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|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LanePhilip K Dick|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Hello, sweetie.'' And with those words we know where we are – in the company of River Song, one of modern TV's more infuriating characters. Now shePhilip K Dick's likeable enough, it was just the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made her hard to live with. I would say this was a return to her side, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it in our future, which is her past, and vice versa at the same, er, time? Either way, five tales here bring a selection of her escapades to a YA audience. The results can be bordering on the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usual.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alex Lamb|title= NemesisElectric Dreams|rating= 3.5

|summary= IPhilip K Dick'm not a great lover of back-cover blurbs stories were originally published in the 50s, but every now and again it tells you everything you need to know…if you read between they are more present than past. On the lines. ''Hugely promisingbig screen '' said SFX. Blade Runner 2049''Hits relaunched the ground running'' said Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the Guardian. I canauthor't disagree with either of those two statementss short stories for TV. Unfortunately for this particular readerStartlingly, it ran very quickly Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into a swamp the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the increasing machination of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weedsociety are all headline material in today's news. And didnIt is as if half a century after their inception, Dick't live up to the promises electric dreams are becoming reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732061111473223288</amazonuk>

|author=Emma GeenGeorge Mann|title=The Many Selves Ghosts of Katherine North|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=As a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut', nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into the lab-grown bodies of all sorts of creatures. She's recently spent a lot of time as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) and got particularly close with a vixen named Tomoko. It's becoming much harder for her to leave the animal world behind at the end of her 'jumps'. Even after Buckley, her neuroengineer, signals her to 'Come home' and she resumes her original body, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialism, toileting outdoors and raiding bins.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858436</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Philip Martin|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosEmpire

|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' had access to Taking on a time machine, they would be able to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found the likes band of [[Doctor Who and the Genesis undead Mummies will take it out of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis best of the Daleks]] to be too violent, she us and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to a prison world, where soon-to-holiday may be victims of snuff movies needed. If you are trapped in a reality-show styled existence, and a hard-done-by populous from New York there are sat at home doing nothing not many other than watching the feeds from the executionscities worldwide that could impress you, the morgues and worse. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had the benefit but London is one of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differentlythem. They were quite vocal in complaining about Surely, a horrific character being a trade delegate who is half-mannice visit to England, half-slug far from the hustle and wholly stupid evil laughbustle of the Big Apple, and such an artificial premisewill help you to relax. Little did they know It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the series would soon lumber people loose with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumber. Is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859404061783294183</amazonuk>

|author=Eric SawardIan Doescher|title=Doctor WhoWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: The VisitationStar Wars Part the Seventh|rating=34.5

|summary=Have you ever given your children a A long time machine? No? Are you sure? What about that thing ago, in the corner upstairs a galaxy far away, there was a man called a dressing-up box – have they never been transported bodily William Shakespeare, who was able to the 1970s by some orange cords and wide-collared shirts or whatnot? Have they never been in create a museum series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and put on a mediaeval smock rebellious heroes and told they're now in the middle ages? heroines most sturdy. Well adults can get involved in that, too, of course – You may or may not have noticed the cast cinematic version of this his original stage play for ''Doctor WhoThe Force Doth Awaken'' adventure had to put on 17th Century garb, and that was pretty much it as far as looks go. Yesbut here at last we get the actual script, there is an evilcomplete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-seeming alienbefore droids anew, yes there are some control bands he makes us poor humans wearreturning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and yes there is a giant android dressed as Death, but on people keeping it in the whole family til it was one of the more simple episodeshurts. StillAnd if you need further encouragement, whodon's to say t forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the novel isnseries is so popular we't much more substantial, rich and varied?re on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940392159474985X</amazonuk>

