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|author= Alec BirriChris Brookmyre|title= Condition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...Places in the Darkness|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions Living in 2017 has me longing to live in Argentina after some sort of futuristic Utopia, in a world of free thinking and no major crime. Perhaps in a Space Station high above the Second World War may not come as a surprise, but why was Earth were the twisted eugenicist not only allowed to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do greatest minds have travelled so? And what has that got to do with they can build a respected neurologist in 2027? Surely vessel that will send the invention next generations of a cure for nearly all humans to populate new planets. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be the world's ailments same old problems. You can't possibly really have its roots buried a Utopia with people in the horrors of Auschwitzit, can you? The unacceptable |amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650624X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Abi Curtis|title= Water & Glass|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is about to become the disturbingly bizarre. What has the treatment's 'correction' one of paedophiles got to do with the President only a handful of animals living below the United Stateswaves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the Pope animals and even the UK's Green Party? falls into a world of intrigue. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858987790995465754</amazonuk>

|author= Alastair ReynoldsPhilip K Dick|title= Slow BulletsPhilip K Dick's Electric Dreams|rating= 43

|summary=When hundreds of worlds have been at war for a long timePhilip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they are more present than past. On the announcement of a ceasefire takes a while to reach everyone. Itbig screen ''Blade Runner 2049''s perhaps not surprising that relaunched the worst Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the soldiers using the war as an excuse author's short stories for crimesTV. Startlingly, donDick't immediately give up. Scur, a conscript who has just been given s current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the hope factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of returning privacy to her family, has the misfortune to run into one increasing machination of these war criminals before the peacekeepers arrivesociety are all headline material in today's news. He leaves her to die, but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on It is as if half a prison shipcentury after their inception, only to discover that he is there too. And thatDick's the least of her worrieselectric dreams are becoming reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147321842X1473223288</amazonuk>

|author= Alec BirriGeorge Mann|title= Condition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?Ghosts of Empire|rating= 54|genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= It's 1966Taking on a band of undead Mummies will take it out of the best of us and a holiday may be needed. If you are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress you, but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn't celebrating London is one of them. Surely, a nice visit to England's win in , far from the hustle and bustle of the World Cup – instead he's awakening from a coma following an aircraft accident. Waking in a world where nothing makes senseBig Apple, he's unable will help you to recall relax. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the loose with magical powers or the crash – but struggles events are conspiring to remember raise the rest sleeping power of his life…And what's stopping him Albion from taking his medication? its slumber. Is it brain damage causing paranoia about the red pill, or is he right to think there's something more sinister going on…And, having suffered almost 100% burns, how is he alive? Are his hallucinations trying to tell him something?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858996861783294183</amazonuk>

|author= Charlie LaidlawIan Doescher|title= The Things We Learn When WeWilliam Shakespeare're Deads the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|rating= 4.5|genre= General Science Fiction|summary= On the way to a dinner partyA long time ago, Lorna Love steps into the path of an oncoming car. Waking up in what appears to be a hospitalgalaxy far away, but there was a hospital in which wine is served for supperman called William Shakespeare, everyone avoids her questionswho was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is in Heaven, heroines most sturdy. You may ormay not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at leastlast we get the actual script, on HVN. Because HVN is a lostcomplete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, dysfunctional spaceshipreturning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and God people keeping it in the aging hippy captainfamily til it hurts. At first Lorna can remember nothing And if you need further encouragement, but as her memories return don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – some good, some bad, she realises that she has a decision here the series is so popular we're on to make, and that maybe, she needs to find a way home…part seven – surely making this over twice as good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786150352159474985X</amazonuk>

