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|author= Stephen Baxter
|title= World Engines: Destroyer
|rating= 4
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary= Hundreds of years in the future, on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from the early days of the 21st century is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accident. As he comes to terms with this new world, he begins to realise that their history does not match what he remembers - and that only he may be able to stop the coming catastrophe destined to destroy the planet. Until he meets a young woman who seems to have a drive of her own, and a plan...
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===[[The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield]]===
===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyScience Fiction|FantasyScience Fiction]] If the game wasn’t fair before, it’s definitely not fair now. Or so thinks Dorian Waters, part of the ever-expanding portion of humanity who can’t afford the nano-implant and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revision. And because he can’t afford Revision, he can’t get into college. He can’t get a job. And when he sees the brilliant and mesmerizing Lena for the first time, he knows he doesn’t have a chance with her, either. Feeling thoroughly lost and exasperated, Dorian robs a house with his best friend, Ethan. Then they do it again. It’s thrilling and terrifying and deeply unsettling. But since they take so little each time that their targets don’t notice, they’re able to keep at it until they have enough money saved up. Once they do their first Revision, their initial choices in self-enhancement start impacting their future choices, which in turn impact their future Revision––on and on in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Dorian desperately wants to slow things down and figure out the kind of person he really wants to be, but with the police one step behind them and a contentious relationship with his brother, Jaden, threatening to unravel everything, it’s the expedient choices that he’s finding himself more and more compelled to make. [[:Category:Science FictionSunlight 24 by Merritt Graves|Science FictionFull Review]]
Europe – 1963. The world is used to the constant tensions between the West and Russia, with the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat in the lives of everyday people. What they don't know however, is that the real cold war is fought on the borders of this world, far from prying eyes at the edges of the 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. As the threats rise, Christopher finds himself caught in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against the enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through to the haunted Hungarian border, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glass. It's a world of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war in the dark. [[The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield|Full Review]] <!-- Dixen Peter F Hamilton -->
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===[[Ascension Salvation Lost by Victor DixenPeter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Six girlsIn the twenty-third century, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of humanity is enjoying a single spaceshipcomparative utopia. They have six minutes each week Yet life on Earth is about to seduce and to make their choiceschange, under the unblinking eye of the on-board camerasforever. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the worldFeriton Kane's craziest speed-dating show investigative team has discovered the worst threat everto face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, aimed in order to carry us to their god at creating the first human colony end of the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on Marsearth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. LeonorSome factions push for humanity to flee, an 18 year old orphan, is one of to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen onesfew would make it out in time. She has signed up for gloryBut others refuse to break before the storm. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one-way ticketgoal: wiping this enemy from the face of creation. Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, it is too late means preparing for regretsa future this generation will never see. [[Ascension Salvation Lost by Victor DixenPeter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) Velocity Weapon by Christopher RuocchioMegan E O'Keefe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]] The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship exploding. She expected to be recovered by salvage-medics and to awaken in friendly hands, patched-up and ready to rejoin the fight. Instead she wakes up 230 years later, on a deserted enemy starship called The Light of Berossus - or, as he prefers to call himself, 'Bero'. Bero tells Sanda the war is lost. That the entire star system is dead. But is that the full story? After all, in the vastness of space, anything is possible . . . [[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe|Full Review]]
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Hadrian Marlowe sits in the distant future writing the true account of his life to add context to a tale everyone in the Empire knows already. ''Empire of Silence'' is a hero's quest but it is made clear from the start that it will not end that way. We are millennia in the future, Earth has been lost and great houses rule portions of a vast empire. Hadrian Marlowe is set to inherit one of the great houses but following some terrible news he decides upon a new path instead. [[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) by Christopher Ruocchio|Full Review]] <!-- Reynolds Vaughn -->
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===[[Elysium Fire Across the Void by Alastair ReynoldsS K Vaughn]]===
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What happens when Utopia is achievedSea epics? 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 nextSo 20th century. In such Try 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? space epic. [[Elysium Fire Across the Void by Alastair ReynoldsS K Vaughn|Full Review]]
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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive Exhalation by Rohan QuineTed Chiang]]===
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Meet Jaymi. He's a worldOver the past twenty-class video games designereight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, and fresh to these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a new mansion in science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent successwork by Ted Chiang. But he's seen the future and he doesnIf you haven'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 than take this opportunity to the most lunkheaded and lowest common denominators insteaddo so now. Indeed, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it Trust me; your imagination 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 gamegrateful. 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 Exhalation by Rohan QuineTed Chiang|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Future! by Ian Doescher]]===
