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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]] Rosewater After his entire family is killed in a town on shuttle crash, one that he was piloting no less, Aaron Sheridan enlists in the Martian Fleet, fully expecting to die in the edgeongoing Rim War. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodomeInstead, he winds up on Corinth Station, its residents comprise the hopefulFleet's command school. At first, he is apathetic towards the hungry brutality and the helpless - people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste scheming of its rumoured healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodomestudents and staff, and doesn't care to again - but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search after standing up for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realisation about a horrifying future. [[Rosewater by Tade Thompson|Full Review]] <!-- Rajaniemi -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473203287.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473203287/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]only friend, [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Imagine he becomes a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of target for the afterlifedreaded Caelus Erik, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerlandmost feared cadet on Corinth. Scared that any further actions will put others on his flight team at risk, the Big Smoke for the recently deceasedAaron shuts himself off from everyone. In 1938 But, when he discovers that the British Empire is caught up in staff on Corinth have a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. When Rachel Whitemotive other than training officers, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing he begins to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover realise that risking his all might be the truthsafest thing he can do... [[Summerland Lakes of Mars by Hannu RajaniemiMerritt Graves|Full Review]]

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===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]

Europe – 1963. The world In 2031, genetic engineering and robotics is used to changing the constant tensions between the West and Russiaworld at an unprecedented rate, with the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat in the lives of everyday regimen known as Revision making peoplestronger, faster and smarter than ever before. What they don't know however, Baseline humanity is that the real cold war is fought on the borders of this worldslowly being rendered obsolete, far from prying eyes at with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by the edges of wayside as these new superhumans dominate the lightworkforce. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced Without Revision, Dorian can't go to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, University and is forced into can't get a tensejob. And so begins Dorian's slow spiral of self-destruction, unwelcome alliance robbing houses with his best friend Ethan to pay for his Revision, all the lethal Karina Lazarovatime desperately trying to keep this activity secret from his family. As But, with his psychopathic brother already suspicious of him and the threats risepolice gaining ground, Christopher finds himself caught in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret Dorian slowly begins to realise that will give instant supremacy he's going to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against the enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through have to risk everything to the haunted Hungarian border, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glassstay ahead. It's a world of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war in the dark. [[The War in the Dark Sunlight 24 by Nick SetchfieldMerritt Graves|Full Review]]

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===[[Ascension Salvation Lost by Victor DixenPeter 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]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:Science FictionSalvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Science FictionFull Review]]

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]] <!-- RuocchioMegan E O'Keefe -->

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===[[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) Velocity Weapon by Christopher RuocchioMegan E O'Keefe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Hadrian Marlowe sits After her gunship is destroyed in the distant future writing the true account of his life a battle, Sanda Greeve expects to add context wake up in a friendly medical ward, fully healed and ready to a tale everyone in get back into the Empire knows alreadyfight. ''Empire However, instead she wakes up a quarter of Silence'' is a heromillenia later, missing a leg, aboard an enemy starship called The Light of Berossus (or "Bero", as the starship's quest but it is made clear from the start that it will not end rather grumpy AI prefers to call himself). Bero tells Sanda that way. We are millennia in the futurewar is long over, Earth has been lost and great houses rule portions that the entire population of a vast empirethe system is dead. Hadrian Marlowe The only option, it seems, is set to inherit one of travel to the nearest star system. But, as the starship makes preparations for its decades-long voyage across the great houses but following some terrible news he decides upon a new path insteadstars, it becomes clear to Sanda that something else is going on... [[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) Velocity Weapon by Christopher RuocchioMegan E O'Keefe|Full Review]]

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===[[Elysium Fire Across the Void by Alastair ReynoldsS K Vaughn]]===

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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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===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive Exhalation by Rohan QuineTed Chiang]]===

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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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[[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 Shakespeare'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 by Chris Brookmyre]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort of futuristic Utopia, in a world of free thinking and no major crime. Perhaps in a Space Station high above the Earth were the greatest minds have travelled so that they can build a vessel that will send the next generations of humans to populate new planets. 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 the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre|Full Review]] <!-- Curtis -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Curtis_Water.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0995465754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0995465754]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]=== [[image: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 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 -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mann_Ghosts.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783294183/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ghosts of Empire by George Mann]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Taking on a band of undead Mummies will take it out of the best 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 of them. Surely, a nice visit to England, far from the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple, will help you to relax. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumber. Is it? [[Ghosts of Empire by George Mann|Full Review]] <!-- Weir -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Weir_Artemis.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0091956943/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 SamA long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the champion story of the Sereia Star Wars in their cosmos-spanning war with the GibbusShakespearean 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 character in this story. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past Star Wars cycle, and no memory of who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earthclearly someone's last hope buffing their quills ready for salvation from Episode Nine, the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy title of which became public knowledge the planet and everyone on itday before I write. This is not his choice In the hiatus, however: that is , the decision of effort has been made to see if the alien Sereiasame shtick works with other texts, his mentors and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous taskriff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. They And could we have their own reasons for wanting Earth anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to be savedthe Future, with its tales of time travel, bullying, 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 parent/child is not quite as he appears… strife like no other? [[My Name is Sam William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Wes StuartIan Doescher|Full Review]]

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===[[Sea of Rust A Memory Called Empire by C Robert CargillArkady Martine]]===

Have you ever watched the Terminator movies or some similar 'Robo-geddonThe problem with Martine' 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 she tries to be too clever and VIRGIL. They capture robots she wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and turn errs on the side of making them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousnessunpronounceable by most readers. The few remaining bots are called 'freebots I can see why she does both,but it' and inhabit s a desert called disappointment because they're the Sea blocks against which the brilliance of Rust, where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare partsthe book stumbles. [[Sea of Rust A Memory Called Empire by C Robert CargillArkady Martine|Full Review]]