|author= William GibsonJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title= NeuromancerDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary=''He still dreamed of cyberspace…all Consider the turns he'd taken Doctor. Just how many birthday and the corners Christmas gifts must he cut in Night Cityhave to hand out each year, and were he'd still see the matrix to keep in touch with even half of his dreamscompanions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, bright lattices whimsical books of logic unfolding across verse that colourless void'' Neuromancer follows Case, who used to be pithily encapsulate the life of a cyber cowboy with exceptional hacking skills, before attempting to steal from Time Lord and that of some of his former employerfriends and enemies. As luck would have it, who as a result severed he has the space in his connection TARDIS to cyberspace by injecting him with a mycotoxin. No longer able to enter the Matrix, Case enters a dark depression having suicidal thoughts and developing a drug addictionstock up in advance, which is where the reader first meets our troubled protagonist and antihero. Waiting for someone so my advice to help him escape his misery– sorry, a mysterious stranger proposes a deal her – would be to pop along to restore Casehis local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you's ability to connect to cyberspace in exchange for re working for him. Surrounded by secrecyon a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, Case joins well my advice is pretty much the recruits on their mission to uncover artificial intelligence and start life afreshsame. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732173851785942719</amazonuk>

|author= Brandon SandersonAndy Weir|title= Arcanum UnboundedArtemis|rating= 43.5|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary= Brandon Sanderson 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 small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is more cannon than manone such citizen. He fires out more works than any other author 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 fantasytalent. Not only does he write an awe inspiring amount Jazz lives in the low end of novelstown, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, but he also writes various short fictions that go alongside themwhich is all she can afford through her job as a porter. And in hereHowever, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and to this end, she 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 the first timea handsome reward, it is just too tempting to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know is all the major ones are collected togetherfacts behind what she is being asked to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732180390091956943</amazonuk>

|author= James YoungWes Stuart|title= Rise of the Dust ChildMy Name is Sam

|genre= Science Fiction |summary=An age has passed since Who is the fall of real enemy? This is the old worldquestion which confronts Sam, and the rise champion of the malignant Dust people. Amongst Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the terrors of this new ageGibbus, humanity still lingers within and the wreckage main character in this story. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of civilisationwho he is, held together by yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from the promise of a better existence Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the next lifeplanet and everyone on it. But This is not all are satisfied by this dogma. Within his choice however: that is the smoggy city decision of Fort Palmerthe alien Sereia, eight year old Doran his mentors and his friend Alena stand apartguides, struggling as he is forced to retain the lost glory of confront this hazardous task. They have their faith. But the unquiet dead and the forces of faith do not take kindly own reasons for wanting Earth to those who try be saved, but are too weak to fix a broken worldchallenge the Gibbus themselves. As the quest to save the future leads each of them down In their search for a dark path, human champion they are cast apart - struggling to overcome find the monstrous dusters unlikely and the fear within themselvesill-prepared young boy, desperate to see each other again. Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15246343791540504506</amazonuk>

|author= Ken LiuC Robert Cargill|title= Invisible PlanetsSea of Rust

|summary= Invisible Planets Have you ever watched the ''Terminator'' movies or some similar 'Robo-geddon' franchise and wondered what would have happened if the robots had actually ''won?'' Well wonder no more, because ''Sea of Rust'' hinges on that exact premise; a world where the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is an eclectic collection, translated beautifullyno trace of organic matter anywhere, since the robot uprising that devastated the planet. Now two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS and VIRGIL. They capture robots and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides turn them into drones; uploading their minds into a welcome introduction for those who aren’t familiar with the genrehive consciousness. The stories few remaining bots are dreamlike called 'freebots,' and hypnoticinhabit a desert called the Sea of Rust, evocative and inspiringwhere they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849788091473212782</amazonuk>

|author= James GossPaul McAuley|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound YouAustral|rating= 43.5|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary=At Coal Hill School, things have started to get publicAustral has no doubts about who she is. Kids have become obsessed with a website that demands you perform risky stunts Her birth was, or tell as she puts it your most painful secrets. And Seraphin, everyone's favourite vlogger, wants you to get involved'a political act. All Conceived in the name a laboratory dish by direct injection of charitysperm into an egg. At first people just get hurt. Then their lives are ruined. Finally I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She was, they disappear. As Aprilas the jargon of her world has it ''edited's fragile group of friends starts to fracture, she decides she's going to uncover the truth behind thie site herself. Whatever it takes She is, whoever she hurtsas a result, April's going a Husky. A human modified to winwithstand the cold temperatures of the Antarctic continent. But then, Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to her horrorsurvive in, she wakes up but maybe not for much longer. This is a world in which the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the ice has retreated and finds her whole continues to retreat…a world's changed. What she does next will astound youin which the harshest of environments is being opened up for exploitation. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418871473217318</amazonuk>

