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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.
|isbn=1784971650
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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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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night Lakes of Mars by Charlie Jane AndersMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:34.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] January After his entire family is killed in a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlightshuttle crash, pureone that he was piloting no less, blazing heatAaron Sheridan enlists in the Martian Fleet, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze fully expecting to death die in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivableongoing Rim War. Life is a knife-edgeInstead, stray too close to one side you diehe winds up on Corinth Station, to close to the otherFleet's command school. At first, you die he is apathetic towards the brutality and yet the heat from scheming of the sun students and staff, but after standing up for his only friend, he becomes a target for the water from dreaded Caelus Erik, the ice are necessary for lifemost feared cadet on Corinth. Life for the inhabitants of January is longScared that any further actions will put others on his flight team at risk, and hardAaron shuts himself off from everyone. But, and arduouswhen he discovers that the staff on Corinth have a motive other than training officers, will anything ever change? he begins to realise that risking his all might be the safest thing he can do... [[The City In The Middle Of The Night Lakes of Mars by Charlie Jane AndersMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[Salvation by Peter F Hamilton]]===
===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Apparently In 2031, genetic engineering and robotics is changing the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 world at an unprecedented rate, with a regimen known as a pejorativeRevision making people stronger, faster and smarter than ever before. It was borrowed not from Baseline humanity is slowly being rendered obsolete, with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by the wayside as these new superhumans dominate the high-brow musical art formworkforce. Without Revision, but from the common or garden Dorian can'soap operat go to University and can't get a job. It related to a particular kind And so begins Dorian's slow spiral of science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hackyself-destruction, grindingrobbing houses with his best friend Ethan to pay for his Revision, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn". It would be fifty years later before all the term started time desperately trying to be re-appropriated to cover – if still the same themes keep this activity secret from his family. But, with his psychopathic brother already suspicious of distant futures, military conflict, heroism him and a simplistic set of values – more literarythe police gaining ground, more expansive worksDorian slowly begins to realise that he's going to have to risk everything to stay ahead.. The term is now taken as compliment. [[Salvation Sunlight 24 by Peter F HamiltonMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[Rosewater Salvation Lost by Tade ThompsonPeter 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. 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...jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionSalvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Science FictionFull Review]]
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 Megan E O'Keefe -->
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===[[Summerland Velocity Weapon by Hannu RajaniemiMegan E O'Keefe]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian 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, [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]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:ParanormalVelocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe|ParanormalFull Review]]
Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth. [[Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]] <!-- Setchfield Vaughn -->
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===[[The War in Across the Dark Void by Nick SetchfieldS K Vaughn]]===
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Europe – 1963Sea epics? So 20th century. The world is used to the constant tensions between the West and Russia, with the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat in the lives of everyday people. What they don't know however, is that the real cold war is fought on the borders of this world, far from prying eyes at the edges of the light. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, and is forced into Try a tense, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarova. As the threats rise, Christopher finds himself caught in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against the 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 a world of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war in the darkspace epic. [[The War in Across the Dark Void by Nick SetchfieldS K Vaughn|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension Exhalation by Victor DixenTed Chiang]]===
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Six girlsOver the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They these magnificent stories have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the onwon twenty-board cameras. They seven major science fiction awards so if you 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, a science fiction fan it is one likely that you have already come across some of the chosen oneswork by Ted Chiang. She has signed up for gloryIf you haven't than take this opportunity to do so now. 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 regretsTrust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Ascension Exhalation by Victor DixenTed Chiang|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Christopher RuocchioIan Doescher]]=== [[image:5star.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[[image:4. ''Empire of Silence'' is a hero's quest but it is made clear from the start that it will not end that way5star. We are millennia in the futurejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], 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:Category:Science Fiction|Full ReviewScience Fiction]]
A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. It was then duly repeated for all the other films in the main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge the day before I write. In the hiatus, however, the effort has been made to see if the same shtick works with other texts, and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the Future, with its tales of time travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other? [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Full Review]]
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===[[Elysium Fire A Memory Called Empire by Alastair ReynoldsArkady Martine]]===
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What happens when Utopia The problem with Martine's fiction debut is achieved? When everyone is linked neurologically that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to everyone else be complex and rich and people vote errs on each minor decision so every aspect the side of life is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything so what making them unpronounceable by most readers. I can possibly go wrong? Except people are dying, melting to be precise, and no one knows how, or see whyshe does both, or who could be next. In such but it's a circumstance who can be trusted to solve this crime and do so without spreading panic? What if disappointment because they're the blocks against which the brilliance of the only people who can be trusted have already let you down once before? book stumbles. [[Elysium Fire A Memory Called Empire by Alastair ReynoldsArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]The Rose, the Night, [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasyand the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]===
