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|author= Kim Stanley RobinsonChris Brookmyre|title= New York 2140Places 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't really have a Utopia with people in it, can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650624X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Abi Curtis|title= Water & Glass

|genre= Science General Fiction|summary=By 2140 sea level Something has risen by around fifty feet, leaving coastal cities the world over with major problems. Some places will always be desirable, howeverhappened, something very nasty and when you've invested on a submarine a lot pregnant elephant is one of time and money somewhere you're reluctant to leave. Consequently New York remains only a thriving, popular place even though half handful of Manhattan is under water and animals living below the streets are now canalswaves. There are still financial tradersWe follow Nerissa Crane, local politiciansa vet, celebritiesas she remembers recent events, street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing looks after the city animals and getting by. It seems like New York has stabilised falls into a new, watery normal but when a couple world of programmers go missing from a building on Madison Square and some of the other residents start looking into it, a question begins to be asked: Does it have to be this way?intrigue. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565087570995465754</amazonuk>

|author= Stefan MohamedPhilip K Dick|title= StanlyPhilip K Dick's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)Electric Dreams|rating= 53

|summary= CynicalPhilip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Darylbut they are more present than past. Then came On the superpowers. And big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the super powered allies. And Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the mysterious enemiesauthor's short stories for TV. And Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the apocalypse. Now heincreasing machination of society are all headline material in today's not sure what he isnews. Or where he It is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed as if half a century after saving the world. All he knows is that his story isntheir inception, Dick't finisheds electric dreams are becoming reality. Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17846307641473223288</amazonuk>

|author=Tom TonerGeorge Mann|title= The Weight Ghosts of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Empire

|genre= Science Fiction|summary= One thing great science fiction needs Taking 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 London is solid world buildingone of them. When I pick up Surely, a book like thisnice visit to England, far from the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple, I need will help you to imagine that relax. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the universe has existed before loose with magical powers or the plot has started and will continue events are conspiring to do so afterraise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumber. Is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Doescher|title=William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: it needs Star Wars Part the Seventh|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a strong sense series of history dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and futureheroines most sturdy. With this book You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''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 elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the seriesis so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse |summary=Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, I feel like I have just had were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a brief glimpse into something much largerTime Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. A great deal happens As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in the plotadvance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, but even more is happeningwith a shorter lifespan, and has happenedthinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, across well my advice is pretty much the Firmamentsame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732113951785942719</amazonuk>

|author= Amanda HockingAndy Weir|title= FreeksArtemis

|summary= In Welcome to Artemis, the spring of 1987, first city on the carnival comes to small-town Caudry, Louisianamoon. Then events take A powerhouse for the rich and a once in a dangerous turn. For Mara Bezniklifetime trip for earth tourists, the carnival is home. It's and also a place a small community of secrets, hidden powers and a buried past - making it hard citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to connect Artemis with outsiders. Howeverher father aged six, sparks fly when it's the only place she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishing. As they become inseparable In fact, Mara realizes Gabe the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is hiding his own secretsa waste of talent. And his family legacy could destroy Mara's world. They find Jazz lives in the word 'freeks' sprayed low end of town, sleeping on trailersa bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as carnival employees start disappearinga porter. However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and to this end, she has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activity. Then workers wind When one of Jazz's regular clients wants her to step up deadfrom petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome reward, killed in disturbing ways by someone or somethingit is just too tempting to refuse. Mara What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is determined being asked to unlock the mystery, with Gabe's helpdo. But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15098076590091956943</amazonuk>

|author= Alec BirriWes Stuart|title= Condition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...My Name is Sam

|summary= Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions Who is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, the champion of the Sereia in Argentina after their cosmos-spanning war with the Second World War may not come as a surpriseGibbus, but why was and the twisted eugenicist not only allowed to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do so? And what main character in this story. Sam is an unimposing boy who has that got to do with a respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the invention no past and no memory of a cure who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's last hope for nearly all salvation from the world's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone on it. This is not his choice however: that is the horrors decision of Auschwitz? The unacceptable the alien Sereia, his mentors and guides, as he is about forced to become the disturbingly bizarreconfront this hazardous task. What has the treatment's 'correction' of paedophiles got They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be saved, but are too weak to do with challenge the President of Gibbus themselves. In their search for a human champion they find the United Statesunlikely and ill-prepared young boy, the Pope and even the UK's Green Party? Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858987791540504506</amazonuk>

