unlock the hidden Suh-Mimystery, secrets with Gabe's help. But can no longer be hidden – secrets that may just destroy the colony…they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04252823921509807659</amazonuk>

|author= Stephen HickmanAlec Birri|title= Condition: Book Two - The Art of Stephen HickmanCuring Begins...

|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary= Stephen Hickman Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions in Argentina after the Second World War may not come as a surprise, but why was the twisted eugenicist not only allowed to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do so? And what has been that got to do with a well known artist respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds for invention of a number of years now, having created covers cure for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, and Larry Niven. His paintings are vibrant, kinetic, sometimes scary, often sensual, traditional, and yet modern. nearly all the world's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried in the horrors of Auschwitz? The Art of Stephen Hickmanunacceptable is about to become the disturbingly bizarre. What has the treatment's 'correction' collects hundreds of these paintingspaedophiles got to do with the President of the United States, the Pope and even the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic process. UK's Green Party? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832984561785898779</amazonuk>

|author= Ursula K Le GuinAlastair Reynolds|title= The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass RoseSlow Bullets

|summary=IWhen hundreds of worlds have been at war for a long time, the announcement of a ceasefire takes a while to reach everyone. It'll start by saying s perhaps not surprising that I think the SF Masterworks series are pretty much always and without fail a really interesting readworst of the soldiers using the war as an excuse for crimes, don't immediately give up. I've bought quite Scur, a few from this publisher now and I find they will always pick interesting titles from conscript who has just been given the science fiction genrehope of returning to her family, making them a great place has the misfortune to start if you are either just dipping your toe run into science fiction for one of these war criminals before the first time or if you're looking peacekeepers arrive. He leaves her to build die, but she subsequently wakes up your collectionfrom hibernation on a prison ship, only to discover that he is there too. And that's the least of her worries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320576X147321842X</amazonuk>

|author=Jason M HoughAlec Birri|title=Zero WorldCondition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?|rating=3.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Memory is It's 1966, but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn't celebrating England's win in the World Cup – instead he's awakening from a coma following an important element of making us who we areaircraft accident. Do we avoid certain courses of action knowing that Waking in a world where nothing makes sense, he's unable to recall the memory of it would haunt us for crash – but struggles to remember the rest of our lives? Most of us would not kill, but his life…And what if you could forget that you just ended someone's lifestopping him from taking his medication? Then you may be a sociopathIs it brain damage causing paranoia about the red pill, but a useful sociopath that can be trained or is he right to be an assassin who killsthink there's something more sinister going on…And, having suffered almost 100% burns, forgets and kills again. This type of person may even forget that they have visited new worlds.how is he alive? Are his hallucinations trying to tell him something?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832952521785899686</amazonuk>

|author=Philip K DickCharlie Laidlaw|title=Nick and the GlimmungThe Things We Learn When We're Dead|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Nick. He lives on On the way to a future Earthdinner party, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacher, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare to Lorna Love steps into the class that you are breaking the lawpath of an oncoming car. NickWaking up in what appears to be a hospital, you seebut a hospital in which wine is served for supper, has a pet cateveryone avoids her questions, and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is in this massively over-populated and under-resourced worldHeaven, or, at least, pets are illegalon HVN. There's Because HVN is a simple solution – wait for lost, dysfunctional spaceship, and God the ''anti-pet man'' to turn up with his weaponry and armour and dispose of itaging hippy captain. At first Lorna can remember nothing, but the family have decided to take the other way out as her memories return – emigrate some good, some bad, she realises that she has a decision to an entirely different world. Hence they embark on the trip make, and that maybe, she needs to be pioneer farmers on Plowman's Planet, even when they're forewarned of find a host of different and most unusual animals already resident there. That advice still doesn't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…way home…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057513299X1786150352</amazonuk>