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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Geoffrey ArnoldAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Ripped ApartAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Qwelby and Tulia are teenage aliens''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, growing up I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in a world and environment far removed from our ownmy lifetime. When the twins interfere I've kept up reasonably well with a forbidden experiment, they find themselves transported what's advantageous to opposite ends me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of our Earth – Qwelby in Finland and Tulia in Africait is - frankly - quite frightening. To survive Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they must 're-establish their telepathic connection, find each other, avoid capture, and return hometalking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. They say that their I needed people arrived on Earth 75,000 years ago, were the cause of the development of the human race, I knew I could trust and now need who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the help Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of those humans if their race is to survivethem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624756</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Mann1803816759|title=Ghosts of KarnakThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|summary=The superhero market It's 2038 and Joe is crowded a bored cop policing the wealthy and sometimes a little boringpeaceful New York City. Who cares about what Joe longs for a God-like person can do when the rest bit of us are scrambling around trying adventure and to avoid papercutsget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, never mind trying and riots start to repel a rogue asteroidspread. The best heroes are those that are just normal blokes or ladies dressed up in Finally, Joe gets to do some fancy outfitreal policing. When it comes down to it Batman or The Shadow are just men, but it In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is their vulnerability that makes them ace assigned to read aboutbring her home. Add Joe isn't the only one trying to this list George Mann's 'The Ghost'save Suki - Dylan, a World War One veteran who returns to New York no longer willing to watch British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the criminals taking over his home towncase.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294167</amazonuk>What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneB0CP95J1CG|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River SongOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=34.5

|summary=''Hello, sweetie.'' And with those words we know where we are – in the company of River Song, one of modern TVRonan's more infuriating characters. Now she's likeable enough, it was just the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made her hard not entirely sure why he decides to live with. I would say this was a return go to her side, the party but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it in our future, which his interest is her past, and vice versa at piqued by the same, er, time? Either way, five tales here bring it arrived. And it seems like a selection good opportunity to get out of her escapades to his room and away from the online activities he makes a YA audienceliving at. The results can be bordering on So he makes his way there, dodging the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usual.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alex Lamb|title= Nemesis|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= I'm not a great lover buses that make up most of back-cover blurb, but every now the traffic and again it tells you everything you need to know…if you read between watching the lineslocal energy storage indicator lights. ''Hugely promising'' said SFX. ''Hits the ground running'' said the Guardian. I can't disagree with either of those two statements. Unfortunately for this particular reader, it ran very quickly into a swamp of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weedShould be enough power. And didn't live up to the promiseHopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473206111</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma GeenK P O'Donnell|title=The Many Selves of Katherine NorthVital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|summary=As VL-15, a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut'prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, nineteenconsumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-yeara-old Kit projects herself into the lab-grown bodies of all sorts of creaturescentury later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. SheDr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's recently spent legacy, building a lot world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of time as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) and got particularly close with group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a vixen named Tomoko. It's becoming much harder for her to leave the animal world behind at the end of her 'jumps'prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after Buckleybeing buried for 65 years, her neuroengineerdetermination hasn't diminished in the slightest, signals her to 'Come home' and she resumes her original bodyno errant machine, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialism, toileting outdoors no savage human tribe and raiding bins.not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858436</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip MartinEmily Tesh|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosSome Desperate Glory|rating=4.5

|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor WhoWhile Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us' had access to a time machine, they would be able to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found ' Following the likes destruction of [[Doctor Who and the Genesis Earth, amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis home of the Daleks]] last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to be too violent, she avenge her people and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to a prison worldthat should have been hers. All her life, where soon-she has been conditioned to-be victims of snuff movies are trapped fall in a reality-show styled existenceline, and a hard-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executions, the morgues and worse. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had the benefit of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differently. They were quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being a trade delegate who is half-man, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laugh, fulfil her duty and such an artificial premiseensure that humanity perseveres. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric SawardM R Carey|title=Doctor Who: The VisitationInfinity Gate|rating=35

|summary=Have you ever given your children I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a time machine? No? Are you sure? What about that thing in genre I dislike – nothing of the corner upstairs called sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a dressing-up box hard genre to get right – have they never been transported bodily to the 1970s by some orange cords and wide-collared shirts or whatnot? Have they never been in a museum and put on a mediaeval smock and told theywhen it're now in the middle ages? Well adults can get involved in thats bad, too, of course – it's often terrible. But the cast premise of this ''Doctor Who'' adventure Infinity Gate had to put on 17th Century garb, and that was pretty much it as far as looks gome hooked. Yes, there is an evilA concept this intriguing felt like a high-seeming alien, yes there are some control bands he makes us poor humans wear, and yes there is a giant android dressed as Death, but on the whole stakes gamble: if it was one of the more simple episodes. Stilldone well, whoit's to say the novel isn't much more substantial, rich and varied?d be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940392</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terrance DicksMichael Grothaus|title=Doctor Who Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the Genesis question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the Daleksdevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary=If you were to randomly travel in time and space, where would you end up? ''Our future will be more complex than we expected. WellInstead of flying cars, if our own battlewe got night-torn history was anything vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of confessions to go by, youmake. I'd like m not keen on short stories as not end up in I find it easy to read a time few stories and place of warthen forget to return to the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. The thing is, however, the Doctor is not, for once, travelling randomly – heThen there's science fiction: far too often it's been charged the technology which takes centre stage along with carrying out errands for the Time Lordsworld-building. And It's human beings who fascinate me: the most tricky of those is to go technology and the planet Skaroworld scape are purely incidental. So, deeply enmeshed in what did I think of a thousand year warbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, and put paid to one of the most heinous plans that could risk the universe – that of Davros to create his Dalek raceI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940384</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm HulkeMark Lingane|title=Doctor Who Galaxy|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. But Earth is under threat and he must. Returned by his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W}}{{Frontpage|author=Tade Thompson|title=Far From the Dinosaur InvasionLight of Heaven