|author= Alastair ReynoldsC Robert Cargill|title= Slow BulletsSea of Rust|rating= 4.5

|summary=When hundreds of worlds Have you ever watched the ''Terminator'' movies or some similar 'Robo-geddon' franchise and wondered what would have been at war for a long timehappened if the robots had actually ''won?'' Well wonder no more, the announcement because ''Sea of a ceasefire takes a while to reach everyone. ItRust''s perhaps not surprising hinges on that exact premise; a world where the worst robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of organic matter anywhere, since the soldiers using robot uprising that devastated the war as an excuse planet. Now two huge mainframes compete for crimesworld 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, don't immediately give up. Scur, and inhabit a conscript who has just been given desert called the hope Sea of returning to her familyRust, has the misfortune where they do what they can to run into one of these war criminals before the peacekeepers arrive. He leaves her to diesurvive, but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a prison ship, only to discover that he is there too. And that's the least of her worriesincluding cannibalising other bots for spare parts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147321842X1473212782</amazonuk>

|author= Alec BirriPaul McAuley|title= Condition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?Austral|rating= 3.5|genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= It's 1966Austral has no doubts about who she is. Her birth was, as she puts it, but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn't celebrating England's win a political act. Conceived in the World Cup – instead he's awakening from a coma following laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an aircraft accidentegg. Waking in I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She was, as the jargon of her world where nothing makes sensehas it ''edited''. She is, as a result, he's unable a Husky. A human modified to recall withstand the cold temperatures of the crash – Antarctic continent. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive in, but struggles to remember maybe not for much longer. This is a world in which the rest threats of his life…And what's stopping him from taking his medication? Is it brain damage causing paranoia about global warming went unheeded…a world in which the red pill, or is he right ice has retreated and continues to think there's something more sinister going on…And, having suffered almost 100% burns, how retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments is he alive? Are his hallucinations trying to tell him something?being opened up for exploitation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858996861473217318</amazonuk>

|author= Charlie LaidlawGeoffrey Arnold|title= The Things We Learn When We're DeadHunted|rating= 54|genre= General Science Fiction|summary= On Tullia learns about survival in the way to bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted into a dinner partyBushman family and the tribe, Lorna Love steps into her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the path of an oncoming car. Waking up in what appears to be a hospitalyoung men and women, but a hospital in which wine is served for suppermixture of awe, everyone avoids her questionsdesire, fear and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Conneryhate. Living a very different life, it soon transpires that Lorna is in HeavenQwelby, or, at leastTullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on HVNEarth. Because HVN As he is a lostrescued by his four best friends from the Pit of Despair, dysfunctional spaceshiphe experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and God Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. Forming a connection with the twins during the attack, the aging hippy captain. At first Lorna can remember nothinggirl, Xaala, but as is charged by her memories return master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – some goodand to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, some badon the planet Vertazia and in secret, she realises that she has Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a decision to makeshort test run, and that maybethe village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, she needs to find a way home…he flees from the village...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17861503521785891855</amazonuk>

|author= William GibsonDaniel Suarez|title= NeuromancerChange Agent|rating= 43.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=''He still dreamed of cyberspace…all I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wish. In the turns he'd taken genetic lottery that is our lives we are given a selection from our mother and the corners he cut in Night Cityour father to work with. However, although they may be over six foot, and heyou could still end up being shorter. You can'd still see t currently choose what coding you get, but what if you could cherry pick the matrix in his dreams, bright lattices best aspects of logic unfolding across that colourless void'' Neuromancer follows Case, who used to your family traits? It would be a cyber cowboy with exceptional hacking skills, before attempting great way to steal save people from his former employerhereditary disease, who as a result severed his connection to cyberspace by injecting him but would we end up with a mycotoxin. No longer able to enter world full of identikit humans all following the Matrix, Case enters a dark depression having suicidal thoughts and developing a drug addiction, which is where latest genetic fashions? In the reader first meets our troubled protagonist and antihero. Waiting for future someone would need to help him escape his misery, a mysterious stranger proposes a deal to restore Case's ability to connect to cyberspace be in exchange for working for him. Surrounded by secrecy, Case joins the recruits on their mission to uncover artificial intelligence and start life afreshcharge of stopping science going too far. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217385110198466X</amazonuk>