|author=Terrance DicksJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title=Doctor Who and the Genesis : Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of the DaleksTime Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary=If you Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to randomly travel keep in time and space, where would you end uptouch with even half of his companions? WellHe would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, if our own battle-torn history was anything to go bysay, for example, you'd like as not end up in whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a time Time Lord and place that of some of warhis friends and enemies. The thing is, howeverAs luck would have it, he has the Doctor is notspace in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, for onceso my advice to him – sorry, travelling randomly her – he's been charged with carrying out errands for the Time Lordswould be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And the most tricky of those is to go the planet Skaroif you're working on a shorter timescale, deeply enmeshed in with a thousand year warshorter lifespan, and put paid to thinking perhaps just one of gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the most heinous plans that could risk the universe – that of Davros to create his Dalek racesame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403841785942719</amazonuk>

|author=Malcolm HulkeAndy Weir|title=Doctor Who and the Dinosaur InvasionArtemis|rating=43.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What effect do you think you'd have if you were Welcome to time travel? I dare say it depends who or what you were to begin withArtemis, the first city on the moon. A powerhouse for the rich and when you went a once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and what you didalso a place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. The creatures in this story only seem She came to stay in Artemis with her father aged six, it's the same only place, and do just what comes natural – she's ever known but as theyshe wouldn't say she're giant rampaging dinosaurs and they suddenly appear s flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives in the middle low end of modern-day Central London they do kind of get noticed. As town, sleeping on a bunk, using a result the entire place has been evacuatedshared bathroom, which is all ten million people shipped outshe can afford through her job as a porter. However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and the Government resettled in that hotbed to this end, she has set up a side business of politics, Harrogateillegal smuggling activity. As When one of Jazz's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a resulthandsome reward, when the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn up they immediately get accused of being looters – and UNIT are it is just a touch too much out of contacttempting to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know is causing time to leave all the dinosaurs moving around London, and facts behind what she is a mediaeval man, complaining of witchcraft under King John, doing there too?being asked to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403760091956943</amazonuk>

|author=Terrance DicksWes Stuart|title=Doctor Who and the Web of FearMy Name is Sam|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What do you look like if you time travelWho is the real enemy? Perhaps like a lunkThis is the question which confronts Sam, the champion of the Sereia in their cosmos-headed Austrianspanning war with the Gibbus, naked and with fizzy blue stuff all over youthe main character in this story. Or perhapsSam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he is, to yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from the confusion of Professor TraversGibbus who, you look exactly as you did when he met you in Tibet forty years agoseven days, will destroy the planet and everyone on it. That escapade has had a legacyThis is not his choice however: that is the decision of the alien Sereia, his mentors and guides, as he has brought back a deactivated robot Yeti – and has mistakenly managed is forced to reactivate itconfront this hazardous task. Or perhaps, you look very much like yourself if you're a time traveller, They have their own reasons for just by reading this book you won't change your appearancewanting Earth to be saved, but you'll be sent back are too weak to 1968challenge the Gibbus themselves. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, by way of 1975, when Sam – but this book-of-the-series was first published.child is not quite as he appears…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403681540504506</amazonuk>

|author=Bill StruttonC Robert Cargill|title=Doctor Who and the ZarbiSea of Rust|rating=34.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Consider Have you ever watched the time machine. You probably know of it as looking like either ''Terminator'' movies or some fancy Edwardian sitsimilar 'Robo-upon machine that the Morlocks nick, or perhaps a battered old English police call box. I geddon' franchise and wondered what would suggest it can also look like a small paperback book – pretty much like have happened if the subject at hand. This reprint of a robots had actually ''Doctor Whowon?'' novelWell wonder no more, first presented in 1973 because ''Sea of Rust'' hinges on that exact premise; a world where the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of organic matter anywhere, since the series shown in 1965, certainly has robot uprising that devastated the ability to take you backplanet. I grew up with the series on TV Now two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS and the books in a Target imprint, but this predates that – it was, apparently, the second ever Who book-of-the-seriesVIRGIL. In it, the good Doctor They capture robots and his three companions arrive on turn them into drones; uploading their minds into a certain quarry-like planethive consciousness. One stays in the TARDISThe few remaining bots are called 'freebots, only to find it ' and her nicked by aliens; another needs rescuing from alien mind control by inhabit a different species desert called the Sea of aliens; and the third with our irascible hero work out Rust, where they do what actually took control of their ship and stranded them there in the first place…they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178594035X1473212782</amazonuk>

