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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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===[[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett]]===
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South America===[[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. Or so thinks Dorian Waters, 1990part of the ever-expanding portion of humanity who can’t afford the nano-implant and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revision. Ben RonsonAnd because he can’t afford Revision, he can’t get into college. He can’t get a British police officerjob. And when he sees the brilliant and mesmerizing Lena for the first time, arrives in he knows he doesn’t have a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendeschance with her, either. These silentFeeling thoroughly lost and exasperated, vaguely humanoid creatures - Dorian robs a house with long limbs his best friend, Ethan. Then they do it again. It’s thrilling and black button eyes 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- have a strange psychic effect on peopleenhancement start impacting their future choices, unleashing the subconscious and exposing which in turn impact their innermost thoughts future Revision––on and fearson in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Ben becomes fascinated by Dorian desperately wants to slow things down and figure out the Duendeskind of person he really wants to be, but with the closer he getspolice 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 he begins and more compelled to unravel, with terrifying results..make. [[Beneath the World, A Sea Sunlight 24 by Chris BeckettMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[Zero Bomb Salvation Lost by M T HillPeter 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:3wiping this enemy from the face of creation.5starEven 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]]
Meet Remi. He's a fan of running, and indeed has been – from the wife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. Now working in London as a courier, he's taking a routine piece of samizdat literature across town when he's seemingly attacked by a driverless car. Struggling to keep to his schedule, he takes to the Tube, where mysterious people sit with him – and regale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. Slowly, woozily, he's drawn into a completely surreal scenario, as he tries to find out what is wanted of him, and by whom – and indeed, who he himself even is. [[Zero Bomb by M T Hill|Full Review]] <!-- Jason Boggs Megan E O'Keefe -->
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===[[The DragonVelocity Weapon by Megan E O's Harvest by Jason F BoggsKeefe]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Young Nelson Jones was a young The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship exploding. She expected to be recovered by salvage-medics and gifted military cadet to awaken in friendly hands, patched-up and ready to rejoin the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'fight. As his experiences led him Instead she wakes up 230 years later, on a path deserted enemy starship called The Light of conflict and selfBerossus -discoveryor, as he became a changed manprefers to call himself, 'Bero'. Picking up 20 months after Bero tells Sanda the events of ''The Devil's Dragon'', Nelson war is on an expedition to uncover lost. That the mystery of entire star system is dead. But is that the sungates, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for full story? After all involved. Meanwhile, in the humans and the Aesini fight for their very existencevastness of space, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to gloryanything is possible . . . 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 DragonVelocity Weapon by Megan E O's Harvest by Jason F BoggsKeefe|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night Across the Void by Charlie Jane AndersS K Vaughn]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
January is a dying planetSea epics? So 20th century. 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 Try a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitablespace epic. 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 Across the Void by Charlie Jane AndersS K Vaughn|Full Review]]
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===[[Salvation Exhalation by Peter F HamiltonTed Chiang]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]]
Apparently Over the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as a pejorative. It was borrowed not from the highpast twenty-brow musical art form, but from the common or garden 'soap opera'. It related to a particular kind of eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hacky, grinding, stinkingshort stories, outworn, spaceship yarn". It would be fifty years later before the term started to be rethese magnificent stories have won twenty-appropriated to cover – seven major science fiction awards so if still the same themes of distant futures, military conflict, heroism and you are a simplistic set science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of values – more literary, more expansive worksthe work by Ted Chiang. The term is If you haven't than take this opportunity to do so now taken as compliment. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Salvation Exhalation by Peter F HamiltonTed Chiang|Full Review]]
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Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the possibility story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two women being able to produce a baby girl through entirely different genres and styles in such a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisationclever way they seemed perfectly suited. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part was then duly repeated for all the other films in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their own without the need quills ready for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows Episode Nine, the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour title of which became public knowledge the mediaday before I write. In the hiatus, however, and the general publiceffort has been made to see if the same shtick works with other texts, when faced with a controversial technique that and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. And could lead we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the demise Future, with its tales of men. time travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other? [[XX William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Angela ChadwickIan Doescher|Full Review]]
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===[[Rosewater A Memory Called Empire by Tade ThompsonArkady Martine]]===
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Rosewater The problem with Martine's fiction debut is a town that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and errs on the edgeside of making them unpronounceable by most readers. A community formed around the edges of I can see why she does both, but it's a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and disappointment because they're the helpless - people eager for a glimpse inside blocks against which the dome or a taste brilliance 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 futurebook stumbles. [[Rosewater A Memory Called Empire by Tade ThompsonArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]The Rose, [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]the Night, [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormaland the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]===
Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi:Category:Science Fiction|Full ReviewScience Fiction]]
<!Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-- Setchfield -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785657097student 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.jpg|link=http://wwwBut Esis, his wife, is.amazonA beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in her children and not much more in Julian.coShe directs him towards his room, the library in which he will teach the children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with food.uk/dp/1785657097/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21 [[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane|Full Review]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] 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 Arnold -->
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Six girlsIn an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart'', six boys. Each in he continues to tell the two separate bays story of the Quantum twins. Born on a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time to seduce our earth - and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye a series of adventures ensued in the on-board camerasfollowing books. They are the contenders When we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in the Genesis programmebush - adopted by a Bushman family and made part of a tribe. Twin Qwelby however, the world's craziest speedis not doing so well -dating show ever, aimed at creating shocked by the first human colony violence on Marsthe earth. Leonor, Rescued by an 18 year old orphanfriend, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for he then tries to help a onegirl called Xaala -way ticket. Even if but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive a wedge between the dream turns twins as they try to a nightmare, it is too late for regretsreconnect... [[Ascension Betrayed by Victor DixenGeoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]
