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|title=Death's End
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|summary= If I'd been paying more attention when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on the shelf. Not because I didn't want to read it, but because I'd have figured out that it was the final part of a trilogy. Coming in part way through a saga is never the easiest thing to do and it's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understand. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – his range is phenomenal. George R R Martin, who knows a thing or two about world-creation, described it as ''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, conspiracy theory and cosmology''. All of that and more.
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|author=Andy Briggs
|title=Ctrl+S
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= In the near future, life's pretty good. Climate change has been brought under control, the bee population has been brought back from near-extinction, and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker than ever before. But the biggest triumph has got to be SPACE, a simulated world that has the ability to mimic emotions as well as images. But, as with every technology, there is the potential for it to be abused. Every day, people are being kidnapped, plugged into SPACE and have their emotions and feelings harvested for the richest and sickest members of society. And now Theo's mum has gone missing. As he follows the trail left by her, he uncovers a vast conspiracy that would use any means necessary to stop him from finding out where his mum has gone...
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|author= Stephen Baxter
|title= World Engines: Destroyer
|rating= 4
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary= The last thing Colonel Reid Malenfant remembers is his Space Shuttle crashing - until he wakes up in the mid-24th Century, on an Earth massively depopulated and patiently waiting for the coming apocalypse. Suffering from severe culture shock, he tries to adjust to this new world. But all of this is changed when he receives a message from his wife Emma...who died on a mission to Phobos all the way back in 2004. As it slowly dawns on him that their timelines don't match up, he resolves to find a way to Phobos. But, this new society doesn't believe in space travel and no-one is willing to help him, until he meets a driven young woman who desperately wants to explore as much as he does...
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===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]===
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In 2031, genetic engineering and robotics is changing the world at an unprecedented rate, with a regimen known as Revision making people stronger, faster and smarter than ever before. Baseline humanity is slowly being rendered obsolete, with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by the wayside as these new superhumans dominate the workforce. Without Revision, Dorian can't go to University and can't get a job. And so begins Dorian's slow spiral of self-destruction, robbing houses with his best friend Ethan to pay for his Revision, all the time desperately trying to keep this activity secret from his family. But, with his psychopathic brother already suspicious of him and the police gaining ground, Dorian slowly begins to realise that he's going to have to risk everything to stay ahead...[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[Elysium Fire Salvation Lost by Alastair ReynoldsPeter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]]
[[image:5starHumanity is at a turning point. After Feriton Kane's investigation uncovers the supposedly benign Olyix's plan to harvest humanity in the name of their god, the entire human race prepares to fight back. But when the Olyix's harvesting ships appear and start heading towards Earth, and Olyix-derived technology begins preparing them for transportation, humanity realises that they are vastly outnumbered and outgunned. Some people to flee, taking to the stars in an effort to hide from their aggressors, even though only a small percentage of humanity would survive. But others choose to fight them head-on.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]As humanity comes face-to-face with the largest ever threat to their existence, old grudges will have to be put aside to focus on obliterating this enemy. Even if it means planning for a future than none of them will ever live to see...[[:Category:CrimeSalvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|CrimeFull Review]]
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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive Across the Void by Rohan QuineS K Vaughn]]===
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Meet JaymiSea epics? So 20th century. He's Try 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 the 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, are beset on appealing 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 environment, where people progress through the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone and everyone else on the planet, whether they're playing along or not, and by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a user-accepted, algorithm-designed, status quo. With a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, and sets up a way of restoring the balance with a launch of his own, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the gamespace epic. He sees this as a way to improve society and get his own back – but the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded background, and become fully playable characters in reality… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive Across the Void by Rohan QuineS K Vaughn|Full Review]]
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===[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Exhalation by Ian DoescherTed Chiang]]===
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A long time agoOver the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, in these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not science fiction fan it is likely that you have noticed the cinematic version already come across some of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurtswork by Ted Chiang. And if If you need further encouragement, donhaven't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is than take this opportunity to do so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Exhalation by Ian DoescherTed Chiang|Full Review]]
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Living A long time ago, in 2017 has me longing a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to live rewrite the story of Star Wars in some sort of futuristic UtopiaShakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a world of free thinking and no major crimeclever way they seemed perfectly suited. Perhaps It was then duly repeated for all the other films in a Space Station high above the Earth were 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 greatest minds have travelled so that they can build a vessel that will send hiatus, however, the next generations of humans effort has been made to populate new planets. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be see if the same old problemsshtick works with other texts, and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. You can't really And could we have a Utopia anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the Future, with people in itits tales of time travel, bullying, can youand parent/child strife like no other? [[Places in William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Darkness Future! by Chris BrookmyreIan Doescher|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass A Memory Called Empire by Abi CurtisArkady Martine]]===
