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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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===[[XX by Angela Chadwick]]===
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Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of their own without the need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, and the general public, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to the demise of men. [[XX by Angela Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- Thompson Graves -->
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===[[Rosewater Lakes of Mars by Tade ThompsonMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] After his entire family is 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 apathetic towards the brutality and scheming of the students and staff, but after standing up for his only friend, he becomes a target for the dreaded Caelus Erik, the most feared cadet on Corinth. Scared that any further actions will put others on his flight team at risk, Aaron shuts himself off from everyone. But, when he discovers that the staff on Corinth have a motive other than training officers, he begins to realise that risking his all might be the safest thing he can do... [[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless - people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumoured healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn't care to again - but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realisation about a horrifying future. [[Rosewater by Tade Thompson|Full Review]] <!-- Rajaniemi Merritt Graves -->
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===[[Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi]]===
===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]
Imagine In 2031, genetic engineering and robotics is changing the world at an unprecedented rate, with a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire toregimen known as Revision making people stronger, faster and smarter than ever before. After discovery of the afterlifeBaseline humanity is slowly being rendered obsolete, with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, wayside as these new superhumans dominate the Big Smoke for the recently deceasedworkforce. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in Without Revision, Dorian can't go to University and can't get a race against Soviet spies and dealing job. And so begins Dorian's slow spiral of self-destruction, robbing houses with a mole buried deep in his best friend Ethan to pay for his Revision, all the heart of Summerlandtime desperately trying to keep this activity secret from his family. When Rachel WhiteBut, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes with his psychopathic brother already suspicious about of him and the potential rogue agentpolice gaining ground, she must decide how far she is willing Dorian slowly begins to realise that he's going to go and how much she is willing have to risk everything to uncover the truthstay ahead... [[Summerland Sunlight 24 by Hannu RajaniemiMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in the Dark Salvation Lost by Nick SetchfieldPeter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Europe – 1963. The world Humanity is used to the constant tensions between the West and Russia, with the Cold War at a seemingly never ending threat in the lives of everyday peopleturning point. What they donAfter Feriton Kane't know however, is that s investigation uncovers the real cold war is fought on supposedly benign Olyix's plan to harvest humanity in the borders name of this worldtheir god, far from prying eyes at the edges of entire human race prepares to fight back. But when the lightOlyix'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. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced Some people to flee London when , taking to the stars in an assassination attempt goes horribly wrongeffort to hide from their aggressors, and is forced into even though only a tense, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarovasmall percentage of humanity would survive. But others choose to fight them head-on. As humanity comes face-to-face with the threats riselargest ever threat to their existence, Christopher finds himself caught in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that grudges will give instant supremacy have to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against the be put aside to focus on obliterating this enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through to the haunted Hungarian border, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glass. It's Even if it means planning for a world future than none of treachery, blood and magicthem will ever live to see.. A world at war in the dark. [[The War in the Dark Salvation Lost by Nick SetchfieldPeter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension Velocity Weapon by Victor DixenMegan E O'Keefe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Six girlsAfter her gunship is destroyed in a battle, six boys. Each Sanda Greeve expects to wake up in a friendly medical ward, fully healed and ready to get back into the two separate bays fight. However, instead she wakes up a quarter of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choicesmillenia later, missing a leg, under the unblinking eye aboard an enemy starship called The Light of Berossus (or "Bero", as the on-board camerasstarship's rather grumpy AI prefers to call himself). They are Bero tells Sanda that the contenders in the Genesis programmewar is long over, and that the world's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating entire population of the first human colony on Marssystem is dead. LeonorThe only option, an 18 year old orphanit seems, is one of to travel to the chosen onesnearest star system. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up But, as the starship makes preparations for love. She has signed up for a oneits decades-way ticket. Even if long voyage across the dream turns to a nightmarestars, it becomes clear to Sanda that something else is too late for regretsgoing on... [[Ascension Velocity Weapon by Victor DixenMegan E O'Keefe|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) Across the Void by Christopher RuocchioS K Vaughn]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Hadrian Marlowe sits in the distant future writing the true account of his life to add context to a tale everyone in the Empire knows already. ''Empire of Silence'' is a hero's quest but it is made clear from the start that it will not end that way. We are millennia in the future, Earth has been lost and great houses rule portions of a vast empire. Hadrian Marlowe is set to inherit one of the great houses but following some terrible news he decides upon a new path instead. [[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) by Christopher Ruocchio|Full Review]] <!-- Reynolds -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Reynolds_Fire.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575090588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
