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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
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= Life in In the near future, life's not all badpretty good. We've reversed global warming and fixed Climate change has been brought under control, the collapsing bee populationhas been brought back from near-extinction, and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker than ever before. We even created But the biggest triumph has got to be SPACE, a virtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson can do almost anything they desiresimulated world that has the ability to mimic emotions as well as images. But almost anything isn't enough , as with every technology, there is the potential for someit to be abused. Every day, normal people are being takenkidnapped, plugged into SPACE and have their emotions and feelings harvested - and lives traded - to create death-defying thrills for the rich richest and twistedsickest members of society. Now Theo’s mother And now Theo's mum has disappearedgone missing. And as As he follows the trail left by her breadcrumb trail of clues, he'll come up against the most dangerous SPACE has to offer: vPolice, AI Bots and anarchists - as well as uncovers a criminal empire vast conspiracy that will kill would use any means necessary to stop him from finding her out where his mum has gone. . .
|isbn=1409184641
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|rating= 4
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary= Hundreds of years The last thing Colonel Reid Malenfant remembers is his Space Shuttle crashing - until he wakes up in the futuremid-24th Century, on a stagnating an Earth massively depopulated and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from patiently waiting for the early days of the 21st century is awoken coming apocalypse. Suffering from the cryogenic sleep severe culture shock, he entered after a devastating accident. As he comes tries to adjust to terms with this new world, . But all of this is changed when he begins receives a message from his wife Emma...who died on a mission to realise Phobos all the way back in 2004. As it slowly dawns on him that their history does not timelines don't match what up, he remembers - and that only he may be able resolves to stop the coming catastrophe destined find a way to destroy the planetPhobos. Until 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 seems desperately wants to have a drive of her own, and a planexplore as much as he does...
|isbn=1473223172
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Aaron Sheridan doesn't want to live anymore. His After his entire family is dead by his own hand, killed in a shuttle crash. Unable to deal with the guilt, one that he signs up for was piloting no less, Aaron Sheridan enlists in the Martian Fleet , fully expecting a fatal deployment to die in the ongoing Rim War. Instead, but instead ends he winds up at their most prestigious on Corinth Station, the Fleet's command school, Corinth Station. InitiallyAt first, he's detached from is apathetic towards the brutality of his instructors and the Machiavellian tactics scheming of the other students thereand staff, but after he sticks standing up for his only friend , he makes himself becomes a target of for the dreaded Caelus Erik, the most feared cadet on the station, Caelus ErikCorinth. Unsure of whom to trust and worried Scared that anything he does any further actions will make put others on his flight team targets as wellat risk, Aaron retreats deeper and deeper inside shuts himselfoff from everyone. HoweverBut, when he discovers that officer the staff on Corinth have a motive other than training is not the station's only purposeofficers, it becomes increasingly clear he begins to realise that risking everything is his all might be the safest thing he can do. .. [[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]
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If In 2031, genetic engineering and robotics is changing the game wasn’t fair world at an unprecedented rate, with a regimen known as Revision making people stronger, faster and smarter than ever before. Baseline humanity is slowly being rendered obsolete, it’s definitely not fair now. Or so thinks with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters, part of being left by the ever-expanding portion of humanity who can’t afford wayside as these new superhumans dominate the nano-implant and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revisionworkforce. And because he can’t afford Without Revision, he can’t get into college. He can’t Dorian can't go to University and can't get a job. And when he sees the brilliant and mesmerizing Lena for the first timeso begins Dorian's slow spiral of self-destruction, he knows he doesn’t have a chance with her, either. Feeling thoroughly lost and exasperated, Dorian robs a house robbing houses with his best friendEthan to pay for his Revision, Ethan. Then they do it again. It’s thrilling and terrifying and deeply unsettling. But since they take so little each all the time that their targets don’t notice, they’re able desperately trying to keep at it until they have enough money saved upthis activity secret from his family. Once they do their first RevisionBut, their initial choices in self-enhancement start impacting their future choiceswith his psychopathic brother already suspicious of him and the police gaining ground, which in turn impact their future Revision––on and on in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Dorian desperately wants slowly begins to slow things down and figure out the kind of person realise that he really wants 's going to be, but with the police one step behind them and a contentious relationship with his brother, Jaden, threatening have to unravel risk everything, it’s the expedient choices that he’s finding himself more and more compelled to makestay ahead... [[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]
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In the twenty-third century, humanity Humanity is enjoying at a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change, foreverturning point. After Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered investigation uncovers the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix 's plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry us to their god at the end name of the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earthgod, vast warships converge above the entire human race prepares to gather this cargofight back. Some factions push 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 live in hiding amongst the stars – although in an effort to hide from their aggressors, even though only a chosen few small percentage of humanity would make it out in timesurvive. But others refuse choose to break before the stormfight them head-on. As disaster loomshumanity comes face-to-face with the largest ever threat to their existence, animosities must old grudges will have to be set put aside to focus on just one goal: wiping obliterating this enemy from the face of creation. Even if it means preparing planning for a future this generation than none of them will never ever live to see... [[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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The last thing Sanda remembers is After her gunship exploding. She expected is destroyed in a battle, Sanda Greeve expects to be recovered by salvage-medics and to awaken wake up in a friendly handsmedical ward, patched-up fully healed and ready to rejoin get back into the fight. Instead However, instead she wakes up 230 years a quarter of a millenia later, on missing a deserted leg, aboard an enemy starship called The Light of Berossus - (or"Bero", as he the starship's rather grumpy AI prefers to call himself, 'Bero'). Bero tells Sanda that the war is lost. That long over, and that the entire star population of the system is dead. But The only option, it seems, is that to travel to the full story? After allnearest star system. But, in as the starship makes preparations for its decades-long voyage across the vastness of spacestars, anything it becomes clear to Sanda that something else is possible going on. . . [[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe|Full Review]]
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January is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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Apparently the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as a pejorative. It was borrowed not from the high-brow musical art form, but from the common or garden 'soap opera'. It related to a particular kind of science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn". It would be fifty years later before the term started to be re-appropriated to cover – if still the same themes of distant futures, military conflict, heroism and a simplistic set of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as compliment. [[Salvation by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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