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===[[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds]]===
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What happens when Utopia is achieved? When everyone is linked neurologically to everyone else and people vote on each minor decision so every aspect of life is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dying, melting to be precise, and no one knows how, or why, or who could be next. In such a circumstance who can be trusted to solve this crime and do so without spreading panic? What if the only people who can be trusted have already let you down once before? [[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds|Full Review]]
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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine]]===
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Meet Jaymi. He's a world-class video games designer, and fresh to a new mansion in the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent success. But he's seen the future and he doesn't like it. His current employers, able to bring any amount of class, skill and culture to the world of gameplay, are beset on appealing to the most lunkheaded and lowest common denominators instead. Indeed, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be a massively disturbing environment, where people progress through the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone and everyone else on the planet, whether they're playing along or not, and by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a user-accepted, algorithm-designed, status quo. With a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, and sets up a way of restoring the balance with a launch of his own, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the game. He sees this as a way to improve society and get his own back – but the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded background, and become fully playable characters in reality… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine|Full Review]]
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===[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]===
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to 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 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 series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]]
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===[[Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre]]===
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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? [[Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]===
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Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue.
It is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the start but I will try to avoid the main ones. [[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis|Full Review]]
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===[[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick]]===
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Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they are more present than past. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TV. Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's news. It is as if half a century after their inception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality. [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick|Full Review]]
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===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]
Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, 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 Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, 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, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]]
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|author= Kim Stanley RobinsonGeorge Mann|title= New York 2140|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=By 2140 sea level has risen by around fifty feet, leaving coastal cities the world over with major problems. Some places will always be desirable, however, and when you've invested a lot of time and money somewhere you're reluctant to leave. Consequently New York remains a thriving, popular place even though half of Manhattan is under water and the streets are now canals. There are still financial traders, local politicians, celebrities, street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing the city and getting by. It seems like New York has stabilised into a new, watery normal but when a couple of programmers go missing from a building on Madison Square and some of the other residents start looking into it, a question begins to be asked: Does it have to be this way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stefan Mohamed|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 Ghosts of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Empire
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|genre= Science Fiction|summary= One thing great science fiction needs is solid world building. When I pick up Taking on a book like this, I need to imagine that the universe has existed before the plot has started and band of undead Mummies will continue to do so after: take it needs a strong sense out of the best of history us and future. With this book, and series, I feel like I have just had a brief glimpse into something much largerholiday may be needed. A great deal happens in the plot If you are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress you, but even more London is happeningone of them. Surely, a nice visit to England, far from the hustle and has happenedbustle of the Big Apple, across will help you to relax. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the Firmamentloose with magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumber. Is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732113951783294183</amazonuk>
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|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>
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|author= Alec BirriWes Stuart|title= Condition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...My Name is Sam
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|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>
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|author= Alastair ReynoldsC Robert Cargill|title= Slow BulletsSea of Rust|rating= 4.5
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|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>
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|author= Alec BirriPaul McAuley|title= Condition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?Austral|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary= It's 1966, 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 a world where nothing makes sense, he's unable to recall the crash – but struggles to remember the rest of his life…And what's stopping him from taking his medication? Is it brain damage causing paranoia about the red pill, or is he right to think there's something more sinister going on…And, having suffered almost 100% burns, how is he alive? Are his hallucinations trying to tell him something?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785899686</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Charlie Laidlaw|title= The Things We Learn When We're Dead|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= On the way to a dinner party, Lorna Love steps into the path of an oncoming car. Waking up in what appears to be a hospital, but a hospital in which wine is served for supper, everyone avoids her questions, and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is in Heaven, or, at least, on HVN. Because HVN is a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, and God the aging hippy captain. At first Lorna can remember nothing, but as her memories return – some good, some bad, she realises that she has a decision to make, and that maybe, she needs to find a way home…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786150352</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= William Gibson|title= Neuromancer|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=''He still dreamed of cyberspace…all the turns he'd taken and the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colourless void'' Neuromancer follows Case, who used to be 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 mycotoxin. No longer able to enter the Matrix, Case enters a dark depression having suicidal thoughts and developing a drug addiction, which is where the reader first meets our troubled protagonist and antihero. Waiting for someone to help him escape his misery, a mysterious stranger proposes a deal to restore Case's ability to connect to cyberspace in exchange for working for him. Surrounded by secrecy, Case joins the recruits on their mission to uncover artificial intelligence and start life afresh. