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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, with terrifying results... [[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett|Full Review]] <!-- Hill Graves -->

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===[[Zero Bomb Lakes of Mars by M T HillMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:34.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Meet Remi. He's After his entire family is killed in a fan of runningshuttle crash, one that he was piloting no less, Aaron Sheridan enlists in the Martian Fleet, and indeed has been – from fully expecting to die in the wife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughterongoing Rim War. Now working in London as a courierInstead, hewinds up on Corinth Station, the Fleet's taking a routine piece command school. At first, he is apathetic towards the brutality and scheming of samizdat literature across town when he's seemingly attacked by a driverless car. Struggling to keep to the students and staff, but after standing up for his scheduleonly friend, he takes to becomes a target for the Tubedreaded Caelus Erik, where mysterious people sit with him – and regale him with cryptic clues the most feared cadet on Corinth. Scared that mention any further actions will put others on his dead childflight team at risk, Aaron shuts himself off from everyone. Slowly, woozilyBut, when he's drawn into discovers that the staff on Corinth have a completely surreal scenariomotive other than training officers, as he tries begins to find out what is wanted of him, and by whom – and indeed, who realise that risking his all might be the safest thing he himself even iscan do... [[Zero Bomb Lakes of Mars by M T HillMerritt Graves|Full Review]]

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===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]

Young Nelson Jones was In 2031, genetic engineering and robotics is changing the world at an unprecedented rate, with a young regimen known as Revision making people stronger, faster and gifted military cadet in smarter than ever before. Baseline humanity is slowly being rendered obsolete, with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by the fascist wayside as these new world order called superhumans dominate the workforce. Without Revision, Dorian can'New Erat go to University and can'. As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and self-discovery, he became t get a changed manjob. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The DevilAnd so begins Dorian's Dragon'', Nelson is on an expedition to uncover the mystery slow spiral of the sungatesself-destruction, when a terrible secret leads robbing houses with his best friend Ethan to horrifying discoveries pay for his Revision, all involvedthe time desperately trying to keep this activity secret from his family. MeanwhileBut, the humans with his psychopathic brother already suspicious of him and the Aesini fight for their very existencepolice gaining ground, as NelsonDorian slowly begins to realise that he's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest going to have to restore the New Era risk everything to glorystay ahead... 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 Sunlight 24 by Jason F BoggsMerritt Graves|Full Review]]

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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night Salvation Lost by Charlie Jane AndersPeter 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]]

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]] <!-- Hamilton Megan E O'Keefe -->

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===[[Salvation Velocity Weapon by Peter F HamiltonMegan 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 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, 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 Megan E O'Keefe|Full Review]]

[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] 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]] <!-- Chadwick -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:0349700249.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349700249/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[XX by Angela Chadwick]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of their own without the need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, and the general public, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to the demise of men. [[XX by Angela Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- Thompson Vaughn -->

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===[[Rosewater Across the Void by Tade ThompsonS K Vaughn]]===

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Rosewater is a town on the edgeSea epics? So 20th century. A community formed around the edges of Try 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 futurespace epic. [[Rosewater Across the Void by Tade ThompsonS K Vaughn|Full Review]]

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===[[Summerland Exhalation by Hannu RajaniemiTed Chiang]]===

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Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of Over the afterlife, the British Empire past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang 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 -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785657097.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785657097/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield]]=== [[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 borderpublished fifteen science fiction short stories, 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 -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471406849.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471406849/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | 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 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, 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, science fiction fan it is too late for regrets. 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[[Empire of Silence (Sun Eater) work by Christopher Ruocchio|Full Review]]  <!-- Reynolds -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Reynolds_FireTed Chiang.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575090588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] What happens when Utopia is achieved? 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 next. In such a circumstance who can be trusted If you haven't than take this opportunity 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 by Alastair Reynolds|Full Review]] <!-- Quine -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Quine Beasts.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.conow.uk/dp/0992754941/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: leftTrust me;"|===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] 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 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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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[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 Get Thee Back 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 Future! 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 A long time ago, in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Science FictionIan Doescher|Science Fictionsomeone]] Living in 2017 has me longing thought it wonderfully wacky to live rewrite the story of Star Wars in some sort of futuristic UtopiaShakespearean pentameter, in a world of free thinking colliding two entirely different genres and no major crime. Perhaps styles in such a Space Station high above the Earth were the greatest minds have travelled so that clever way they can build a vessel that will send the next generations of humans to populate new planetsseemed perfectly suited. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be It was then duly repeated for all the same old problems. You can't really have a Utopia with people in it, can you? [[Places other films 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}}} main Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]Wars cycle, [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful the title of animals living below which became public knowledge the wavesday before I write. We follow Nerissa Crane In the hiatus, a vethowever, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue. It is difficult effort has been made to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from see if the start but I will try same shtick works with other texts, and to avoid the main onesriff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. [[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis|Full Review]] <! And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-- 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 seeming than Back to the 50sFuture, but they are more present than past. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews with its tales of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screenstime travel, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TV. Startlinglybullying, 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. parent/child strife like no other? [[Philip K DickWilliam Shakespeare's Electric Dreams Get Thee Back to the Future! by Philip K DickIan Doescher|Full Review]]

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===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) Memory Called Empire by James Goss and Russell T DaviesArkady Martine]]===

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Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch The problem 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 Martine's fiction debut is that pithily encapsulate she makes the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space two commonest errors in his TARDIS SF writing: she tries to stock up in advance, so my advice be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium complex and rich and get himself readyerrs on the side of making them unpronounceable by most readers. And if you I can see why she does both, but it's a disappointment because they'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 sameblocks against which the brilliance of the book stumbles. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) Memory Called Empire by James Goss and Russell T DaviesArkady Martine|Full Review]]