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 {{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Chris Brookmyre"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Setchfield -->|title=Places in the Darkness-|ratingstyle=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre=Science Fiction[[image:1785657097.jpg|summarylink= Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort of futuristic Utopia, in a world of free thinking and no major crimehttp://www.amazon.co. Perhaps in a Space Station high above uk/dp/1785657097/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The War in 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 planetsDark by Nick Setchfield]]=== [[image:4.5star. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be the same old problems. You can't really have a Utopia with people in it, can you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650624X</amazonuk>jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|author= Abi CurtisFantasy]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|title= Water & GlassScience Fiction]]|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Something has happenedEurope – 1963. The world is used to the constant tensions between the West and Russia, something very nasty and on with the Cold War a submarine a pregnant elephant is one seemingly never ending threat in the lives of only a handful of animals living below the waveseveryday people. We follow Nerissa CraneWhat they don't know however, a vetis that the real cold war is fought on the borders of this world, as she remembers recent events, looks after far from prying eyes at the animals and falls into a world edges of intriguethe light. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, and is forced into a tense, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarova. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995465754</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Philip K Dick|title= Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams|rating= 3|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in As the 50sthreats rise, but they are more present than pastChristopher finds himself caught in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses it. On Racing against the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through to the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews haunted Hungarian border, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of pure praise; white fire and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the authorblack glass. It's short stories for TVa world of treachery, blood and magic. Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into A world at war in the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to dark. [[The War in 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.Dark by Nick Setchfield|Full Review]] <!-- Dixen -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1473223288<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471406849.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471406849/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=George Mann"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title===[[Ascension by Victor Dixen]]==Ghosts of Empire|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction[[image:5star.jpg|summarylink=Taking on a band of undead Mummies will take it out of Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Six girls, six boys. Each in the best two separate bays of us and a holiday may be neededsingle spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. If you They are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress youthe contenders in the Genesis programme, but London is one of themthe world's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. SurelyLeonor, a nice visit to Englandan 18 year old orphan, far from the hustle and bustle is one of the Big Apple, will help you to relaxchosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket. It is not as Even if Russian Tsarists are on the loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring dream turns to raise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumbera nightmare, it is too late for regrets. Is it?[[Ascension by Victor Dixen|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294183</amazonuk!-- Ruocchio-->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Ian Doescher"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0756413001.jpg|titlelink=William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awakenhttp: Star Wars Part the Seventh|rating=4//www.amazon.co.5|genre=Science Fictionuk/dp/0756413001/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series [[Empire of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdySilence (Sun Eater) by Christopher Ruocchio]]=== [[image:5star. You may or may not have noticed jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Hadrian Marlowe sits in the distant future writing the cinematic version true account of his original stage play for life to add context to a tale everyone in the Empire knows already. ''Empire of Silence'The Force Doth Awaken'is a hero', s quest but here at last we get it is made clear from the actual script, complete with annoying-start that it will not end that way. We are millennia in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvrethe future, Earth has been lost and people keeping it in the family til it hurtsgreat houses rule portions of a vast empire. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts Hadrian Marlowe is set to inherit one of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…great houses but following some terrible news he decides upon a new path instead. [[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) by Christopher Ruocchio|amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk>Full Review]]}}{{newreview<!-- Reynolds -->|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies-|titlestyle=Doctor Who"width: 10%; vertical-align: Now We Are Six Hundredtop; text-align: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)center;"||rating[[image:Reynolds_Fire.jpg|left|link=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/0575090588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Children's Rhymes and Verse "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=Consider the Doctor==[[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds]]=== [[image:5star. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each yearjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], were he [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] What happens when Utopia is achieved? When everyone is linked neurologically to keep in touch with even half everyone else and people vote on each minor decision so every aspect of his companionslife is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of themExcept people are dying, saymelting to be precise, for exampleand no one knows how, or why, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of or who could be next. In such a Time Lord circumstance who can be trusted to solve this crime and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has do so without spreading panic? What if the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would only people who can be to pop along to his local Earthtrusted have already let you down once before? [[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds|Full Review]] <!