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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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[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] In the near future, self-drive cars are the norm - a convenient and easy way of transport. However, when someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a fatal collision course. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, the public have to judge who should survive. But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by the public - will they turn out to be what they seem? [[The Passengers by John Marrs|Full Review]] <!-- Beckett Merritt Graves -->
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===[[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett]]===
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South AmericaIn 2031, 1990genetic engineering and robotics is changing the world at an unprecedented rate, with a regimen known as Revision making people stronger, faster and smarter than ever before. Ben RonsonBaseline humanity is slowly being rendered obsolete, a British police officerwith people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by the wayside as these new superhumans dominate the workforce. Without Revision, arrives in a mysterious forest Dorian can't go to investigate University and can't get a spate job. And so begins Dorian's slow spiral of killings of Duendes. These silentself-destruction, vaguely humanoid creatures - robbing houses with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on peoplehis best friend Ethan to pay for his Revision, unleashing all the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fearstime desperately trying to keep this activity secret from his family. Ben becomes fascinated by the DuendesBut, but with his psychopathic brother already suspicious of him and the closer he getspolice gaining ground, the more Dorian slowly begins to realise that he begins 's going to have to risk everything to unravel, with terrifying resultsstay ahead... [[Beneath the World, A Sea Sunlight 24 by Chris BeckettMerritt Graves|Full Review]]
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===[[Zero Bomb Salvation Lost by M T HillPeter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]]
[[image:3Humanity 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..5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionSalvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Science FictionFull Review]]
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]] <!-- Jason Boggs Megan E O'Keefe -->
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===[[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: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 DragonLight of Berossus (or "Bero", as the starship's Harvest rather grumpy AI prefers to call himself). Bero tells Sanda that the war is long over, and that the entire population of the system is dead. The only option, it seems, is to travel to the nearest star system. But, as the starship makes preparations for its decades-long voyage across the stars, it becomes clear to Sanda that something else is going on... [[Velocity Weapon by Jason F BoggsMegan E O'Keefe|Full Review]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] 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 path of conflict and self-discovery, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's Dragon'', Nelson is on an expedition to uncover the mystery of the sungates, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhile, the humans and the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to glory. As Nelson and his friends race against the clock in order to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[The Dragon's Harvest by Jason F Boggs|Full Review]] <!-- Anders Vaughn -->
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night Across the Void by Charlie Jane AndersS K Vaughn]]===
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January is a dying planetSea epics? So 20th century. 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 Try a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitablespace epic. 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 Across the Void by Charlie Jane AndersS K Vaughn|Full Review]]
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===[[Salvation Exhalation by Peter F HamiltonTed Chiang]]===
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Apparently Over the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as a pejorative. It was borrowed not from the highpast twenty-brow musical art form, but from the common or garden 'soap opera'. It related to a particular kind of eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hacky, grinding, stinkingshort stories, outworn, spaceship yarn". It would be fifty years later before the term started to be rethese magnificent stories have won twenty-appropriated to cover – seven major science fiction awards so if still the same themes of distant futures, military conflict, heroism and you are a simplistic set science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of values – more literary, more expansive worksthe work by Ted Chiang. The term is If you haven't than take this opportunity to do so now taken as compliment. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Salvation Exhalation by Peter F HamiltonTed Chiang|Full Review]]
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Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the possibility story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two women being able to produce a baby girl through entirely different genres and styles in such a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisationclever way they seemed perfectly suited. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part was then duly repeated for all the other films in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their own without the need quills ready for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows Episode Nine, the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour title of which became public knowledge the mediaday before I write. In the hiatus, however, and the general publiceffort has been made to see if the same shtick works with other texts, when faced with a controversial technique that and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. And could lead we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the demise Future, with its tales of men. time travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other? [[XX William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Angela ChadwickIan Doescher|Full Review]]
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===[[Rosewater A Memory Called Empire by Tade ThompsonArkady Martine]]===
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Rosewater The problem with Martine's fiction debut is a town that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and errs on the edgeside of making them unpronounceable by most readers. A community formed around the edges of I can see why she does both, but it's a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and disappointment because they're the helpless - people eager for a glimpse inside blocks against which the dome or a taste brilliance 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 futurebook stumbles. [[Rosewater A Memory Called Empire by Tade ThompsonArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi]]===
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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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi:Category:Science Fiction|Full ReviewScience Fiction]]
<!Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-- Setchfield -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785657097student 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.jpg|link=http://wwwBut Esis, his wife, is.amazonA beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in her children and not much more in Julian.coShe directs him towards his room, the library in which he will teach the children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with food.uk/dp/1785657097/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=== [[The War in Rose, the Night, and the Dark Mirror by Nick SetchfieldMark Lingane|Full Review]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Europe – 1963. 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 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 dark. [[The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield|Full Review]] <!-- Dixen Arnold -->
