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{{Frontpage|author=Cixin Liu|title=Death's End|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|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.|isbn=1784971650}}{{Frontpage|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...|isbn=1409184641}}{{Frontpage|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...|isbn=1473223172}}
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===[[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds]]===
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What happens when Utopia In 2031, genetic engineering and robotics is achieved? When everyone 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 linked neurologically 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 everyone else University and people vote on each minor decision can't get a job. And so every aspect begins Dorian's slow spiral of life is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dyingself-destruction, melting robbing houses with his best friend Ethan to be precisepay for his Revision, and no one knows how, or why, or who could be next. In such a circumstance who can be trusted all the time desperately trying to solve keep this crime activity secret from his family. But, with his psychopathic brother already suspicious of him and do so without spreading panic? What if the only people who can be trusted police gaining ground, Dorian slowly begins to realise that he's going to have already let you down once before? to risk everything to stay ahead...[[Elysium Fire Sunlight 24 by Alastair ReynoldsMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive Salvation Lost by Rohan QuinePeter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
Meet JaymiHumanity is at a turning point. HeAfter Feriton Kane's investigation uncovers the supposedly benign Olyix's a world-class video games designer, and fresh plan to a new mansion harvest humanity in the Hollywood Hills on name of their god, the basis of some recent successentire human race prepares to fight back. But hewhen the Olyix's seen the future harvesting ships appear and he doesn't like it. His current employersstart heading towards Earth, able to bring any amount of classand Olyix-derived technology begins preparing them for transportation, skill humanity realises that they are vastly outnumbered and culture outgunned. Some people to the world of gameplayflee, are beset on appealing taking to the most lunkheaded and lowest common denominators instead. Indeedstars in an effort to hide from their aggressors, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be even though only a massively disturbing environment, where people progress through the world small percentage of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone and everyone else humanity would survive. But others choose to fight them head-on . As humanity comes face-to-face with the planetlargest ever threat to their existence, whether they're playing along or not, and by getting kind of prestige points old grudges will have to be put aside to focus on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a user-accepted, algorithm-designed, status quoobliterating this enemy. With Even if it means planning for a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, and sets up a way future than none 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 gamethem will ever live to see... 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 Salvation Lost by Rohan QuinePeter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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===[[William ShakespeareVelocity Weapon by Megan E O's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian DoescherKeefe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] After her gunship is destroyed in a battle, Sanda Greeve expects to wake up in a friendly medical ward, fully healed and ready to get back into the fight. However, instead she wakes up a quarter of a millenia later, missing a leg, aboard an enemy starship called The Light of Berossus (or "Bero", as the starship's rather grumpy AI prefers to call himself). Bero tells Sanda that the war is long over, and that the entire population of the system is dead. The only option, it seems, is to travel to the nearest star system. But, as the starship makes preparations for its decades-long voyage across the stars, it becomes clear to Sanda that something else is going on... [[:Category:HumourVelocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe|HumourFull Review]]
A long time ago, in 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 have noticed the cinematic version 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 hurts. 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 the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Brookmyre Vaughn -->
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===[[Places in Across the Darkness Void by Chris BrookmyreS K Vaughn]]===
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Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort of futuristic Utopia, in a world of free thinking and no major crimeSea epics? So 20th century. Perhaps in a Space Station high above the Earth were the greatest minds have travelled so that they can build Try a vessel that will send the next generations of humans to populate new planetsspace epic. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be the same old problems. You can't really have a Utopia with people in it, can you? [[Places in Across the Darkness Void by Chris BrookmyreS K Vaughn|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass Exhalation by Abi CurtisTed Chiang]]===
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Something Over the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has happenedpublished fifteen science fiction short stories, something very nasty and on these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a submarine a pregnant elephant science fiction fan it is one of only a handful likely that you have already come across some of animals living below the waveswork by Ted Chiang. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigueIf you haven't than take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful.[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|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 Doescher -->
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Philip K Dick's stories were originally published A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the 50sstory of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, but colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they are more present than pastseemed perfectly suited. On It was then duly repeated for all the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched other films in the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; main Star Wars cycle, and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the authorclearly someone's short stories buffing their quills ready for TVEpisode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge the day before I write. Startlingly In the hiatus, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into however, the effort has been made to see if the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising same shtick works with other texts, and loss of privacy to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the increasing machination Future, with its tales of society are all headline material in today's news. It is as if half a century after their inceptiontime travel, bullying, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality. and parent/child strife like no other? [[Philip K DickWilliam Shakespeare's Electric Dreams Get Thee Back to the Future! by Philip K DickIan Doescher|Full Review]]
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===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) Memory Called Empire by James Goss and Russell T DaviesArkady Martine]]===
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Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch The problem 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 Martine's fiction debut is that pithily encapsulate she makes the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space two commonest errors in his TARDIS SF writing: she tries to stock up in advance, so my advice be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium complex and rich and get himself readyerrs on the side of making them unpronounceable by most readers. And if you I can see why she does both, but it's a disappointment because they'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 sameblocks against which the brilliance of the book stumbles. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) Memory Called Empire by James Goss and Russell T DaviesArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[Ghosts of Empire by George Mann]]===
===[[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Taking on 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 band of undead Mummies will take it out job tutoring the children of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in the best way of us and a holiday may be neededexpectation. If you are from New York there are Victor, the politician is not many other cities worldwide that could impress youat home. But Esis, his wife, but London is one of them. SurelyA beautiful but isolated woman, a nice visit to EnglandEsis shows little interest in her children and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his room, far from the hustle library in which he will teach the children, and bustle of the Big Applekitchen, whose chefbot will help you to relax. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the loose provide him with magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumberfood. Is it? [[Ghosts of Empire The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by George MannMark Lingane|Full Review]]
