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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 Dragon's Harvest Lakes of Mars by Jason F BoggsMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the 'New EraAaron Sheridan doesn't want to live anymore. As His entire family is dead by his experiences led him on own hand, killed in a path of conflict and self-discoveryshuttle crash. Unable to deal with the guilt, he became signs up for the Fleet expecting a changed manfatal deployment to the Rim War, but instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, Corinth Station. Picking up 20 months after Initially, he's detached from the events brutality of ''The Devil's Dragon'', Nathan is on an expedition to uncover his instructors and the mystery Machiavellian tactics of the sungatesother students there, when but after he sticks up for his only friend he makes himself a terrible secret leads target of the most feared cadet on the station, Caelus Erik. Unsure of whom to horrifying discoveries for all involvedtrust and worried that anything he does will make others on his flight team targets as well, Aaron retreats deeper and deeper inside himself. MeanwhileHowever, when he discovers that officer training is not the humans and the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelsonstation's nemesisonly purpose, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore it becomes increasingly clear that risking everything is the New Era to glorysafest thing he can do. As Nelson and his friends race against the clock in order to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[The Dragon's Harvest Lakes of Mars by Jason BoggsMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders]]===
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January is a dying planet===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] If the game wasn’t fair before, it’s definitely not fair now. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin withOr 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. One half is scorching sunlightAnd because he can’t afford Revision, purehe can’t get into college. He can’t get a job. And when he sees the brilliant and mesmerizing Lena for the first time, blazing heathe knows he doesn’t have a chance with her, and totally uninhabitableeither. The other half is pure darkness Feeling thoroughly lost and iceexasperated, where Dorian robs a creature can freeze to death in secondshouse with his best friend, Ethan. Then they do it again. It’s thrilling and totally uninhabitableterrifying and deeply unsettling. In the middle is a brief twilight But since they take so little each time that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edgetheir targets don’t notice, stray too close they’re able to one side you diekeep at it until they have enough money saved up. Once they do their first Revision, to close to the othertheir initial choices in self-enhancement start impacting their future choices, you die which in turn impact their future Revision––on and yet the heat from the sun on in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Dorian desperately wants to slow things down and figure out the water from the ice are necessary for life. Life for the inhabitants kind of January is longperson he really wants to be, but with the police one step behind them and harda contentious relationship with his brother, Jaden, threatening to unravel everything, it’s the expedient choices that he’s finding himself more and arduous, will anything ever change? more compelled to make. [[The City In The Middle Of The Night Sunlight 24 by Charlie Jane AndersMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Apparently In the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a pejorativecomparative utopia. It was borrowed not from the high-brow musical art formYet life on Earth is about to change, but from forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the common or garden 'soap operaworst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight back. It related The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry us to a particular kind their god at the end of science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described universe. And as a ''hackytheir agents conclude schemes down on earth, grindingvast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn"to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in time. It would be fifty years later But others refuse to break before the term started to storm. As disaster looms, animosities must be re-appropriated set aside to cover – if still focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the same themes face of distant futures, military conflict, heroism and creation. Even if it means preparing for a simplistic set of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as complimentfuture this generation will never see. [[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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[[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 Vaughn -->
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===[[Rosewater Across the Void by Tade ThompsonS K Vaughn]]===
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Rosewater is a town on the edgeSea epics? So 20th century. A community formed around the edges of Try 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 futurespace epic. [[Rosewater Across the Void by Tade ThompsonS K Vaughn|Full Review]]
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===[[Summerland Exhalation by Hannu RajaniemiTed Chiang]]===
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Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of the afterlife, Over the British Empire past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has extended its reach into Summerlandpublished fifteen science fiction short stories, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in likely that you have already come across some of the heart of Summerlandwork by Ted Chiang. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing If you haven't than take this opportunity to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truthdo so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Summerland Exhalation by Hannu RajaniemiTed Chiang|Full Review]]
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Europe – 1963. The world is used A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the constant tensions between the West story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and Russia, with styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. It was then duly repeated for all the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat other films in the lives of everyday people. What they donmain Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone't know howevers buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, is that the real cold war is fought on the borders title of this world, far from prying eyes at which became public knowledge the edges of day before I write. In the light. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wronghiatus, and is forced into a tensehowever, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarova. As effort has been made to see if the threats risesame shtick works with other texts, Christopher finds himself caught and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses itiambs. Racing against the enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the haunted Hungarian borderFuture, all in search with its tales of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glass. It's a world of treacherytime travel, bullying, blood and magic. A world at war in the dark. parent/child strife like no other? [[The War in William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Dark Future! by Nick SetchfieldIan Doescher|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension A Memory Called Empire by Victor DixenArkady Martine]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Six girls, six boys. Each in The problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week commonest errors in SF writing: she tries to seduce be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to make their choices, under be complex and rich and errs on the unblinking eye side of the on-board camerasmaking them unpronounceable by most readers. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme I can see why she does both, the worldbut it's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating a disappointment because they're the blocks against which the first human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one brilliance of the chosen onesbook stumbles. She has signed up for glory. 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 regrets. [[Ascension A Memory Called Empire by Victor DixenArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) by Christopher Ruocchio]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science FictionThe Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]===
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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) by Christopher Ruocchio:Category:Science Fiction|Full ReviewScience Fiction]]
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 not at home. But Esis, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in her children and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his room, the library in which he will teach the children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with food. [[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane|Full Review]]
