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|author= Stefan MohamedChris Brookmyre|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. And the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now he's not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving the world. All he knows is that his story isn't finished. Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Toner|title= The Weight of Places in the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Darkness

|genre= Science Fiction|summary= One thing great science fiction needs is solid Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort of futuristic Utopia, in a world buildingof free thinking and no major crime. When I pick up Perhaps in a book like this, I need to imagine that Space Station high above the universe has existed before Earth were the plot has started and greatest minds have travelled so that they can build a vessel that will continue send the next generations of humans to do so after: populate new planets. You know that as soon as you arrive it needs a strong sense of history and futurewill be the same old problems. With this book, and series, I feel like I You can't really have just had a brief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens Utopia with people in the plotit, but even more is happening, and has happened, across the Firmament.can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473211395035650624X</amazonuk>

|author= Amanda HockingAbi Curtis|title= FreeksWater & Glass|rating= 3.5|genre= Science General Fiction|summary= In the spring of 1987Something has happened, the carnival comes to small-town Caudry, Louisiana. Then events take something very nasty and on a submarine a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, the carnival pregnant elephant is home. It's also one of only a place handful of secretsanimals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, hidden powers and a buried past - making it hard to connect with outsiders. Howevervet, sparks fly when as she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparableremembers recent events, Mara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. And his family legacy could destroy Mara's looks after the animals and falls into a worldof intrigue. They find the 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 unlock the mystery, with Gabe's help. But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15098076590995465754</amazonuk>

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

|summary= Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in Argentina after the Second World War may not come as a surprise50s, but why was they are more present than past. On the twisted eugenicist not only allowed to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do so? And what has that got to do with a respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the invention of a cure for nearly all the worldbig screen ''Blade Runner 2049's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried in relaunched the horrors Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of Auschwitz? The unacceptable is about to become the disturbingly bizarre. What pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the treatmentauthor's short stories for TV. Startlingly, Dick'correction' s current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of paedophiles got privacy to do with the President increasing machination of the United Statessociety are all headline material in today's news. It is as if half a century after their inception, the Pope and even the UKDick's Green Party? electric dreams are becoming reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858987791473223288</amazonuk>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

|summary=The Message follows an official Inquiry into 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. human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to the inquiry unfolds stars it becomes apparent that takes with it both the Nature Reserve is Earth, best and that the Inquiry is being undertaken by regulators from other Galaxies who have responsibility for the protection worst examples of Reserves throughout the Cosmositself. 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 isolation and edginess of the World Running Club|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=When the end a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of the world as we know it comes, Edgar is totally unpreparedfar-flung colonies and bullying neighbours. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrowsWe follow our protagonists, and each failures in a panic, he throws random items, including his daughtertheir own careers (crisis management, down into his cellarspace navy, politics and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in the dark until their supplies run out. Fortunately marines) as they are lucky, and they are rescued from the cellar. As they emerge back into the world they see the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds of large asteroids hitting the earth. Large areas of the country have been destroyed. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and towns, turning feral, trying to find what's left to help them to survive. Edgar's family are rescued by a small remaining army unit, but he and his wife and children become separated, and so begins Edgar's desperate race to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another 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= 35|genre= Science Fiction|summary='' ''Just out of curiosity if this is the smaller problem, what is the bigger problem?'' ''  '' ''The complete collapse of the Flow, the end of the interdependency, and the possible extinction of the human race.'' '' In the distant future, mankind has been forced to leave Earth behind and 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 Interdependency possible. Dependent on trade, the Holy Empire's survival is all thanks to the Flow… which is now collapsing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509835075</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geoff Gaywood|title= Omnipotence: Odyssey Book I|rating= 4.5

|summary= I'm not Against a great lover backdrop of back-cover blurbrelentless global warming and deepening social conflict on Earth, but every now and again it tells you everything you need an expedition sets out to know…if you read between secure a foothold on a distant planet thought suitable for human habitation. Almost immediately, the linescrew are sorely tested by a violent internal conspiracy, alien aggression and simmering emotional tensions. ''Hugely promising'' said SFX. ''Hits They complete a spectacular transition to a remote solar system where they find that their goal, as dangerous as it is exotic, already has the ground running'' said the Guardian. I can't disagree with either ominous attention of those two statementsanother civilisation. Unfortunately for this particular readerMoreover, it ran very quickly into a swamp series of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weed. And didn't live up perplexing events suggest that their mission may be subordinate to the promisea much greater power with its own strategic agenda.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473206111178589918X</amazonuk>

|author=Emma GeenKim Stanley Robinson|title=The Many Selves of Katherine NorthNew York 2140|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=As a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut'By 2140 sea level has risen by around fifty feet, nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into leaving coastal cities the lab-grown bodies of all sorts of creaturesworld over with major problems. SheSome places will always be desirable, however, and when you's recently spent ve invested a lot of time as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) and got particularly close with a vixen named Tomoko. Itmoney somewhere you's becoming much harder for her re reluctant to leave . Consequently New York remains a thriving, popular place even though half of Manhattan is under water and the animal world behind at the end of her 'jumps'streets are now canals. Even after BuckleyThere are still financial traders, local politicians, her neuroengineercelebrities, signals her to 'Come home' street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing the city and she resumes her original body, she getting by. It seems like New York has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialismstabilised into a new, toileting outdoors watery normal but when a couple of programmers go missing from a building on Madison Square and raiding bins.some of the other residents start looking into it, a question begins to be asked: Does it have to be this way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088584360356508757</amazonuk>