|author= Brandon SandersonStephen Baxter |title= Arcanum UnboundedXeelee: Vengeance |rating= 42|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary= Brandon Sanderson is more cannon than manMichael Poole, Earth's greatest living engineer, changed the galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar system. He fires However, such a thing was created with a degree of naivety and a lack of foresight because out more works than any other author of fantasy. Not only does he write the worm hole flew an awe inspiring amount unknown vessel of novelsalien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, but he also writes various short fictions that go alongside themit is unstoppable and unfathomable. And in hereBent on an unknown path, for the first timevessel is unresponsive to the human life around it. It ignores hails and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it, all not even the major ones are collected togethersurface of the sun. All it seems to want is energy, and Earth has plenty of that to be absorbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732180391473217172</amazonuk>

|author= James YoungDaniel Godfrey|title= Rise Empire of the Dust ChildTime (New Pompeii)|rating= 45|genre= Science Fiction |summary=An age has passed since the fall of the old world, and Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the rise of the malignant Dust peoplebeginning. Amongst the terrors of this The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to a new age, humanity still lingers within Pompeii just before the wreckage of civilisation, held together by disaster hits the promise of a better existence old one sounded great in the next lifetheory. But not all are satisfied by this dogma. Within The practice has been going on for years now, but the smoggy city of Fort Palmer, eight year modern and old Doran and his friend Alena stand apart, struggling worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to retain live within the lost glory experiment out of their faithcuriosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. But Since he arrived, he's watched the unquiet dead and Romans kill the forces inventors of faith do not take kindly to those who try to fix a broken world. As the quest to save the future leads each of machine that saved them down a dark path. Nick, they are cast apart - struggling or Decimus Horatius Pullus to overcome give him his Roman name, is the monstrous dusters only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and the fear within themselves, desperate that's not a safe position or location in which to see each other againlive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>15246343791785653156</amazonuk>

|author= Ken Cixin Liu|title= Invisible PlanetsThe Wandering Earth|rating= 4.5

|summary= Invisible Planets If anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager of the short form is an eclectic Sci-fi. So when you pick up a collectionof Sci-fi shorts, translated beautifully, you know that it will have just as much depth and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. Add to that the intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – has a welcome introduction for those somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of the rest of the planet…and add to that an author who aren’t familiar with is not only a best-seller in his home country but has the distinction of having produced the first translated work of SF ever to win the genre. The stories are dreamlike and hypnotic, evocative and inspiring.Hugo Award…this has got to be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849788091784978493</amazonuk>

|author= James GossJack Campbell|title= ClassThe Genesis Fleet: What She Does Next Will Astound YouVanguard|rating= 45|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary=At Coal Hill School, things have started The human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to get public. Kids have become obsessed the stars it takes with a website that demands you perform risky stunts, or tell it your most painful secrets. And Seraphin, everyone's favourite vlogger, wants you to get involved. All in both the best and the name worst examples of charityitself. At first people just get hurt. Then their lives are ruined. Finally, they disappear. As April's fragile group The isolation and edginess of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of friends starts to fracture, she decides she's going to uncover the truth behind thie site herselffar-flung colonies and bullying neighbours. Whatever it takesWe follow our protagonists, whoever she hurtseach failures in their own careers (crisis management, April's going to win. But thenspace navy, to her horror, she wakes up politics and finds her whole world's changed. What she does next will astound youmarines) as they become heroes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418871785650408</amazonuk>

|author= A K BenedictAnne Corlett|title= Class: The Stone HouseSpace Between The Stars

