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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 City In The Middle Of The Night Lakes of Mars by Charlie Jane AndersMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Aaron Sheridan doesn't want to live anymore. His entire family is dead by his own hand, killed in a shuttle crash. Unable to deal with the guilt, he signs up for the Fleet expecting a fatal deployment to the Rim War, but instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, Corinth Station. Initially, he's detached from the brutality of his instructors and the Machiavellian tactics of the other students there, but after he sticks up for his only friend he makes himself a target of the most feared cadet on the station, Caelus Erik. Unsure of whom to trust and worried that anything he does will make others on his flight team targets as well, Aaron retreats deeper and deeper inside himself. However, when he discovers that officer training is not the station's only purpose, it becomes increasingly clear that risking everything is the safest thing he can do. [[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] January is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders|Full Review]] <!-- Hamilton Merritt Graves -->
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===[[Salvation by Peter F Hamilton]]===
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Apparently the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as a pejorative. It was borrowed not from the high-brow musical art form, but 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, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn". It would be fifty years later before the term started to be re-appropriated to cover – if still the same themes of distant futures, military conflict, heroism and a simplistic set of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as compliment. [[Salvation by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]===
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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. [[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]
| style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[XX by Angela Chadwick]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of their own without the need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, and the general public, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to the demise of men. [[XX by Angela Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- Thompson Peter F Hamilton -->
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===[[Rosewater Salvation Lost by Tade ThompsonPeter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]]
[[imageIn the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry us to their god at the end of the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in time. But others refuse to break before the storm. As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal:5starwiping this enemy from the face of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never see.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionSalvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Science FictionFull Review]]
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless - people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumoured healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn't care to again - but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realisation about a horrifying future. [[Rosewater by Tade Thompson|Full Review]] <!-- Rajaniemi Megan E O'Keefe -->
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===[[Summerland Velocity Weapon by Hannu RajaniemiMegan E O'Keefe]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Imagine a world in which death was no longer something The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship exploding. She expected to fear but something be recovered by salvage-medics and to aspire awaken in friendly hands, patched-up and ready torejoin the fight. After discovery Instead she wakes up 230 years later, on a deserted enemy starship called The Light of the afterlifeBerossus - or, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerlandas he prefers to call himself, 'Bero'. Bero tells Sanda the Big Smoke for war is lost. That the recently deceasedentire star system is dead. In 1938 But is that the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep full story? After all, in the heart vastness of Summerland. When Rachel Whitespace, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she anything is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truthpossible . . . [[Summerland Velocity Weapon by Hannu RajaniemiMegan E O'Keefe|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in Across the Dark Void by Nick SetchfieldS K Vaughn]]===
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Europe – 1963Sea epics? So 20th century. 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 Try 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 darkspace epic. [[The War in Across the Dark Void by Nick SetchfieldS K Vaughn|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension Exhalation by Victor DixenTed Chiang]]===
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Six girlsOver the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They these magnificent stories have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the onwon twenty-board cameras. They seven major science fiction awards so if you are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, a science fiction fan it is one likely that you have already come across some of the chosen oneswork by Ted Chiang. She has signed up for gloryIf you haven't than take this opportunity to do so now. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, it is too late for regretsTrust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Ascension Exhalation by Victor DixenTed Chiang|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Christopher RuocchioIan Doescher]]=== [[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[[image:4. ''Empire of Silence'' is a hero's quest but it is made clear from the start that it will not end that way5star. We are millennia in the futurejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], 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:Category:Science Fiction|Full ReviewScience Fiction]]
A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. It was then duly repeated for all the other films in the main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge the day before I write. In the hiatus, however, the effort has been made to see if the same shtick works with other texts, and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the Future, with its tales of time travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other? [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Full Review]]
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===[[Elysium Fire A Memory Called Empire by Alastair ReynoldsArkady Martine]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
What happens when Utopia The problem with Martine's fiction debut is achieved? When everyone is linked neurologically that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to everyone else be complex and rich and people vote errs on each minor decision so every aspect the side of life is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything so what making them unpronounceable by most readers. I can possibly go wrong? Except people are dying, melting to be precise, and no one knows how, or see whyshe does both, or who could be next. In such but it's a circumstance who can be trusted to solve this crime and do so without spreading panic? What if disappointment because they're the blocks against which the brilliance of the only people who can be trusted have already let you down once before? book stumbles. [[Elysium Fire A Memory Called Empire by Alastair ReynoldsArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine]]===
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Meet Jaymi. HeJulian's a worldfamily are getting pretty fed up with his perma-class video games designer, and fresh to a new mansion in student status. They feel that the Hollywood Hills on the basis of maths PHD candidate should start earning some recent successmoney. But he's seen the future and he doesn't like it. His current employersTo that end, able to bring any amount of class, skill and culture they have managed to find him a job tutoring the world children of gameplay, are beset on appealing to the most lunkheaded and lowest common denominators insteada highly regarded politician. Indeed, Julian bowls up at their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be a massively disturbing environmentstrange, where people progress through austere mansion with little in the world way of expectation. Victor, the entity by spreading fake news about anyone and everyone else on the planet, whether they're playing along or politician is notat home. But Esis, and by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a user-acceptedhis wife, algorithm-designedis. A beautiful but isolated woman, status quo. With a Esis shows little interest in her children and not much more Reithian approachin Julian. She directs him towards his room, Jaymi goes freelancethe library in which he will teach the children, and sets up a way of restoring the balance with a launch of his ownkitchen, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of whose chefbot will provide him in the gamewith food. He sees this as a way to improve society and get his own back – but [[The Rose, the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded backgroundNight, and become fully playable characters in reality… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive the Mirror by Rohan QuineMark Lingane|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Betrayed by Ian DoescherGeoffrey Arnold]]===
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A long time ago, In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in a galaxy far away''Ripped Apart'', there was he continues to tell the story of the Quantum twins. Born on a man called William Shakespeareparallel world, who was able these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time to create our earth - and a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdyadventures ensued in the following books. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for When we rejoin them in ''The Force Doth AwakenBetrayed'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-find Tullia struggling to adapt to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it life in the bush - adopted by a Bushman family til it hurtsand made part of a tribe. And if you need further encouragementTwin Qwelby however, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is not doing so popular we're well - shocked by the violence on the earth. Rescued by an old friend, he then tries to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to part seven – surely making this over twice drive a wedge between the twins as good… they try to reconnect... [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Betrayed by Ian DoescherGeoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]
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Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort of futuristic UtopiaIn the near future, in self-drive cars are the norm - a world convenient and easy way of free thinking and no major crimetransport. Perhaps in However, when someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a Space Station high above the Earth were fatal collision course. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, the greatest minds public have travelled so that they can build a vessel that will send the next generations of humans to populate new planetsjudge who should survive. You know that as soon as you arrive it But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by the public - will they turn out to be the same old problems. You can't really have a Utopia with people in it, can youwhat they seem? [[Places in the Darkness The Passengers by Chris BrookmyreJohn Marrs|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass Beneath the World, A Sea by Abi CurtisChris Beckett]]===
[[image:3.5star.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 waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue.
