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|author= Alec BirriPhilip K Dick|title= Condition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams|rating= 43

|summary= Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in Argentina after the Second World War may not come as a surprise50s, but why was they are more present than past. On 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 worldbig screen ''Blade Runner 2049's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried in relaunched the horrors Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of Auschwitz? The unacceptable is about to become the disturbingly bizarre. What pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the treatmentauthor's short stories for TV. Startlingly, Dick'correction' s current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of paedophiles got privacy to do with the President increasing machination of the United Statessociety are all headline material in today's news. It is as if half a century after their inception, the Pope and even the UKDick's Green Party? electric dreams are becoming reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858987791473223288</amazonuk>

|author= Alastair ReynoldsGeorge Mann|title= Slow BulletsGhosts of Empire|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=When hundreds Taking on a band of undead Mummies will take it out of worlds have been at war for a long time, the announcement best of us and a ceasefire takes a while to reach everyoneholiday may be needed. It's perhaps If you are from New York there are not surprising many other cities worldwide that the worst could impress you, but London is one of the soldiers using the war as an excuse for crimes, don't immediately give upthem. Scur Surely, a conscript who has just been given the hope of returning nice visit to her familyEngland, has far from the misfortune to run into one hustle and bustle of these war criminals before the peacekeepers arriveBig Apple, will help you to relax. He leaves her to die, but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on a prison ship, only the loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring to discover that he is there too. And that's raise the least sleeping power of her worriesAlbion from its slumber. Is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147321842X1783294183</amazonuk>

|author= Alec BirriIan Doescher|title= ConditionWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Book One - A Medical Miracle?Star Wars Part the Seventh|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= It's 1966A long time ago, but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn't celebrating England's win in the World Cup – instead he's awakening from a coma following an aircraft accident. Waking in galaxy far away, there was a world where nothing makes senseman called William Shakespeare, he's unable who was able to recall the crash – but struggles to remember create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the rest cinematic version of his life…And whatoriginal stage play for ''s stopping him The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from taking elsewhere in his medication? Is oeuvre, and people keeping it brain damage causing paranoia about in the red pillfamily til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, or don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is he right to think thereso popular we's something more sinister going on…And, having suffered almost 100% burns, how is he alive? Are his hallucinations trying re on to tell him something?part seven – surely making this over twice as good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785899686159474985X</amazonuk>

|author= Charlie LaidlawJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title= The Things Doctor Who: Now We Learn When We're DeadAre Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary= On Consider the way Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to a dinner partyhand out each year, Lorna Love steps into the path were he to keep in touch with even half of an oncoming car. Waking up in what appears to be his companions? He would certainly need a hospitalfew novelty gifts for some of them, say, but a hospital in which wine is served for supper, everyone avoids her questionsexample, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is in Heaven, or, at least, on HVNof some of his friends and enemies. Because HVN is a lost As luck would have it, dysfunctional spaceshiphe has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, and God the aging hippy captain. At first Lorna can remember nothingso my advice to him – sorry, but as her memories return – some good, some badwould be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, she realises that she has with a decision to makeshorter lifespan, and that maybethinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, she needs to find a way home…well my advice is pretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17861503521785942719</amazonuk>

|author= William GibsonAndy Weir|title= NeuromancerArtemis|rating= 43.5

|summary=''He still dreamed of cyberspace…all Welcome to Artemis, the first city on the moon. A powerhouse for the turns he'd taken rich and the corners he cut a once in Night Citya lifetime trip for earth tourists, and healso a place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, it'd still see s the matrix in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colourless voidonly place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she' Neuromancer follows Cases flourishing. In fact, who the phrase most often used to be describe Jazz is a cyber cowboy with exceptional hacking skills, before attempting to steal from his former employer, who as a result severed his connection to cyberspace by injecting him with a mycotoxinwaste of talent. No longer able to enter Jazz lives in the Matrixlow end of town, Case enters sleeping on a dark depression having suicidal thoughts and developing bunk, using a drug addictionshared bathroom, which is where the reader first meets our troubled protagonist all she can afford through her job as a porter. However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and antihero. Waiting for someone to help him escape his miserythis end, she has set up a mysterious stranger proposes a deal to restore Caseside business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazz's ability regular clients wants her to connect step up from petty criminal to cyberspace in exchange major criminal for working for hima handsome reward, it is just too tempting to refuse. Surrounded by secrecy, Case joins What Jazz doesn't know is all the recruits on their mission facts behind what she is being asked to uncover artificial intelligence and start life afreshdo. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732173850091956943</amazonuk>