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217385</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Brandon Sanderson|title= Arcanum Unbounded|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy |summary= Brandon Sanderson is more cannon than man. He fires out more works than any other author of fantasy. Not only does he write an awe inspiring amount of novels, but he also writes various short fictions that go alongside them. And in here, for the first time, all the major ones are collected together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473218039</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= James Young|title= Rise of the Dust Child|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 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>
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|author= James GossGeoffrey Arnold|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound You|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy |summary=At Coal Hill School, 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 of charity. At first people just get hurt. Then their lives are ruined. Finally, they disappear. As April's fragile group of friends starts to fracture, she decides she's going to uncover the truth behind thie site herself. Whatever it takes, whoever she hurts, April's going to win. But then, to her horror, she wakes up and finds her whole world's changed. What she does next will astound you. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941887</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= A K Benedict|title= Class: The Stone HouseHunted
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|summary=Poppy Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a quiet girlyouth's life during a hunt. Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the young men and women, right up until she steals a car mixture of awe, desire, fear and drives it through hate. Living a shop windowvery different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. Max As he is a nice guyrescued by his four best friends from the Pit of Despair, but then he kills experiences his whole familyfirst feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. Just Feelings which become much stronger for funanother girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. Amar always seems so happyForming a connection with the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, so why is he trying charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to jump mentally reconnect – and to his death from prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on the school roof? Some of planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the students of Coal Hill School are not themselves. Some of them are dyingfirst ever inter-dimensional transport. Ram has just woken up in On a body he doesn't recogniseshort test run, and if the village where he doesn't figure is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out whyhe is being watched, he may well be nextflees from the village...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418601785891855</amazonuk>
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|author=Stephen BaxterDaniel Suarez|title=The Massacre of MankindChange Agent|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies with the author3. After a certain period the copyright is lifted so that an independent author can tackle the characters, hence the proliferation of Sherlock Holmes books. For many fans of the original, these books feel like cover versions and are best avoided. It is only when the estate of the author gets involved that their interest is piqued. H. G. Wells' ''The War of the Worlds'' left enough of a door open to explore further and when you hire as an experienced a science fiction author as Stephen Baxter to pick up the official story, it may just be worth a read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473205093</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Dickinson|title=The Tourist|rating=35
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|summary=Time travel in any format is I wish I was a tricky businesslittle bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wish. In the real world it genetic lottery that is pretty much impossible, or our lives we would all be reading about how people are given a selection from the future kept trying our mother and our father to assassinate Hitler, but he managed to avoid themwork with. In filmHowever, time travel can although they may be super cool and lead to some mind bending adventuresover six foot, but spend a few moments unbending your mind and you discover more plot holes than an entire Terminator Tetralogycould still end up being shorter. In the written form this is even worse as you donYou can't have currently choose what coding you get, but what if you could cherry pick the visual splendour best aspects of your family traits? It would be a great way to distract save people from hereditary disease, but would we end up with a world full of identikit humans all following the eye. latest genetic fashions? The key In the future someone would need to time travel be in charge of stopping science fiction is to keep it simple. Or you could just ignore this advice and write ''The Tourist''going too far.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508153110198466X</amazonuk>
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|author= Luke RhinehartStephen Baxter |title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play gamesXeelee: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 12/9 -->|author= Yan Vana|title= The MessageVengeance |rating= 3.52
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|summary=The Message follows an official Inquiry into Michael Poole, Earth's greatest living engineer, changed the galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the wanton destruction solar system. However, such a thing was created with a degree of naivety and a Protected Nature Reserve. The first witnesses give evidence lack of foresight because out of the extent worm hole flew an unknown vessel of the damage and later witnesses identify those responsiblealien origin. As the inquiry unfolds Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, it becomes apparent that the Nature Reserve is Earthunstoppable and unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, and that the Inquiry vessel is being undertaken by regulators from other Galaxies who have responsibility for unresponsive to the human life around it. It ignores hails and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it, not even the protection surface of Reserves throughout the Cosmossun. Science Fiction? A love story? A study All it seems to want is energy, and Earth has plenty of human civilisation? A warning message..that to be absorbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B019NDIP1A1473217172</amazonuk>