-- Quine -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-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 samealign: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Quine Beasts.jpg|amazonukleft|link=<amazonuk>1785942719<http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0992754941/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Andy Weir"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= Artemis|rating= 3=[[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine]]=== [[image:3.55star.jpg|genrelink= Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to ArtemisScience Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Meet Jaymi. He's a world-class video games designer, and fresh to a new mansion in the first city Hollywood Hills on the moonbasis of some recent success. A powerhouse for But he's seen the rich future and a once in a lifetime trip for earth touristshe doesn't like it. His current employers, able to bring any amount of class, skill and also a place a small community culture to the world of citizens call homegameplay, are beset on appealing to the most lunkheaded and lowest common denominators instead. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged sixIndeed, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be a massively disturbing environment, it's where people progress through the world of the only place sheentity by spreading fake news about anyone and everyone else on the planet, whether they's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishing. In factre playing along or not, the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is and by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a waste of talentuser-accepted, algorithm-designed, status quo. Jazz lives in the low end of townWith a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, sleeping on and sets up a bunk, using way of restoring the balance with a shared bathroomlaunch of his own, which is all she can afford through her job where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the game. He sees this as a porter. However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich way to improve society and to this endget his own back – but the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded background, she has set up a side business and become fully playable characters in reality… [[The Beasts 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 refuseElectra Drive by Rohan Quine|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will. What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to do.jpg|left|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>0091956943<https://amazonuk>}}www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]] {{newreview|authorstyle= Wes Stuart"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= My Name is Sam|rating= 4=[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]===|genre= Science Fiction[[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=Who is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts SamCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, the champion of the Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbusa galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, and the main character in this story. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of who he ismachinations most foul, yet he possesses extraordinary abilitiesrulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. He is also Earth You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''s , but here at last hope for salvation from we get the Gibbus whoactual script, in seven dayscomplete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, will destroy and people keeping it in the planet and everyone on family til ithurts. This is not And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his choice however: that is the decision audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the alien Sereia, his mentors and guides, as he series is forced to confront so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be saved, but are too weak to challenge over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Gibbus themselves. In their search for a human champion they find Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the unlikely and illSeventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Brookmyre --prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears…>|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1540504506</amazonuk>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle= C Robert Cargill"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Brookmyre_Places.jpg|title= Sea of Rustleft|ratinglink= 4https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/035650624X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=035650624X]] |genre= Science Fiction|summarystyle=Have you ever watched the ''Terminator'' movies or some similar 'Robo"vertical-align: top; text-geddon' franchise and wondered what would have happened if align: left;"|===[[Places in the robots had actually ''won?'' Well wonder no more, because ''Sea of Rust'' hinges on that exact premise; 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 where of free thinking and no major crime. Perhaps in a Space Station high above the Earth were the robots greatest minds have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace travelled so that they can build a vessel that will send the next generations of organic matter anywhere, since the robot uprising humans to populate new planets. You know that devastated as soon as you arrive it will be the planetsame old problems. Now two huge mainframes compete for world 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 You can'freebots,' and inhabit t really have a desert called the Sea of RustUtopia with people in it, where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts.you? [[Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>1473212782</amazonuk!-- Curtis -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Paul McAuley"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Curtis_Water.jpg|title= Australleft|ratinglink= 3https://www.amazon.5co.uk/gp/product/0995465754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0995465754]]  |genrestyle= Science Fiction"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= Austral has no doubts about who she is==[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]=== [[image:5star. Her birth was, as she puts it, ''a political act. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an egg. I was customised by 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 suite pregnant elephant is one of targeted genes…'' She was, as only a handful of animals living below the jargon of her world has it ''edited''waves. She isWe follow Nerissa Crane, as a resultvet, a Husky. A human modified to withstand as she remembers recent events, looks after the cold temperatures animals and falls into a world of the Antarctic continentintrigue. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans  It is difficult to survive in, but maybe not for properly review this book without giving too much longeraway. This is a world in which There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which start but I will try to avoid the ice has retreated and continues to retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments is being opened up for exploitation.main ones. [[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217318</amazonuk!