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|author= Luke RhinehartChris Brookmyre|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 games: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 12/9 -->|author= Yan Vana|title= The Message|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=The Message follows an official Inquiry into the wanton destruction of a Protected Nature Reserve. The first witnesses give evidence of the extent of the damage and later witnesses identify those responsible. As the inquiry unfolds it becomes apparent that the Nature Reserve is Earth, 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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B019NDIP1A</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian J Walker|title=The End of Places in the World Running ClubDarkness

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When the end Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort of the world as we know it comesfuturistic Utopia, 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, world of free thinking and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in the dark until their supplies run outno major crime. Fortunately they are lucky, and they are rescued from Perhaps in a Space Station high above the cellar. As they emerge back into Earth were the world greatest minds have travelled so that they see can build a vessel that will send the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds next generations of large asteroids hitting the earthhumans to populate new planets. Large areas of You know that as soon as you arrive it will be the country have been destroyedsame old problems. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and towns, turning feral, trying to find whatYou can's left to help them to survive. Edgar's family are rescued by t really have a small remaining army unit, but he and his wife and children become separatedUtopia with people in it, 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.can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666035650624X</amazonuk>

|author= Nina AllanAbi Curtis|title= The RaceWater & Glass|rating= 45|genre= Science General Fiction|summary= The Race alternates between our world Something has happened, something very nasty and that of one set in on a future Earth scarred by fracking and ecological collapse. In our world, the story follows Christy, submarine a young aspiring writer whose mother left when she was only 15 and whose life pregnant elephant is dominated by fear one of her brother, only a man capable handful of monstrous acts. Meanwhile, in Sapphire a world similar to our own yet very different, with animals living below the entire economy funded by illegal smart dog racing, we encounter Jenna Hoolman whose young niece is kidnapped at the tender age of 4waves. We also learn about Alexfollow Nerissa Crane, a man who can help Christy uncover the truth behind her past vet, as well as Mareeshe remembers recent events, an intelligent young woman who has the power to change looks after the animals and falls into a world foreverof intrigue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565036X0995465754</amazonuk>

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

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

|title=Ghosts of KarnakEmpire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

|author=Mike BrooksSam Peters|title=Dark SkyFrom Darkest Skies|rating=4|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 R Carey|title=The Boy on the Bridge|rating=3.5

|summary=Making money It's ten years since mankind was almost wiped out by a virus that turned the great majority of it into the hungries – zombies by any other name. A lone, heavily armoured vehicle is not easy, especially if you live life travelling from the British redoubt on the edges south coast the length of known space scraping the Kingdom, tracing a living doing odd jobs with your crew; some legalprevious expedition that failed to return, and hoping to find evidence somewhere, somehow, some not so legalof something that can either counter the virus or rid the survivors of their enemy. You may not have much money, As a good ship or even adequate washing facilitiesresult the vehicle is divided in personnel between scientists and the military, but what you do have and as neither side is completely cohesive it's no surprise to see the friendship and comradery of your fellow crewmatescrew split along partisan lines. That is unless you have all just discovered that 's not helped by one of the captain used to be scientists, Samrina Khan, being heavily pregnant. But she's also rubbed people up by insisting on an intriguing character being on board – a space pirate who once suffocated his entire crew so that he could escapeteenaged savant, no less, called Stephen Greaves. Welcome But that source of the unusual is nothing perhaps to the jolly ship Keiko.bizarre the team will find on their explorations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195665X0356503534</amazonuk>

|author= Samuel R DelanyJohn Scalzi|title= NovaThe Collapsing Empire

|summary=In '' ''Just out of curiosity if this is the smaller problem, what is the bigger problem?'' ''  '' ''The complete collapse of the Flow, the 31st century end of the rare element Illyrion is a crucial energy sourceinterdependency, and naturally enough a whole lot the possible extinction of politics and power are bound up with whoever controls the supplyhuman race. Lorq Von Ray, daring spaceship captain'' '' In the distant future, mankind has been forced to leave Earth behind and has this mad idea that flying into subsequently built an imploding star will – as long as he can get out again – allow him to gather Illyrion in unimaginable quantitiesimpressive empire compromising of 47 human colonies all connected by The Flow: a river of alternate space-time which makes travel across the Interdependency possible. Luckily his rag-bag crew donDependent on trade, the Holy Empire't know about this when they sign ons survival is all thanks to the Flow… which is now collapsing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732119131509835075</amazonuk>

|author= Emma NewmanGeoff Gaywood|title= PlanetfallOmnipotence: Odyssey Book I|rating= 4.5

|summary= Ren believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision Against a backdrop of a world far beyond our onerelentless global warming and deepening social conflict on Earth, calling an expedition sets out to humanitysecure a foothold on a distant planet thought suitable for human habitation. A planet promising to reveal Almost immediately, the truth about our place in the cosmos, and untainted crew are sorely tested by overpopulationa violent internal conspiracy, pollution alien aggression and warsimmering emotional tensions. Ren believed in They complete a spectacular transition to a remote solar system where they find that vision enough to give up everythingtheir goal, and followed the pathfinder Suh-Mi into the unknown. Twenty two years lateras dangerous as it is exotic, already has the new colony still functions – based around a mysterious alien structure into which Suh-Mi has resided in isolationominous attention of another civilisation. Ren works hard aloneMoreover, generating the tools needed for survival – and harbouring a secret series of perplexing events suggest that could destroy everything they have worked their mission may be subordinate to builda much greater power with its own strategic agenda. 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>0425282392178589918X</amazonuk>

