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|author= Charlie LaidlawChris Brookmyre|title= The Things We Learn When WePlaces in the Darkness|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort of futuristic Utopia, in a world of free thinking and no major crime. Perhaps in a Space Station high above the Earth were the greatest minds have travelled so that they can build a vessel that will send the next generations of humans to populate new planets. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be the same old problems. You can're Deadt really have a Utopia with people in it, can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650624X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Abi Curtis|title= Water & Glass

|genre= General Fiction|summary= On the way to a dinner partySomething has happened, Lorna Love steps into the path of an oncoming car. Waking up in what appears to be something very nasty and on a hospital, but submarine a hospital in which wine is served for supper, everyone avoids her questions, and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is in Heaven, or, at least, on HVN. Because HVN pregnant elephant is one of only a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, and God handful of animals living below the aging hippy captainwaves. At first Lorna can remember nothingWe follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, but as her memories return – some good, some bad, she realises that she has a decision to makeremembers recent events, looks after the animals and that maybe, she needs to find falls into a way home…world of intrigue. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17861503520995465754</amazonuk>

|author= William GibsonPhilip K Dick|title= NeuromancerPhilip K Dick's Electric Dreams|rating= 43

|summary=Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they are more present than past. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'He still dreamed ' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of cyberspace…all pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the turns heauthor'd taken s short stories for TV. Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the corners he cut increasing machination of society are all headline material in Night Citytoday's news. It is as if half a century after their inception, and heDick'd still see the matrix in his s electric dreams, bright lattices are becoming reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473223288</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=George Mann|title=Ghosts of logic unfolding across that colourless void''Empire|rating=4|genre=Science FictionNeuromancer follows Case, who used to |summary=Taking on a band of undead Mummies will take it out of the best of us and a holiday may be a cyber cowboy with exceptional hacking skills, before attempting to steal needed. If you are from his former employerNew York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress you, who as a result severed his connection to cyberspace by injecting him with a mycotoxinbut London is one of them. No longer able to enter the Matrix Surely, Case enters a dark depression having suicidal thoughts and developing a drug addictionnice visit to England, which is where far from the reader first meets our troubled protagonist hustle and antihero. Waiting for someone to bustle of the Big Apple, will help him escape his misery, a mysterious stranger proposes a deal to restore Case's ability to connect you to cyberspace in exchange for working for himrelax. Surrounded by secrecy, Case joins It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the loose with magical powers or the recruits on their mission events are conspiring to uncover artificial intelligence and start life afreshraise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumber. Is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732173851783294183</amazonuk>

|author= Brandon SandersonIan Doescher|title= Arcanum UnboundedWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary= Brandon Sanderson is more cannon than A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man. He fires out more works than any other author called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of fantasymachinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. Not only does he write an awe inspiring amount You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of novelshis original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but he also writes various short fictions that go alongside them. And here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in herehis oeuvre, for and people keeping it in the first timefamily til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, all don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the major ones are collected together.series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473218039159474985X</amazonuk>

|author= James YoungGoss and Russell T Davies|title= Rise Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of the Dust ChildTime Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction Children's Rhymes and Verse |summary=An age has passed since Consider the fall of the old worldDoctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, and the rise were he to keep in touch with even half of the malignant Dust people. Amongst the terrors his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of this new agethem, humanity still lingers within the wreckage say, for example, whimsical books of civilisation, held together by verse that pithily encapsulate the promise life of a better existence in the next lifeTime Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. But not all are satisfied by this dogma. Within As luck would have it, he has the smoggy city of Fort Palmer, eight year old Doran and space in his friend Alena stand apartTARDIS to stock up in advance, struggling so my advice to retain the lost glory of their faith. But the unquiet dead and the forces of faith do not take kindly him – sorry, her – would be to those who try pop along to fix his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a broken world. As the quest to save the future leads each of them down shorter timescale, with a dark pathshorter lifespan, they are cast apart - struggling to overcome the monstrous dusters and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the fear within themselves, desperate to see each other againsame. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>15246343791785942719</amazonuk>

|author= Ken LiuAndy Weir|title= Invisible PlanetsArtemis|rating= 43.5

|summary= Invisible Planets is an eclectic collectionWelcome to Artemis, translated beautifullythe first city on the moon. A powerhouse for the rich and a once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides also a welcome introduction for those who aren’t familiar place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, it's the only place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives in the genrelow end of town, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porter. The stories are dreamlike However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and hypnoticto this end, evocative and inspiringshe has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazz's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome reward, it is just too tempting to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849788090091956943</amazonuk>

