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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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===[[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnold]]===
 
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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 we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in the bush - adopted by a Bushman family and made part of a tribe. Twin Qwelby however, is not doing so 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 drive a wedge between the twins as they try to reconnect... [[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]
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In the near future, self-drive cars are the norm - a convenient and easy way of transport. However, when someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a fatal collision course. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, the public have to judge who should survive. But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by the public - will they turn out to be what they seem? [[The Passengers by John Marrs|Full Review]] <!-- Beckett Merritt Graves -->
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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:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Meet RemiIn the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change, forever. HeFeriton Kane's a fan of running, and indeed investigative team has been discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind from the wife and life he abandoned when they buried we've almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry us to their seven year old daughtergod at the end of the universe. Now working in London And as a couriertheir agents conclude schemes down on earth, he's taking a routine piece of samizdat literature across town when he's seemingly attacked by a driverless carvast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Struggling to keep Some factions push for humanity to his scheduleflee, he takes to live in hiding amongst the Tube, where mysterious people sit with him stars and regale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead childalthough only a chosen few would make it out in time. But others refuse to break before the storm. Slowly, woozilyAs disaster looms, he's drawn into a completely surreal scenario, as he tries animosities must be set aside to find out what is wanted focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face of him, and by whom – and indeed, who he himself even iscreation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never see. [[Zero Bomb Salvation Lost by M T HillPeter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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===[[The DragonVelocity Weapon by Megan E O's Harvest by Jason F BoggsKeefe]]=== [[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:4star.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 Era'. As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and self-discovery, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's Dragon'', Nelson is on an expedition to uncover the mystery of the sungates, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhile, the humans and the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to glory. 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 by Jason F Boggs|Full Review]] <!-- Anders Vaughn -->
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night Across the Void by Charlie Jane AndersS K Vaughn]]===
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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]]===
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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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===[[XX William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Angela ChadwickIan Doescher]]===
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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]]===
===[[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]=== [[image:4star.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 to fear but something to aspire toJulian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status. After discovery of They feel that the afterlifemaths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To that end, they have managed to find him a job tutoring the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerlandchildren of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in the Big Smoke for way of expectation. Victor, the recently deceasedpolitician is not at home. In 1938 the British Empire But Esis, his wife, is caught up . A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in a race against Soviet spies her children and dealing with a mole buried deep not much more in the heart of SummerlandJulian. When Rachel WhiteShe directs him towards his room, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agentlibrary in which he will teach the children, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truthkitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with food. [[Summerland The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Hannu RajaniemiMark Lingane|Full Review]]
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[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Europe – 1963. The world is used In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart'', he continues to tell the constant tensions between story of the West and RussiaQuantum 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 Cold War a seemingly never ending threat following books. When we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in the lives bush - adopted by a Bushman family and made part of everyday peoplea tribe. What they don't know Twin Qwelby however, is that not doing so well - shocked by the real cold war is fought violence on the borders of this world, far from prying eyes at the edges of the lightearth. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when Rescued by an assassination attempt goes horribly wrongold friend, and is forced into he then tries to help a tense, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarova. As the threats rise, Christopher finds himself caught in girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against wedge between the enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through twins as they try to the haunted Hungarian border, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glassreconnect. It's a world of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war in the dark. [[The War in the Dark Betrayed by Nick SetchfieldGeoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]
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Six girlsIn the near future, six boys. Each in self-drive cars are the two separate bays norm - a convenient and easy way of a single spaceshiptransport. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choicesHowever, under when someone hacks into the unblinking eye systems of the eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on-board camerasa fatal collision course. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world's craziest speedAs everyday commutes turn into terror-dating show everfilled journeys, aimed at creating the first human colony on Marspublic have to judge who should survive. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a onepublic -way ticket. Even if the dream turns will they turn out to a nightmare, it is too late for regrets. be what they seem? [[Ascension The Passengers by Victor DixenJohn Marrs|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) Beneath the World, A Sea by Christopher RuocchioChris Beckett]]===