|author= Stephen HickmanKim Stanley Robinson|title= The Art of Stephen HickmanNew York 2140|rating= 45|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary= Stephen Hickman By 2140 sea level has been a well known artist in risen by around fifty feet, leaving coastal cities the Fantasy world over with major problems. Some places will always be desirable, however, and Science Fiction worlds for when you've invested a number lot of years now, having created covers for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffreytime and money somewhere you're reluctant to leave. Consequently New York remains a thriving, popular place even though half of Manhattan is under water and Larry Niventhe streets are now canals. His paintings There are vibrantstill financial traders, kineticlocal politicians, sometimes scary, often sensual, traditionalcelebrities, street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing the city and yet moderngetting by. ''The Art It seems like New York has stabilised into a new, watery normal but when a couple of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds programmers go missing from a building on Madison Square and some of these paintingsthe other residents start looking into it, and the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic process. question begins to be asked: Does it have to be this way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832984560356508757</amazonuk>

|author= Ursula K Le GuinStefan Mohamed|title= The WindStanly's Twelve Quarters and Ghost: Book 3 (The Compass RoseBitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 45

|summary=I'll start by saying Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that I think his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. And the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the SF Masterworks series are pretty much always and without fail a really interesting readapocalypse. INow he've bought quite a few from this publisher now and I find they will always pick interesting titles from the science fiction genre, making them a great place s not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to start if you are either just dipping your toe into science fiction for proceed after saving the first time or if youworld. All he knows is that his story isn're looking to build up your collectiont finished.Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320576X1784630764</amazonuk>

|author=Jason M HoughTom Toner|title=Zero The Weight of the World(The Amaranthine Spectrum)|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Memory One thing great science fiction needs is an important element of making us who we aresolid world building. Do we avoid certain courses of action knowing When I pick up a book like this, I need to imagine that the memory of universe has existed before the plot has started and will continue to do so after: it would haunt us for the rest needs a strong sense of our lives? Most of us would not killhistory and future. With this book, and series, but what if you could forget that you I feel like I have just ended someone's life? Then you may be had a sociopathbrief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens in the plot, but a useful sociopath that can be trained to be an assassin who killseven more is happening, forgets and kills again. This type of person may even forget that they have visited new worldshas happened, across the Firmament.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832952521473211395</amazonuk>

|author=Philip K DickAmanda Hocking|title=Nick and the GlimmungFreeks|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Meet NickIn the spring of 1987, the carnival comes to small-town Caudry, Louisiana. He lives on Then events take a future Earth, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacherdangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare to the class that you are breaking the lawcarnival is home. Nick, you see, has It's also a pet catplace of secrets, hidden powers and in this massively overa buried past -populated and under-resourced worldmaking it hard to connect with outsiders. However, sparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparable, pets are illegalMara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. ThereAnd his family legacy could destroy Mara's a simple solution – wait for world. They find the word 'freeks'anti-pet man'' to turn sprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. Then workers wind up with his weaponry and armour and dispose of itdead, but the family have decided killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined to take unlock the other way out – emigrate to an entirely different world. Hence they embark on the trip to be pioneer farmers on Plowmanmystery, with Gabe's Planet, even when help. But can they're forewarned of a host really halt this campaign 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…fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057513299X1509807659</amazonuk>

|author= Paul McAuleyAlec Birri|title= ConfluenceCondition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...|rating= 54|genre= Dystopian Science Fiction|summary=Yama is a foundling orphan adopted Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions in Argentina after the Second World War may not come as a baby by surprise, but why was the Aedile (chief civil servant) of twisted eugenicist not only allowed to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do so? And what has that got to do with a small city downriver of respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the mighty, ancient city of Ys, capital invention of a cure for nearly all the man-made world of Confluence. Longing to become a soldier and take his late brother's place ailments can't possibly have its roots buried in the long-running war against the heretics, the restless seventeen year old horrors of Auschwitz? The unacceptable is about to be taken as an apprentice clerk despite his young age, become the disturbingly bizarre. What has the treatment's 'correction' of paedophiles got to keep him out do with the President of trouble. Destinythe United States, however, has other plans for him.the Pope and even the UK's Green Party? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>057511942X1785898779</amazonuk>

|author= Walter M Miller JrAlastair Reynolds|title= Dark BenedictionSlow Bullets|rating= 54

|summary= Walter MWhen hundreds of worlds have been at war for a long time, the announcement of a ceasefire takes a while to reach everyone. Miller Jr is rightly placed among It's perhaps not surprising that the worst of the soldiers using the science fiction giants H.G. Wellswar as an excuse for crimes, Michael Moorcock, and Philip Kdon't immediately give up. Dick in the ''Masterworks'' seriesScur, a large selection of genre-defining writers and works at conscript who has just been given the centre of what is now such a popular and diverse range hope of literaturesreturning to her family, films, and television productions. Miller is considered has the misfortune to run into one of these war criminals before the finest science fiction writers of the 1950speacekeepers arrive. He leaves her to die, and in ''Dark Benediction''but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a prison ship, fourteen of this authoronly to discover that he is there too. And that's best short stories are brought together in one collectionthe least of her worries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473211948147321842X</amazonuk>