|author= James GossWes Stuart|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound YouMy Name is Sam

|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary=At Coal Hill SchoolWho is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, things have started to get public. Kids have become obsessed the champion of the Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with a website that demands you perform risky stuntsthe Gibbus, or tell it your most painful secretsand the main character in this story. And SeraphinSam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he is, everyoneyet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's favourite vloggerlast hope for salvation from the Gibbus who, wants you to get involved. All in seven days, will destroy the name of charityplanet and everyone on it. At first people just get hurt. Then their lives are ruined. Finally, they disappear. As April's fragile group This is not his choice however: that is the decision of friends starts to fracture, she decides she's going to uncover the truth behind thie site herself. Whatever it takesalien Sereia, whoever she hurtshis mentors and guides, April's going as he is forced to winconfront this hazardous task. But thenThey have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be saved, but are too weak to her horrorchallenge the Gibbus themselves. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, she wakes up and finds her whole world's changed. What she does next will astound you. Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418871540504506</amazonuk>

|author= A K BenedictC Robert Cargill|title= Class: The Stone HouseSea of Rust|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary=ThereHave you ever watched the ''Terminator'' movies or some similar 's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. TheyRobo-geddon've heard franchise and wondered what would have happened if the stories. Butrobots had actually ''won?'' Well wonder no more, if you stop, and look up, youbecause ''ll see the face Sea of a girl, pressed up against a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn to the stone house. ThereRust's a mystery there, and she's going to solve it. But the more she investigates, the more she realises hinges on that there's exact premise; a presence in world where the houserobots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. One that wants her. Something Only artificial life remains; there is waiting for Tanya in no trace of organic matter anywhere, since the stone house. Something robot uprising that has been trapping others in its web over devastated the yearsplanet. Something that is far worse than any ghostNow two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS and VIRGIL.They capture robots and turn them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousness.The few remaining bots are called 'freebots,' and inhabit a desert called the Sea of Rust, where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418791473212782</amazonuk>

|author= Guy AdamsPaul McAuley|title= Class: JoyrideAustral|rating= 43.5

|summary=Poppy Austral has no doubts about who she is a quiet girl. Her birth was, right up until as she steals puts it, ''a car and drives political act. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an egg. I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She was, as the jargon of her world has it through a shop window''edited''. Max She is , as a nice guyresult, but then he kills his whole family. Just for funa Husky. Amar always seems so happy, so why is he trying A human modified to jump to his death from withstand the school roof? Some cold temperatures of the students of Coal Hill School Antarctic continent. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive in, but maybe not themselvesfor much longer. Some This is a world in which the threats of them are dying. Ram global warming went unheeded…a world in which the ice has just woken retreated and continues to retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments is being opened up in a body he doesn't recognise, and if he doesn't figure out why, he may well be nextfor exploitation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418601473217318</amazonuk>

|author=Stephen BaxterGeoffrey Arnold|title=The Massacre of MankindHunted|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies with Tullia learns about survival in the authorbush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. After Adopted into a certain period Bushman family and the copyright is lifted so that an independent author can tackle tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the charactersyoung men and women, hence the proliferation a mixture of Sherlock Holmes books. For many fans of the originalawe, desire, these books feel like cover versions fear and are best avoidedhate. It Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is only when deeply shocked by the estate of the author gets involved that their interest violence on Earth. As he is piqued. H. G. Wells' ''The War of rescued by his four best friends from the Worlds'' left enough Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a door open girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to explore further and when you hire as an experienced help during a science fiction author violent attack from his own world as Stephen Baxter he and Tullia seek to pick up restore their telepathic link. Forming a connection with the official storytwins during the attack, it may just the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be worth the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a readshort test run, the village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, he flees from the village...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732050931785891855</amazonuk>