|author= Brandon SandersonWes Stuart|title= Arcanum UnboundedMy Name is Sam

|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary= Brandon Sanderson Who is more cannon than man. He fires out more works than any other author the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, the champion of fantasythe Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, and the main character in this story. Not only does he write Sam is an awe inspiring amount unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of novelswho he is, but yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also writes various short fictions Earth's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone on it. This is not his choice however: that go alongside themis the decision of the alien Sereia, his mentors and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous task. And in hereThey have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be saved, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselves. In their search for a human champion they find the first timeunlikely and ill-prepared young boy, all the major ones are collected together.Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732180391540504506</amazonuk>

|author= James YoungC Robert Cargill|title= Rise Sea of the Dust ChildRust|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction |summary=An age has passed since Have you ever watched the fall of ''Terminator'' movies or some similar 'Robo-geddon' franchise and wondered what would have happened if the old worldrobots had actually ''won?'' Well wonder no more, and the rise because ''Sea of Rust'' hinges on that exact premise; a world where the malignant Dust peoplerobots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Amongst the terrors Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of this new ageorganic matter anywhere, humanity still lingers within since the wreckage of civilisation, held together by robot uprising that devastated the promise of a better existence in the next lifeplanet. But not all are satisfied by this dogmaNow two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS and VIRGIL. Within the smoggy city of Fort Palmer, eight year old Doran They capture robots and his friend Alena stand apart, struggling to retain the lost glory of turn them into drones; uploading their faithminds into a hive consciousness. But the unquiet dead The few remaining bots are called 'freebots,' and the forces of faith do not take kindly to those who try to fix inhabit a broken world. As the quest to save desert called the future leads each Sea of them down a dark pathRust, where they are cast apart - struggling do what they can to overcome the monstrous dusters and the fear within themselvessurvive, desperate to see each including cannibalising other againbots for spare parts. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>15246343791473212782</amazonuk>

|author= Ken LiuPaul McAuley|title= Invisible PlanetsAustral|rating= 43.5

|summary= Invisible Planets Austral has no doubts about who she is . Her birth was, as she puts it, ''a political act. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an eclectic collectionegg. I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She was, translated beautifullyas the jargon of her world has it ''edited''. She is, as a result, and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides a welcome introduction for those who aren’t familiar with Husky. A human modified to withstand the cold temperatures of the genreAntarctic continent. The stories Those temperatures are dreamlike and hypnoticstill hard for un-modified humans to survive in, evocative but maybe not for much longer. This is a world in which the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the ice has retreated and inspiringcontinues to retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments is being opened up for exploitation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849788091473217318</amazonuk>

|author= James GossGeoffrey Arnold|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound YouHunted

|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary=At Coal Hill SchoolTullia learns about survival in 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 women, a mixture of awe, things have started to get publicdesire, fear and hate. Kids have become obsessed with Living a website that demands you perform risky stuntsvery different life, or tell it your most painful secrets. And SeraphinQwelby, everyoneTullia's favourite vloggertwin, wants you to get involvedis deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. All in As he is rescued by his four best friends from the name Pit of charity. At Despair, he experiences his first people just get hurtfeelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. Then 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 restore their lives are ruinedtelepathic link. FinallyForming a connection with the twins during the attack, the girl, they disappear. As April's fragile group of friends starts Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to fracture, she decides she's going mentally reconnect – and to uncover prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the truth behind thie site herselftwins and obeying her orders. Whatever it takesMeanwhile, whoever she hurtson the planet Vertazia and in secret, AprilQuelby's going to winfamily and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. But thenOn a short test run, to her horrorthe village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, she wakes up and finds her whole world's changedhe flees from the village.. What she does next will astound you. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418871785891855</amazonuk>