|author= A K BenedictGeoffrey Arnold|title= Class: The Stone HouseHunted

|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary=ThereTullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's an old stone house near Coal Hill Schoollife during a hunt. Most people hurry past it. They've heard Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the stories. Butyoung men and women, a mixture of awe, if you stopdesire, fear and look uphate. Living a very different life, youQwelby, Tullia'll see s twin, is deeply shocked by the face violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best friends from the Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl, pressed up against a windowhe has known for years. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to the stone house. There's help during a mystery there, violent attack from his own world as he and she's going Tullia seek to solve itrestore their telepathic link. But Forming a connection with the more she investigatestwins during the attack, the more she realises that there's a presence in the house. One that wants girl, Xaala, is charged by hermaster with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Something Xaala is waiting torn between her mixed feelings for Tanya 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 the stone housefirst ever inter-dimensional transport. Something that has been trapping others in its web over On a short test run, the yearsvillage where he is staying is discovered. Something that When Quelby finds out he is far worse than any ghostbeing watched, he flees from the village...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418791785891855</amazonuk>

|author= Guy AdamsDaniel Suarez|title= Class: JoyrideChange Agent|rating= 43.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Poppy I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wish. In the genetic lottery that is our lives we are given a quiet girlselection from our mother and our father to work with. However, although they may be over six foot, right you could still end up until she steals a car and drives it through a shop windowbeing shorter. Max is a nice guy You can't currently choose what coding you get, but then he kills his whole what if you could cherry pick the best aspects of your family. Just for fun. Amar always seems so happy, so why is he trying to jump traits? It would be a great way to his death save people from hereditary disease, but would we end up with a world full of identikit humans all following the school rooflatest genetic fashions? Some of In the students of Coal Hill School are not themselves. Some future someone would need to be in charge of them are dying. Ram has just woken up in a body he doesn't recognise, and if he doesn't figure out why, he may well be nextstopping science going too far.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941860110198466X</amazonuk>

|author=Stephen Baxter |title=The Massacre of MankindXeelee: Vengeance |rating=42|genre=Science Fiction|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies with 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 authorsolar system. After However, such a thing was created with a degree of naivety and a certain period lack of foresight because out of the copyright is lifted so that worm hole flew an independent author can tackle the characters, hence the proliferation unknown vessel of Sherlock Holmes booksalien origin. For many fans of the originalUnlike anything seen by human eyes before, these books feel like cover versions it is unstoppable and are best avoidedunfathomable. It Bent on an unknown path, the vessel is only when unresponsive to the estate of the author gets involved that their interest is piquedhuman life around it. HIt ignores hails and even direct attacks. G. Wells' ''The War Nothing affects it, not even the surface of the Worlds'' left enough of a door open sun. All it seems to explore further want is energy, and when you hire as an experienced a science fiction author as Stephen Baxter Earth has plenty of that to pick up the official story, it may just be worth a readabsorbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732050931473217172</amazonuk>

|author=Robert DickinsonDaniel Godfrey|title=The TouristEmpire of Time (New Pompeii)|rating=35

|summary=Time travel in any format is a tricky business. In the real world it is pretty much impossible, or we would all be reading about how people Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the future kept trying beginning.The experiment to assassinate Hitler, but he managed study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to avoid thema new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old one sounded great in theory. In filmThe practice has been going on for years now, time travel can be super cool but the modern and lead old worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to some mind bending adventures, live within the experiment out of curiosity but spend a few moments unbending your mind and you discover it's more plot holes dangerous than an entire Terminator Tetralogyhe ever dreamt. In Since he arrived, he's watched the written form this is even worse as you don't have Romans kill the visual splendour to distract inventors of the eyemachine that saved them. The key Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to time travel give him his Roman name, is the only non-Roman living in science fiction is to keep it simple. Or you could just ignore this advice New Pompeii and write ''The Tourist'that's not a safe position or location in which to live.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565081531785653156</amazonuk>

