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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Reynolds -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Reynolds_Fire.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575090588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] 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]] <!-- Quine -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Quine Beasts.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0992754941/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] 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]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] 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 collapse 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]] <!-- Brookmyre -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Brookmyre_Places.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/035650624X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=035650624X]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] 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 Flowsame old problems. You can't really have a Utopia with people in it, can you? [[Places in the end Darkness by Chris Brookmyre|Full Review]] <!-- Curtis -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Curtis_Water.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0995465754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0995465754]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the interdependencywaves. 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 possible extinction main ones. [[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis|Full Review]] <!-- Dick -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dick_Electric.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473223288?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473223288]] ===[[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick]]=== | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|[[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] 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 human raceauthor'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]] <!-- Goss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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=Tom TonerGeorge Mann|title= The Weight Ghosts of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Empire
|rating=4
|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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|author= Amanda HockingAndy Weir|title= FreeksArtemis
|rating= 3.5
|genre= Science Fiction
|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
|rating= 4
|genre= Science Fiction
|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
|genre= Science Fiction
|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 accident3. 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=Austral has no doubts about who she is. Her birth was, as she puts it, ''He still dreamed a political act. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an egg. I was customised by a suite of cyberspace…all the turns hetargeted genes…''d taken and the corners he cut in Night City She was, and he'd still see as the matrix in his dreams, bright lattices jargon of logic unfolding across that colourless voidher world has it '' Neuromancer follows Case, who used to be a cyber cowboy with exceptional hacking skillsedited''. She is, before attempting to steal from his former employer, who as a result severed his connection to cyberspace by injecting him with , a mycotoxinHusky. No longer able A human modified to enter withstand the Matrix, Case enters a dark depression having suicidal thoughts and developing a drug addiction, which is where cold temperatures of the reader first meets our troubled protagonist and antiheroAntarctic continent. Waiting Those temperatures are still hard for someone un-modified humans to help him escape his miserysurvive in, but maybe not for much longer. This is a mysterious stranger proposes a deal world in which the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the ice has retreated and continues to restore Case's ability to connect to cyberspace retreat…a world in exchange which the harshest of environments is being opened up for working for him. Surrounded by secrecy, Case joins the recruits on their mission to uncover artificial intelligence and start life afreshexploitation. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732173851473217318</amazonuk>
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|author= Brandon SandersonGeoffrey Arnold|title= Arcanum UnboundedHunted
|rating= 4
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary= Invisible Planets Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is an eclectic collectiontaken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, translated beautifullyher presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the young men and women, a mixture of awe, desire, fear and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides hate. Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best friends from the Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a welcome introduction girl he has known for those who aren’t familiar years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. Forming a connection with the genretwins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. The stories are dreamlike Meanwhile, on the planet Vertazia and hypnoticin secret, evocative Quelby's family and inspiringfriends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a short test run, the village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, he flees from the village...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849788091785891855</amazonuk>
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|author= James GossDaniel Suarez|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound YouChange Agent|rating= 43.5|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary=At Coal Hill SchoolI wish I was a little bit taller, things have started to get public. Kids have become obsessed with a website that demands you perform risky stuntsI wish I had blue eyes, or tell it your most painful secrets. And SeraphinI wish, everyone's favourite vloggerI wish, wants you to get involvedI wish. All in In the name of charity. At first people just get hurt. Then their genetic lottery that is our lives we are ruinedgiven a selection from our mother and our father to work with. Finally However, although they disappearmay be over six foot, you could still end up being shorter. As April You can's fragile group of friends starts to fracturet currently choose what coding you get, she decides she's going to uncover but what if you could cherry pick the truth behind thie site herself. Whatever it takes, whoever she hurts, April's going best aspects of your family traits? It would be a great way to win. But then, to her horrorsave people from hereditary disease, she wakes but would we end up and finds her whole with a world's changed. What she does next will astound youfull of identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashions? In the future someone would need to be in charge of stopping science going too far. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941887110198466X</amazonuk>
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|author= A K BenedictStephen Baxter |title= ClassXeelee: The Stone HouseVengeance |rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=There's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. They've heard the stories. But, if you stop, and look up, you'll see the face of a girl, pressed up against a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn to the stone house. There's a mystery there, and she's going to solve it. But the more she investigates, the more she realises that there's a presence in the house. One that wants her. Something is waiting for Tanya in the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over the years. Something that is far worse than any ghost...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941879</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Guy Adams|title= Class: Joyride|rating= 4.52