|author= A K BenedictDaniel Suarez|title= Class: The Stone HouseChange Agent|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary=There's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past itI wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wish. They've heard In the storiesgenetic lottery that is our lives we are given a selection from our mother and our father to work with. But However, although they may be over six foot, if you stop, and look could still end upbeing shorter. You can't currently choose what coding you get, but what if you'll see could cherry pick the face best aspects of your family traits? It would be a girlgreat way to save people from hereditary disease, pressed but would we end up against with a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn to world full of identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashions? In the stone house. There's a mystery there, and she's going future someone would need to solve it. But the more she investigates, the more she realises that there's a presence be in the house. One that wants her. Something is waiting for Tanya in the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over the years. Something that is charge of stopping science going too far worse than any ghost...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941879110198466X</amazonuk>

|author= Guy AdamsStephen Baxter |title= ClassXeelee: JoyrideVengeance |rating= 4.52

|summary=Poppy is Michael Poole, Earth's greatest living engineer, changed the galaxy when he opened a quiet girlworm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar system. However, right up until she steals such a car thing was created with a degree of naivety and drives it through a shop windowlack of foresight because out of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Max Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, it is a nice guyunstoppable and unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, but then he kills his whole familythe vessel is unresponsive to the human life around it. Just for funIt ignores hails and even direct attacks. Amar always seems so happyNothing affects it, so why is he trying to jump to his death from not even the school roof? Some surface of the students of Coal Hill School are not themselvessun. Some of them are dying. Ram has just woken up in a body he doesn't recogniseAll it seems to want is energy, and if he doesn't figure out why, he may well Earth has plenty of that to be nextabsorbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418601473217172</amazonuk>

|author=Stephen BaxterDaniel Godfrey|title=The Massacre Empire of MankindTime (New Pompeii)|rating=45

|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies with Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the authorbeginning. After The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to a certain period new Pompeii just before the copyright is lifted so that an independent author can tackle disaster hits the characters, hence the proliferation of Sherlock Holmes booksold one sounded great in theory. For many fans of The practice has been going on for years now, but the original, these books feel like cover versions modern and are best avoidedold worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. It is Scientist Nick Houghton only when ever wanted to live within the estate experiment out of the author gets involved that their interest is piquedcuriosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. H. G. WellsSince he arrived, he' ''The War s watched the Romans kill the inventors of the Worlds'' left enough of a door open machine that saved them. Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to explore further give him his Roman name, is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and when you hire as an experienced that's not a science fiction author as Stephen Baxter safe position or location in which to pick up the official story, it may just be worth a readlive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732050931785653156</amazonuk>

|author=Robert DickinsonCixin Liu|title=The TouristWandering Earth|rating=35|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Time travel in any format is If anyone thought that the short story as a tricky businessform had been relegated to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. In One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager of the real world it short form is pretty much impossible, or we would all be reading about how people from the future kept trying to assassinate Hitler, but he managed to avoid themSci-fi. In filmSo when you pick up a collection of Sci-fi shorts, time travel can be super cool you know that it will have just as much depth and lead to some mind bending adventures, but spend a few moments unbending your mind and you discover more plot holes than an entire Terminator Tetralogythought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. In Add to that the written form this is even worse as you don't have intrigue of seeing how the visual splendour concepts are approached by someone from China which – to distract be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of the rest of the eye. The key planet…and add to time travel that an author who is not only a best-seller in science fiction is his home country but has the distinction of having produced the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to keep it simple. Or you could just ignore this advice and write ''The Tourist''.be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565081531784978493</amazonuk>