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Something has happened, something very nasty The problem with Martine's fiction debut is 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 a submarine a pregnant elephant is one the side of only a handful of animals living below the wavesmaking them unpronounceable by most readers. We follow Nerissa Crane I can see why she does both, but it's a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after disappointment because they're the blocks against which the animals and falls into a world brilliance of intriguethe book stumbles.[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine|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 Lingane -->
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===[[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]===
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Philip K DickJulian's stories were originally published in family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status. They feel that the 50smaths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To that end, but they are more present than pasthave managed to find him a job tutoring the children of a highly regarded politician. On Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews way of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screensexpectation. Victor, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TVpolitician is not at home. But Esis, his wife, is. StartlinglyA beautiful but isolated woman, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction Esis shows little interest in her children and into not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his room, the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising library in which he will teach the children, 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 inceptionkitchen, Dick's electric dreams are becoming realitywhose chefbot will provide him with food. [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Philip K DickMark Lingane|Full Review]]
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Consider In an extension of the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart'', he have continues to hand out each yeartell the story of the Quantum twins. Born on a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were he hurtled through space-time to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need our earth - and a few novelty gifts for some series of adventures ensued in the following books. When we rejoin them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in the life of bush - adopted by a Time Lord Bushman family and that made part of some of his friends and enemiesa tribe. As luck would have itTwin Qwelby however, he has is not doing so well - shocked by the violence on the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advanceearth. Rescued by an old friend, so my advice he then tries to him – sorry, help a girl called Xaala - but her – would be ulterior motives may well prove to pop along drive a wedge between the twins as they try to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself readyreconnect.. 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) Betrayed by James Goss and Russell T DaviesGeoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]
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Taking on In the near future, self-drive cars are the norm - a band of undead Mummies will take it out of the best convenient and easy way of us and a holiday may be neededtransport. If you are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress youHowever, but London is one when someone hacks into the systems of them. Surelyeight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a nice visit to Englandfatal collision course. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, far from the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple, will help you public have to relaxjudge who should survive. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the loose But with magical powers or every aspect of these passangers being examined by the events are conspiring public - will they turn out to raise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumber. Is itbe what they seem? [[Ghosts of Empire The Passengers by George MannJohn Marrs|Full Review]]
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===[[Artemis Beneath the World, A Sea by Andy WeirChris Beckett]]===
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Welcome to ArtemisSouth America, the first city on the moon1990. A powerhouse for the rich and Ben Ronson, a once British police officer, arrives in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and also mysterious forest to investigate a place a small community spate of killings of citizens call homeDuendes. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with her father aged sixlong limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, it's unleashing the only place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishingsubconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. In factBen becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives in closer he gets, the low end of town, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porter. However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and more he begins to this endunravel, she has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activitywith terrifying results. When one of Jazz's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome reward, it is just too tempting to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to do. [[Artemis Beneath the World, A Sea by Andy WeirChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[My Name is Sam Zero Bomb by Wes StuartM T Hill]]===
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Who is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, the champion Meet Remi. He's a fan of the Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbusrunning, and indeed has been – from the main character in this story. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past wife and no memory of who life he isabandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. Now working in London as a courier, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from 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 Gibbus whoTube, in seven days, will destroy the planet where mysterious people sit with him – and everyone on itregale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. This is not his choice however: that is the decision of the alien Sereia Slowly, woozily, his mentors and guideshe's drawn into a completely surreal scenario, as he tries to find out what is forced to confront this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be savedwanted of him, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselves. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boyby whom – and indeed, Sam – but this child who he himself even is not quite as he appears… . [[My Name is Sam Zero Bomb by Wes StuartM T Hill|Full Review]]
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===[[Sea of Rust The Dragon's Harvest by C Robert CargillJason F Boggs]]===