It is difficult South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to properly review this book without giving too much awayinvestigate a spate of killings of Duendes. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the start subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but I will try the closer he gets, the more he begins to avoid the main onesunravel, with terrifying results... [[Water & Glass Beneath the World, A Sea by Abi CurtisChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick]]===
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Philip K DickMeet Remi. He's stories were originally published in a fan of running, and indeed has been – from the 50s, but wife and life he abandoned when they are more present than pastburied their seven year old daughter. On the big screen Now working in London as a courier, he's taking a routine piece of samizdat literature across town when he'Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic s seemingly attacked by a driverless car. Struggling to keep to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screenshis schedule, Channel 4 has adapted he takes to the author's short stories for TVTube, where mysterious people sit with him – and regale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. Startlingly Slowly, Dickwoozily, he's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and drawn into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy a completely surreal scenario, as he tries to the increasing machination find out what is wanted of society are all headline material in today's news. It him, and by whom – and indeed, who he himself even is as if half a century after their inception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality. [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams Zero Bomb by Philip K DickM T Hill|Full Review]]
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===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) The Dragon's Harvest by James Goss and Russell T DaviesJason F Boggs]]===
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Consider Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the Doctor'New Era'. Just how many birthday As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and Christmas gifts must self-discovery, he have to hand out each yearbecame a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's Dragon'', were he Nelson is on an expedition to keep in touch with even half uncover the mystery of his companions? He would certainly need the sungates, when a few novelty gifts terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhile, the humans and the Aesini fight for some of themtheir very existence, sayas Nelson's nemesis, for exampleMajor Ira Billis, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the life of a Time Lord New Era to glory. As Nelson and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has race against the space in his TARDIS to stock up clock in advance, so my advice order to him – sorrydefeat this new threat, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on they find themselves facing a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. power beyond imagination… [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) The Dragon's Harvest by James Goss and Russell T DaviesJason F Boggs|Full Review]]
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===[[Ghosts of Empire The City In The Middle Of The Night by George MannCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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Taking on January is a band of undead Mummies will take it out of the best of us dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and a holiday may be neededtotally uninhabitable. If you are from New York there are not many The other cities worldwide that could impress you, but London half is one of them. Surelypure darkness and ice, where a nice visit creature can freeze to Englanddeath in seconds, far from the hustle and bustle of totally uninhabitable. In the Big Applemiddle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, will help stray too close to one side you die, to close to relax. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the loose with magical powers or other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the events ice are conspiring to raise necessary for life. Life for the sleeping power inhabitants of Albion from its slumber. Is itJanuary is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[Ghosts of Empire The City In The Middle Of The Night by George MannCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Artemis Salvation by Andy WeirPeter F Hamilton]]===
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Welcome to Artemis, Apparently the first city on the moon. A powerhouse for the rich and a once term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and also a place a small community of citizens call homepejorative. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six It was borrowed not from the high-brow musical art form, it's but from the only place she's ever known but she wouldncommon or garden 't say shesoap opera's flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used It related to describe Jazz is a waste particular kind of talent. Jazz lives in science fiction which the low end of town, sleeping on coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a bunk''hacky, using a shared bathroomgrinding, which is all she can afford through her job as a porter. Howeverstinking, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and to this endoutworn, she has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activityspaceship yarn". When one of Jazz's regular clients wants her It would be fifty years later before the term started to step up from petty criminal be re-appropriated to major criminal for cover – if still the same themes of distant futures, military conflict, heroism and a handsome rewardsimplistic set of values – more literary, it is just too tempting to refusemore expansive works. What Jazz doesn't know The term is all the facts behind what she is being asked to donow taken as compliment. [[Artemis Salvation by Andy WeirPeter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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Who is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the champion possibility of the Sereia in their cosmostwo women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-spanning war with the Gibbus, and the main character in this storyOvum fertilisation. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past It centres around Rosie and no memory of Jules who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from take part in the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of their own without the planet and everyone on itneed for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. This What follows is not his choice however: a story that is shows the decision harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the alien Sereiamedia, his mentors and guidesthe general public, as he is forced to confront this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to be saved, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselvesdemise of men. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears… [[My Name is Sam XX by Wes StuartAngela Chadwick|Full Review]]
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