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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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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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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Philip K DickIn an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in 's stories '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 originally published hurtled through space-time to our earth - and a series of adventures ensued in the 50s, but they are more present than pastfollowing books. On the big screen When we rejoin them in ''Blade Runner 2049Betrayed'' relaunched we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in the Dickbush -inspired cult classic to reviews adopted by a Bushman family and made part of pure praise; and a tribe. Twin Qwelby however, is not doing so well - shocked by the violence on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TVearth. StartlinglyRescued by an old friend, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into he then tries to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive a wedge between the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy twins as they try to the increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's newsreconnect.. It is as if half a century after their inception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality. [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams Betrayed by Philip K DickGeoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]
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Consider In the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each yearnear future, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need self-drive cars are the norm - a few novelty gifts for some convenient and easy way of them, say, for exampletransport. However, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate when someone hacks into the life systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemiesfatal collision course. As luck would have iteveryday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice public have to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself readyjudge who should survive. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, But with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much every aspect of these passangers being examined by the same. public - will they turn out to be what they seem? [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) The Passengers by James Goss and Russell T DaviesJohn Marrs|Full Review]]
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Taking on South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a band of undead Mummies will take it out of the best spate of us and a holiday may be needed. If you are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress you, but London is one killings of themDuendes. SurelyThese silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a nice visit to Englandstrange psychic effect on people, far from unleashing the hustle subconscious and bustle of exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Big AppleDuendes, will help you to relax. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on but the loose with magical powers or closer he gets, the events are conspiring more he begins to raise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumberunravel, with terrifying results... Is it? [[Ghosts of Empire Beneath the World, A Sea by George MannChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Artemis Zero Bomb by Andy WeirM T Hill]]===
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Welcome to ArtemisMeet Remi. He's a fan of running, and indeed has been – from the first city on the moonwife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. A powerhouse for the rich and a once Now working in London as a lifetime trip for earth touristscourier, and also he's taking a place a small community routine piece of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, itsamizdat literature across town when he's the only place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishingseemingly attacked by a driverless car. In fact Struggling to keep to his schedule, the phrase most often used he takes to describe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives in the low end of townTube, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porterwhere mysterious people sit with him – and regale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. However Slowly, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and to this endwoozily, she has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazzhe's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for drawn into a handsome rewardcompletely surreal scenario, it is just too tempting as he tries to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know find out what is all the facts behind what she wanted of him, and by whom – and indeed, who he himself even is being asked to do. [[Artemis Zero Bomb by Andy WeirM T Hill|Full Review]]
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===[[My Name is Sam The Dragon's Harvest by Wes StuartJason F Boggs]]===
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Who is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, the champion of the Sereia Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, and fascist new world order called the main character in this story'New Era'. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and no memory of who he isself-discovery, yet he possesses extraordinary abilitiesbecame a changed man. He is also EarthPicking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus whoDragon'', in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone Nelson is on it. This is not his choice however: that is an expedition to uncover the decision mystery of the alien Sereiasungates, his mentors and guides, as he is forced when a terrible secret leads to confront this hazardous taskhorrifying discoveries for all involved. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be saved Meanwhile, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselves. In humans and the Aesini fight for their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boyvery existence, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears… [[My Name is Sam by Wes Stuart|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 Nelson'Robo-geddon' franchise and wondered what would have happened if the robots had actually won? Well wonder no mores nemesis, Major Ira Billis, because Sea of Rust hinges on that exact premise; finds a terrifying new ally in a world where quest to restore the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earthNew Era to glory. 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 As Nelson 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 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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