|author= Luke RhinehartJack Campbell|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play gamesThe Genesis Fleet: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 12/9 -->|author= Yan Vana|title= The MessageVanguard|rating= 3.5

|summary=The Message follows an official Inquiry into human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to the stars it takes with it both the best and the wanton destruction worst examples of a Protected Nature Reserveitself. The first witnesses give evidence isolation and edginess of the extent a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of the damage far-flung colonies and later witnesses identify those responsiblebullying neighbours. As the inquiry unfolds it becomes apparent that the Nature Reserve is EarthWe follow our protagonists, each failures in their own careers (crisis management, space navy, politics and that the Inquiry is being undertaken by regulators from other Galaxies who have responsibility for the protection of Reserves throughout the Cosmos. Science Fiction? A love story? A study of human civilisation? A warning message..marines) as they become heroes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B019NDIP1A1785650408</amazonuk>

|author=Adrian J WalkerAnne Corlett|title=The End of the World Running Club|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=When the end of the world as we know it comes, Edgar is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, and in a panic, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellar, and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in the dark until their supplies run out. Fortunately they are lucky, and they are rescued from the cellar. As they emerge back into the world they see the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds of large asteroids hitting the earth. Large areas of the country have been destroyed. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and towns, turning feral, trying to find what's left to help them to survive. Edgar's family are rescued by a small remaining army unit, but 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nina Allan|title= Space Between The RaceStars

|summary= The Race alternates between our world Jamie Allenby wakes, alone, and that of one set in a future Earth scarred by fracking and ecological collapserealises her fever has broken. In our worldBut could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, Jamie had left her partner Daniel, mourning the story follows Christymiscarriage of their baby. She'd just had to get away, so took a job on a young aspiring writer whose mother left when distant planet. Then the virus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she was only 15 feels desperate and whose life is dominated by fear of her brotherisolated, until she receives a man capable of monstrous actsgarbled message from Earth. Meanwhile, in Sapphire If someone from her past is still alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a world similar way to our own yet very differentreturn. She meets others seeking Earth, and their ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dream. But they'll clash with the entire economy funded by illegal smart dog racingsurvivors intent on repeating humanity's past mistakes, we encounter Jenna Hoolman whose young niece is kidnapped at the tender age of 4threatening their precious fresh start. We Jamie will also learn about Alex, get a man who second chance at happiness. But can help Christy uncover the truth behind she escape her troubled past as well as Maree, an intelligent young woman who has the power to change the world forever.embrace a hopeful future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565036X1509833528</amazonuk>

|author= Geoffrey ArnoldElizabeth Moon|title= Ripped ApartCold Welcome: Vatta's Peace|rating= 34.5

|summary= Qwelby and Tulia are teenage aliens''I'm convinced we can survive anything'' After saving the 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, growing enroute to tie up some family business. Promised a hero's welcome, Ky plans to stay as little time as possible back in a world and environment far removed from our own. When the twins interfere place filled with a forbidden experimentsuch horrible memories. But as soon as she arrives, they find themselves transported to opposite ends of our Earth – Qwelby Ky finds herself in Finland and Tulia perilous danger, caught in Africathe middle of an assassination attempt. To surviveNow stranded at sea and without communication links with the outside world, they Ky must re-establish their telepathic connection, find each other, avoid captureuse every ounce of skill she possesses to battle for survival. But with an unfamiliar crew who don't trust her, sabotaged equipment and return home. They say that their people arrived on Earth 75,000 years agoa traitor in the midst, were the cause of odds aren't in her favour. While the development of the human racesurvivors hunt for land, Ky's family members are doing everything possible to ensure her rescue. Old friends are called in and now need the help of those humans if their race is new alliances are made, but will it be enough? Will they get to survive.Ky before it's too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17846247560356506282</amazonuk>