|author=Robert DickinsonDaniel Suarez|title=The TouristChange Agent|rating=3.5

|summary=Time travel in any format is I wish I was a tricky businesslittle bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wish. In the real world it genetic lottery that is pretty much impossible, or our lives we would all be reading about how people are given a selection from the future kept trying our mother and our father to assassinate Hitler, but he managed to avoid themwork with. In filmHowever, time travel can although they may be super cool and lead to some mind bending adventuresover six foot, but spend a few moments unbending your mind and you discover more plot holes than an entire Terminator Tetralogycould still end up being shorter. In the written form this is even worse as you donYou can't have currently choose what coding you get, but what if you could cherry pick the visual splendour best aspects of your family traits? It would be a great way to distract save people from hereditary disease, but would we end up with a world full of identikit humans all following the eye. latest genetic fashions? The key In the future someone would need to time travel be in charge of stopping science fiction is to keep it simple. Or you could just ignore this advice and write ''The Tourist''going too far.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508153110198466X</amazonuk>

|author= Luke RhinehartStephen Baxter |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 gamesXeelee: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 12/9 -->|author= Yan Vana|title= The MessageVengeance |rating= 3.52

|summary=The Message follows an official Inquiry into Michael Poole, Earth's greatest living engineer, changed the galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the wanton destruction solar system. However, such a thing was created with a degree of naivety and a Protected Nature Reserve. The first witnesses give evidence lack of foresight because out of the extent worm hole flew an unknown vessel of the damage and later witnesses identify those responsiblealien origin. As the inquiry unfolds Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, it becomes apparent that the Nature Reserve is Earthunstoppable and unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, and that the Inquiry vessel is being undertaken by regulators from other Galaxies who have responsibility for unresponsive to the human life around it. It ignores hails and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it, not even the protection surface of Reserves throughout the Cosmossun. Science Fiction? A love story? A study All it seems to want is energy, and Earth has plenty of human civilisation? A warning message..that to be absorbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B019NDIP1A1473217172</amazonuk>

|author=Adrian J WalkerDaniel Godfrey|title=The End Empire of the World Running ClubTime (New Pompeii)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When the end of Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the world as we know it comes, Edgar is totally unpreparedbeginning. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, and in The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to a panic, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellar, and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old one sounded great in the dark until their supplies run outtheory. Fortunately they are luckyThe practice has been going on for years now, but the modern and they are rescued from the cellarold worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. As they emerge back into Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the world they see the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds experiment out of large asteroids hitting the earthcuriosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. Large areas of the country have been destroyed. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and townsSince he arrived, turning feral, trying to find whathe's left to help watched the Romans kill the inventors of the machine that saved them to survive. Edgar's family are rescued by a small remaining army unitNick, but he and or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give him his wife and children become separatedRoman name, is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and so begins Edgarthat's desperate race not a safe position or location in which to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another countrylive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850326661785653156</amazonuk>

|author= Nina AllanCixin Liu|title= The RaceWandering Earth|rating= 45

|summary= The Race alternates between our world and If anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages of one set in women's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. One genre that has always been a future Earth scarred by fracking stalwart supporter and ecological collapseencourager of the short form is Sci-fi. In our world, the story follows Christy, a young aspiring writer whose mother left So when she was only 15 and whose life is dominated by fear of her brother, you pick up a man capable collection of monstrous acts. MeanwhileSci-fi shorts, in Sapphire a world you know that it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. Add to our own yet very different, with that the intrigue of seeing how the entire economy funded concepts are approached by illegal smart dog racing, we encounter Jenna Hoolman whose young niece is kidnapped at someone from China which – to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of the tender age rest of 4. We also learn about Alex, a man who can help Christy uncover the truth behind her past as well as Maree, planet…and add to that an intelligent young woman author who is not only a best-seller in his home country but has the power distinction of having produced the first translated work of SF ever to change win the world forever.Hugo Award…this has got to be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565036X1784978493</amazonuk>

|author= Geoffrey ArnoldJack Campbell|title= Ripped ApartThe Genesis Fleet: Vanguard|rating= 3.5

|summary= Qwelby The human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to the stars it takes with it both the best and Tulia are teenage aliens, growing up in a world the worst examples of itself. The isolation and environment far removed from our own. When the twins interfere with edginess of a forbidden experiment, they find themselves transported to opposite ends Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of our Earth – Qwelby in Finland far-flung colonies and Tulia in Africabullying neighbours. To surviveWe follow our protagonists, they must re-establish their telepathic connection, find each other, avoid capture, and return home. They say that failures in their people arrived on Earth 75own careers (crisis management,000 years ago, were the cause of the development of the human racespace navy, politics and now need the help of those humans if their race is to survivemarines) as they become heroes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17846247561785650408</amazonuk>

