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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 Lakes of Mars by Alastair ReynoldsMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] What happens when Utopia After his entire family is achieved? When everyone killed in a shuttle crash, one that he was piloting no less, Aaron Sheridan enlists in the Martian Fleet, fully expecting to die in the ongoing Rim War. Instead, he winds up on Corinth Station, the Fleet's command school. At first, he is linked neurologically to everyone else apathetic towards the brutality and people vote on each minor decision so every aspect scheming of life is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything the students and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dyingstaff, melting to be precisebut after standing up for his only friend, and no one knows howhe becomes a target for the dreaded Caelus Erik, or whythe most feared cadet on Corinth. Scared that any further actions will put others on his flight team at risk, or who could be nextAaron shuts himself off from everyone. In such But, when he discovers that the staff on Corinth have a circumstance who can motive other than training officers, he begins to realise that risking his all might be trusted to solve this crime and do so without spreading panic? What if the only people who safest thing he can be trusted have already let you down once before? do... [[Elysium Fire Lakes of Mars by Alastair ReynoldsMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine]]===
===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
Meet Jaymi. He's a world-class video games designerIn 2031, genetic engineering and fresh to a new mansion in robotics is changing the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent success. But he's seen the future and he doesn't like it. His current employersworld at an unprecedented rate, able to bring any amount of class, skill and culture to the world of gameplaywith a regimen known as Revision making people stronger, are beset on appealing to the most lunkheaded faster and lowest common denominators insteadsmarter than ever before. IndeedBaseline humanity is slowly being rendered obsolete, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be a massively disturbing environment, where with people progress through like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by the world of wayside as these new superhumans dominate the entity by spreading fake news about anyone and everyone else on the planetworkforce. Without Revision, whether theyDorian can're playing along or not, t go to University and by getting kind can't get a job. And so begins Dorian's slow spiral of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a userself-accepteddestruction, algorithm-designedrobbing houses with his best friend Ethan to pay for his Revision, status quoall the time desperately trying to keep this activity secret from his family. With a much more Reithian approachBut, 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 psychopathic brother already suspicious of him in the game. 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 backgroundpolice gaining ground, and become fully playable characters in reality… Dorian slowly begins to realise that he's going to have to risk everything to stay ahead...[[The Beasts of Electra Drive Sunlight 24 by Rohan QuineMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Salvation Lost by Ian DoescherPeter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]
A long time ago, Humanity is at a turning point. After Feriton Kane's investigation uncovers the supposedly benign Olyix's plan to harvest humanity in a galaxy far awaythe name of their god, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able the entire human race prepares to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foulfight back. But when the Olyix's harvesting ships appear and start heading towards Earth, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes Olyix-derived technology begins preparing them for transportation, humanity realises that they are vastly outnumbered and heroines most sturdyoutgunned. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''Some people to flee, but here at last we get taking to the actual scriptstars in an effort to hide from their aggressors, complete with annoyingeven though only a small percentage of humanity would survive. But others choose to fight them head-inon. As humanity comes face-different-waysto-face with the largest ever threat to-before droids anewtheir existence, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurtsold grudges will have to be put aside to focus on obliterating this enemy. And Even if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts it means planning for a future than none of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on them will ever live to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… see...[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Salvation Lost by Ian DoescherPeter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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===[[Places in the Darkness Velocity Weapon by Chris BrookmyreMegan E O'Keefe]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Living After her gunship is destroyed in 2017 has me longing a battle, Sanda Greeve expects to live wake up in some sort a friendly medical ward, fully healed and ready to get back into the fight. However, instead she wakes up a quarter of futuristic Utopiaa millenia later, in missing a world leg, aboard an enemy starship called The Light of free thinking and no major crimeBerossus (or "Bero", as the starship's rather grumpy AI prefers to call himself). Perhaps in a Space Station high above Bero tells Sanda that the Earth were the greatest minds have travelled so that they can build a vessel war is long over, and that will send the next generations entire population of humans the system is dead. The only option, it seems, is to travel to populate new planetsthe nearest star system. You know that But, as soon as you arrive the starship makes preparations for its decades-long voyage across the stars, it will be the same old problemsbecomes clear to Sanda that something else is going on... You can't really have a Utopia with people in it, can you? [[Places in the Darkness Velocity Weapon by Chris BrookmyreMegan E O'Keefe|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass Across the Void by Abi CurtisS K Vaughn]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue.