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Have you ever watched Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the Terminator movies or some similar 'Robo-geddonNew Era' franchise . As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and wondered what would have happened if the robots had actually won? Well wonder no moreself-discovery, because Sea of Rust hinges on that exact premise; he became a world where changed man. Picking up 20 months after the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace events of organic matter anywhere''The Devil's Dragon'', since Nelson is on an expedition to uncover the robot uprising that devastated mystery of the planet. Now two huge mainframes compete sungates, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for world domination: CISSUS and VIRGILall involved. They capture robots Meanwhile, the humans and turn them into drones; uploading the Aesini fight for their minds into very existence, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a hive consciousnessquest to restore the New Era to glory. The few remaining bots are called 'freebots,' As Nelson and inhabit a desert called his friends race against the Sea of Rustclock in order to defeat this new threat, where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts. find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[Sea of Rust The Dragon's Harvest by C Robert CargillJason F Boggs|Full Review]]
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===[[Austral The City In The Middle Of The Night by Paul McAuleyCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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Austral has no doubts about who she January isa dying planet. Her birth wasIt wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, as she puts itpure, ''a political act. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an egg. I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She wasblazing heat, as the jargon of her world has it ''edited''and totally uninhabitable. She The other half ispure darkness and ice, as where a resultcreature can freeze to death in seconds, a Huskyand totally uninhabitable. A human modified to withstand In the cold temperatures of the Antarctic continentmiddle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Those temperatures are still hard for unLife is a knife-modified humans edge, stray too close to survive inone side you die, to close to the other, but maybe not for much longer. This is a world in which you die and yet the heat from the sun and the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which water from the ice has retreated and continues to retreat…a world in which are necessary for life. Life for the harshest inhabitants of environments January is being opened up for exploitation. long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[Austral The City In The Middle Of The Night by Paul McAuleyCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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|summary=Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the young men and women, a mixture of awe, desire, fear and hate. Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best friends from the Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. Forming a connection with the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a short test run, the village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, he flees from the village...
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|author=Daniel Suarez
|title=Change Agent
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wish. In the genetic lottery that is our lives we are given a selection from our mother and our father to work with. However, although they may be over six foot, you could still end up being shorter. You can't currently choose what coding you get, but what if you could cherry pick the best aspects of your family traits? It would be a great way to save people from hereditary disease, but would we end up with a world full of identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashions? In the future someone would need to be in charge of stopping science going too far.
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|title= Xeelee: Vengeance
|rating= 2
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary=Michael Poole, Earth's greatest living engineer, changed the galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar system. However, such a thing was created with a degree of naivety and a lack of foresight because out of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, it is unstoppable and unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, the vessel is unresponsive to the human life around it. It ignores hails and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it, not even the surface of the sun. All it seems to want is energy, and Earth has plenty of that to be absorbed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217172</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Godfrey
|title=Empire of Time (New Pompeii)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the beginning.
The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to a new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old one sounded great in theory. The practice has been going on for years now, but the modern and old worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the experiment out of curiosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. Since he arrived, he's watched the Romans kill the inventors of the machine that saved them. Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give him his Roman name, is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and that's not a safe position or location in which to live.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785653156</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Cixin Liu
|title=The Wandering Earth
|rating= 5
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary= If anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager of the short form is Sci-fi. So when you pick up a collection of Sci-fi shorts, you know that it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. Add to that the intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of the rest of the planet…and add to that an author who is not only a best-seller in his home country but has the distinction of having produced the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be good!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784978493</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Jack Campbell
|title= The Genesis Fleet: Vanguard
|rating= 5
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary=The human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to the stars it takes with it both the best and the worst examples of itself. The isolation and edginess of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of far-flung colonies and bullying neighbours. We follow our protagonists, each failures in their own careers (crisis management, space navy, politics and marines) as they become heroes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650408</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Anne Corlett
|title= The Space Between The Stars
|rating= 4
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary= Jamie Allenby wakes, alone, and realises her fever has broken. But could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, Jamie had left her partner Daniel, mourning the miscarriage of their baby. She'd just had to get away, so took a job on a distant planet. Then the virus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate and isolated, until she receives a garbled message from Earth. If someone from her past is still alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a way to return. She meets others seeking Earth, and their ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dream. But they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanity's past mistakes, threatening their precious fresh start. Jamie will also get a second chance at happiness. But can she escape her troubled past, to embrace a hopeful future?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509833528</amazonuk>
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