|author= David WingrovePaul McAuley|title= The Ocean of TimeAustral

|summary= The War for Time continuesAustral 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 egg. From I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She was, as the frozen tundra jargon of 13th Century Russia her world has it ''edited''. She is, as a result, a Husky. A human modified to withstand the battle cold temperatures of Paltava the Antarctic continent. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive in 1709 and beyond, Otto Behr has waged an unquestioning, unending war across time but maybe not for his peoplemuch longer. But now This is a third unidentified power world in which the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the ice has joined retreated and continues to retreat…a world in which the game across the ocean harshest of time, and everything Otto holds dear could be unmade…environments is being opened up for exploitation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195617X1473217318</amazonuk>

|author= Holly JenningsGeoffrey Arnold|title= ArenaHunted|rating= 3.54

|summary= Kali Ling competes Tullia learns about survival in the RAGE tournaments – 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 competition mixture of Virtual Gamingawe, desire, fear and hate. Living a very different life, where the worldQwelby, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best gamers compete in friends from the Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a fight to the digital deathgirl he has known for years. Every fights is broadcast Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to millions, help during a violent attack from his own world as he and each player leads lives of fameTullia seek to restore their telepathic link. Although Forming a connection with the twins during the weapons are digitalattack, the players feel every blow… Kali Ling – the first female captain in tournament historygirl, Xaala, is famed for charged by her prowess master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – but has and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her world shaken when mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her teammate and lover overdosesorders. NowMeanwhile, she must win on the tournament planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and uncover friends build what they hope will be the truth about the tournamentfirst ever inter-dimensional transport. On a short test run, for the Virtual Gaming League has dark secretsvillage where he is staying is discovered. And the only way to change the rules When Quelby finds out he is to fight being watched, he flees from the inside…village...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>11019887621785891855</amazonuk>

|author= Michael CobleyDaniel Suarez|title= Ancestral MachinesChange Agent|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Having completed I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wish. In the Humanity's Fire trilogy genetic lottery that is our lives we are given a selection from our mother and our father to work with the Ascendant Stars. However, although they may be over six foot, I expected to go off and do something completely differentyou could still end up being shorter. He didnYou can't. In Ancestral Machinescurrently choose what coding you get, we're back in but what if you could cherry pick the same universe. best aspects of your family traits? The Construct (an ancient AI on It would be a mission) is still doing its best great way to protect sentient speciessave people from hereditary disease, and but would we end up with a world full of identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashions? In the drone Rensik is still one future someone would need to be in charge of its key agentsstopping science going too far. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501779110198466X</amazonuk>

|author= Jo WaltonStephen Baxter |title= The Philosopher KingsXeelee: Vengeance |rating= 3.52

|summary= Twenty years have passed since Michael Poole, Earth's greatest living engineer, changed the Goddess Athene founded galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the Just Citysolar system. The god Apollo is still living thereHowever, albeit in such a thing was created with a degree of naivety and a lack of foresight because out of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human form. Now marriedeyes before, it is unstoppable and the father of several childrenunfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, the man/god struggles vessel is unresponsive to cope when tragedy befalls his familythe human life around it. Beset by grief It ignores hails and a need for revengeeven direct attacks. Nothing affects it, Apollo sets sail not even the surface of the sun. All it seems to find the man who caused him such painwant is energy, but discovers something and Earth has plenty of that may change everything…to be absorbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721507911473217172</amazonuk>

|author=Mike BrooksDaniel Godfrey|title=Dark SkyEmpire of Time (New Pompeii)|rating=4.5