It is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much awaySea epics? So 20th century. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the start but I will try to avoid the main onesTry a space epic. [[Water & Glass Across the Void by Abi CurtisS K Vaughn|Full Review]]
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[[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short StoriesExhalation by Ted Chiang]]===
Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they are more present than past[[image:5star. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TV. Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factualjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's news. It is as if half a century after their inceptionScience Fiction|Science Fiction]], Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality. [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick:Category:Short Stories|Full ReviewShort Stories]]
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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Mann Doescher -->
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Taking on A long time ago, in a band of undead Mummies will take publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it out of wonderfully wacky to rewrite the best story of us Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a holiday may be neededclever way they seemed perfectly suited. If you are from New York there are not many It was then duly repeated for all the other cities worldwide that could impress youfilms in the main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, but London is one the title of themwhich became public knowledge the day before I write. Surely In the hiatus, a nice visit to Englandhowever, far from the hustle and bustle of effort has been made to see if the Big Applesame shtick works with other texts, will help you and to relaxriff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the loose Future, with magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the sleeping power its tales of Albion from its slumber. Is ittime travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other? [[Ghosts of Empire William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by George MannIan Doescher|Full Review]]
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Welcome to Artemis, the first city on the moon. A powerhouse for the rich and a once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and also a place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis The problem with her father aged six, itMartine's fiction debut is that she makes the only place she's ever known but she wouldn't say two commonest errors in SF writing: she's flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used tries to describe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives in the low end of town, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all be too clever and she can afford through wants her job as a porter. However, Jazz dreams above all else of being fictional languages to be complex and rich and to this end, she has set up a errs on the side business of illegal smuggling activitymaking them unpronounceable by most readers. When one of Jazz I can see why she does both, but it'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 doesndisappointment because they't know is all re the blocks against which the brilliance of the facts behind what she is being asked to dobook stumbles. [[Artemis A Memory Called Empire by Andy WeirArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[My Name is Sam by Wes Stuart]]===
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Who is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam===[[The Rose, the champion of the Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the GibbusNight, and the main character in this story. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone on it. This is not his choice however: that is the decision of the alien Sereia, his mentors and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be saved, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselves. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears… [[My Name is Sam Mirror by Wes Stuart|Full ReviewMark Lingane]]===
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Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status. They feel that the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To that end, they have managed to find him a job tutoring the children of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in the way of expectation. Victor, the politician is not at home. But Esis, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in her children and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his room, the library in which he will teach the children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with food. [[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane|Full Review]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Have you ever watched the Terminator movies or some similar 'Robo-geddon' franchise and wondered what would have happened if the robots had actually won? Well wonder no more, because Sea of Rust hinges 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 anywhere, since the robot uprising that devastated the planet. Now two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS and VIRGIL. They capture robots and turn them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousness. The few remaining bots are called 'freebots,' and inhabit a desert called the Sea of Rust, where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts. [[Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill|Full Review]] <!-- McAuley Arnold -->
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Austral has no doubts about who she is. Her birth was, as she puts it, ''a political act. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into In an egg. I was customised by a suite extension of targeted genes…'' She was, as the jargon of her world has it story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''editedRipped Apart''. She is, as a result, a Husky. A human modified he continues to withstand tell the cold temperatures story of the Antarctic continentQuantum twins. Those temperatures are still hard for unBorn on a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-modified humans time to survive in, but maybe not for much longer. This is our earth - and a world series of adventures ensued in which the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world following books. When we rejoin them in which the ice has retreated and continues ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to retreat…a world life in which the harshest bush - adopted by a Bushman family and made part of environments a tribe. Twin Qwelby however, is being opened up for exploitationnot 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... [[Austral Betrayed by Paul McAuleyGeoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]
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Tullia learns about survival in 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 tribenear future, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst self-drive cars are the young men norm - a convenient and women, a mixture easy way of awe, desire, fear and hatetransport. Living a very different lifeHowever, Qwelbywhen someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence their passengers are set on Eartha fatal collision course. As he is rescued by his four best friends from everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, 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 public have to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic linkjudge who should survive. Forming a connection But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts public - will they turn out 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 be 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... seem? [[Hunted The Passengers by Geoffrey ArnoldJohn Marrs|Full Review]]
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===[[Change Agent Beneath the World, A Sea by Daniel SuarezChris Beckett]]===
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I wish I was a little bit tallerSouth America, I wish I had blue eyes1990. Ben Ronson, I wisha British police officer, I wish, I wish. In the genetic lottery that is our lives we are given arrives in a selection from our mother and our father mysterious forest to work withinvestigate a spate of killings of Duendes. HoweverThese silent, although they may be over six footvaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, you could still end up being shorterunleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. You can't currently choose what coding you getBen becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but what if you could cherry pick the best aspects of your family traits? It would be a great way closer he gets, the more he begins to save people from hereditary diseaseunravel, 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 farterrifying results... [[Change Agent Beneath the World, A Sea by Daniel SuarezChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Xeelee: Vengeance Zero Bomb by Stephen BaxterM T Hill]]===
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Michael Poole, EarthMeet Remi. He's greatest living engineera fan of running, changed and indeed has been – from the galaxy wife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. Now working in London as a courier, he opened 's taking a worm hole 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 allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar system. HoweverTube, such a thing was created where mysterious people sit with a degree of naivety him – and regale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. Slowly, woozily, he's drawn into a lack of foresight because completely surreal scenario, as he tries to find out what is wanted of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes beforehim, it is unstoppable and unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, the vessel is unresponsive to the human life around it. It ignores hails by whom – and even direct attacks. Nothing affects itindeed, not who he himself even the surface of the sun. All it seems to want is energy, and Earth has plenty of that to be absorbed. [[Xeelee: Vengeance Zero Bomb by Stephen BaxterM T Hill|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Time (New Pompeii) The Dragon's Harvest by Daniel GodfreyJason F Boggs]]===
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The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new Pompeii just before world order called the disaster hits the old one sounded great in theory'New Era'. The practice has been going As his experiences led him on for years nowa path of conflict and self-discovery, but the modern and old worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peacehe became a changed man. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within Picking up 20 months after the experiment out events of curiosity but it''The Devil's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. Since he arrivedDragon'', he's watched the Romans kill Nelson is on an expedition to uncover the inventors mystery of the machine that saved them. Nicksungates, or Decimus Horatius Pullus when a terrible secret leads to give him his Roman namehorrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhile, is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii humans and thatthe Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelson's not nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a safe position or location terrifying new ally in which a quest to restore the New Era to liveglory. As Nelson and his friends race against the clock in order to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[Empire of Time (New Pompeii) The Dragon's Harvest by Daniel GodfreyJason F Boggs|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wandering Earth City In The Middle Of The Night by Cixin LiuCharlie Jane Anders]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] 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! [[The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu|Full Review]]
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 death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. 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 by Charlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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|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.
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|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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