|author=George MannSam Peters|title=Ghosts of KarnakFrom Darkest Skies

|summary=The superhero market is crowded No one likes to see a loved one die, but when they do we can reflect on how they lived and sometimes a little boring. Who cares about what eventually move on with a God-like person can do when the rest piece of them inside us are scrambling around trying to avoid papercuts, never mind trying to repel a rogue asteroid. The best heroes are those 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 menHowever, but it is their vulnerability what would happen if we could take all the memories we have saved on the internet and combine them into an Artificial Intelligence that makes represented them ace to read about. ? Add Would this work to this list George Mann's 'The Ghost'keep them close, or just give you a World War One veteran who returns to New York no longer willing to watch the criminals taking over his home town.false facsimile that prevents you from moving on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832941671473214750</amazonuk>

|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneM R Carey|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River SongBoy on the Bridge|rating=3.5

|summary=It''Hello, sweetie.'' And with those words we know where we are – in s ten years since mankind was almost wiped out by a virus that turned the company great majority of River Song, one of modern TV's more infuriating charactersit into the hungries – zombies by any other name. Now she's likeable enoughA lone, it was just heavily armoured vehicle is travelling from the British redoubt on the south coast the length of the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with Kingdom, tracing a previous expedition that made her hard failed to live with. I would say this was a return , and hoping to her sidefind evidence somewhere, somehow, but have we had of something that pleasure yet – isn't it can either counter the virus or rid the survivors of their enemy. As a result the vehicle is divided in our futurepersonnel between scientists and the military, which and as neither side is her past, and vice versa at completely cohesive it's no surprise to see the crew split along partisan lines. That's not helped by one of the samescientists, erSamrina Khan, time? being heavily pregnant. Either wayBut she's also rubbed people up by insisting on an intriguing character being on board – a teenaged savant, five tales here bring a selection no less, called Stephen Greaves. But that source of her escapades the unusual is nothing perhaps to a YA audience. The results can be bordering the bizarre the team will find on the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usual.their explorations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859408800356503534</amazonuk>

|author= Alex LambJohn Scalzi|title= NemesisThe Collapsing Empire|rating= 3.5

|summary= I'm not a great lover ' ''Just out of back-cover blurbcuriosity if this is the smaller problem, but every now and again it tells you everything you need to know…if you read between what is the lines. bigger problem?''Hugely promising'' said SFX.  ''Hits the ground running'' said The complete collapse of the Flow, the end of the interdependency, and the possible extinction of the Guardianhuman race. I can't disagree with either ' '' In the distant future, mankind has been forced to leave Earth behind and has subsequently built an impressive empire compromising of those two statements. Unfortunately for this particular reader, it ran very quickly into 47 human colonies all connected by The Flow: a swamp river of dense pseudoalternate space-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weedtime which makes travel across the Interdependency possible. And didnDependent on trade, the Holy Empire't live up s survival is all thanks to the promiseFlow… which is now collapsing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732061111509835075</amazonuk>

|author=Emma GeenGeoff Gaywood|title=The Many Selves of Katherine NorthOmnipotence: Odyssey Book I|rating=34.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=As Against a backdrop of relentless global warming and deepening social conflict on Earth, an expedition sets out to secure a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut'foothold on a distant planet thought suitable for human habitation. Almost immediately, nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into the lab-grown bodies of all sorts of creatures. She's recently spent crew are sorely tested by a lot of time as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) violent internal conspiracy, alien aggression and got particularly close with simmering emotional tensions. They complete a vixen named Tomoko. It's becoming much harder for her spectacular transition to leave a remote solar system where they find that their goal, as dangerous as it is exotic, already has the animal world behind at the end ominous attention of her 'jumps'another civilisation. Even after BuckleyMoreover, her neuroengineer, signals her a series of perplexing events suggest that their mission may be subordinate to 'Come home' and she resumes her original body, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialism, toileting outdoors and raiding binsa much greater power with its own strategic agenda.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858436178589918X</amazonuk>