|summary=Making money is not easy, especially if you live life on Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the edges of known space scraping beginning.The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to a living doing odd jobs with your crew; some legal, some not so legalnew Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old one sounded great in theory. You may not have much money, a good ship or even adequate washing facilitiesThe practice has been going on for years now, but what you do have is the friendship modern and comradery old worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the experiment out of your fellow crewmatescuriosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. That is unless you have all just discovered that Since he arrived, he's watched the Romans kill the inventors of the captain used to be a space pirate who once suffocated his entire crew so machine that he could escapesaved them. Welcome Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give him his Roman name, is the jolly ship Keikoonly non-Roman living in New Pompeii and that's not a safe position or location in which to live.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195665X1785653156</amazonuk>

|author= Samuel R DelanyCixin Liu|title= NovaThe Wandering Earth

|summary=In If anyone thought that the 31st century short story as a form had been relegated to the rare element Illyrion is pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. One genre that has always been a crucial energy source, stalwart supporter and naturally enough a whole lot encourager of politics and power are bound up with whoever controls the supplyshort form is Sci-fi. Lorq Von Ray So when you pick up a collection of Sci-fi shorts, daring spaceship captain, has this mad idea you know that flying into an imploding star it will – have just as long much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as he can get out again any similar novel. Add to that the intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – allow him to gather Illyrion be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of the rest of the planet…and add to that an author who is not only a best-seller in unimaginable quantities. Luckily his rag-bag crew don't know about this when they sign on.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 be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732119131784978493</amazonuk>

|author= Emma NewmanJack Campbell|title= PlanetfallThe Genesis Fleet: Vanguard

|summary= Ren believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond our one, calling to The human adventure continues! As humanity. A planet promising spreads to reveal the truth about our place in stars it takes with it both the cosmos, best and untainted by overpopulation, pollution the worst examples of itself. The isolation and war. Ren believed edginess of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in that vision enough to give up everything, this tale of far-flung colonies and followed the pathfinder Suh-Mi into the unknownbullying neighbours. Twenty two years laterWe follow our protagonists, the new colony still functions – based around a mysterious alien structure into which Suh-Mi has resided each failures in isolation. Ren works hard alonetheir own careers (crisis management, space navy, generating the tools needed for survival – politics and harbouring a secret that could destroy everything marines) as they have worked to buildbecome heroes. 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>04252823921785650408</amazonuk>

|author= Stephen HickmanAnne Corlett|title= The Art of Stephen HickmanSpace Between The Stars

|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary= Stephen Hickman has been a well known artist in the Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds for a number of years now, having created covers for authors such as Harlan EllisonJamie Allenby wakes, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffreyalone, and Larry Nivenrealises her fever has broken. His paintings are vibrantBut could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, kineticJamie had left her partner Daniel, sometimes scarymourning the miscarriage of their baby. She'd just had to get away, often sensualso took a job on a distant planet. Then the virus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate and isolated, traditionaluntil she receives a garbled message from Earth. If someone from her past is still alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a way to return. She meets others seeking Earth, and yet moderntheir ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dream. But they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanity'The Art of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds of these paintingss past mistakes, and the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers threatening their precious fresh start. Jamie will also get a fascinating glimpse into the artistic processsecond chance at happiness. But can she escape her troubled past, to embrace a hopeful future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832984561509833528</amazonuk>

|author= Ursula K Le GuinElizabeth Moon|title= The WindCold Welcome: Vatta's Twelve Quarters and The Compass RosePeace|rating= 4.5

|summary=''I'll start by saying 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 I think '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 place filled with such horrible memories. But as soon as she arrives, Ky finds herself in perilous danger, caught in the SF Masterworks series are pretty much always middle of an assassination attempt. Now stranded at sea and without fail a really interesting readcommunication links with the outside world, Ky must use every ounce of skill she possesses to battle for survival. IBut with an unfamiliar crew who don've bought quite t trust her, sabotaged equipment and a few from this publisher now and I find they will always pick interesting titles from traitor in the science fiction genremidst, making them a great place to start if you are either just dipping your toe into science fiction the odds aren't in her favour. While the survivors hunt for the first time or if youland, Ky're looking s family members are doing everything possible to build up your collectionensure her rescue.Old friends are called in and new alliances are made, but will it be enough? Will they get to Ky before it's too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320576X0356506282</amazonuk>