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A long time ago, in a galaxy publishing house far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to create a series rewrite the story of dramatic histories full of machinations most foulStar Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, rulers most evil colliding two entirely different genres and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdystyles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. You may or may not have noticed It was then duly repeated for all the other films in the cinematic version of his original stage play main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for ''The Force Doth Awaken''Episode Nine, but here at last we get the actual scripttitle of which became public knowledge the day before I write. In the hiatus, complete however, the effort has been made to see if the same shtick works with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvreother texts, and people keeping it to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in the family til it hurtsiambs. And if you need further encouragementcould we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the Future, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts with its tales of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… time travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other? [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Future! by Ian Doescher|Full Review]]
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===[[Places in the Darkness A Memory Called Empire by Chris BrookmyreArkady Martine]]===
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Living The problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in 2017 has me longing SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to live in some sort be complex and rich and errs on the side of futuristic Utopiamaking them unpronounceable by most readers. I can see why she does both, in but it's a world of free thinking and no major crime. Perhaps in a Space Station high above the Earth were disappointment because they're the greatest minds have travelled so that they can build a vessel that will send blocks against which the next generations brilliance of humans to populate new planets. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be the same old problemsbook stumbles. You can't really have a Utopia with people in it, can you? [[Places in the Darkness A Memory Called Empire by Chris BrookmyreArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]The Rose, [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]the Night, [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fictionand the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]===
Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
It Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status. They feel that the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To that end, they have managed to find him a job tutoring the children of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in the way of expectation. Victor, the politician is difficult to properly review this book without giving too not at home. But Esis, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in her children and not much awaymore in Julian. There She directs him towards his room, the library in which he will be mild spoilers throughout this right from teach the start but I children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will try to avoid the main onesprovide him with food. [[Water & Glass The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Abi CurtisMark Lingane|Full Review]]
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Philip K DickIn an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in 's stories 'Ripped Apart'', he continues to tell the story of the Quantum twins. Born on a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were originally published hurtled through space-time to our earth - and a series of adventures ensued in the 50s, but they are more present than pastfollowing books. On the big screen When we rejoin them in ''Blade Runner 2049Betrayed'' relaunched we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in the Dickbush -inspired cult classic to reviews adopted by a Bushman family and made part of pure praise; and a tribe. Twin Qwelby however, is not doing so well - shocked by the violence on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TVearth. StartlinglyRescued by an old friend, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into he then tries to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive a wedge between the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy twins as they try to the increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's newsreconnect.. It is as if half a century after their inception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality. [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams Betrayed by Philip K DickGeoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]
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Consider In the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each yearnear future, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need self-drive cars are the norm - a few novelty gifts for some convenient and easy way of them, say, for exampletransport. However, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate when someone hacks into the life systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemiesfatal collision course. As luck would have iteveryday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice public have to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself readyjudge who should survive. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, But with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much every aspect of these passangers being examined by the same. public - will they turn out to be what they seem? [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) The Passengers by James Goss and Russell T DaviesJohn Marrs|Full Review]]
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===[[Ghosts of Empire Beneath the World, A Sea by George MannChris Beckett]]===
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Taking on South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a band of undead Mummies will take it out of the best spate of us and a holiday may be needed. If you are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress you, but London is one killings of themDuendes. SurelyThese silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a nice visit to Englandstrange psychic effect on people, far from unleashing the hustle subconscious and bustle of exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Big AppleDuendes, will help you to relax. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on but the loose with magical powers or closer he gets, the events are conspiring more he begins to raise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumberunravel, with terrifying results... Is it? [[Ghosts of Empire Beneath the World, A Sea by George MannChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Artemis Zero Bomb by Andy WeirM T Hill]]===