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|author=Adrian J WalkerDaniel Godfrey|title=The End Empire of the World Running ClubTime (New Pompeii)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When the end of Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the world as we know it comes, Edgar is totally unpreparedbeginning. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, and in The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to a panic, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellar, and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old one sounded great in the dark until their supplies run outtheory. Fortunately they are luckyThe practice has been going on for years now, but the modern and they are rescued from the cellarold worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. As they emerge back into Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the world they see the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds experiment out of large asteroids hitting the earthcuriosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. Large areas of the country have been destroyed. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and townsSince he arrived, turning feral, trying to find whathe's left to help watched the Romans kill the inventors of the machine that saved them to survive. Edgar's family are rescued by a small remaining army unitNick, but he and or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give him his wife and children become separatedRoman name, is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and so begins Edgarthat's desperate race not a safe position or location in which to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another countrylive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850326661785653156</amazonuk>
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|author= Nina AllanCixin Liu|title= The RaceWandering Earth|rating= 45
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|summary= The Race alternates between our world and If anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages of one set in women's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. One genre that has always been a future Earth scarred by fracking stalwart supporter and ecological collapseencourager of the short form is Sci-fi. In our world, the story follows Christy, a young aspiring writer whose mother left So when she was only 15 and whose life is dominated by fear of her brother, you pick up a man capable collection of monstrous acts. MeanwhileSci-fi shorts, in Sapphire a world you know that it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. Add to our own yet very different, with that the intrigue of seeing how the entire economy funded concepts are approached by illegal smart dog racing, we encounter Jenna Hoolman whose young niece is kidnapped at someone from China which – to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of the tender age rest of 4. We also learn about Alex, a man who can help Christy uncover the truth behind her past as well as Maree, planet…and add to that an intelligent young woman author who is not only a best-seller in his home country but has the power distinction of having produced the first translated work of SF ever to change win the world forever.Hugo Award…this has got to be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565036X1784978493</amazonuk>
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|author= Geoffrey ArnoldJack Campbell|title= Ripped ApartThe Genesis Fleet: Vanguard|rating= 3.5
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|summary= Qwelby The human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to the stars it takes with it both the best and Tulia are teenage aliens, growing up in a world the worst examples of itself. The isolation and environment far removed from our own. When the twins interfere with edginess of a forbidden experiment, they find themselves transported to opposite ends Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of our Earth – Qwelby in Finland far-flung colonies and Tulia in Africabullying neighbours. To surviveWe follow our protagonists, they must re-establish their telepathic connection, find each other, avoid capture, and return home. They say that failures in their people arrived on Earth 75own careers (crisis management,000 years ago, were the cause of the development of the human racespace navy, politics and now need the help of those humans if their race is to survivemarines) as they become heroes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17846247561785650408</amazonuk>
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|author=George MannAnne Corlett|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|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. Space Between 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= NemesisStars|rating= 3.54
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|summary= I'm not a great lover of back-cover blurb, but every now and again it tells you everything you need to know…if you read between the lines. ''Hugely promising'' said SFX. ''Hits the ground running'' said the Guardian. I can't disagree with either of those two statements. Unfortunately for this particular readerJamie Allenby wakes, it ran very quickly into a swamp of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weed. And didn't live up to the promise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473206111</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Emma Geen|title=The Many Selves of Katherine North|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=As a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut'alone, nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into the lab-grown bodies of all sorts of creatures. She's recently spent a lot of time as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) and got particularly close with a vixen named Tomoko. It's becoming much harder for realises her to leave the animal world behind at the end of her 'jumps'fever has broken. Even after Buckley, her neuroengineer, signals her to 'Come home' and But could everyone she resumes her original body, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialismknows be dead? Months earlier, 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'' Jamie had access to a time machineleft her partner Daniel, they would be able to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found mourning the likes miscarriage 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 worsetheir baby. If those watching ''Doctor Who'She' d just 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 Langfordget away, 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 so took a museum and put job on a mediaeval smock and told they're now in distant planet. Then 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 virus hit. Jamie survived as it as swept through our 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 episodesflung colonies. 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|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If you were to randomly travel in time Now she feels desperate and spaceisolated, where would you end up? Well, if our own battle-torn history was anything to go by, you'd like as not end up in until she receives a time and place of wargarbled message from Earth. The thing If someone from her past is, however, the Doctor is not, for once, travelling randomly still alive – perhaps Daniel – he's been charged with carrying out errands for the Time Lords. And the most tricky of those is to go the planet Skaro, deeply enmeshed in she knows she must find a thousand year war, and put paid to one of the most heinous plans that could risk the universe – that of Davros way to create his Dalek racereturn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940384</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Malcolm Hulke|title=Doctor Who She meets others seeking Earth, and the Dinosaur Invasion|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What effect do you think you'd have if you were to time their ill-matched group will travel? I dare say it depends who or what you were across space to begin with, and when you went and what you didachieve their dream. The creatures in this story only seem to stay in the same place, and do just what comes natural – but as But 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 evacuatedll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanity's past mistakes, all ten million people shipped out, and the Government resettled in that hotbed of politics, Harrogatethreatening their precious fresh start. As a result, when the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn up they immediately Jamie will also get accused of being looters – and UNIT are just a touch too much out of contactsecond chance at happiness. What is causing time But can she escape her troubled past, to leave the dinosaurs moving around London, and what is embrace a mediaeval man, complaining of witchcraft under King John, doing there toohopeful future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859403761509833528</amazonuk>
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