|author=Jason Sam Peters|title=From Darkest Skies|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=No one likes to see a loved one die, but when they do we can reflect on how they lived and eventually move on with a piece of them inside us. However, what would happen if we could take all the memories we have saved on the internet and combine them into an Artificial Intelligence that represented them? Would this work to keep them close, or just give you a false facsimile that prevents you from moving on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214750</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=M HoughR Carey|title=Zero WorldThe Boy on the Bridge

|summary=Memory is an important element It's ten years since mankind was almost wiped out by a virus that turned the great majority of making us who we areit into the hungries – zombies by any other name. Do we avoid certain courses A lone, heavily armoured vehicle is travelling from the British redoubt on the south coast the length of the Kingdom, tracing a previous expedition that failed to return, and hoping to find evidence somewhere, somehow, of action knowing something that can either counter the memory virus or rid the survivors of their enemy. As a result the vehicle is divided in personnel between scientists and the military, and as neither side is completely cohesive it would haunt us for 's no surprise to see the rest of our lives? crew split along partisan lines. Most That's not helped by one of us would not killthe scientists, Samrina Khan, but what if you could forget that you just ended someonebeing heavily pregnant. But she's life? Then you may be also rubbed people up by insisting on an intriguing character being on board – a sociopathteenaged savant, but a useful sociopath that can be trained to be an assassin who killsno less, forgets and kills againcalled Stephen Greaves. This type But that source of person may even forget that they have visited new worlds.the unusual is nothing perhaps to the bizarre the team will find on their explorations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832952520356503534</amazonuk>

|author=Philip K DickJohn Scalzi|title=Nick and the GlimmungThe Collapsing Empire|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Meet Nick. He lives on a future Earth'' ''Just out of curiosity if this is the smaller problem, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacherwhat is the bigger problem?'' ''  '' ''The complete collapse of the Flow, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare to the class that you are breaking end of the law. Nick, you see, has a pet catinterdependency, and in this massively over-populated and under-resourced world, pets are illegalthe possible extinction of the human race. There's a simple solution – wait for the ''anti-pet man''  In the distant future, mankind has been forced to turn up with his weaponry leave Earth behind and armour and dispose has subsequently built an impressive empire compromising of 47 human colonies all connected by The Flow: a river of italternate space-time which makes travel across the Interdependency possible. Dependent on trade, but the family have decided Holy Empire's survival is all thanks to take the other way Flow… which is now collapsing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509835075</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geoff Gaywood|title= Omnipotence: Odyssey Book I|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Against a backdrop of relentless global warming and deepening social conflict on Earth, an expedition sets out – emigrate to an entirely different worldsecure a foothold on a distant planet thought suitable for human habitation. Hence they embark on Almost immediately, the trip crew are sorely tested by a violent internal conspiracy, alien aggression and simmering emotional tensions. They complete a spectacular transition to be pioneer farmers on Plowman's Planeta remote solar system where they find that their goal, as dangerous as it is exotic, even when they're forewarned already has the ominous attention of another civilisation. Moreover, a host series of different and most unusual animals already resident thereperplexing events suggest that their mission may be subordinate to a much greater power with its own strategic agenda. That advice still doesn't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057513299X178589918X</amazonuk>