|author=Philip MartinKim Stanley Robinson|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosNew York 2140|rating=45|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' had access to a time machine, they would be able to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found the likes of [[Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks By 2140 sea level has risen by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of the Daleks]] to be too violentaround fifty feet, she and her coterie had no idea leaving coastal cities the series would soon turn to a prison worldover with major problems. Some places will always be desirable, where soon-to-be victims of snuff movies are trapped in a reality-show styled existencehowever, and when you've invested a hard-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executions, the morgues lot of time and worse. If those watching ''Doctor Who'money somewhere you' had the benefit of foresight they might have responded re reluctant to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differentlyleave. They were quite vocal in complaining about Consequently New York remains a horrific character being a trade delegate who is half-manthriving, popular place even though half-slug of Manhattan is under water and wholly stupid evil laughthe streets are now canals. There are still financial traders, local politicians, celebrities, street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing the city and such an artificial premisegetting by. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie LangfordIt 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 aliens some of the other residents start looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…into it, a question begins to be asked: Does it have to be this way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859404060356508757</amazonuk>

|author=Eric SawardStefan Mohamed|title=Doctor WhoStanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The VisitationBitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating=35|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Have you ever given your children Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a time machine? No? Are fairly typical teenager – unless you sure? What about count the fact that thing in his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the corner upstairs called a dressing-up box – have they never been transported bodily to superpowers. And the 1970s by some orange cords and wide-collared shirts or whatnot? Have they never been in a museum and put on a mediaeval smock and told they're now in super powered allies. And the middle ages? Well adults can get involved in that, too, of course – mysterious enemies. And the cast of this ''Doctor Who'' adventure had to put on 17th Century garb, and that was pretty much it as far as looks goterrifying monsters. Yes, there is an evil-seeming alien, yes there are some control bands he makes us poor humans wear, and yes there is a giant android dressed as Death, but on And the whole it was one of stunning revelations. And the more simple episodesapocalypse. Still, whoNow he's not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to say proceed after saving the novel world. All he knows is that his story isn't much more substantial, rich and varied?finished. Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403921784630764</amazonuk>

|author=Terrance DicksTom Toner|title=Doctor Who and the Genesis The Weight of the DaleksWorld (The Amaranthine Spectrum)|rating=54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If you were One thing great science fiction needs is solid world building. When I pick up a book like this, I need to randomly travel in time imagine that the universe has existed before the plot has started and space, where would you end up? Well, if our own battle-torn history was anything will continue to go by, you'd like as not end up in do so after: it needs a time strong sense of history and place of warfuture. The thing isWith this book, howeverand series, I feel like I have just had a brief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens in the Doctor is not, for onceplot, travelling randomly – he's been charged with carrying out errands for the Time Lords. And the most tricky of those but even more is to go the planet Skarohappening, deeply enmeshed in a thousand year warand has happened, and put paid to one of across the most heinous plans that could risk the universe – that of Davros to create his Dalek raceFirmament.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403841473211395</amazonuk>

|author=Malcolm HulkeAmanda Hocking|title=Doctor Who and the Dinosaur InvasionFreeks|rating=43.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What effect do you think you'd have if you were In the spring of 1987, the carnival comes to time travel? I dare say it depends who or what you were to begin withsmall-town Caudry, and when you went and what you didLouisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. The creatures in this story only seem to stay in the same placeFor Mara Beznik, and do just what comes natural – but as they're giant rampaging dinosaurs and they suddenly appear in the middle of modern-day Central London they do kind of get noticedcarnival is home. As It's also a result the entire place has been evacuated, all ten million people shipped outof secrets, hidden powers and the Government resettled in that hotbed of politicsa buried past - making it hard to connect with outsiders. However, Harrogatesparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As a resultthey become inseparable, when Mara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. And his family legacy could destroy Mara's world. They find the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn word 'freeks' sprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. Then workers wind up they immediately get accused of being looters – and UNIT are just a touch too much out of contactdead, killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. What Mara is causing time determined to leave unlock the dinosaurs moving around Londonmystery, and what is a mediaeval man, complaining with Gabe's help. But can they really halt this campaign of witchcraft under King John, doing there toofear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403761509807659</amazonuk>