|author= Luke Rhinehart|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 VanaCixin Liu|title= The MessageWandering Earth|rating= 3.5

|summary=The Message follows an official Inquiry into If anyone thought that the wanton destruction of short story as a Protected Nature Reserve. The first witnesses give evidence of form had been relegated to the extent pages of the damage and later witnesses identify those responsiblewomen's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. As the inquiry unfolds it becomes apparent One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager of the Nature Reserve short form is EarthSci-fi. So when you pick up a collection of 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 Inquiry is being undertaken intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached by regulators someone from other Galaxies China which – to 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 have responsibility for is not only a best-seller in his home country but has the protection distinction of Reserves throughout having produced the Cosmos. Science Fiction? A love story? A study first translated work of human civilisation? A warning message...SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B019NDIP1A1784978493</amazonuk>

|author=Adrian J WalkerJack Campbell|title=The End of the World Running ClubGenesis Fleet: Vanguard|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When The human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to the end of the world as we know stars it takes with it comes, Edgar is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, and in a panic, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellar, and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in both the dark until their supplies run out. Fortunately they are lucky, best and they are rescued from the cellarworst examples of itself. As they emerge back into the world they see the ruin The isolation and disaster around them, caused by hundreds edginess of large asteroids hitting the earth. Large areas a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of the country have been destroyedfar-flung colonies and bullying neighbours. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and townsWe follow our protagonists, turning feraleach failures in their own careers (crisis management, trying to find what's left to help them to survive. Edgar's family are rescued by a small remaining army unitspace navy, but he politics and his wife and children marines) as they become separated, and so begins Edgar's desperate race to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another countryheroes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850326661785650408</amazonuk>

|author= Nina AllanAnne Corlett|title= The RaceSpace Between The Stars

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

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

|summary= Qwelby and Tulia are teenage aliens''I'm convinced we can survive anything'' After saving the empire, Admiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less than to return to her home planet. But after her cousin's request, that's exactly where Ky finds herself, growing enroute to tie up some family business. Promised a hero's welcome, Ky plans to stay as little time as possible back in a world and environment far removed from our own. When the twins interfere place filled with a forbidden experimentsuch horrible memories. But as soon as she arrives, they find themselves transported to opposite ends of our Earth – Qwelby Ky finds herself in Finland and Tulia perilous danger, caught in Africathe middle of an assassination attempt. To surviveNow stranded at sea and without communication links with the outside world, they Ky must re-establish their telepathic connection, find each other, avoid captureuse every ounce of skill she possesses to battle for survival. But with an unfamiliar crew who don't trust her, sabotaged equipment and return home. They say that their people arrived on Earth 75,000 years agoa traitor in the midst, were the cause of odds aren't in her favour. While the development of the human racesurvivors hunt for land, Ky's family members are doing everything possible to ensure her rescue. Old friends are called in and now need the help of those humans if their race is new alliances are made, but will it be enough? Will they get to survive.Ky before it's too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17846247560356506282</amazonuk>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

|author=Terrance DicksTom Toner|title=Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks|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 of war. The thing is, however, the Doctor is not, for once, travelling randomly – he's been charged with carrying out errands for the Time Lords. And the most tricky of those is to go the planet Skaro, deeply enmeshed in a thousand year war, and put paid to one Weight of the most heinous plans that could risk the universe – that of Davros to create his Dalek race.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940384</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Malcolm Hulke|title=Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What effect do you think you'd have if you were to time travel? I dare say it depends who or what you were to begin with, and when you went and what you did. World (The creatures in this story only seem to stay in the same place, 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 noticed. As a result the entire place has been evacuated, all ten million people shipped out, and the Government resettled in that hotbed of politics, Harrogate. As a result, when the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn up they immediately get accused of being looters – and UNIT are just a touch too much out of contact. What is causing time to leave the dinosaurs moving around London, and what is a mediaeval man, complaining of witchcraft under King John, doing there too?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940376</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Terrance Dicks|title=Doctor Who and the Web of FearAmaranthine Spectrum)

