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|author= Brandon SandersonGeorge Mann|title= Arcanum UnboundedGhosts of Empire|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary= Brandon Sanderson is more cannon than man. He fires Taking on a band of undead Mummies will take it out more works than any other author of fantasythe best of us and a holiday may be needed. Not only does he write an awe inspiring amount of novels If you are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress you, but he also writes various short fictions that go alongside London is one of them. And in here Surely, a nice visit to England, for far from the hustle and bustle of the first timeBig Apple, all will help you to relax. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the loose with magical powers or the major ones events are collected togetherconspiring to raise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumber. Is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732180391783294183</amazonuk>
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|author= James YoungAndy Weir|title= Rise of the Dust ChildArtemis|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction |summary=An age has passed since the fall of the old world, and the rise of the malignant Dust people. Amongst the terrors of this new age, humanity still lingers within the wreckage of civilisation, held together by the promise of a better existence in the next life. But not all are satisfied by this dogma. Within the smoggy city of Fort Palmer, eight year old Doran and his friend Alena stand apart, struggling to retain the lost glory of their faith. But the unquiet dead and the forces 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 them down a dark path, they are cast apart - struggling to overcome the monstrous dusters and the fear within themselves, desperate to see each other again. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634379</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ken Liu|title= Invisible Planets|rating= 43.5
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|summary= Invisible Planets is an eclectic collectionWelcome to Artemis, translated beautifullythe first city on the moon. A powerhouse for the rich and a once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides also a welcome introduction for those who aren’t familiar place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, it's the only place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives in the genrelow end of town, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porter. The stories are dreamlike However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and hypnoticto this end, evocative and inspiringshe has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazz's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome reward, it is just too tempting to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849788090091956943</amazonuk>
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|author= James GossWes Stuart|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound YouMy Name is Sam
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|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary=At Coal Hill SchoolWho is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, things have started to get public. Kids have become obsessed 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 the name champion of charity. At first people just get hurt. Then the Sereia in their lives are ruined. Finallycosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, they disappearand the main character in this story. As April's fragile group Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of friends starts to fracturewho he is, she decides sheyet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's going to uncover last hope for salvation from the truth behind thie site herself. Whatever it takesGibbus who, whoever she hurtsin seven days, April's going to win. But then, to her horror, she wakes up will destroy the planet and finds her whole world's changedeveryone on it. What she does next will astound you. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941887</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= A K Benedict|title= ClassThis is not his choice however: The Stone House|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=There's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. They've heard that is the decision of the stories. But, if you stopalien Sereia, his mentors and look upguides, you'll see the face of a girl, pressed up against a windowas he is forced to confront this hazardous task. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to the stone house. There's a mystery therebe saved, and she's going but are too weak to solve it. But the more she investigates, the more she realises that there's a presence in challenge the houseGibbus themselves. One that wants her. Something is waiting In their search for Tanya in a human champion they find the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over the years. Something that unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is far worse than any ghost...not quite as he appears…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418791540504506</amazonuk>
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|author= Guy AdamsC Robert Cargill|title= Class: JoyrideSea of Rust
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|summary=Poppy is a quiet girl, right up until she steals a car Have you ever watched the ''Terminator'' movies or some similar 'Robo-geddon' franchise and drives it through a shop window. Max is a nice guy, but then he kills his whole family. Just for fun. Amar always seems so happy, so why is he trying to jump to his death from wondered what would have happened if the school roofrobots had actually ''won? Some of the students '' Well wonder no more, because ''Sea of Coal Hill School are not themselves. Some of them are dying. Ram has just woken up in a body he doesnRust't recognise, and if he doesn't figure hinges on that exact premise; a world where the robots have wiped out why, he may well be nextevery living thing from planet earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941860</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Baxter|title=The Massacre Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of Mankind|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies with the author. After a certain period organic matter anywhere, since the copyright is lifted so robot uprising that an independent author can tackle devastated the characters, hence