Meet Jaymi[[image:4star. He's a world-class video games designer, and fresh to a new mansion in the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent success. But he's seen the future and he doesn't like it. His current employers, able to bring any amount of class, skill and culture to the world of gameplay, are beset on appealing to the most lunkheaded and lowest common denominators instead. Indeed, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be a massively disturbing environment, where people progress through the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone and everyone else on the planet, whether they're playing along or not, and by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a user-accepted, algorithm-designed, status quo. With a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, and sets up a way of restoring the balance with a launch of his own, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the 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 background, and become fully playable characters in reality… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine:Category:Science Fiction|Full ReviewScience Fiction]]
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]] <!-- Doescher Arnold -->
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Betrayed by Ian DoescherGeoffrey Arnold]]===
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A long time ago, In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in a galaxy far away''Ripped Apart'', there was he continues to tell the story of the Quantum twins. Born on a man called William Shakespeareparallel world, who was able these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time to create our earth - and a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdyadventures ensued in the following books. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for When we rejoin them in ''The Force Doth AwakenBetrayed'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-find Tullia struggling to adapt to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it life in the bush - adopted by a Bushman family til it hurtsand made part of a tribe. And if you need further encouragementTwin Qwelby however, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is not doing so popular we're 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 part seven – surely making this over twice drive a wedge between the twins as good… they try to reconnect... [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh Betrayed by Ian DoescherGeoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]
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Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort of futuristic UtopiaIn the near future, in self-drive cars are the norm - a world convenient and easy way of free thinking and no major crimetransport. Perhaps in However, when someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a Space Station high above the Earth were fatal collision course. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, the greatest minds public have travelled so that they can build a vessel that will send the next generations of humans to populate new planetsjudge who should survive. You know that as soon as you arrive it But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by the public - will they turn out to be the same old problems. You can't really have a Utopia with people in it, can youwhat they seem? [[Places in the Darkness The Passengers by Chris BrookmyreJohn Marrs|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass Beneath the World, A Sea by Abi CurtisChris Beckett]]===
[[image:3.5star.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 South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to properly review this book without giving too much awayinvestigate a spate of killings of Duendes. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the start subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but I will try the closer he gets, the more he begins to avoid the main onesunravel, with terrifying results... [[Water & Glass Beneath the World, A Sea by Abi CurtisChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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[[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short StoriesZero Bomb by M T Hill]]===
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[[image: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's news3. It is as if half a century after their inception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality5star. [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dickjpg|Full Reviewlink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] <!-- Goss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpgCategory:Science Fiction|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719Science Fiction]]
Meet Remi. He's a fan of running, and indeed has been – from the wife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. Now working in London as a courier, he's taking a routine piece of samizdat literature across town when he's seemingly attacked by a driverless car. Struggling to keep to his schedule, he takes to the Tube, where mysterious people sit with him – and regale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. Slowly, woozily, he's drawn into a completely surreal scenario, as he tries to find out what is wanted of him, and by whom – and indeed, who he himself even is. [[Zero Bomb by M T Hill|Full Review]]
| 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 Jason Boggs -->
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===[[Ghosts of Empire The Dragon's Harvest by George MannJason F Boggs]]===
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Taking Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'. As his experiences led him on a band path of undead Mummies will take it out of the best of us conflict and self-discovery, he became a holiday may be neededchanged man. If you are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress youPicking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's Dragon'', but London Nelson is one on an expedition to uncover the mystery of them. Surelythe sungates, when a nice visit terrible secret leads to Englandhorrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhile, far from the hustle humans and bustle of the Big AppleAesini fight for their very existence, will help you as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to relaxrestore the New Era to glory. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on As Nelson and his friends race against the loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring clock in order to raise the sleeping defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power of Albion from its slumber. Is it? beyond imagination… [[Ghosts of Empire The Dragon's Harvest by George MannJason F Boggs|Full Review]]
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===[[Artemis The City In The Middle Of The Night by Andy WeirCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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Welcome January is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to Artemisbegin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, the first city on the moonand totally uninhabitable. A powerhouse for the rich The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a once creature can freeze to death in a lifetime trip for earth touristsseconds, 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 flourishingtotally uninhabitable. In fact, the phrase most often used to describe Jazz middle is a waste of talentbrief twilight that is barely survivable. Jazz lives in the low end of town, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which Life is all she can afford through her job as a porter. Howeverknife-edge, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and stray too close to this end, she has set up a one 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 rewardyou die, it is just too tempting to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked close 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.co.uk/dp/1540504506/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Name is Sam 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 Samother, you die and yet the champion of heat from the Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, sun 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 water from the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone on itice are necessary for life. This is not his choice however: that is Life for the decision inhabitants of the alien SereiaJanuary is long, his mentors and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be savedhard, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselves. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boyarduous, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears… will anything ever change? [[My Name is Sam The City In The Middle Of The Night by Wes StuartCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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