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 {{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Setchfield -->|title=Zenith -|ratingstyle=3"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre=Teens[[image:1785657097.jpg|summarylink=The Bloody Baroness is the captain of the starship Maurader, and she and her all-female crew wreak havoc wherever they go across the galaxyhttp://www.amazon. On board, however, the bloody baroness is just Andi, the misfit crew's friend and protectorco. One day they are captured, something that just never happens to them, and they find themselves facing up to their past lives, that they have been trying so hard to run away fromuk/dp/1785657097/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield]]=== [[image:4.5star. 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Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dying, melting to be precise, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdyno one knows how, or why, or who could be next. You may or may not 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 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 annoyingalready let you down once before? [[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds|Full Review]] <!-in-differentQuine -ways-to>|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurtsalign: center;"|[[image:Quine Beasts. 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And if you're working by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a shorter timescaleuser-accepted, algorithm-designed, with status quo. With a shorter lifespanmuch more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, and thinking perhaps just one gift season aheadsets up a way of restoring the balance with a launch of his own, well my advice is pretty much where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the samegame.|amazonuk=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]] <amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Andy Weir"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Artemis|rating= 3[[image:Doescher_Will.5jpg|genre= Science Fictionleft|summarylink=Welcome to Artemis, the first city on the moonhttps://www.amazon. A powerhouse for the rich and a once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and also a place a small community of citizens call homeco. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, it's the only place she's ever known but she wouldn't say sheuk/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 flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is a waste of talentForce Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star. Jazz lives in the low end of town, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroomjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], which is all she can afford through her job as [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a porter. Howeverman called William Shakespeare, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and who was able to this end, she has set up create a side business series of illegal smuggling activity. When one dramatic histories full of Jazz's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome rewardmachinations most foul, it is just too tempting to refuserulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. What Jazz doesn You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''t know is all the facts behind what she is being asked The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956943</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Wes Stuart|title= My Name is Sam|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Who -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 real enemy? This is Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the question which confronts Sam, the champion of the Sereia in their cosmosSeventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Brookmyre -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-spanning war with the Gibbus, and the main character in this story. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilitiesalign: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Brookmyre_Places. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone on itjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. This is not his choice however: that is the decision of 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 alien Sereia, his mentors and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous taskDarkness by Chris Brookmyre]]=== [[image:4star. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Living in 2017 has me longing to be savedlive in some sort of futuristic Utopia, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselvesin a world of free thinking and no major crime. In their search for Perhaps in a human champion Space Station high above the Earth were the greatest minds have travelled so that they find can build a vessel that will send the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite next generations of humans to populate new planets. You know that as soon as he appears…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1540504506</amazonuk>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]]}}{{newreview<!-- Curtis -->|author= C Robert Cargill-|titlestyle= Sea of Rust"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating= 4[[image:Curtis_Water.5jpg|genre= Science Fictionleft|summarylink=Have you ever watched the ''Terminator'' movies or some similar 'Robohttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0995465754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-geddon' franchise and wondered what would have happened if the robots had actually ''won?'' Well wonder no more, because ''Sea of Rust'' hinges on that exact premise21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0995465754]]  | style="vertical-align: top; a world where the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remainstext-align: left; there is no trace of organic matter anywhere, since the robot uprising that devastated the planet"|===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]=== [[image:5star. Now two huge mainframes compete for world dominationjpg|link=Category: 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{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]],' and inhabit a desert called the Sea of Rust[[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], where they do what they can to survive[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Something has happened, including cannibalising other bots for spare partssomething 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473212782</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul McAuley|title= AustralIt 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]] <!-- Dick -->|rating= 3.5-|genrestyle= Science Fiction"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dick_Electric.jpg|summaryleft|link= Austral has no doubts about who she ishttps://www. Her birth was, as she puts it, ''a political actamazon. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an eggco. I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She was, as the jargon of her world has it uk/gp/product/1473223288?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473223288]] ===[[Philip K Dick''edited''. She is, as a result, a Huskys Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick]]===  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|[[image:3star. A human modified to withstand the cold temperatures of the Antarctic continent. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive injpg|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 maybe not for much longerthey are more present than past. This is a world in which On the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the ice has retreated and continues Dick-inspired cult classic to retreat…a world in which the harshest reviews of environments is being opened up pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for exploitationTV.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217318</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geoffrey Arnold|title= Hunted|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Tullia learns about survival in Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the bush when she increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's news. It is taken hostage and later saves as if half a youthcentury after their inception, Dick's life during a huntelectric dreams are becoming reality. Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the young men and women, a mixture of awe, desire, fear and hate[[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. Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earthjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. As he is rescued by his four best friends from the Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he 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 Tullia seek to restore their telepathic Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link. Forming a connection with the twins during the attack=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. MeanwhileChristmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, on the planet Vertazia and were he to keep in secret, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a short test runfew novelty gifts for some of them, say, the village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watchedfor example, he flees from whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the villagelife of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785891855</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Suarez|title=Change Agent|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=I wish I was a little bit tallerAs luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, I wish I had blue eyesher – 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, I wishwith a shorter lifespan, I wish, I wish. In and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the genetic lottery that is our lives we are given a selection from our mother and our father to work withsame. However, although they may be over six foot, you could still end up being shorter. You can't currently choose what coding you get, but what if you could cherry pick the best aspects of your family traits[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Mann -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mann_Ghosts.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783294183/ref=nosim? 