|author=George MannAnne Corlett|title=Ghosts of KarnakThe Space Between The Stars|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The superhero market is crowded Jamie Allenby wakes, alone, and sometimes a little boringrealises her fever has broken. Who cares about what a God-like person can do when But could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, Jamie had left her partner Daniel, mourning the rest miscarriage of us are scrambling around trying their baby. She'd just had to avoid papercutsget away, never mind trying to repel so took a job on a rogue asteroiddistant planet. The best heroes are those that are just normal blokes or ladies dressed up in some fancy outfitThen the virus hit. When Jamie survived as it comes down swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate and isolated, until 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 it Batman or The Shadow are just menreturn. She meets others seeking Earth, but it is and their vulnerability that makes them ace ill-matched group will travel across space to read aboutachieve their dream. Add to this list George MannBut they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanity's 'The Ghost'past mistakes, threatening their precious fresh start. Jamie will also get a World War One veteran who returns second chance at happiness. But can she escape her troubled past, to New York no longer willing to watch the criminals taking over his home town.embrace a hopeful future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832941671509833528</amazonuk>

|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneElizabeth Moon|title=Doctor WhoCold Welcome: 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 sheVatta'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= NemesisPeace|rating= 34.5

|summary= ''I'm not a great lover of back-cover blurbconvinced we can survive anything'' After saving the empire, but every now and again it tells you everything you need Admiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less than to return to know…if you read between the linesher home planet. But after her cousin's request, that'Hugely promising'' said SFXs exactly where Ky finds herself, enroute to tie up some family business. Promised a hero''Hits s welcome, Ky plans to stay as little time as possible back in the ground running'' said place filled with such horrible memories. But as soon as she arrives, Ky finds herself in perilous danger, caught in the Guardianmiddle of an assassination attempt. I can't disagree Now stranded at sea and without communication links with either the outside world, Ky must use every ounce of those two statementsskill she possesses to battle for survival. Unfortunately for this particular readerBut with an unfamiliar crew who don't trust her, it ran very quickly into sabotaged equipment and a swamp of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weedtraitor in the midst, the odds aren't in her favour. And didnWhile the survivors hunt for land, Ky't live up s family members are doing everything possible to the promiseensure 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>14732061110356506282</amazonuk>

|author=Emma GeenSam Peters|title=The Many Selves 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 VarosFrom Darkest Skies

|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' had access No one likes to see a time machineloved one die, but when they do we can reflect on how they would be able to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found the likes of [[Doctor Who lived and the Genesis of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of the Daleks]] to be too violent, she and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to eventually move on with a prison world, where soon-to-be victims piece of snuff movies are trapped in a reality-show styled existence, and a hard-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executions, the morgues and worsethem inside us. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had However, what would happen if we could take all the benefit of foresight they might memories we have responded to ''Vengeance saved on Varos'' differently. They were quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being a trade delegate who is half-man, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laugh, the internet and such combine them into an artificial premise. Artificial Intelligence that represented them? Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie LangfordWould this work to keep them close, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…or just give you a false facsimile that prevents you from moving on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859404061473214750</amazonuk>

|author=Eric SawardM R Carey|title=Doctor Who: The VisitationBoy on the Bridge|rating=3.5

|summary=Have you ever given your children It's ten years since mankind was almost wiped out by a time machine? No? Are you sure? What about virus that thing in turned the great majority of it into the corner upstairs called a dressing-up box hungries – have they never been transported bodily to the 1970s zombies by some orange cords and wide-collared shirts or whatnot? any other name. Have they never been in a museum and put A lone, heavily armoured vehicle is travelling from the British redoubt on the south coast the length of the Kingdom, tracing a mediaeval smock previous expedition that failed to return, and told they're now in the middle ages? Well adults can get involved in thathoping to find evidence somewhere, toosomehow, of course – something that can either counter the virus or rid the cast survivors of this ''Doctor Who'' adventure had to put on 17th Century garb, and that was pretty much it as far as looks gotheir enemy. Yes, there As a result the vehicle is an evil-seeming alien, yes there are some control bands he makes us poor humans weardivided in personnel between scientists and the military, and yes there as neither side is a giant android dressed as Death, but on completely cohesive it's no surprise to see the whole it was crew split along partisan lines. That's not helped by one of the more simple episodesscientists, Samrina Khan, being heavily pregnant. Still, whoBut she's also rubbed people up by insisting on an intriguing character being on board – a teenaged savant, no less, called Stephen Greaves. But that source of the unusual is nothing perhaps to say the novel isn't much more substantial, rich and varied?bizarre the team will find on their explorations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403920356503534</amazonuk>