the proliferation of Sherlock Holmes booksplanet. For many fans of the original, these books feel like cover versions Now two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS and are best avoidedVIRGIL. It is only when the estate of the author gets involved that They capture robots and turn them into drones; uploading their interest is piqued. Hminds into a hive consciousness. G. Wells' ''The War of the Worldsfew remaining bots are called 'freebots,' left enough of a door open to explore further and when you hire as an experienced inhabit a science fiction author as Stephen Baxter to pick up desert called the official story, it may just be worth a read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473205093</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Dickinson|title=The Tourist|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|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 from the future kept trying to assassinate HitlerSea of Rust, but he managed to avoid them. In film, time travel where they do what they can be super cool and lead to some mind bending adventuressurvive, but spend a few moments unbending your mind and you discover more plot holes than an entire Terminator Tetralogy. In the written form this is even worse as you don't have the visual splendour to distract the eye. The key to time travel in science fiction is to keep it simple. Or you could just ignore this advice and write ''The Tourist''including cannibalising other bots for spare parts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565081531473212782</amazonuk>
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|author= Luke RhinehartPaul McAuley|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play games: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 12/9 -->|author= Yan Vana|title= The MessageAustral
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|summary=The Message follows 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 official Inquiry into egg. I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She was, as the wanton destruction jargon of her world has it ''edited''. She is, as a result, a Protected Nature ReserveHusky. The first witnesses give evidence of A human modified to withstand the extent cold temperatures of the damage and later witnesses identify those responsibleAntarctic continent. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive in, but maybe not for much longer. As This is a world in which the inquiry unfolds it becomes apparent that threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the Nature Reserve is Earth, ice has retreated and that continues to retreat…a world in which the Inquiry harshest of environments is being undertaken by regulators from other Galaxies who have responsibility opened up for the protection of Reserves throughout the Cosmos. Science Fiction? A love story? A study of human civilisation? A warning message..exploitation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B019NDIP1A1473217318</amazonuk>
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|author=Adrian J WalkerGeoffrey Arnold|title=The End of the World Running Club|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=When the end of the world as we know 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 the dark until their supplies run out. Fortunately 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 country.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nina Allan|title= The RaceHunted
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|summary= The Race alternates between our world Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and that of one set in later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted into a future Earth scarred by fracking Bushman family and ecological collapse. In our worldthe tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the story follows Christyyoung men and women, a young aspiring writer whose mother left when she was only 15 mixture of awe, desire, fear and whose hate. Living a very different life , Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. As he is dominated rescued by fear his four best friends from the Pit of her brotherDespair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a man capable of monstrous actsgirl he has known for years. Meanwhile, in Sapphire Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world similar as he and Tullia seek to our own yet very differentrestore their telepathic link. Forming a connection with the twins during the attack, with the entire economy funded girl, Xaala, is charged by illegal smart dog racing, we encounter Jenna Hoolman whose young niece her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Xaala is kidnapped at torn between her mixed feelings for the tender age of 4twins and obeying her orders. We also learn about AlexMeanwhile, on the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a man who can help Christy uncover short test run, the truth behind her past as well as Mareevillage where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, an intelligent young woman who has he flees from the power to change the world forevervillage...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565036X1785891855</amazonuk>
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|author= Geoffrey ArnoldDaniel Suarez|title= Ripped ApartChange Agent|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Qwelby and Tulia are teenage aliens, growing up in a world and environment far removed from our own. When the twins interfere with a forbidden experiment, they find themselves transported to opposite ends of our Earth – Qwelby in Finland and Tulia in Africa. To survive, they must re-establish their telepathic connection, find each other, avoid capture, and return home. They say that their people arrived on Earth 75,000 years ago, were the cause of the development of the human race, and now need the help of those humans if their race is to survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624756</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=George Mann|title=Ghosts of Karnak|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The superhero market is crowded and sometimes a little boring. Who cares about what a God-like person can do when the rest of 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 men, but it is their vulnerability that makes them ace to read about. Add to this list George Mann's 'The Ghost', a World War One veteran who returns to New York no longer willing to watch the criminals taking over his home town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294167</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew Lane|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song|rating=3