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Hadrian Marlowe sits in In the distant near future writing , self-drive cars are the true account of his life to add context to norm - a tale everyone in the Empire knows already. ''Empire convenient and easy way of Silence'' is a hero's quest but it is made clear from the start that it will not end that waytransport. We are millennia in However, when someone hacks into the futuresystems of eight self-drive cars, Earth has been lost and great houses rule portions of their passengers are set on a vast empirefatal collision course. Hadrian Marlowe is set As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, the public have to inherit one judge who should survive. But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by the great houses but following some terrible news he decides upon a new path instead. public - will they turn out to be what they seem? [[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) The Passengers by Christopher RuocchioJohn Marrs|Full Review]]
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===[[Elysium Fire Beneath the World, A Sea by Alastair ReynoldsChris Beckett]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
What happens when Utopia is achieved? When everyone is linked neurologically South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to everyone else investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and people vote black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect 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 preciseunleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, and no one knows howbut the closer he gets, or whythe more he begins to unravel, or who could be nextwith terrifying results... 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 already let you down once before? [[Elysium Fire Beneath the World, A Sea by Alastair ReynoldsChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive Zero Bomb by Rohan QuineM T Hill]]===
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Meet JaymiRemi. He's a world-class video games designerfan of running, and fresh to a new mansion in indeed has been – from the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent successwife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. But Now working in London as a courier, he's seen the future and taking a routine piece of samizdat literature across town when he doesn't like its seemingly attacked by a driverless car. His current employers, able Struggling to bring any amount of class, skill and culture keep to the world of gameplayhis schedule, are beset on appealing he takes to the most lunkheaded and lowest common denominators instead. Indeed, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be a massively disturbing environmentTube, where mysterious people progress through the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone sit with him – 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 quoregale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. With a much more Reithian approach Slowly, Jaymi goes freelancewoozily, and sets up a way of restoring the balance with he's drawn into a launch of his owncompletely surreal scenario, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played as he tries to find out by avatars what is wanted of him in the game. He sees this as a way to improve society , and get his own back by whom – but the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded backgroundand indeed, and become fully playable characters in reality… who he himself even is. [[The Beasts of Electra Drive Zero Bomb by Rohan QuineM T Hill|Full Review]]
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===[[William ShakespeareThe Dragon's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Harvest by Ian DoescherJason F Boggs]]===
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there Young Nelson Jones was a man young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called William Shakespeare, who was able to create the 'New Era'. As his experiences led him on a series path of dramatic histories full of machinations most foulconflict and self-discovery, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdyhe became a changed man. You may or may not have noticed Picking up 20 months after the cinematic version events of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth AwakenDevil's Dragon'', but here at last we get Nelson is on an expedition to uncover the actual scriptmystery of the sungates, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-when a terrible secret leads to-before droids anewhorrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhile, the humans and the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelson's nemesis, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvreMajor Ira Billis, and people keeping it finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the family til it hurtsNew Era to glory. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget As Nelson and his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here friends race against the series is so popular we're on clock in order to part seven – surely making defeat this over twice as good… new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[William ShakespeareThe Dragon's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Harvest by Ian DoescherJason F Boggs|Full Review]]
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===[[Places in the Darkness The City In The Middle Of The Night by Chris BrookmyreCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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Living in 2017 has me longing 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 live death in some sort of futuristic Utopiaseconds, in a world of free thinking and no major crimetotally uninhabitable. Perhaps in In the middle is a Space Station high above the Earth were the greatest minds have travelled so brief twilight that they can build is barely survivable. Life is a vessel that will send knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the next generations of humans to populate new planets. You know that as soon as other, you arrive it will be die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the same old problemsice are necessary for life. You can't really have a Utopia with people in itLife for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, can youwill anything ever change? [[Places in the Darkness The City In The Middle Of The Night by Chris BrookmyreCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass Salvation by Abi CurtisPeter F Hamilton]]===
[[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 happenedApparently the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as a pejorative. It was borrowed not from the high-brow musical art form, something very nasty and on but from the common or garden 'soap opera'. It related to a submarine a pregnant elephant is particular kind of science fiction which the coiner (one of only Wilson Tucker) described as a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane''hacky, grinding, a vetstinking, as she remembers recent eventsoutworn, looks after spaceship yarn". It would be fifty years later before the term started to be re-appropriated to cover – if still the animals same themes of distant futures, military conflict, heroism and falls into a world simplistic set of intriguevalues – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as compliment.[[Salvation by Peter F Hamilton|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 Chadwick -->
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===[[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick]]===
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Philip K DickAngela Chadwick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they are more present than past. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched debut novel explores the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews possibility of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TV. Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy two women being able to the increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's news. It is as if half produce a baby girl through a century after their inception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality. [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick|Full Review]] <!process called Ovum-to- Goss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600Ovum fertilisation.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.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 It centres around Rosie 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 Jules who take part in the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half a child of his companions? He would certainly their own without the need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse story that pithily encapsulate shows the life of a Time Lord harshness and that of some at times disgraceful behaviour 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 – sorrymedia, 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 timescalethe general public, when faced with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much controversial technique that could lead to the samedemise of men. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) XX by James Goss and Russell T DaviesAngela Chadwick|Full Review]]
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