-- Dick -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Geoffrey Arnold"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Hunted[[image:Dick_Electric.jpg|rating= 4left|genrelink= Science Fiction|summary=Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunthttps://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. Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the young men and women50s, a mixture of awe, desire, fear and hatebut they are more present than past. Living a very different life, Qwelby, TulliaOn the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049''s twinrelaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, is deeply shocked by Channel 4 has adapted the violence on Earthauthor's short stories for TV. As he is rescued by Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factual: his four best friends topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the Pit increasing machination of Despairsociety are all headline material in today's news. It is as if half a century after their inception, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for yearsDick's electric dreams are becoming reality. 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 [[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. Forming a connection with the twins 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. Meanwhile, on the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever interuk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-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.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|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1785891855</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreview|author=Daniel SuarezStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|title=Change AgentChildren's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=I wish I was a little bit taller]], I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wish[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. In the genetic lottery that is our lives we are given a selection from our mother Just how many birthday and our father Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to work keep in touch with. However, although they may be over six footeven half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, you could still end up being shorter. You can't currently choose what coding you getsay, but what if you could cherry pick for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the best aspects life of your family traits? It would be a great way to save people from hereditary diseaseTime Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, but would we end up with a world full of identikit humans all following he has the latest genetic fashions? In the future someone would need to be space in charge of stopping science going too farhis 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>110198466X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Baxter |title= Xeelee: Vengeance |rating= 2|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Michael PooleAnd if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, Earth's greatest living engineer, changed well my advice is pretty much the galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and easy transportation across the solar systemRussell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Mann -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mann_Ghosts. However, such a thing was created with a degree of naivety and a lack of foresight because out of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien originjpg|link=http://www.amazon. Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, it is unstoppable and unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, the vessel is unresponsive to the human life around it. It ignores hails and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it, not even the surface of the sun. All it seems to want is energy, and Earth has plenty of that to be absorbedco.uk/dp/1783294183/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217172</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Godfrey|title=Empire of Time (New Pompeii)|rating[[Ghosts of Empire by George Mann]]===5|genre=Science Fiction[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=WarningCategory: Spoilers for {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey:Category:Science Fiction|Book 1Science Fiction]] from the beginning.The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to Taking on a new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old one sounded great in theory. The practice has been going on for years now, but band of undead Mummies will take it out of the modern best of us and old worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peacea holiday may be needed. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the experiment out of curiosity If you are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress you, but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. Since he arrived, he's watched the Romans kill the inventors London is one of the machine that saved them. NickSurely, or Decimus Horatius Pullus a nice visit to give him his Roman nameEngland, is far from the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii hustle and that's not a safe position or location in which bustle of the Big Apple, will help you to liverelax.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785653156</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cixin Liu|title=The Wandering Earth|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= If anyone thought that the short story It is not as a form had been relegated if Russian Tsarists are on the loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the pages sleeping power of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think againAlbion from its slumber. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager Is it? [[Ghosts of the short form is SciEmpire by George Mann|Full Review]] <!--fi. So when you pick up a collection of SciWeir -fi shorts, you know that it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. 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The isolation and edginess of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of far-flung colonies and bullying neighbours5star. We follow our protagonists, each failures in their own careers (crisis management, space navy, politics and marines) as they become heroes.