|author= Paul McAuleyKim Stanley Robinson|title= ConfluenceNew York 2140

|genre= Dystopian Science Fiction|summary=Yama is a foundling orphan adopted as a baby By 2140 sea level has risen by around fifty feet, leaving coastal cities the Aedile (chief civil servant) world over with major problems. Some places will always be desirable, however, and when you've invested a lot of time and money somewhere you're reluctant to leave. Consequently New York remains a small city downriver thriving, popular place even though half of Manhattan is under water and the mightystreets are now canals. There are still financial traders, local politicians, celebrities, ancient street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing the city of Ysand getting by. It seems like New York has stabilised into a new, capital of the man-made world watery normal but when a couple of Confluence. Longing to become programmers go missing from a soldier building on Madison Square and take his late brother's place in some of the long-running war against the hereticsother residents start looking into it, the restless seventeen year old is about a question begins to be taken as an apprentice clerk despite his young age, asked: Does it have to keep him out of trouble. Destiny, however, has other plans for him.be this way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057511942X0356508757</amazonuk>

|author= Walter M Miller JrStefan Mohamed|title= Dark BenedictionStanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)

|summary= Walter MCynical, 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. Miller Jr is rightly placed among And the super powered allies. And the science fiction giants Hmysterious enemies.GAnd the terrifying monsters. Wells, Michael Moorcock, and Philip KAnd the stunning revelations. Dick in And the apocalypse. Now he''Masterworks'' series, a large selection of genre-defining writers and works at the centre of s not sure what he is now such a popular and diverse range of literatures, films, and television productions. Miller Or where he is considered . Or how exactly one of is supposed to proceed after saving the finest science fiction writers of the 1950s, and in world. All he knows is that his story isn''Dark Benediction'', fourteen of this author's best short stories are brought together in one collectiont finished.Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732119481784630764</amazonuk>

|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin MoffettTom Toner|title=The Silent HistoryWeight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=WellOne thing great science fiction needs is solid world building. When I pick up a book like this, they kept this quiet – for reasons I need to imagine that will become obvious. A couple of years ago people in America were giving birth to problematic kids. They (the children) were soon found to be unnaturally quiet – 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 universe has existed before the plot has started and indeed they could not understand anything said will continue to them, or shown them, as an instruction. They were physically unable to parse anything as language, and were in do so after: it needs a silent world strong sense of their ownhistory and future. But right about now they and we are combining worlds – schools are being set upWith this book, and funds are being made availableseries, and people are coming down on the endless divide as to whether they are I feel like I have just problematic, disabled – or even the blessed. In had a couple 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 before the kids themselves changebrief glimpse into something much larger. For they will be able to switch their mental abilities much like a blind man can hear more than A great deal happens in the averageplot, and will be able to comprehend body and facial language much but even more coherently than anyone else. Throughout this timelineis happening, however, people will be working hard to try and study the problemhas happened, and put it right – if indeed 'right' is across the correct word…Firmament.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959286X1473211395</amazonuk>

|author=Kieran SheaAmanda Hocking|title=Koko the MightyFreeks|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Many people have dreamed In the spring of packing up their old jobs 1987, the carnival comes to small-town Caudry, Louisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, the carnival is home. It's also a place of secrets, hidden powers and opening a B&B or hotel buried past - making it hard to connect with their partner somewhere in a picturesque holiday destinationoutsiders. You may just deserve this new lifeHowever, but running a hotel is not easysparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparable, especially when it Mara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. And his family legacy could destroy Mara's world. They find the word 'freeks' sprayed on a pleasure island known for its indiscriminate violence and hedonismtrailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. Koko Martsteller had her last hotel/brothel blown Then workers wind updead, but after a series of extraordinary events she has a new hostelry and a new partnerkilled in disturbing ways by someone or something. ItMara is determined to unlock the mystery, with Gabe's a shame then that nothing is ever easy for Kokohelp.But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811686281509807659</amazonuk>