|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary=There's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. They've heard the storiesJamie Allenby wakes, alone, and realises her fever has broken. Butcould everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, if you stop, and look upJamie had left her partner Daniel, you'll see mourning the face miscarriage of their baby. She'd just had to get away, so took a girl, pressed up against job on a windowdistant planet. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn to Then the stone housevirus hit. There's a mystery there, and she's going to solve Jamie survived as itswept through our far-flung colonies. But the more Now she investigatesfeels desperate and isolated, the more until she realises that there's receives a presence in the housegarbled message from Earth. One that wants If someone from her. Something past is waiting for Tanya in the stone housestill alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a way to return. Something that has been trapping She meets others in its web over the years. Something that is far worse than any ghostseeking Earth, and their ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dream.But they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanity's past mistakes, threatening their precious fresh start.Jamie will also get a second chance at happiness.But can she escape her troubled past, to embrace a hopeful future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418791509833528</amazonuk>

|author= Guy AdamsElizabeth Moon|title= ClassCold Welcome: JoyrideVatta's Peace

|summary=Poppy is a quiet girl''I'm convinced we can survive anything'' After saving the empire, right up until she steals a car and drives it through a shop windowAdmiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less than to return to her home planet. Max is a nice guyBut after her cousin's request, that's exactly where Ky finds herself, but then he kills his whole enroute to tie up some familybusiness. Just for fun. Amar always seems so happyPromised a hero's welcome, so why is he trying Ky plans to jump to his death from stay as little time as possible back in the school roof? Some of place filled with such horrible memories. But as soon as she arrives, Ky finds herself in perilous danger, caught in the students middle of Coal Hill School are not themselvesan assassination attempt. Some Now stranded at sea and without communication links with the outside world, Ky must use every ounce of them are dyingskill she possesses to battle for survival. Ram has just woken up in a body he doesnBut with an unfamiliar crew who don't recognisetrust her, sabotaged equipment and if he doesna traitor in the midst, the odds aren't figure out whyin her favour. While the survivors hunt for land, he may well Ky's family members are doing everything possible to ensure her rescue. Old friends are called in and new alliances are made, but will it be next.enough? Will they get to Ky before it's too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418600356506282</amazonuk>

|author=Stephen BaxterSam Peters|title=The Massacre of MankindFrom Darkest Skies

|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies No one likes to see a loved one die, but when they do we can reflect on how they lived and eventually move on with the author. After a certain period the copyright is lifted so that an independent author can tackle the characters, hence the proliferation piece of Sherlock Holmes booksthem inside us. For many fans of the originalHowever, these books feel like cover versions and are best avoided. It is only when what would happen if we could take all the estate of memories we have saved on the author gets involved internet and combine them into an Artificial Intelligence that their interest is piqued. represented them? H. G. Wells' ''The War of the Worlds'' left enough of a door open Would this work to explore further and when you hire as an experienced a science fiction author as Stephen Baxter to pick up the official storykeep them close, it may or just be worth give you a read.false facsimile that prevents you from moving on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732050931473214750</amazonuk>

|author=Robert DickinsonM R Carey|title=The TouristBoy on the Bridge|rating=3.5

|summary=Time travel in It's ten years since mankind was almost wiped out by a virus that turned the great majority of it into the hungries – zombies by any format is a tricky businessother name. In the real world it A lone, heavily armoured vehicle is pretty much impossible, or we would all be reading about how people travelling from the future kept trying to assassinate HitlerBritish redoubt on the south coast the length of the Kingdom, but he managed tracing a previous expedition that failed to avoid them. In filmreturn, time travel can be super cool and lead hoping to some mind bending adventuresfind evidence somewhere, somehow, but spend a few moments unbending your mind and you discover more plot holes than an entire Terminator Tetralogyof something that can either counter the virus or rid the survivors of their enemy. In As a result the written form this vehicle is even worse divided in personnel between scientists and the military, and as you donneither side is completely cohesive it't have the visual splendour s no surprise to distract see the eyecrew split along partisan lines. The key to time travel in science fiction is to keep it simpleThat's not helped by one of the scientists, Samrina Khan, being heavily pregnant. Or you could just ignore this advice and write ''The Tourist'But 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 the bizarre the team will find on their explorations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565081530356503534</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 VanaJohn Scalzi|title= The MessageCollapsing Empire|rating= 3.5