|amazonukjpg|link=<amazonuk>1785650408</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreview|author= Anne CorlettStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|title= The Space Between The Stars|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction]]|summary= Jamie Allenby wakesWelcome to Artemis, alone, and realises her fever has brokenthe first city on the moon. But could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, Jamie had left her partner Daniel, mourning A powerhouse for the miscarriage of their baby. She'd just had to get awayrich and a once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, so took and also a job on place a distant planetsmall community of citizens call home. Then the virus hitJazz Bashara is one such citizen. Jamie survived as She came to Artemis with her father aged six, it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now 's the only place she feels desperate and isolated, until 's ever known but she receives a garbled message from Earthwouldn't say she's flourishing. If someone from her past In fact, the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is still alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a way to returnwaste of talent. She meets others seeking EarthJazz lives in the low end of town, and their ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dream. But they'll clash with survivors intent sleeping on repeating humanity's past mistakesa bunk, threatening their precious fresh start. Jamie will also get using a second chance at happiness. But shared bathroom, which is all she can she escape afford through her troubled pastjob as a porter. However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and to embrace this end, she has set up a hopeful future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509833528</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elizabeth Moon|title= Cold Welcome: Vattaside business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazz's Peace|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=''I'm convinced we can survive anything'' After saving the empireregular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome reward, Admiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less than it is just too tempting to return to her home planet. But after her cousinrefuse. What Jazz doesn's request, that's exactly where Ky finds herself, enroute t know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to tie up some family businessdo. Promised a hero's welcome, Ky plans to stay as little time as possible back in the place filled with such horrible memories. But as soon as she arrives, Ky finds herself in perilous danger, caught in the middle of an assassination attempt[[Artemis by Andy Weir|Full Review]] <!-- Stuart -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stuart_Name.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. Now stranded at sea and without communication links with the outside world, Ky must use every ounce of skill she possesses to battle for survival. But with an unfamiliar crew who don't trust her, sabotaged equipment and a traitor in the midst, the odds aren't in her favouruk/dp/1540504506/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Name is Sam by Wes Stuart]]=== [[image:4star. While the survivors hunt for land, Ky's family members are doing everything possible to ensure her rescue. Old friends are called in and new alliances are made, but will it be enough? Will they get to Ky before it's too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356506282</amazonuk>jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreview|author=Sam Peters|title=From Darkest Skies|rating=4Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|genre=Science Fiction]]|summary=No one likes to see a loved one dieWho is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, but when they do we can reflect on how they lived and eventually move on with a piece the champion of them inside us. However, what would happen if we could take all the memories we have saved on Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the internet Gibbus, and combine them into the main character in this story. Sam is an Artificial Intelligence that represented them? Would this work to keep them closeunimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he is, or just give you a false facsimile that prevents you yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from moving on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214750</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=M R Carey|title=The Boy the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone on it. This is not his choice however: that is the decision of the Bridge|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's ten years since mankind was almost wiped out by a virus that turned the great majority of it into the hungries – zombies by any other name. A lonealien Sereia, his mentors and guides, heavily armoured vehicle as he is travelling from the British redoubt on the south coast the length of the Kingdom, tracing a previous expedition that failed forced to confront this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to returnbe saved, and hoping but are too weak to find evidence somewhere, somehow, of something that can either counter challenge the virus or rid the survivors of Gibbus themselves. In their enemy. As search for a result human champion they find the vehicle is divided in personnel between scientists unlikely and the militaryill-prepared young boy, and Sam – but this child is not quite as neither side he appears… [[My Name is completely cohesive it's no surprise to see the crew split along partisan lines. That's not helped Sam by one of the scientists, Samrina Khan, being heavily pregnantWes Stuart|Full Review]] <!-- Cargill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Cargill_Sea.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. But uk/dp/1473212782/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Have you ever watched the Terminator movies or some similar 'Robo-geddon' franchise and wondered what would have happened if the robots had actually won? 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[[Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill|Full Review]] <!-- McAuley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mcauley_Austral.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473217318/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Austral by Paul McAuley]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Austral has no doubts about who she's also rubbed people up by insisting on an intriguing character being on board – a teenaged savant, no less, called Stephen Greaves. But that source of the unusual is nothing perhaps to the bizarre the team will find on their explorations…is. Her birth was, as she puts it, ''a political act. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an egg. I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She was, as the jargon of her world has it ''edited''. She is, as a result, a Husky. A human modified to withstand the cold temperatures of the Antarctic continent. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive in, 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 continues to retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments is being opened up for exploitation. [[Austral by Paul McAuley|Full Review]] <!-- Arnold -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Arnold_Hunted.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785891855/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Hunted by Geoffrey Arnold]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. 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It would be a great way to save people from hereditary disease, but would we end up with a world full 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. [[Change Agent by Daniel Suarez|Full Review]] <!-- Baxter -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Baxter_Xeelee.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473217172/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Xeelee: Vengeance by Stephen Baxter]]=== [[image:2star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] 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 solar system. However, such a thing was created with a degree of naivety and a lack of foresight because out of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. 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