|author=Rob BoffardAlec Birri|title=TracerCondition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...|rating=34|genre=Science Fiction |summary=Just because Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions in Argentina after the Earth has been destroyed does Second World War may not mean that humans are now extinct. As come as a bunch, humans are resourcefulsurprise, but why was the twisted eugenicist not only allowed to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do so rather than sit on ? And what has that got to do with a respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the invention of a dying Earth we cure for nearly all pack our bags and get a place on the orbiting station called New Earth. However, after a couple world's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried in the horrors of hundred years the old space station Auschwitz? The unacceptable is starting about to feel a little cramped and appears to be falling to piecesbecome the disturbingly bizarre. What is has the common link treatment's 'correction' of paedophiles got to both Earth do with the President of the United States, the Pope and New Earth being destroyedeven the UK's Green Party? Perhaps it is time someone did something about these pesky humans who ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565051381785898779</amazonuk>

|author=Lev RosenAlastair Reynolds|title=DepthSlow Bullets|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The private investigator genre is When hundreds of worlds have been at war for a long time, the announcement of a ceasefire takes a great onewhile to reach everyone. Not because they all feel pretty similar so It's perhaps not surprising that picking one the worst of the soldiers using the war as an excuse for crimes, don't immediately give up is like slipping on . Scur, a pair conscript who has just been given the hope of comfortable slippersreturning to her family, but because you can put a PI anywhere – even has the misfortune to run into one of these war criminals before the futurepeacekeepers arrive. Writing about a New York that is partially underwater could be done in many ways; action, cerebralHe leaves her to die, but why not use an investigator for hire? Mixing she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a solid crime story with an intriguing glance at the future is sure to be a winnerprison ship, but you better put on your best trench coat as you are going only to get wetdiscover that he is there too. And that's the least of her worries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298634147321842X</amazonuk>

|author=A L KennedyAlec Birri|title=Doctor WhoCondition: The Drosten's CurseBook One - A Medical Miracle?|rating=45|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=If, for some unearthly reason, you should follow the world of golf and hear of a bunker thatIt's 1966, but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn'lethalt celebrating England' or 'a killer trap', point the speaker s win in the direction of a sand pit on the 13th at the Fetch Brothers Golf Spa Hotel. For it really is lethal World Cup – something under it will suck you down, handspan by handspan, anaesthetising you and making you incapable of crying out. David Agnew knows this, and uses it as a handy way to get rid of people instead he doesn't likes awakening from a coma following an aircraft accident. Elsewhere at Fetch there is Waking in a completely inept character – I needn't specifyworld where nothing makes sense, as he's inept at everything unable to recall the crash – whobut struggles to remember the rest of his life…And what's heartily smitten by Bryonystopping him from taking his medication? Is it brain damage causing paranoia about the red pill, the hard-done-by receptionist. There or is a grandma who it would appear is losing all memory, beyond for her beloved octopuses, two young children who are very wrong indeed, in lots of ways, and he right to think there's also a strangely metallic taste about the air in the place. A perfect site for the Fourth Doctor something more sinister going on…And, having suffered almost 100% burns, how is he alive? Are his hallucinations trying to pop up in, then – until a psychic attack leaves tell him with little opportunity to put the ageless problems to rights…something?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18499082651785899686</amazonuk>

|author= Robert BrockwayCharlie Laidlaw|title= The UnnoticeablesThings We Learn When We're Dead|rating= 3.5|genre= ParanormalGeneral Fiction|summary= Carey is On the way to a punk living in New York Citydinner party, 1977Lorna Love steps into the path of an oncoming car. Sick of watching his friends Waking up in what appears to be abducted and killeda hospital, he doesn’t care about the rumours of strange monsters and supernatural happenings – all he wants to do but a hospital in which wine is drink beer served for supper, everyone avoids her questions, and kick ass. In the present dayher nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, Kaitlyn it soon transpires that Lorna is in HollywoodHeaven, or, at least, on HVN. A stuntwoman, she has Because HVN is a missing best friendlost, has just escaped an attempt on her lifedysfunctional spaceship, and an angel is waiting outside her door. The survival of the human race lies in God the hands of Carey and Kaitlynaging hippy captain. We areAt first Lorna can remember nothing, but as her memories return – some good, some bad, all of usshe realises that she has a decision to make, well and truly screwed…that maybe, she needs to find a way home…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832979721786150352</amazonuk>