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 | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ascension by Victor Dixen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, it is too late for regrets. [[Ascension by Victor Dixen|Full Review]] <!-- RuocchioGraves -->

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===[[Empire Lakes of Silence (Sun Eater) Mars by Christopher RuocchioMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Hadrian Marlowe sits After his entire family is killed in a shuttle crash, one that he was piloting no less, Aaron Sheridan enlists in the distant future writing the true account of his life Martian Fleet, fully expecting to add context to a tale everyone die in the Empire knows alreadyongoing Rim War. Instead, he winds up on Corinth Station, the Fleet''Empire s command school. At first, he is apathetic towards the brutality and scheming of Silence'' is the students and staff, but after standing up for his only friend, he becomes a hero's quest but it is made clear from target for the dreaded Caelus Erik, the start most feared cadet on Corinth. Scared that it any further actions will not end put others on his flight team at risk, Aaron shuts himself off from everyone. But, when he discovers that way. We are millennia in the futurestaff on Corinth have a motive other than training officers, Earth has been lost and great houses rule portions of a vast empire. Hadrian Marlowe is set he begins to inherit one of realise that risking his all might be the great houses but following some terrible news safest thing he decides upon a new path insteadcan do... [[Empire Lakes of Silence (Sun Eater) Mars by Christopher RuocchioMerritt Graves|Full Review]] 

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===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]

What happens when Utopia In 2031, genetic engineering and robotics is achieved? When everyone changing the world at an unprecedented rate, with a regimen known as Revision making people stronger, faster and smarter than ever before. Baseline humanity is linked neurologically slowly being rendered obsolete, with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by the wayside as these new superhumans dominate the workforce. Without Revision, Dorian can't go to everyone else University and people vote on each minor decision can't get a job. And so every aspect begins Dorian's slow spiral of life is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dyingself-destruction, melting robbing houses with his best friend Ethan to be precisepay for his Revision, and no one knows how, or why, or who could be next. In such a circumstance who can be trusted all the time desperately trying to solve keep this crime activity secret from his family. But, with his psychopathic brother already suspicious of him and do so without spreading panic? What if the only people who can be trusted police gaining ground, Dorian slowly begins to realise that he's going to have already let you down once before? to risk everything to stay ahead...[[Elysium Fire Sunlight 24 by Alastair ReynoldsMerritt Graves|Full Review]]

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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive Salvation Lost by Rohan QuinePeter 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.5starBut others choose to fight them head-on.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]As humanity comes face-to-face with the largest ever threat to their existence, old grudges will have to be put aside to focus on obliterating this enemy. Even if it means planning for a future than none of them will ever live to see...[[:Category:FantasySalvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|FantasyFull Review]]

Meet Jaymi. 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… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher Megan E O'Keefe -->

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===[[William ShakespeareVelocity Weapon by Megan E O's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian DoescherKeefe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, After her gunship is destroyed in a galaxy far awaybattle, there was Sanda Greeve expects to wake up in a man called William Shakespearefriendly medical ward, who was able fully healed and ready to create get back into the fight. However, instead she wakes up a series quarter of dramatic histories full a millenia later, missing a leg, aboard an enemy starship called The Light of machinations most foulBerossus (or "Bero", as the starship's rather grumpy AI prefers to call himself). Bero tells Sanda that the war is long over, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed that the cinematic version entire population of his original stage play for ''the system is dead. The Force Doth Awaken''only option, but here at last we get the actual scriptit seems, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-is to travel to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurtsnearest star system. And if you need further encouragementBut, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here as the starship makes preparations for its decades-long voyage across the series stars, it becomes clear to Sanda that something else is so popular we're going on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… ... [[William ShakespeareVelocity Weapon by Megan E O's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian DoescherKeefe|Full Review]]

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===[[Places in Across the Darkness Void by Chris BrookmyreS K Vaughn]]===

Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort of futuristic Utopia, in a world of free thinking and no major crimeSea epics? So 20th century. Perhaps in a Space Station high above the Earth were the greatest minds have travelled so that they can build Try a vessel that will send the next generations of humans to populate new planetsspace epic. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be the same old problems. You can't really have a Utopia with people in it, can you? [[Places in Across the Darkness Void by Chris BrookmyreS K Vaughn|Full Review]]

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===[[Water & Glass Exhalation by Abi CurtisTed Chiang]]===

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Something Over the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has happenedpublished fifteen science fiction short stories, something very nasty and on these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a submarine a pregnant elephant science fiction fan it is one of only a handful likely that you have already come across some of animals living below the waveswork by Ted Chiang. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigueIf you haven't than take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful.[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|Full Review]]