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HoweverIf you are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress you, such a thing was created with a degree but London is one of naivety and them. Surely, a lack of foresight because out nice visit to England, far from the hustle and bustle of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien originBig Apple, will help you to relax. Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, it It is unstoppable and unfathomable. Bent not as if Russian Tsarists are on an unknown path, the vessel is unresponsive loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the human life around sleeping power of Albion from its slumber. Is it. It ignores hails and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it, not even the surface ? [[Ghosts of the sun. All it seems to want is energy, and Earth has plenty of that to be absorbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217172</amazonukEmpire by George Mann|Full Review]] <!-- Weir -->}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Godfrey-|titlestyle=Empire of Time (New Pompeii)"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Weir_Artemis.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0091956943/ref=nosim?tag=5thebookbag-21]] |genre=Science Fiction|summarystyle=Warning"vertical-align: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfreytop; text-align: left;"|Book 1===[[Artemis by Andy Weir]] from the beginning=== [[image:3.The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to a new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old one sounded great in theory5star. The practice has been going on for years nowjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Welcome to Artemis, but the modern and old worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within first city on the experiment out of curiosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamtmoon. Since he arrived, he's watched A powerhouse for the Romans kill the inventors rich and a once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and also a place a small community of the machine that saved themcitizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus She came to give him his Roman nameArtemis with her father aged six, is it's the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and thatplace she's ever known but she wouldn't say she's not a safe position or location in which flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used to live.|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 as describe Jazz is a form had been relegated to the pages waste of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think againtalent. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager of Jazz lives in the short form is Sci-fi. So when you pick up a collection low end of Sci-fi shortstown, you know that it will have just sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as much depth a porter. However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. Add to that the intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – this end, she has set up a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much side business of the rest illegal smuggling activity. When one of the planet…and add Jazz's regular clients wants her to that an author who step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome reward, it is not only a best-seller in his home country but has the distinction of having produced the first translated work of SF ever just too tempting to win refuse. What Jazz doesn't know is all the Hugo Award…this has got facts behind what she is being asked to be gooddo. [[Artemis by Andy Weir|Full Review]] <!-- Stuart -->|amazonuk-| style=<amazonuk>1784978493<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stuart_Name.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1540504506/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Jack Campbell"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title===[[My Name is Sam by Wes Stuart]]== The Genesis Fleet: Vanguard|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=The human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Who is the stars it takes with it both real enemy? This is the best and the worst examples question which confronts Sam, the champion of itself. The isolation the Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, and edginess of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi the main character in this tale of far-flung colonies and bullying neighboursstory. We follow our protagonists, each failures in their own careers (crisis managementSam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he is, space navy, politics and marines) as they become heroesyet he possesses extraordinary abilities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650408</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anne Corlett|title= The Space Between The Stars|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Jamie Allenby wakesHe is also Earth's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus who, alonein seven days, and realises her fever has brokenwill destroy the planet and everyone on it. But could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, Jamie had left her partner Daniel, mourning This is not his choice however: that is the miscarriage decision of their baby. She'd just had to get awaythe alien Sereia, so took a job on a distant planet. Then the virus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate his mentors and isolatedguides, until she receives a garbled message from Earthas he is forced to confront this hazardous task. If someone from her past is still alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a way They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to return. She meets others seeking Earthbe saved, and their ill-matched group will travel across space but are too weak to achieve challenge the Gibbus themselves. In their dream. But search for a human champion they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanity's past mistakesfind the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, threatening their precious fresh start. Jamie will also get a second chance at happiness. But can she escape her troubled past, to embrace a hopeful future?Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears… [[My Name is Sam by Wes Stuart|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509833528</amazonuk!-- Cargill -->}}{{newreview|-|author= Elizabeth Moonstyle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Cargill_Sea.jpg|titlelink= Cold Welcomehttp: Vatta's Peace//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473212782/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle= 4.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre= Science Fiction==[[Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=''I'm convinced we can survive anything''Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] After saving Have you ever watched the empire, Admiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less than to return to her home planet. But after her cousinTerminator movies or some similar 'Robo-geddon's requestfranchise and wondered what would have happened if the robots had actually won? Well wonder no more, because Sea of Rust hinges on that's exactly where Ky finds herself, enroute to tie up some family business. Promised exact premise; a hero's welcome, Ky plans to stay as little time as possible back in world where the place filled with such horrible memoriesrobots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. But as soon as she arrivesOnly artificial life remains; there is no trace of organic matter anywhere, Ky finds herself in perilous danger, caught in since the robot uprising that devastated the middle of an assassination attemptplanet. Now stranded at sea two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS and without communication links with the outside world, Ky must use every ounce of skill she possesses to battle for survivalVIRGIL. They capture robots and turn them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousness. But with an unfamiliar crew who donThe few remaining bots are called 't trust herfreebots, sabotaged equipment ' and inhabit a traitor in desert called the midstSea of Rust, the odds aren't in her favour. While the survivors hunt where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for land, Ky's family members are doing everything possible to ensure her rescuespare parts. Old friends [[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 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 called in and new alliances are made, but will it be enough? Will they get to Ky before it's too late?|amazonuk=<amazonukstill 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. Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the young men and women, a mixture of awe, desire, fear and 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 girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. 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 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... [[Hunted by Geoffrey Arnold|Full Review]] <!-- Suarez -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Suarez_Change.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/110198466X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Change Agent by Daniel Suarez]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wish. In the genetic lottery that is our lives we are given a selection from our mother and our father to work with. However, although they may be over six foot, you could still end up being shorter. You can't currently choose what coding you get, but what if you could cherry pick the best aspects of your family traits? 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. 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 absorbed. [[Xeelee: Vengeance by Stephen Baxter|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->0356506282</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sam Peters|title=From Darkest Skies|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=No one likes to see a loved one die, but when they do we can reflect on how they lived and eventually move on with a piece of them inside us. However, what would happen if we could take all the memories we have saved on the internet and combine them into an Artificial Intelligence that represented them? Would this work to keep them close, or just give you a false facsimile that prevents you from moving on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214750</amazonuk>}}