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Hadrian Marlowe sits South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in the distant future writing the true account of his life to add context a mysterious forest to investigate a tale everyone in the Empire knows already. ''Empire spate of killings of Silence'' is a hero's quest but it is made clear from the start that it will not end that wayDuendes. We are millennia in the futureThese silent, Earth has been lost vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and great houses rule portions of black button eyes - have a vast empirestrange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Hadrian Marlowe is set to inherit one of Ben becomes fascinated by the great houses Duendes, but following some terrible news the closer he gets, the more he decides upon a new path insteadbegins to unravel, with terrifying results... [[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) Beneath the World, A Sea by Christopher RuocchioChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Elysium Fire Zero Bomb by Alastair ReynoldsM T Hill]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
What happens Meet Remi. He's a fan of running, and indeed has been – from the wife and life he abandoned when Utopia is achieved? When everyone is linked neurologically 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 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 dyinghis schedule, melting he takes to be precisethe Tube, where mysterious people sit with him – and no one knows howregale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. Slowly, or whywoozily, or who could be next. In such he's drawn into a circumstance who can be trusted completely surreal scenario, as he tries to solve this crime find out what is wanted of him, and do so without spreading panic? What if the only people by whom – and indeed, who can be trusted have already let you down once before? he himself even is. [[Elysium Fire Zero Bomb by Alastair ReynoldsM T Hill|Full Review]]
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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive Dragon's Harvest by Rohan QuineJason F Boggs]]===
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Meet Jaymi. He's Young Nelson Jones was a world-class video games designer, young and fresh to a new mansion gifted military cadet in the Hollywood Hills on fascist new world order called the basis of some recent success. But he's seen the future and he doesnNew Era't like it. His current employers, able to bring any amount As his experiences led him on a path of classconflict and self-discovery, skill and culture to he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the world events of gameplay''The Devil's Dragon'', are beset Nelson is on appealing an expedition to uncover the mystery of the most lunkheaded and lowest common denominators instead. Indeedsungates, their next big thing will change the world when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for the worse – it will be a massively disturbing environmentall involved. Meanwhile, where people progress through the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone humans and everyone else on the planetAesini fight for their very existence, whether theyas Nelson're playing along or nots nemesis, and by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a user-acceptedMajor Ira Billis, algorithm-designed, status quo. With finds a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, and sets up terrifying new ally in a way of restoring quest to restore the balance with a launch of his own, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the gameNew Era to glory. He sees this as a way to improve society As Nelson and get his own back – but friends race against the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded backgroundclock in order to defeat this new threat, and become fully playable characters in reality… they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive Dragon's Harvest by Rohan QuineJason F Boggs|Full Review]]
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===[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh The City In The Middle Of The Night by Ian DoescherCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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A long time agoJanuary is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, in a galaxy far awayand totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, there was where a man called William Shakespeare, who was able creature can freeze to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most fouldeath in seconds, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdytotally uninhabitable. You may or may not have noticed In the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, but here at last we get the actual scriptstray too close to one side you die, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anewclose to the other, returning heroes you die and yet the heat from elsewhere in his oeuvre, the sun and people keeping it in the family til it hurtswater from the ice are necessary for life. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts Life for the inhabitants of Henry VI – here the series January is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh The City In The Middle Of The Night by Ian DoescherCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Places in the Darkness Salvation by Chris BrookmyrePeter F Hamilton]]===
[[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 of futuristic Utopia, Apparently the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as a world of free thinking and no major crimepejorative. Perhaps in a Space Station It was borrowed not from the high above -brow musical art form, but from the Earth were common or garden 'soap opera'. It related to a particular kind of science fiction which the greatest minds have travelled so that they can build coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a vessel that will send ''hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn". It would be fifty years later before the next generations of humans term started to populate new planets. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be re-appropriated to cover – if still the same old problems. You can't really have themes of distant futures, military conflict, heroism and a Utopia with people in itsimplistic set of values – more literary, can you? more expansive works. The term is now taken as compliment. [[Places in the Darkness Salvation by Chris BrookmyrePeter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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Something has happened, something very nasty and on Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a submarine baby girl through a pregnant elephant is one of only 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 handful child of animals living below their own without the wavesneed for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. We follow Nerissa Crane, What follows is a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after story that shows the animals harshness and falls into a world at times disgraceful behaviour of intrigue. 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 media, and the general public, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to avoid the main onesdemise of men. [[Water & Glass XX by Abi CurtisAngela Chadwick|Full Review]]
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