|author=Terrance DicksJohn Scalzi|title=Doctor Who and the Genesis of the DaleksThe Collapsing Empire|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If you were to randomly travel in time and space, where would you end up? Well, if our own battle-torn history was anything to go by, you'd like as not end up in a time and place ' ''Just out of war. The thing curiosity if this isthe smaller problem, however, what is the Doctor is not, for once, travelling randomly – hebigger problem?'' ''  '' ''s been charged with carrying out errands for The complete collapse of the Time Lords. And Flow, the most tricky end of those is to go the planet Skarointerdependency, deeply enmeshed in a thousand year warand the possible extinction of the human race.'' '' In the distant future, mankind has been forced to leave Earth behind and put paid to one has subsequently built an impressive empire compromising of 47 human colonies all connected by The Flow: a river of alternate space-time which makes travel across the most heinous plans that could risk Interdependency possible. Dependent on trade, the universe – that of Davros Holy Empire's survival is all thanks to create his Dalek racethe Flow… which is now collapsing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403841509835075</amazonuk>

|author=Malcolm HulkeGeoff Gaywood|title=Doctor Who and the Dinosaur InvasionOmnipotence: Odyssey Book I|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What effect do you think you'd have if you were Against a backdrop of relentless global warming and deepening social conflict on Earth, an expedition sets out to time travel? I dare say it depends who or what you were to begin withsecure a foothold on a distant planet thought suitable for human habitation. Almost immediately, and when you went and what you did. The creatures in this story only seem to stay in the same placecrew are sorely tested by a violent internal conspiracy, alien aggression 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 noticedsimmering emotional tensions. As They complete a spectacular transition to a result the entire place has been evacuatedremote solar system where they find that their goal, all ten million people shipped outas dangerous as it is exotic, and already has the Government resettled in that hotbed ominous attention of politicsanother civilisation. Moreover, Harrogate. As a result, when the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn up they immediately get accused series of being looters – and UNIT are just perplexing events suggest that their mission may be subordinate to a touch too much out of contactgreater power with its own strategic agenda. What is causing time to leave the dinosaurs moving around London, and what is a mediaeval man, complaining of witchcraft under King John, doing there too?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940376178589918X</amazonuk>

|author=Terrance DicksKim Stanley Robinson|title=Doctor Who and the Web of FearNew York 2140|rating=45|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What do By 2140 sea level has risen by around fifty feet, leaving coastal cities the world over with major problems. Some places will always be desirable, however, and when you look like if 've invested a lot of time and money somewhere you time travel? Perhaps like 're reluctant to leave. Consequently New York remains a lunk-headed Austrianthriving, naked popular place even though half of Manhattan is under water and with fizzy blue stuff all over youthe streets are now canals. Or perhapsThere are still financial traders, to the confusion of Professor Traverslocal politicians, celebrities, you look exactly street urchins (albeit known as you did when he met you in Tibet forty years agowater rats) sharing the city and getting by. That escapade It seems like New York has had stabilised into a legacynew, as he has brought back watery normal but when a couple of programmers go missing from a deactivated robot Yeti – building on Madison Square and has mistakenly managed to reactivate some of the other residents start looking into it. Or perhaps, 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 question begins to be sent back asked: Does it have to 1968, by be this way of 1975, when this book-of-the-series was first published.?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403680356508757</amazonuk>

|author=Bill StruttonStefan Mohamed|title=Doctor Who and the ZarbiStanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Consider Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the time machine. You probably know of it as looking like either some fancy Edwardian sit-upon machine fact that the Morlocks nick, or perhaps his best friend was a battered old English police call boxtalking beagle named Daryl. I would suggest it can also look like a small paperback book – pretty much like Then came the subject at handsuperpowers. This reprint of a ''Doctor Who'' novel, first presented in 1973 from And the series shown in 1965, certainly has super powered allies. And the ability to take you backmysterious enemies. I grew up with And the series on TV and terrifying monsters. And the books in a Target imprint, but this predates that – it was, apparently, stunning revelations. And the second ever Who book-of-apocalypse. Now he's not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving the-seriesworld. In it, the good Doctor and All he knows is that his three companions arrive on a certain quarry-like planetstory isn't finished. One stays in the TARDIS, only to find it and her nicked by aliens; another needs rescuing from alien mind control by a different species of aliens; and the third with our irascible hero work out what actually took control of their ship and stranded them there in the first place…Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178594035X1784630764</amazonuk>