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What happens when Utopia is achieved? In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''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 hurtled through space-time to our earth - and a series of adventures ensued in the following books. When everyone is linked neurologically we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to everyone else life in the bush - adopted by a Bushman family and people vote on each minor decision so every aspect made part of life a tribe. Twin Qwelby however, is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything not doing so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dyingwell - shocked by the violence on the earth. Rescued by an old friend, melting he then tries to be precise, and no one knows how, or why, or who could be next. In such help a circumstance who can be trusted girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to solve this crime and do so without spreading panic? What if drive a wedge between the only people who can be trusted have already let you down once before? twins as they try to reconnect... [[Elysium Fire Betrayed by Alastair ReynoldsGeoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]
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Meet Jaymi. He's a world-class video games designer, and fresh to a new mansion in the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent success. But he's seen In the near future and he doesn't like it. His current employers, able to bring any amount of class, skill and culture to the world of gameplay, self-drive cars are beset on appealing to the most lunkheaded norm - a convenient and lowest common denominators insteadeasy way of transport. IndeedHowever, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be a massively disturbing environment, where people progress through when someone hacks into the world systems of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone and everyone else on the planeteight self-drive cars, whether they're playing along or not, and by getting kind of prestige points their passengers are set on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a userfatal collision course. As everyday commutes turn into terror-acceptedfilled journeys, algorithm-designed, status quothe public have to judge who should survive. With a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, and sets up a way of restoring the balance But with a launch every aspect of his own, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out these passangers being examined by avatars of him in the game. He sees this as a way public - will they turn out 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… be what they seem? [[The Beasts of Electra Drive Passengers by Rohan QuineJohn Marrs|Full Review]]
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===[[William Shakespeare's Beneath the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh World, A Sea by Ian DoescherChris Beckett]]===
[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]
A long time agoSouth America, 1990. Ben Ronson, in a galaxy far awayBritish police officer, there was arrives in a man called William Shakespeare, who was able mysterious forest to create investigate a series spate of dramatic histories full killings of machinations most foulDuendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, rulers most evil unleashing the subconscious and rebellious heroes exposing their innermost thoughts and heroines most sturdyfears. You may or may not have noticed Ben becomes fascinated by the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''Duendes, but here at last we get the actual scriptcloser he gets, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-the more he begins to-before droids anewunravel, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurtswith terrifying results... 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 Beneath the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh World, A Sea by Ian DoescherChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Places in the Darkness Zero Bomb by Chris BrookmyreM T Hill]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort Meet Remi. He's a fan of futuristic Utopiarunning, in a world of free thinking and no major crimeindeed has been – from the wife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. Perhaps Now working in London as a Space Station high above the Earth were the greatest minds have travelled so that they can build courier, he's taking a vessel that will send the next generations routine piece of humans samizdat literature across town when he's seemingly attacked by a driverless car. Struggling to keep to his schedule, he takes to populate new planets. You know the Tube, where mysterious people sit with him – and regale him with cryptic clues that as soon as you arrive it will be the same old problemsmention his dead child. You can Slowly, woozily, he't really have s drawn into a Utopia with people in itcompletely surreal scenario, as he tries to find out what is wanted of him, and by whom – and indeed, can you? who he himself even is. [[Places in the Darkness Zero Bomb by Chris BrookmyreM T Hill|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass The Dragon's Harvest by Abi CurtisJason F Boggs]]===
[[image:5star4star.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 Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'. As his experiences led him on a submarine path of conflict and self-discovery, he became a pregnant elephant changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's Dragon'', Nelson is one on an expedition to uncover the mystery of only the sungates, when a handful of animals living below the wavesterrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. We follow Nerissa Crane Meanwhile, a vetthe humans and the Aesini fight for their very existence, as she remembers recent eventsNelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, looks after finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the animals New Era to glory. As Nelson and falls into his friends race against the clock in order to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a world of intrigue.power beyond imagination… [[The Dragon's Harvest by Jason F Boggs|Full Review]]
It is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the start but I will try to avoid the main ones. [[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis|Full Review]] <!-- Dick Anders -->
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[[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short StoriesThe City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders]]===
Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they are more present than past[[image:3. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TV5star. Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factualjpg|link=Category: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's news. It is as if half a century after their inception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick:Category:Science Fiction|Full ReviewScience Fiction]]
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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Mann Hamilton -->
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===[[Ghosts of Empire Salvation by George MannPeter F Hamilton]]===
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Taking on a band of undead Mummies will take it out of Apparently the best of us and term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as a holiday may be neededpejorative. If you are It was borrowed not from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress youthe high-brow musical art form, but London is one of themfrom the common or garden 'soap opera'. Surely, It related to a nice visit to England, far from the hustle and bustle particular kind of science fiction which the Big Applecoiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hacky, grinding, stinking, will help you to relaxoutworn, spaceship yarn". It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on would be fifty years later before the loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring term started to be re-appropriated to raise cover – if still the sleeping power same themes of Albion from its slumberdistant futures, military conflict, heroism and a simplistic set of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as compliment. Is it? [[Ghosts of Empire Salvation by George MannPeter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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Welcome Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to Artemis, the first city on the moonproduce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. A powerhouse for the rich It centres around Rosie and a once Jules who take part in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and also a place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, it's the only place she's first ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used clinical trial that would allow them to describe Jazz is have a waste child of talent. Jazz lives in their own without the low end of town, sleeping on need for a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is all she can afford through her job as a porter. Howeverstory that shows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and to this endthe general public, she has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazz's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for when faced with a handsome reward, it is just too tempting controversial technique that could lead to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to dodemise of men. [[Artemis XX by Andy WeirAngela Chadwick|Full Review]]
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