|author=Terrance DicksAlec Birri|title=Doctor Who and the Web of FearCondition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What 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 that got to do you look like if you time travelwith a respected neurologist in 2027? Perhaps like Surely the invention of a lunk-headed Austrian, naked and with fizzy blue stuff cure for nearly all over you. Or perhaps, the world's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried in the horrors of Auschwitz? The unacceptable is about to become the confusion of Professor Travers, you look exactly as you did when he met you in Tibet forty years agodisturbingly bizarre. That escapade What has had a legacy, as he has brought back a deactivated robot Yeti – and has mistakenly managed to reactivate it. Or perhaps, you look very much like yourself if youthe treatment're a time traveller, for just by reading this book you wons 't change your appearance, but youcorrection'll be sent back of paedophiles got to 1968, by way do with the President of 1975the United States, when this book-of-the-series was first published.Pope and even the UK's Green Party? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403681785898779</amazonuk>

|author=Bill StruttonAlastair Reynolds|title=Doctor Who and the ZarbiSlow Bullets|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Consider When hundreds of worlds have been at war for a long time, the time machineannouncement of a ceasefire takes a while to reach everyone. You probably know It's perhaps not surprising that the worst of it the soldiers using the war as looking like either some fancy Edwardian sit-upon machine that the Morlocks nickan excuse for crimes, or perhaps a battered old English police call boxdon't immediately give up. I would suggest it can also look like Scur, a small paperback book – pretty much like conscript who has just been given the subject at hand. This reprint hope of a ''Doctor Who'' novel, first presented in 1973 from the series shown in 1965returning to her family, certainly has the ability misfortune to take you back. I grew up with the series on TV and the books in a Target imprint, but this predates that – it was, apparently, the second ever Who book-run into one of-these war criminals before the-seriespeacekeepers arrive. In itHe leaves her to die, the good Doctor and his three companions arrive but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a certain quarry-like planet. One stays in the TARDISprison ship, only to find it and her nicked by aliens; another needs rescuing from alien mind control by a different species of aliens; and discover that he is there too. And that's the third with our irascible hero work out what actually took control least of their ship and stranded them there in the first place…her worries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178594035X147321842X</amazonuk>

|author= David WingroveAlec Birri|title= The Ocean of TimeCondition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?|rating= 3.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary= The War for Time continuesIt'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 aircraft accident. From Waking in a world where nothing makes sense, he's unable to recall the frozen tundra of 13th Century Russia crash – but struggles to remember the battle rest of Paltava in 1709 and beyondhis life…And what's stopping him from taking his medication? Is it brain damage causing paranoia about the red pill, or is he right to think there's something more sinister going on…And, Otto Behr has waged an unquestioninghaving suffered almost 100% burns, unending war across time for how is he alive? Are his people. But now a third unidentified power has joined the game across the ocean of time, and everything Otto holds dear could be unmade…hallucinations trying to tell him something?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195617X1785899686</amazonuk>

|author= Holly JenningsCharlie Laidlaw|title= ArenaThe Things We Learn When We're Dead|rating= 3.5|genre= Science General Fiction|summary= Kali Ling competes in On the RAGE tournaments – way to a competition of Virtual Gamingdinner party, where Lorna Love steps into the world's best gamers compete path of an oncoming car. Waking up in what appears to be a fight to the digital death. Every fights hospital, but a hospital in which wine is broadcast to millionsserved for supper, everyone avoids her questions, and each player leads lives of fameher nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is in Heaven, or, at least, on HVN. Although the weapons are digitalBecause HVN is a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, and God the players feel every blow… Kali Ling – the aging hippy captain. At first female captain in tournament historyLorna can remember nothing, is famed for but as her prowess memories return – but some good, some bad, she realises that she has her world shaken when her teammate a decision to make, and lover overdoses. Nowthat maybe, she must win the tournament and uncover the truth about the tournament, for the Virtual Gaming League has dark secrets. And the only needs to find a way to change the rules is to fight from the inside…home…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>11019887621786150352</amazonuk>