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary=Poppy is Michael Poole, Earth's greatest living engineer, changed the galaxy when he opened a quiet girlworm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar system. However, right up until she steals such a car thing was created with a degree of naivety and drives it through a shop windowlack of foresight because out of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Max Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, it is a nice guyunstoppable and unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, but then he kills his whole familythe vessel is unresponsive to the human life around it. Just for funIt ignores hails and even direct attacks. Amar always seems so happyNothing affects it, so why is he trying to jump to his death from not even the school roof? Some surface of the students of Coal Hill School are not themselvessun. Some of them are dying. Ram has just woken up in a body he doesn't recogniseAll it seems to want is energy, and if he doesn't figure out why, he may well Earth has plenty of that to be nextabsorbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859418601473217172</amazonuk>
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|author=Stephen BaxterDaniel Godfrey|title=The Massacre Empire of MankindTime (New Pompeii)|rating=45
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies with Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the authorbeginning. After The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to a certain period new Pompeii just before the copyright is lifted so that an independent author can tackle disaster hits the characters, hence the proliferation of Sherlock Holmes booksold one sounded great in theory. For many fans of The practice has been going on for years now, but the original, these books feel like cover versions modern and are best avoidedold worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. It is Scientist Nick Houghton only when ever wanted to live within the estate experiment out of the author gets involved that their interest is piquedcuriosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. H. G. WellsSince he arrived, he' ''The War s watched the Romans kill the inventors of the Worlds'' left enough of a door open machine that saved them. Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to explore further give him his Roman name, is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and when you hire as an experienced that's not a science fiction author as Stephen Baxter safe position or location in which to pick up the official story, it may just be worth a readlive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14732050931785653156</amazonuk>
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|author=Robert DickinsonCixin Liu|title=The TouristWandering Earth|rating=35|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Time travel in any format is If anyone thought that the short story as a tricky businessform had been relegated to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. In One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager of the real world it short form is pretty much impossible, or we would all be reading about how people from the future kept trying to assassinate Hitler, but he managed to avoid themSci-fi. In filmSo when you pick up a collection of Sci-fi shorts, time travel can be super cool you know that it will have just as much depth and lead to some mind bending adventures, but spend a few moments unbending your mind and you discover more plot holes than an entire Terminator Tetralogythought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. In Add to that the written form this is even worse as you don't have intrigue of seeing how the visual splendour concepts are approached by someone from China which – to distract be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of the rest of the eye. The key planet…and add to time travel that an author who is not only a best-seller in science fiction is his home country but has the distinction of having produced the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to keep it simple. Or you could just ignore this advice and write ''The Tourist''.be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565081531784978493</amazonuk>
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|author= Luke RhinehartJack Campbell|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play gamesThe Genesis Fleet: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 12/9 -->|author= Yan Vana|title= The MessageVanguard|rating= 3.5
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary=The Message follows an official Inquiry into human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to the stars it takes with it both the best and the wanton destruction worst examples of a Protected Nature Reserveitself. The first witnesses give evidence isolation and edginess of the extent a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of the damage far-flung colonies and later witnesses identify those responsiblebullying neighbours. As the inquiry unfolds it becomes apparent that the Nature Reserve is EarthWe follow our protagonists, each failures in their own careers (crisis management, space navy, politics and that the Inquiry is being undertaken by regulators from other Galaxies who have responsibility for the protection of Reserves throughout the Cosmos. Science Fiction? A love story? A study of human civilisation? A warning message..marines) as they become heroes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B019NDIP1A1785650408</amazonuk>
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|author=Adrian J WalkerAnne Corlett|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= Space Between The RaceStars
|rating= 4
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary= The Race alternates between our world Jamie Allenby wakes, alone, and that of one set in a future Earth scarred by fracking and ecological collapserealises her fever has broken. In our worldBut could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, Jamie had left her partner Daniel, mourning the story follows Christymiscarriage of their baby. She'd just had to get away, so took a job on a young aspiring writer whose mother left when distant planet. Then the virus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she was only 15 feels desperate and whose life is dominated by fear of her brotherisolated, until she receives a man capable of monstrous actsgarbled message from Earth. Meanwhile, in Sapphire If someone from her past is still alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a world similar way to our own yet very differentreturn. She meets others seeking Earth, and their ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dream. But they'll clash with the entire economy funded by illegal smart dog racingsurvivors intent on repeating humanity's past mistakes, we encounter Jenna Hoolman whose young niece is kidnapped at the tender age of 4threatening their precious fresh start. We Jamie will also learn about Alex, get a man who second chance at happiness. But can help Christy uncover the truth behind she escape her troubled past as well as Maree, an intelligent young woman who has the power to change the world forever.embrace a hopeful future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565036X1509833528</amazonuk>
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