|author= David WingroveTom Toner|title= The Ocean Weight of Timethe World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)|rating= 3.54

|summary= The War for Time continuesOne thing great science fiction needs is solid world building. From When I pick up a book like this, I need to imagine that the frozen tundra of 13th Century Russia universe has existed before the plot has started and will continue to the battle do so after: it needs a strong sense of Paltava in 1709 history and beyondfuture. With this book, Otto Behr has waged an unquestioningand series, unending war across time for his peopleI feel like I have just had a brief glimpse into something much larger. But now a third unidentified power A great deal happens in the plot, but even more is happening, and has joined the game happened, across the ocean of time, and everything Otto holds dear could be unmade…Firmament.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195617X1473211395</amazonuk>

|author= Holly JenningsAmanda Hocking|title= ArenaFreeks

|summary= Kali Ling competes in In the RAGE tournaments – a competition spring of Virtual Gaming1987, where the world's best gamers compete in a fight to the digital death. Every fights is broadcast carnival comes to millionssmall-town Caudry, and each player leads lives of fameLouisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. Although the weapons are digitalFor Mara Beznik, the players feel every blow… Kali Ling – the first female captain in tournament historycarnival is home. It's also a place of secrets, is famed for her prowess – but has her world shaken when her teammate hidden powers and lover overdosesa buried past - making it hard to connect with outsiders. NowHowever, sparks fly when she must win the tournament and uncover the truth about the tournamentmeets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparable, for the Virtual Gaming League has dark Mara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. And his family legacy could destroy Mara's world. They find the only way to change the rules word 'freeks' sprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. Then workers wind up dead, killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined to fight from unlock the inside…mystery, with Gabe's help. But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>11019887621509807659</amazonuk>

|author= Michael CobleyAlec Birri|title= Ancestral MachinesCondition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...|rating= 34

|summary=Having completed Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions in Argentina after the Humanity's Fire trilogy with Second World War may not come as a surprise, but why was the Ascendant Stars, I expected twisted eugenicist not only allowed to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do so? And what has that got to go off and do something completely different. He didnwith a respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the invention of a cure for nearly all the world's ailments can't. In Ancestral Machines, we're back possibly have its roots buried in the same universe. horrors of Auschwitz? The Construct (an ancient AI on a mission) unacceptable is still doing its best about to become the disturbingly bizarre. What has the treatment's 'correction' of paedophiles got to protect sentient speciesdo with the President of the United States, the Pope and even the drone Rensik is still one of its key agents. UK's Green Party? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565017791785898779</amazonuk>

|author= Jo WaltonAlastair Reynolds|title= The Philosopher KingsSlow Bullets|rating= 3.54

|summary= Twenty years When hundreds of worlds have passed since been at war for a long time, the Goddess Athene founded announcement of a ceasefire takes a while to reach everyone. It's perhaps not surprising that the Just City. The god Apollo is still living thereworst of the soldiers using the war as an excuse for crimes, albeit in human formdon't immediately give up. Now marriedScur, and a conscript who has just been given the father hope of several childrenreturning to her family, has the man/god struggles misfortune to cope when tragedy befalls his familyrun into one of these war criminals before the peacekeepers arrive. Beset by grief and a need for revenge, Apollo sets sail He leaves her to find the man who caused him such paindie, but discovers something that may change everything…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150791</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mike Brooks|title=Dark Sky|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Making money is not easy, especially if you live life she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on the edges of known space scraping a living doing odd jobs with your crew; some legal, some not so legal. You may not have much money, a good prison ship or even adequate washing facilities, but what you do have is the friendship and comradery of your fellow crewmates. That is unless you have all just discovered that the captain used only to be a space pirate who once suffocated his entire crew so discover that he could escapeis there too. Welcome to And that's the jolly ship Keikoleast of her worries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195665X147321842X</amazonuk>