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|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.
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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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===[[Summerland Lakes of Mars by Hannu RajaniemiMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Imagine After his entire family is killed in a world in which death shuttle crash, one that he was piloting no longer something to fear but something to aspire less, Aaron Sheridan enlists in the Martian Fleet, fully expecting todie in the ongoing Rim War. After discovery of the afterlifeInstead, he winds up on Corinth Station, the British Empire has extended its reach into SummerlandFleet's command school. At first, he is apathetic towards the Big Smoke for brutality and scheming of the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught students and staff, but after standing up in for his only friend, he becomes a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in target for the dreaded Caelus Erik, the heart of Summerlandmost feared cadet on Corinth. When Rachel WhiteScared that any further actions will put others on his flight team at risk, an ambitious SIS agentAaron shuts himself off from everyone. But, becomes suspicious about when he discovers that the potential rogue agentstaff on Corinth have a motive other than training officers, she must decide how far she is willing he begins to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover realise that risking his all might be the truthsafest thing he can do... [[Summerland Lakes of Mars by Hannu RajaniemiMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield]]===
===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Europe – 1963. The world In 2031, genetic engineering and robotics is used to changing the constant tensions between the West and Russiaworld at an unprecedented rate, with the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat in the lives of everyday regimen known as Revision making peoplestronger, faster and smarter than ever before. What they don't know however, Baseline humanity is that the real cold war is fought on the borders of this worldslowly being rendered obsolete, far from prying eyes at with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by the edges of wayside as these new superhumans dominate the lightworkforce. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced Without Revision, Dorian can't go to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, University and is forced into can't get a tensejob. And so begins Dorian's slow spiral of self-destruction, unwelcome alliance robbing houses with his best friend Ethan to pay for his Revision, all the lethal Karina Lazarovatime desperately trying to keep this activity secret from his family. As But, with his psychopathic brother already suspicious of him and the threats risepolice gaining ground, Christopher finds himself caught in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret Dorian slowly begins to realise that will give instant supremacy he's going to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against the enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through have to risk everything to the haunted Hungarian border, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glassstay ahead. It's a world of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war in the dark. [[The War in the Dark Sunlight 24 by Nick SetchfieldMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension Salvation Lost by Victor DixenPeter 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:Teens|Teens]]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:Science FictionSalvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Science FictionFull Review]]
Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, it is too late for regrets. [[Ascension by Victor Dixen|Full Review]] <!-- RuocchioMegan E O'Keefe -->
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===[[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) Velocity Weapon by Christopher RuocchioMegan E O'Keefe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Hadrian Marlowe sits After her gunship is destroyed in the distant future writing the true account of his life a battle, Sanda Greeve expects to add context wake up in a friendly medical ward, fully healed and ready to a tale everyone in get back into the Empire knows alreadyfight. ''Empire However, instead she wakes up a quarter of Silence'' is a heromillenia later, missing a leg, aboard an enemy starship called The Light of Berossus (or "Bero", as the starship's quest but it is made clear from the start that it will not end rather grumpy AI prefers to call himself). Bero tells Sanda that way. We are millennia in the futurewar is long over, Earth has been lost and great houses rule portions that the entire population of a vast empirethe system is dead. Hadrian Marlowe The only option, it seems, is set to inherit one of travel to the nearest star system. But, as the starship makes preparations for its decades-long voyage across the great houses but following some terrible news he decides upon a new path insteadstars, it becomes clear to Sanda that something else is going on... [[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) Velocity Weapon by Christopher RuocchioMegan E O'Keefe|Full Review]]
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===[[Elysium Fire Across the Void by Alastair ReynoldsS K Vaughn]]===
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What happens when Utopia is achievedSea epics? When everyone is linked neurologically 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 dying, melting to be precise, and no one knows how, or why, or who could be nextSo 20th century. In such Try a circumstance who can be trusted to solve this crime and do so without spreading panic? What if the only people who can be trusted have already let you down once before? space epic. [[Elysium Fire Across the Void by Alastair ReynoldsS K Vaughn|Full Review]]
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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive Exhalation by Rohan QuineTed Chiang]]===
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Meet Jaymi. He's a worldOver the past twenty-class video games designereight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, and fresh to these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a new mansion in science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent successwork by Ted Chiang. But he's seen the future and he doesnIf you haven'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 than take this opportunity to the most lunkheaded and lowest common denominators insteaddo so now. Indeed, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it Trust me; your imagination 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 gamegrateful. 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 Exhalation by Rohan QuineTed Chiang|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Future! by Ian Doescher]]===