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Welcome to ArtemisMeet Remi. He's a fan of running, and indeed has been – from the first city on the moonwife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. A powerhouse for the rich and a once Now working in London as a lifetime trip for earth touristscourier, and also he's taking a place a small community routine piece of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, itsamizdat literature across town when he's the only place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishingseemingly attacked by a driverless car. In fact Struggling to keep to his schedule, the phrase most often used he takes to describe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives in the low end of townTube, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porterwhere mysterious people sit with him – and regale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. However Slowly, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and to this endwoozily, she has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazzhe's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for drawn into a handsome rewardcompletely surreal scenario, it is just too tempting as he tries to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know find out what is all the facts behind what she wanted of him, and by whom – and indeed, who he himself even is being asked to do. [[Artemis Zero Bomb by Andy WeirM T Hill|Full Review]]
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===[[My Name is Sam The Dragon's Harvest by Wes StuartJason F Boggs]]===
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Who is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, the champion of the Sereia Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, and fascist new world order called the main character in this story'New Era'. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and no memory of who he isself-discovery, yet he possesses extraordinary abilitiesbecame a changed man. He is also EarthPicking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus whoDragon'', in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone Nelson is on it. This is not his choice however: that is an expedition to uncover the decision mystery of the alien Sereiasungates, his mentors when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhile, the humans and guidesthe Aesini fight for their very existence, as he is forced Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to confront this hazardous taskglory. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth As Nelson and his friends race against the clock in order to be saveddefeat this new threat, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus they find themselves. In their search for facing a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears… power beyond imagination… [[My Name is Sam The Dragon's Harvest by Wes StuartJason F Boggs|Full Review]]
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===[[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? Well wonder no more, because Sea of Rust hinges on that exact premise; a world where the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of organic matter anywhere, since the robot uprising that devastated the planet. 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 'freebots,' and inhabit a desert called the Sea of Rust, where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts. [[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 City In The Middle Of The Night by Paul McAuleyCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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Austral has no doubts about who she January isa dying planet. Her birth wasIt wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, as she puts itpure, ''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 wasblazing heat, as the jargon of her world has it ''edited''and totally uninhabitable. She The other half ispure darkness and ice, as where a resultcreature can freeze to death in seconds, a Huskyand totally uninhabitable. A human modified to withstand In the cold temperatures of the Antarctic continentmiddle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Those temperatures are still hard for unLife is a knife-modified humans edge, stray too close to survive inone side you die, to close to the other, but maybe not for much longer. This is a world in which you die and yet the heat from the sun and the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which water from the ice has retreated and continues to retreat…a world in which are necessary for life. Life for the harshest inhabitants of environments January is being opened up for exploitation. long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[Austral The City In The Middle Of The Night by Paul McAuleyCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Change Agent Salvation by Daniel SuarezPeter F Hamilton]]===
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I wish I Apparently the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as a little bit tallerpejorative. It was borrowed not from the high-brow musical art form, I wish I had blue eyesbut from the common or garden 'soap opera'. It related to a particular kind of science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hacky, grinding, I wishstinking, I wishoutworn, I wishspaceship yarn". In It would be fifty years later before the genetic lottery that is our lives we are given a selection from our mother and our father term started to work with. However, although they may be over six foot, you could re-appropriated to cover – if still end up being shorter. You can't currently choose what coding you get, but what if you could cherry pick the best aspects same themes of your family traits? It would be a great way to save people from hereditary diseasedistant futures, military conflict, but would we end up with heroism and a world full simplistic set of identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashions? In the future someone would need to be in charge of stopping science going too farvalues – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as compliment. [[Change Agent Salvation by Daniel SuarezPeter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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Michael Poole, EarthAngela Chadwick's greatest living engineer, changed debut novel explores the galaxy when he opened possibility of two women being able to produce a baby girl through a worm hole process called Ovum-to allow for quick -Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and easy transportation across Jules who take part in the solar system. However, such first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a thing was created with a degree child of naivety and their own without the need for 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 unfathomablesperm donor or any other male intervention. Bent on an unknown path, the vessel What follows is unresponsive to a story that shows the human life around it. It ignores hails harshness and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it, not even the surface at times disgraceful behaviour of the sun. All it seems to want is energymedia, and Earth has plenty of the general public, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to be absorbedthe demise of men. [[Xeelee: Vengeance XX by Stephen BaxterAngela Chadwick|Full Review]]
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