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|summary=''HelloI wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, sweetieI wish.'' And with those words we know where In the genetic lottery that is our lives we are – in the company of River Songgiven a selection from our mother and our father to work with. However, although they may be over six foot, one of modern TV's more infuriating charactersyou could still end up being shorter. Now sheYou can's likeable enought currently choose what coding you get, it was just but what if you could cherry pick the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made her hard to live with. best aspects of your family traits? I It would say this was be a return great way to her sidesave people from hereditary disease, but have would we had that pleasure yet – isn't it in our future, which is her past, and vice versa at end up with a world full of identikit humans all following the same, er, timelatest genetic fashions? Either way, five tales here bring a selection of her escapades In the future someone would need to a YA audience. The results can be bordering on the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usualin charge of stopping science going too far.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940880110198466X</amazonuk>
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|author= Alex LambStephen Baxter |title= NemesisXeelee: Vengeance |rating= 3.52
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|summary= IMichael Poole, Earth'm not s greatest living engineer, changed the galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar system. However, such a thing was created with a degree of naivety and a great lover lack of back-cover blurbforesight because out of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, but every now it is unstoppable and again it tells you everything you need unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, the vessel is unresponsive to know…if you read between the lineshuman life around it. ''Hugely promising'' said SFXIt ignores hails and even direct attacks. ''Hits Nothing affects it, not even the ground running'' said surface of the Guardiansun. I can't disagree with either of those two statements. Unfortunately for this particular readerAll it seems to want is energy, it ran very quickly into a swamp and Earth has plenty of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weed. And didn't live up that to the promisebe absorbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732061111473217172</amazonuk>
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|author=Emma GeenDaniel Godfrey|title=The Many Selves Empire of Katherine North|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=As a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut', nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into the lab-grown bodies of all sorts of creatures. She's recently spent a lot of time as a fox Time (appropriate given her nicknameNew Pompeii) and got particularly close with a vixen named Tomoko. It's becoming much harder for her to leave the animal world behind at the end of her 'jumps'. Even after Buckley, her neuroengineer, signals her to 'Come home' and she resumes her original body, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialism, toileting outdoors and raiding bins.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858436</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Philip Martin|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos|rating=4|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 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-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 worse. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had the benefit 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 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 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. Still, who's to say the novel isn't much more substantial, rich and varied?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940392</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Terrance Dicks|title=Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks
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|summary=If you were Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the beginning.The experiment to randomly travel in study Ancient Romans by transporting them through 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 a new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old one sounded great in a time and place of wartheory. The thing is, howeverpractice has been going on for years now, but the modern and old worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the Doctor is notexperiment out of curiosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. Since he arrived, for once, travelling randomly – he's been charged with carrying out errands for watched the Romans kill the inventors of the Time Lordsmachine that saved them. And the most tricky of those Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give him his Roman name, is to go the planet Skaro, deeply enmeshed only non-Roman living in a thousand year war, New Pompeii and put paid to one of the most heinous plans that could risk the universe – that of Davros 's not a safe position or location in which to create his Dalek racelive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403841785653156</amazonuk>
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|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. 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 Fear|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What do you look like if you time travel? Perhaps like a lunk-headed Austrian, naked and with fizzy blue stuff all over you. Or perhaps, to the confusion of Professor Travers, you look exactly as you did when he met you in Tibet forty years ago. That escapade has had a legacy, as he has brought back a deactivated robot Yeti – and has mistakenly managed to reactivate it. Or perhaps, you look very much like yourself if you're a time traveller, for just by reading this book you won't change your appearance, but you'll be sent back to 1968, by way of 1975, when this book-of-the-series was first published.