|summary=The Message follows an official Inquiry into '' ''Just out of curiosity if this is the smaller problem, what is the wanton destruction of a Protected Nature Reserve. bigger problem?'' ''  '' ''The first witnesses give evidence complete collapse of the extent Flow, the end of the damage interdependency, and later witnesses identify those responsiblethe possible extinction of the human race. As '' '' In the inquiry unfolds it becomes apparent that the Nature Reserve is distant future, mankind has been forced to leave Earth, behind and that the Inquiry is being undertaken has subsequently built an impressive empire compromising of 47 human colonies all connected by regulators from other Galaxies who have responsibility for the protection The Flow: a river of Reserves throughout alternate space-time which makes travel across the Cosmos. Science Fiction? A love story? A study of human civilisation? A warning message.Interdependency possible.Dependent on trade, the Holy Empire's survival is all thanks to the Flow… which is now collapsing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B019NDIP1A1509835075</amazonuk>

|author=Adrian J WalkerGeoff Gaywood|title=The End of the World Running ClubOmnipotence: Odyssey Book I|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When the end Against a backdrop of the world as we know it comes, Edgar is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, relentless global warming and in a panicdeepening social conflict on Earth, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellar, and then he and his family eke an expedition sets out to secure a nightmarish existence in foothold on a distant planet thought suitable for human habitation. Almost immediately, the dark until their supplies run out. Fortunately they crew are luckysorely tested by a violent internal conspiracy, alien aggression and they are rescued from the cellarsimmering emotional tensions. As They complete a spectacular transition to a remote solar system where they emerge back into the world they see the ruin and disaster around themfind that their goal, as dangerous as it is exotic, caused by hundreds of large asteroids hitting already has the earth. Large areas ominous attention of the country have been destroyedanother civilisation. Groups Moreover, a series of people left alive scavenge houses and towns, turning feral, trying to find what's left perplexing events suggest that their mission may be subordinate 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 countrymuch greater power with its own strategic agenda.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666178589918X</amazonuk>

|author= Nina AllanKim Stanley Robinson|title= The RaceNew York 2140|rating= 45

|summary= The Race alternates between our 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 that when you've invested a lot of one set in a future Earth scarred by fracking time and ecological collapsemoney somewhere you're reluctant to leave. In our world, the story follows Christy, Consequently New York remains a young aspiring writer whose mother left when she was only 15 and whose life is dominated by fear of her brotherthriving, a man capable popular place even though half of monstrous actsManhattan is under water and the streets are now canals. MeanwhileThere are still financial traders, in Sapphire a world similar to our own yet very differentlocal politicians, celebrities, with street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing the entire economy funded city and getting by illegal smart dog racing. It seems like New York has stabilised into a new, we encounter Jenna Hoolman whose young niece is kidnapped at the tender age watery normal but when a couple of 4. We also learn about Alex, programmers go missing from a man who can help Christy uncover building on Madison Square and some of the truth behind her past as well as Mareeother residents start looking into it, an intelligent young woman who has the power a question begins to be asked: Does it have to change the world forever.be this way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565036X0356508757</amazonuk>

|author= Geoffrey ArnoldStefan Mohamed|title= Ripped ApartStanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 3.5

|summary= Qwelby and Tulia are teenage aliensCynical, growing up in solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a world and environment far removed from our owntalking beagle named Daryl. When Then came the twins interfere with a forbidden experiment, they find themselves transported to opposite ends of our Earth – Qwelby in Finland and Tulia in Africasuperpowers. To survive, they must re-establish their telepathic connection, find each other, avoid capture, and return homeAnd the super powered allies. They say that their people arrived on Earth 75,000 years ago, were And the cause of mysterious enemies. And the development of terrifying monsters. And the human race, and now need stunning revelations. And the help of those humans if their race apocalypse. Now he's not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to surviveproceed after saving the world. All he knows is that his story isn't finished.Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17846247561784630764</amazonuk>

|author=George MannTom Toner|title=Ghosts The Weight of Karnakthe World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)