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Welcome In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart'', he continues to Artemis, tell the first city on story of the moonQuantum twins. A powerhouse for the rich Born on a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and a once in a lifetime trip for were hurtled through space-time to our earth tourists, - and also a place a small community series of citizens call homeadventures ensued in the following books. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, itWhen we rejoin them in 's the only place she's ever known but she wouldnBetrayed't say she's flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used we find Tullia struggling to adapt to describe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives life in the low end bush - adopted by a Bushman family and made part of town, sleeping on a bunktribe. Twin Qwelby however, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porternot doing so well - shocked by the violence on the earth. HoweverRescued by an old friend, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and he then tries to this end, she has set up help a side business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazz's regular clients wants girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for drive a handsome reward, it is just too tempting wedge between the twins as they try to refusereconnect.. What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to do. [[Artemis Betrayed by Andy WeirGeoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]
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Who is In the real enemy? This is near future, self-drive cars are the question which confronts Samnorm - a convenient and easy way of transport. However, when someone hacks into the champion systems of the Sereia in their cosmoseight self-spanning war with the Gibbusdrive cars, and the main character in this storytheir passengers are set on a fatal collision course. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he isAs everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus public have to judge who, in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone on itshould survive. This is not his choice however: that is the decision But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by the alien Sereia, his mentors and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth public - will they turn out to be saved, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselves. In their search for a human champion what they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears… seem? [[My Name is Sam The Passengers by Wes StuartJohn Marrs|Full Review]]
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===[[Beneath the World, A Sea of Rust by C Robert CargillChris Beckett]]===
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Have you ever watched the Terminator movies or some similar 'RoboSouth America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures -geddon' franchise with long limbs and wondered what would black button eyes - have happened if the robots had actually won? Well wonder no more, because Sea of Rust hinges a strange psychic effect on that exact premise; a world where the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of organic matter anywherepeople, since the robot uprising that devastated unleashing the planet. Now two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS subconscious and VIRGIL. They capture robots exposing their innermost thoughts and turn them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousnessfears. The few remaining bots are called 'freebotsBen becomes fascinated by the Duendes,' and inhabit a desert called but the Sea of Rustcloser he gets, where they do what they can the more he begins to surviveunravel, including cannibalising other bots for spare partswith terrifying results... [[Beneath the World, A Sea of Rust by C Robert CargillChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Austral Zero Bomb by Paul McAuleyM T Hill]]===
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Austral has no doubts about who she isMeet Remi. Her birth was, as she puts it, 'He's a political actfan of running, and indeed has been – from the wife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. Conceived Now working in London as a laboratory dish by direct injection courier, he's taking a routine piece of sperm into an egg. I was customised samizdat literature across town when he's seemingly attacked by a suite of targeted genes…'' driverless car. She wasStruggling to keep to his schedule, as he takes to the jargon of her world has it ''edited''Tube, where mysterious people sit with him – and regale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. She isSlowly, woozily, as he's drawn into a resultcompletely surreal scenario, a Husky. A human modified as he tries to withstand the cold temperatures find out what is wanted of the Antarctic continent. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive inhim, but maybe not for much longer. This is a world in which the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the ice has retreated and continues to retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments by whom – and indeed, who he himself even is being opened up for exploitation. [[Austral Zero Bomb by Paul McAuleyM T Hill|Full Review]]
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===[[Hunted The Dragon's Harvest by Geoffrey ArnoldJason F Boggs]]===
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Tullia learns about survival Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youthfascist new world order called the 'New Era's life during a hunt. Adopted into As his experiences led him on a Bushman family path of conflict and the tribeself-discovery, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the young men and women, a mixture events of awe, desire, fear and hate. Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia''The Devil's twinDragon'', Nelson is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best friends from an expedition to uncover the Pit mystery of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Taminathe sungates, when a girl he has known terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for yearsall involved. Feelings which become much stronger Meanwhile, the humans and the Aesini fight 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 attackvery existence, the girlas Nelson's nemesis, XaalaMajor Ira Billis, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to mentally reconnect – and restore the New Era to prevent themglory. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins As Nelson and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on his friends race against the planet Vertazia and clock in secretorder to defeat this new threat, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On find themselves facing 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... power beyond imagination… [[Hunted The Dragon's Harvest by Geoffrey ArnoldJason F Boggs|Full Review]]
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===[[Change Agent The City In The Middle Of The Night by Daniel SuarezCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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I wish I was January is a little bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wishdying planet. In the genetic lottery that is our lives we are given a selection from our mother and our father It wasn't exactly pleasant to work begin with. HoweverOne half is scorching sunlight, pure, although they may be over six footblazing heat, you could still end up being shorterand totally uninhabitable. You can't currently choose what coding you getThe other half is pure darkness and ice, but what if you could cherry pick the best aspects of your family traits? It would be where a great way creature can freeze to save people from hereditary diseasedeath in seconds, but would we end up with a world full of identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashions? and totally uninhabitable. In the future someone would need to be in charge of stopping science going too farmiddle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. [[Change Agent by Daniel Suarez|Full Review]] <!-- Baxter -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Baxter_Xeelee.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473217172/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; textLife is a knife-align: left;"|===[[Xeelee: Vengeance by Stephen Baxter]]=== [[image:2star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Michael Pooleedge, Earth's greatest living engineerstray too close to one side you die, changed the galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across close to the solar system. Howeverother, such a thing was created with a degree of naivety you die and a lack of foresight because out of yet the heat from the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, it is unstoppable sun and unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, the vessel is unresponsive to water from the human ice are necessary for life around it. It ignores hails and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it, not even Life for the surface inhabitants of the sun. All it seems to want January is energylong, and Earth has plenty of that to be absorbed. hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[Xeelee: Vengeance The City In The Middle Of The Night by Stephen BaxterCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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|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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