It is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the start but I will try to avoid the main ones. [[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; text-align: left;"|[[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they are more present than past. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TV. Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's news. It is as if half a century after their inception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming reality. [[Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams by Philip K Dick|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  | style="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 Doescher -->

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Taking on A long time ago, in a band of undead Mummies will take publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it out of wonderfully wacky to rewrite the best story of us Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a holiday may be neededclever way they seemed perfectly suited. If you are from New York there are not many It was then duly repeated for all the other cities worldwide that could impress youfilms in the main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, but London is one the title of themwhich became public knowledge the day before I write. Surely In the hiatus, a nice visit to Englandhowever, far from the hustle and bustle of effort has been made to see if the Big Applesame shtick works with other texts, will help you and to relaxriff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the loose Future, with magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the sleeping power its tales of Albion from its slumber. Is ittime travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other? [[Ghosts of Empire William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by George MannIan Doescher|Full Review]]

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===[[Artemis by Andy Weir]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Welcome to Artemis, the first city on the moon. A powerhouse for the rich and a once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and also a place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, it's the only place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives in the low end of town, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porter. However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and to this end, she has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazz's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome reward, it is just too tempting to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to do. [[Artemis by Andy Weir|Full Review]] <!-- Stuart -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stuart_Name.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.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 Sam, the champion of the Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, 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 from the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone on it. This is not his choice however: that is the decision of the alien Sereia, his mentors and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be saved, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselves. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, 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 Memory Called Empire by C Robert CargillArkady Martine]]===

Have you ever watched the Terminator movies or some similar The problem with Martine'Robo-geddon' franchise and wondered what would have happened if the robots had actually won? Well wonder no more, because Sea of Rust hinges on that exact premise; a world where the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there s fiction debut is no trace of organic matter anywhere, since the robot uprising that devastated she makes the planet. Now two huge mainframes compete for world dominationcommonest errors in SF writing: CISSUS and VIRGIL. They capture robots and turn them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousness. The few remaining bots are called 'freebots,' and inhabit a desert called the Sea of Rust, where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts. [[Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill|Full Review]] <!-- McAuley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mcauley_Austral.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473217318/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Austral by Paul McAuley]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Austral has no doubts about who she is. Her birth was, as she puts it, ''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 was, as the jargon of her world has it ''edited''. She is, as a result, a Husky. A human modified tries to withstand the cold temperatures of the Antarctic continent. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive in, but maybe not for much longer. This is a world in which the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the ice has retreated be too clever and continues to retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments is being opened up for exploitation. [[Austral by Paul McAuley|Full Review]] <!-- Arnold -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Arnold_Hunted.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785891855/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Hunted by Geoffrey Arnold]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, wants her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the young men fictional languages to be complex and women, a mixture of awe, desire, fear rich and hate. Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence errs on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best friends from the Pit side of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. Forming a connection with the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent making them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a short test run, the village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, he flees from the village... [[Hunted unpronounceable by Geoffrey Arnold|Full Review]] <!-- Suarez -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Suarez_Changemost readers.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/110198466X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Change Agent by Daniel Suarez]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wish. In the genetic lottery that is our lives we are given a selection from our mother and our father to work with. However, although they may be over six foot, you could still end up being shorter. You can't currently choose what coding you getsee why she does both, but what if you could cherry pick the best aspects of your family traits? It would be a great way to save people from hereditary disease, but would we end up with a world full of identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashions? In the future someone would need to be in charge of stopping science going too far. [[Change Agent by Daniel Suarez|Full Review]] <!-- Baxter -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Baxter_Xeelee.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473217172/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Xeelee: Vengeance by Stephen Baxter]]=== [[image:2star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Michael Poole, Earthit's greatest living engineer, changed the galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar system. However, such a thing was created with a degree of naivety and a lack of foresight disappointment because out of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, it is unstoppable and unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, the vessel is unresponsive to the human life around it. It ignores hails and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it, not even the surface of the sun. All it seems to want is energy, and Earth has plenty of that to be absorbed. [[Xeelee: Vengeance by Stephen Baxter|Full Review]] <!-- Godfrey -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Godfrey_Empire.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785653156/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Empire of Time (New Pompeii) by Daniel Godfrey]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to a new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old one sounded great in theory. The practice has been going on for years now, but the modern and old worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the experiment out of curiosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. Since he arrived, hethey's watched re the Romans kill blocks against which the inventors brilliance of the machine that saved them. Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give him his Roman name, is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and that's not a safe position or location in which to livebook stumbles. [[A Memory Called Empire of Time (New Pompeii) by Daniel GodfreyArkady Martine|Full Review]]