|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The superhero market One thing great science fiction needs is crowded and sometimes a little boringsolid world building. Who cares about what When I pick up a God-book like person can this, I need to imagine that the universe has existed before the plot has started and will continue to do when the rest so after: it needs a strong sense of us are scrambling around trying to avoid papercutshistory and future. With this book, and series, never mind trying to repel I feel like I have just had a rogue asteroidbrief glimpse into something much larger. The best heroes are those that are just normal blokes or ladies dressed up A great deal happens in some fancy outfit. When it comes down to it Batman or The Shadow are just menthe plot, but it even more is their vulnerability that makes them ace to read about. Add to this list George Mann's 'The Ghost'happening, and has happened, a World War One veteran who returns to New York no longer willing to watch across the criminals taking over his home townFirmament.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17832941671473211395</amazonuk>

|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneAmanda Hocking|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Hello, sweetie.'' And with those words we know where we are – in the company of River Song, one of modern TV's more infuriating characters. Now she'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= NemesisFreeks

|summary= IIn the spring of 1987, the carnival comes to small-town Caudry, Louisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, the carnival is home. It'm not s also a great lover place of back-cover blurbsecrets, but every now hidden powers and again a buried past - making it tells you everything you need hard to know…if you read between the linesconnect with outsiders. However, sparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparable, Mara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. ''Hugely promisingAnd his family legacy could destroy Mara'' said SFXs world. ''Hits They find the ground runningword 'freeks' said the Guardiansprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. I can't disagree with either of those two statements. Unfortunately for this particular readerThen workers wind up dead, it ran very quickly into a swamp of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weedkilled in disturbing ways by someone or something. And didn't live up Mara is determined to unlock the promisemystery, with Gabe's help.But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732061111509807659</amazonuk>

|author=Emma GeenAlec Birri|title=Condition: Book Two - The Many Selves of Katherine NorthCuring Begins...|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=As Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions in Argentina after the Second World War may not come as a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut'surprise, nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into 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 lab-grown bodies invention of a cure for nearly all sorts the world's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried in the horrors of creaturesAuschwitz? The unacceptable is about to become the disturbingly bizarre. SheWhat has the treatment's recently spent a lot 'correction' of time as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) and paedophiles got particularly close to do with a vixen named Tomoko. It's becoming much harder for her to leave the animal world behind at President of the end of her 'jumps'. Even after BuckleyUnited States, her neuroengineer, signals her to the Pope and even the UK'Come home' and she resumes her original body, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialism, toileting outdoors and raiding bins.s Green Party? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088584361785898779</amazonuk>

|author=Philip MartinAlastair Reynolds|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosSlow Bullets|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' had access to When hundreds of worlds have been at war for a long time machine, they would be able to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found the likes announcement of [[Doctor Who 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 a prison world, where soon-ceasefire takes a while 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 the feeds from the executions, the morgues and worsereach everyone. If those watching It''Doctor Who'' had s perhaps not surprising that the benefit worst of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance 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, 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eric Saward|title=Doctor Who: The Visitation|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Have you ever given your children a time machine? No? Are you sure? What about that thing in soldiers using the corner upstairs called a dressing-up box – have they never been transported bodily to 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 the middle ages? Well adults can get involved in that, too, of course – the cast of this ''Doctor Who'' adventure had to put on 17th Century garb, and that was pretty much it as far war as looks go. 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 the whole it was one of the more simple episodes. Stillexcuse for crimes, who's to say the novel isndon't much more substantial, rich and varied?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940392</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Terrance Dicks|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 immediately give up? Well. Scur, 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 conscript who has just been charged with carrying out errands for the Time Lords. And given the most tricky hope of those is returning to go her family, has the planet Skaro, deeply enmeshed in a thousand year war, and put paid misfortune to run into one of these war criminals before the most heinous plans that could risk the universe – that of Davros to create his Dalek racepeacekeepers arrive.|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 He leaves her to time travel? I dare say it depends who or what you were to begin withdie, and when you went and what you did. 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 she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a result the entire place has been evacuatedprison ship, all ten million people shipped out, and the Government resettled in only to discover that hotbed of politics, Harrogatehe is there too. As a result, when And that's the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn up they immediately get accused least of being looters – and UNIT are just a touch too much out of contacther worries. 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>1785940376147321842X</amazonuk>