|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What do you look One thing great science fiction needs is solid world building. When I pick up a book like if you time travel? Perhaps like a lunk-headed Austrian, naked and with fizzy blue stuff all over you. Or perhapsthis, I need to imagine that the confusion of Professor Travers, you look exactly as you did when he met you in Tibet forty years ago. That escapade universe has had a legacy, as he existed before the plot has brought back a deactivated robot Yeti – started and has mistakenly managed will continue to reactivate do so after: itneeds a strong sense of history and future. Or perhapsWith this book, and series, you look very much I feel like yourself if you're I have just had a time traveller, for just by reading this book you won't change your appearancebrief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens in the plot, but you'll be sent back to 1968even more is happening, by way of 1975and has happened, when this book-of-across the-series was first publishedFirmament.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403681473211395</amazonuk>

|author=Bill StruttonAmanda Hocking|title=Doctor Who and the ZarbiFreeks|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Consider In the time machine. You probably know spring of it as looking like either some fancy Edwardian sit1987, the carnival comes to small-upon machine that the Morlocks nicktown Caudry, or perhaps Louisiana. Then events take a battered old English police call boxdangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, the carnival is home. I would suggest it can It's also look like a small paperback book – pretty much like the subject at hand. This reprint place of a ''Doctor Who'' novel, first presented in 1973 from the series shown in 1965secrets, certainly has the ability to take you back. I grew up with the series on TV hidden powers and the books in a Target imprint, but this predates that – buried past - making it washard to connect with outsiders. However, apparentlysparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparable, the second ever Who book-of-the-seriesMara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. And his family legacy could destroy Mara's world. In it, They find the good Doctor and his three companions arrive word 'freeks' sprayed on a certain quarry-like planettrailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. One stays Then workers wind up dead, killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined to unlock the TARDISmystery, 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 Gabe's help. But can they really halt this campaign of their ship and stranded them there in the first place…fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178594035X1509807659</amazonuk>

|author= David WingroveAlec Birri|title= Condition: Book Two - The Ocean of TimeCuring Begins...|rating= 3.54

|summary= The Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions in Argentina after the Second World War may not come as a surprise, but why was the twisted eugenicist not only allowed to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do so? And what has that got to do with a respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the invention of a cure for Time continues. From nearly all the world's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried in the frozen tundra horrors of 13th Century Russia Auschwitz? The unacceptable is about to become the battle of Paltava in 1709 and beyond, Otto Behr has waged an unquestioning, unending war across time for his peopledisturbingly bizarre. But now a third unidentified power What has joined the game across treatment's 'correction' of paedophiles got to do with the ocean President of timethe United States, the Pope and everything Otto holds dear could be unmade…even the UK's Green Party? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195617X1785898779</amazonuk>

|author= Holly JenningsAlastair Reynolds|title= ArenaSlow Bullets|rating= 3.54

|summary= Kali Ling competes in the RAGE tournaments – When hundreds of worlds have been at war for a competition of Virtual Gaminglong time, where the worldannouncement of a ceasefire takes a while to reach everyone. It's best gamers compete in a fight to perhaps not surprising that the digital death. Every fights is broadcast to millions, and each player leads lives worst of fame. Although the weapons are digital, the players feel every blow… Kali Ling – soldiers using the first female captain in tournament historywar as an excuse for crimes, is famed for her prowess – but has her world shaken when her teammate and lover overdosesdon't immediately give up. NowScur, she must win a conscript who has just been given the tournament and uncover the truth about the tournamenthope of returning to her family, for the Virtual Gaming League has dark secrets. And the only way misfortune to change run into one of these war criminals before the rules is peacekeepers arrive. He leaves her to fight die, but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a prison ship, only to discover that he is there too. And that's the inside…least of her worries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1101988762147321842X</amazonuk>