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A long time ago, in a galaxy publishing house far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to create a series rewrite the story of dramatic histories full of machinations most foulStar Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, rulers most evil colliding two entirely different genres and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdystyles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. You may or may not have noticed It was then duly repeated for all the other films in the cinematic version of his original stage play main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for ''The Force Doth Awaken''Episode Nine, but here at last we get the actual scripttitle of which became public knowledge the day before I write. In the hiatus, complete however, the effort has been made to see if the same shtick works with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvreother texts, and people keeping it to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in the family til it hurtsiambs. And if you need further encouragementcould we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the Future, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts with its tales of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… time travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other? [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Future! by Ian Doescher|Full Review]]
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===[[Places in the Darkness A Memory Called Empire by Chris BrookmyreArkady Martine]]===
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Living The problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in 2017 has me longing SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to live in some sort be complex and rich and errs on the side of futuristic Utopiamaking them unpronounceable by most readers. I can see why she does both, in but it's a world of free thinking and no major crime. Perhaps in a Space Station high above the Earth were disappointment because they're the greatest minds have travelled so that they can build a vessel that will send blocks against which the next generations brilliance of humans to populate new planets. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be the same old problemsbook stumbles. You can't really have a Utopia with people in it, can you? [[Places in the Darkness A Memory Called Empire by Chris BrookmyreArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]The Rose, [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]the Night, [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fictionand the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]===
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
It 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 difficult to properly review this book without giving too not at home. But Esis, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in her children and not much awaymore in Julian. There She directs him towards his room, the library in which he will be mild spoilers throughout this right from teach the start but I children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will try to avoid the main onesprovide him with food. [[Water & Glass The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Abi CurtisMark Lingane|Full Review]]
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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|[[image:3star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they are more present than past. 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 factual: 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 inception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality. [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]
| style="verticalIn 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 -align: top; textshocked by the violence on the earth. Rescued by an old friend, he then tries to help a girl called Xaala -align: left;"|===but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive a wedge between the twins as they try to reconnect... [[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]]===
[[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 Marrs -->
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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 a place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, it's the only place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used mysterious forest to describe Jazz is investigate a waste spate of talent. Jazz lives in the low end killings of town, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porterDuendes. HoweverThese silent, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and to this end, she has set up black button eyes - have a side business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazz's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome rewardstrange psychic effect on people, it is just too tempting to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know is all unleashing the facts behind what she is being asked to do. [[Artemis by Andy Weir|Full Review]] <!-- Stuart -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stuart_Name.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.cosubconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears.uk/dp/1540504506/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Name is Sam Ben becomes fascinated by Wes Stuart]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Who is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts SamDuendes, but the champion of the Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbuscloser he gets, and the main character in this story. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who more he isbegins to unravel, yet he possesses extraordinary abilitieswith terrifying results. 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 [[Beneath the unlikely and ill-prepared young boyWorld, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears… [[My Name is Sam A Sea by Wes StuartChris Beckett|Full Review]] <!-- Cargill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Cargill_Sea.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473212782/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | 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 Hill -->
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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 tallerdying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, I wish I had blue eyespure, I wishblazing heat, I wishand totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death in seconds, I wishand totally uninhabitable. In the genetic lottery middle is a brief twilight that is our lives we are given barely survivable. Life is a selection from our mother and our father knife-edge, stray too close to work with. Howeverone side you die, although they may be over six footto close to the other, you could still end up being shorterdie and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life. You can't currently choose what coding you get, but what if you could cherry pick Life for the best aspects inhabitants of your family traits? It would be a great way to save people from hereditary diseaseJanuary is long, and hard, and arduous, but would we end up with a world full of identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashionswill anything ever change? In the future someone would need to be in charge of stopping science going too far. [[Change Agent The City In The Middle Of The Night by Daniel SuarezCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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