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Six girlsIn an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart'', six boys. Each in he continues to tell the two separate bays story of the Quantum twins. Born on a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time to seduce our earth - and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye a series of adventures ensued in the on-board camerasfollowing books. They are the contenders When we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in the Genesis programmebush - adopted by a Bushman family and made part of a tribe. Twin Qwelby however, the world's craziest speedis not doing so well -dating show ever, aimed at creating shocked by the first human colony violence on Marsthe earth. Leonor, Rescued by an 18 year old orphanfriend, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for he then tries to help a onegirl called Xaala -way ticket. Even if but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive a wedge between the dream turns twins as they try to a nightmare, it is too late for regretsreconnect... [[Ascension Betrayed by Victor DixenGeoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]
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Hadrian Marlowe sits in In the distant near future writing , self-drive cars are the true account of his life to add context to norm - a tale everyone in the Empire knows already. ''Empire convenient and easy way of Silence'' is a hero's quest but it is made clear from the start that it will not end that waytransport. We are millennia in However, when someone hacks into the futuresystems of eight self-drive cars, Earth has been lost and great houses rule portions of their passengers are set on a vast empirefatal collision course. Hadrian Marlowe is set As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, the public have to inherit one judge who should survive. But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by the great houses but following some terrible news he decides upon a new path instead. public - will they turn out to be what they seem? [[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) The Passengers by Christopher RuocchioJohn Marrs|Full Review]]
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===[[Elysium Fire Beneath the World, A Sea by Alastair ReynoldsChris Beckett]]===
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What happens when Utopia is achieved? When everyone is linked neurologically South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to everyone else investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and people vote black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect 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 preciseunleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, and no one knows howbut the closer he gets, or whythe more he begins to unravel, or who could be nextwith terrifying results... In such 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? [[Elysium Fire Beneath the World, A Sea by Alastair ReynoldsChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive Zero Bomb by Rohan QuineM T Hill]]===
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Meet JaymiRemi. He's a world-class video games designerfan of running, and fresh to a new mansion in indeed has been – from the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent successwife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. But Now working in London as a courier, he's seen the future and taking a routine piece of samizdat literature across town when he doesn't like its seemingly attacked by a driverless car. His current employers, able Struggling to bring any amount of class, skill and culture keep to the world of gameplayhis schedule, are beset on appealing he takes 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 environmentTube, where mysterious people progress through the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone sit with him – 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 quoregale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. With a much more Reithian approach Slowly, Jaymi goes freelancewoozily, and sets up a way of restoring the balance with he's drawn into a launch of his owncompletely surreal scenario, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played as he tries to find out by avatars what is wanted of him in the game. He sees this as a way to improve society , and get his own back by whom – but the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded backgroundand indeed, and become fully playable characters in reality… who he himself even is. [[The Beasts of Electra Drive Zero Bomb by Rohan QuineM T Hill|Full Review]]
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===[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William ShakespeareDragon's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Brookmyre -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Brookmyre_Places.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/035650624X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=035650624X]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Places in the Darkness Harvest by Chris BrookmyreJason F Boggs]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Living Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in 2017 has me longing the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'. As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and self-discovery, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's Dragon'', Nelson is on an expedition to live in some sort uncover the mystery of futuristic Utopiathe sungates, in when a world of free thinking and no major crimeterrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. Perhaps in a Space Station high above Meanwhile, the Earth were humans and the greatest minds have travelled so that they can build Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a vessel that will send quest to restore the next generations of humans New Era to populate new planetsglory. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be As Nelson and his friends race against the same old problems. You can't really have a Utopia with people clock in itorder to defeat this new threat, can you? they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[Places in the Darkness The Dragon's Harvest by Chris BrookmyreJason F Boggs|Full Review]]
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===[[Water & Glass The City In The Middle Of The Night by Abi CurtisCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant January is one of only a handful of animals living below the wavesdying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. We follow Nerissa CraneOne half is scorching sunlight, a vetpure, as she remembers recent eventsblazing heat, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intriguetotally uninhabitable. It The other half is difficult pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to properly review this book without giving too much awaydeath in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from In the start but I will try to avoid the main onesmiddle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. [[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis|Full Review]] <!-- Dick -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dick_Electric.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473223288?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473223288]] ===[[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick]]=== | style="vertical-align: top; textLife is a knife-align: left;"|[[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]edge, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50sstray too close to one side you die, 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 close to the author's short stories for TV. Startlinglyother, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction you die and into yet the factual: his topics heat from intrusive advertising the sun and loss of privacy to the increasing machination of society water from the ice are all headline material in today's newsnecessary for life. It Life for the inhabitants of January is as if half a century after their inceptionlong, and hard, and arduous, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality. will anything ever change? [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams The City In The Middle Of The Night by Philip K DickCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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