|author=Philip MartinStefan Mohamed|title=Doctor WhoStanly's Ghost: Vengeance on VarosBook 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating=45|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' had access Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a time machine, they would be able to temper all their responsesfairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. When Mary Whitehouse found And the likes of [[Doctor Who and super powered allies. And the Genesis of mysterious enemies. And the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of terrifying monsters. And the Daleks]] to be too violent, she and her coterie had no idea stunning revelations. And the series would soon turn to a prison world, apocalypse. Now he's not sure what he is. Or where soon-he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to-be victims 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 proceed after saving the feeds from the executions, the morgues and worseworld. If those watching All he knows is that his story isn''Doctor Who'' had the benefit of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differentlyt finished. They were Not quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being a trade delegate who is half-man, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laugh, and such an artificial premise. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859404061784630764</amazonuk>

|author=Eric SawardTom Toner|title=Doctor Who: The VisitationWeight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)|rating=34|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Have you ever given your children One thing great science fiction needs is solid world building. When I pick up a time machine? No? Are you sure? What about book like this, I need to imagine that thing in the corner upstairs called a dressing-up box – have they never been transported bodily to universe has existed before the 1970s by some orange cords plot has started and wide-collared shirts or whatnot? Have they never been in will continue to do so after: it needs a museum strong sense of history and put on a mediaeval smock future. With this book, and told they're now in the middle ages? Well adults can get involved in thatseries, too, of course – the cast of this ''Doctor Who'' adventure I feel like I have just had to put on 17th Century garb, and that was pretty a brief glimpse into something much it as far as looks golarger. YesA great deal happens in the plot, there but even more is an evil-seeming alien, yes there are some control bands he makes us poor humans wearhappening, and yes there is a giant android dressed as Deathhas happened, but on the whole it was one of across the more simple episodesFirmament. Still, who's to say the novel isn't much more substantial, rich and varied?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403921473211395</amazonuk>

|author=Terrance DicksAmanda Hocking|title=Doctor Who and the Genesis of the DaleksFreeks|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If you were In the spring of 1987, the carnival comes to randomly travel in time and spacesmall-town Caudry, where would you end up? WellLouisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, if our own battle-torn history was anything to go by, youthe carnival is home. It'd like as not end up in s also a time and place of warsecrets, hidden powers and a buried past - making it hard to connect with outsiders. The thing isHowever, howeversparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparable, the Doctor Mara realizes Gabe is not, for once, travelling randomly – hehiding his own secrets. And his family legacy could destroy Mara's been charged with carrying out errands for world. They find the Time Lordsword 'freeks' sprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. Then workers wind up dead, killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. And the most tricky of those Mara is determined to go unlock the planet Skaromystery, deeply enmeshed in a thousand year war, and put paid to one with Gabe's help. But can they really halt this campaign of the most heinous plans that could risk the universe – that of Davros to create his Dalek race.fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403841509807659</amazonuk>

|author=Malcolm HulkeAlec Birri|title=Doctor Who and the Dinosaur InvasionCondition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What effect 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 you think you'd have if you were to time travelso? I dare say it depends who or And what you were has that got to begin do with, and when you went and what you did. The creatures in this story only seem to stay a respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the invention of a cure for nearly all the same place, and do just what comes natural – but as theyworld's ailments can're giant rampaging dinosaurs and they suddenly appear t possibly have its roots buried in the middle horrors of modern-day Central London they do kind of get noticedAuschwitz? The unacceptable is about to become the disturbingly bizarre. As a result the entire place What has been evacuated, all ten million people shipped out, and the Government resettled in that hotbed treatment's 'correction' of politics, Harrogate. As a result, when paedophiles got to do with the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn up they immediately get accused of being looters – and UNIT are just a touch too much out President of contact. What is causing time to leave the dinosaurs moving around LondonUnited States, the Pope and what is a mediaeval man, complaining of witchcraft under King John, doing there tooeven the UK's Green Party?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403761785898779</amazonuk>

|author=Terrance DicksAlastair Reynolds|title=Doctor Who and the Web of FearSlow Bullets|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What do you look like if you When hundreds of worlds have been at war for a long time travel? Perhaps like , the announcement of a ceasefire takes a lunk-headed Austrian, naked and with fizzy blue stuff all over youwhile to reach everyone. Or It's perhaps, to not surprising that the confusion worst of Professor Traversthe soldiers using the war as an excuse for crimes, you look exactly as you did when he met you in Tibet forty years agodon't immediately give up. That escapade Scur, a conscript who has had a legacyjust been given the hope of returning to her family, as he has brought back a deactivated robot Yeti – and has mistakenly managed the misfortune to reactivate itrun into one of these war criminals before the peacekeepers arrive. Or perhapsHe leaves her to die, you look very much like yourself if you're but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a time travellerprison ship, for just by reading this book you wononly to discover that he is there too. And that't change your appearance, but you'll be sent back to 1968, by way s the least of 1975, when this book-of-the-series was first publishedher worries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940368147321842X</amazonuk>