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940368</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bill Strutton|title=Doctor Who and the Zarbi|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Consider the time machine. You probably know of it as looking like either some fancy Edwardian sit-upon machine that the Morlocks nick, or perhaps a battered old English police call box. I would suggest it can also look like a small paperback book – pretty much like the subject at hand. This reprint of a ''Doctor Who'' novel, first presented in 1973 from the series shown in 1965, certainly has the ability to take you back. I grew up with the series on TV and the books in a Target imprint, but this predates that – it was, apparently, the second ever Who book-of-the-series. In it, the good Doctor and his three companions arrive on a certain quarry-like planet. One stays in the TARDIS, only to find it and her nicked by aliens; another needs rescuing from alien mind control by a different species of aliens; and the third with our irascible hero work out what actually took control of their ship and stranded them there in the first place…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178594035X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David WingroveCixin Liu|title= The Ocean of TimeWandering Earth|rating= 3.5
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|summary= The War for Time continuesIf anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. From One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager of the frozen tundra short form is Sci-fi. So when you pick up a collection of 13th Century Russia Sci-fi shorts, you know that it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. Add to that the battle intrigue of Paltava seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in 1709 and beyond, Otto Behr has waged many ways to much of the rest of the planet…and add to that an unquestioning, unending war across time for author who is not only a best-seller in his people. But now a third unidentified power home country but has joined the game across distinction of having produced the ocean first translated work of time, and everything Otto holds dear could SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be unmade…good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195617X1784978493</amazonuk>
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|author= Holly JenningsJack Campbell|title= ArenaThe Genesis Fleet: Vanguard|rating= 3.5
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|summary= Kali Ling competes in The human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to the RAGE tournaments – a competition of Virtual Gaming, where stars it takes with it both the world's best gamers compete in a fight to and the digital deathworst examples of itself. Every fights is broadcast to millions, The isolation and each player leads lives edginess of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of famefar-flung colonies and bullying neighbours. Although the weapons are digitalWe follow our protagonists, the players feel every blow… Kali Ling – the first female captain each failures in tournament historytheir own careers (crisis management, is famed for her prowess – but has her world shaken when her teammate and lover overdoses. Nowspace navy, she must win the tournament politics and uncover the truth about the tournament, for the Virtual Gaming League has dark secretsmarines) as they become heroes. And the only way to change the rules is to fight from the inside…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>11019887621785650408</amazonuk>
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|author= Michael CobleyAnne Corlett|title= Ancestral Machines|rating= 3|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Having completed the Humanity's Fire trilogy with the Ascendant Stars, I expected to go off and do something completely different. He didn't. In Ancestral Machines, we're back in the same universe. The Construct (an ancient AI on a mission) is still doing its best to protect sentient species, and the drone Rensik is still one of its key agents. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501779</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= Space Between The Philosopher Kings|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Twenty years have passed since the Goddess Athene founded the Just City. The god Apollo is still living there, albeit in human form. Now married, and the father of several children, the man/god struggles to cope when tragedy befalls his family. Beset by grief and a need for revenge, Apollo sets sail to find the man who caused him such pain, but discovers something that may change everything…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150791</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mike Brooks|title=Dark SkyStars|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Making money is not easy, especially if you live life on the edges of known space scraping a living doing odd jobs with your crew; some legal, some not so legal. You may not have much money, a good ship or even adequate washing facilities, but what you do have is the friendship and comradery of your fellow crewmates. That is unless you have all just discovered that the captain used to be a space pirate who once suffocated his entire crew so that he could escape. Welcome to the jolly ship Keiko.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195665X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Samuel R Delany|title= Nova|rating= 5
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|summary=In Jamie Allenby wakes, alone, and realises her fever has broken. But could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, Jamie had left her partner Daniel, mourning the 31st century the rare element Illyrion is miscarriage of their baby. She'd just had to get away, so took a crucial energy source, and naturally enough job on a whole lot of politics and power are bound up with whoever controls distant planet. Then the supplyvirus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our far-flung colonies. Lorq Von RayNow she feels desperate and isolated, daring spaceship captain, has this mad idea that flying into an imploding star will until she receives a garbled message from Earth. If someone from her past is still alive – as long as he can get out again perhaps Daniel – allow him she knows she must find a way to gather Illyrion in unimaginable quantitiesreturn. Luckily his ragShe meets others seeking Earth, and their ill-bag crew donmatched group will travel across space to achieve their dream. But they't know about this when they sign ll clash with survivors intent onrepeating 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>14732119131509833528</amazonuk>
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