|summary=What effect do you think youMichelle 'Shell'd have if you were Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to time travel? I dare say it depends who or what you were to begin withspace. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, and when you went and what you did. The creatures in this story only seem to stay in bound for the same placeworld of Bloodroot, and do just what comes natural – but as theyshe will essentially be a babysitter for the ship're giant rampaging dinosaurs and they suddenly appear in s AI captain. However, when she wakes up at the middle end of modern-day Central London they do kind her trip to find dozens of get noticed. As a result her passengers butchered and the entire place has been evacuatedRagtime's AI almost non-responsive, all ten million people shipped outshe begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Government resettled Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in that hotbed of politicstow, Harrogate. As a resultto see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, when leaving behind the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn up they immediately get accused of being looters – politicking and UNIT are just a touch too much out bureaucracy of contactSpace Station Lagos. What is causing time to leave the dinosaurs moving around Londonfive of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, and what is a mediaeval man, complaining but potentially the entirety of witchcraft under King John, doing there too?human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940376</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terrance DicksClaire North|title=Doctor Who and Notes from the Web of FearBurning Age

|summary=What do you look like if you time travel? Perhaps like At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a lunk-headed Austrianspy thriller, naked and with fizzy blue stuff all over you. Or perhapsas many double crosses, to the confusion of Professor Travers, you look exactly interrogations and night time escapes as you did when he met you in Tibet forty years agoLe Carre or Fleming. That escapade has had a legacyHowever, as he has brought back with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a deactivated robot Yeti – new and has mistakenly managed to reactivate ittimely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. Or perhaps, you look very much like yourself if youNorth're s novel tells of a time traveller, for just world devastated by reading this book you won't climate change your appearance, but you'll be sent back where humans have been forced to 1968start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, by way weapons of 1975mass destruction, when intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this book-of-limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the-series was first publishedEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940368</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bill StruttonAdrian Tchaikovsky|title=Doctor Who and the Zarbi|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Consider the time machine. You probably know of it as looking like either some fancy Edwardian sit-upon machine that the Morlocks nick, or perhaps a battered old English police call box. I would suggest it can also look like a small paperback book – pretty much like the subject at hand. This reprint of a ''Doctor Who'' novel, first presented in 1973 from the series shown in 1965, certainly has the ability to take you back. I grew up with the series on TV and the books in a Target imprint, but this predates that – it was, apparently, the second ever Who book-of-the-series. In it, the good Doctor and his three companions arrive on a certain quarry-like planet. One stays in the TARDIS, only to find it and her nicked by aliens; another needs rescuing from alien mind control by a different species of aliens; and the third with our irascible hero work out what actually took control of their ship and stranded them there in the first place…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178594035X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David Wingrove|title= The Ocean Shards of TimeEarth|rating= 3.54

|summary= The War for Time continuesEighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. From And so, the frozen tundra memories of 13th Century Russia the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to the battle of Paltava in 1709 fracture and beyondfight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, Otto Behr has waged an unquestioninga man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, unending war across time for his peopledoes not want to be remembered. But now a third unidentified power has joined , when he and the crew of the game across salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the ocean of timespotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and everything Otto holds dear could be unmade…rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195617X</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Holly JenningsTerry Miles|title= Arena|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Kali Ling competes in the RAGE tournaments – a competition of Virtual Gaming, where the world's best gamers compete in a fight to the digital death. Every fights is broadcast to millions, and each player leads lives of fame. Although the weapons are digital, the players feel every blow… Kali Ling – the first female captain in tournament history, is famed for her prowess – but has her world shaken when her teammate and lover overdoses. Now, she must win the tournament and uncover the truth about the tournament, for the Virtual Gaming League has dark secrets. And the only way to change the rules is to fight from the inside…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1101988762</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Cobley|title= Ancestral Machines|rating= 3|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Having completed the Humanity's Fire trilogy with the Ascendant Stars, I expected to go off and do something completely different. He didn't. In Ancestral Machines, we're back in the same universe. The Construct (an ancient AI on a mission) is still doing its best to protect sentient species, and the drone Rensik is still one of its key agents. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501779</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= The Philosopher Kings|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Twenty years have passed since the Goddess Athene founded the Just City. The god Apollo is still living there, albeit in human form. Now married, and the father of several children, the man/god struggles to cope when tragedy befalls his family. Beset by grief and a need for revenge, Apollo sets sail to find the man who caused him such pain, but discovers something that may change everything…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150791</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mike Brooks|title=Dark SkyRabbits

|summary=Making money is not easy, especially if you live life on Welcome to the edges world of known space scraping The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a living doing odd jobs with your crew; some legalslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, some not so legaland to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. You may not have much moneyYes, this is the game of life for a good ship or even adequate washing facilitiescertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, but what you do have is the friendship and comradery hack from the darkest of your fellow crewmateswebs. That is unless you have all just discovered People like our hero, K, named like that in the captain used least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be a space pirate historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who once suffocated has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his entire crew so that loved ones might be kept safe, he could escape. Welcome is only to find out that the jolly ship Keikoline between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195665X</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Samuel R DelanyC J Carey|title= NovaWidowland|rating= 54|genre= Science General Fiction|summary=In It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the 31st century the rare element Illyrion is state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a crucial energy sourcebit, and naturally enough a whole lot watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of politics Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and power we are bound up with whoever controls now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the supplymainland''. Lorq Von Ray But this is most certainly a different Britain, daring spaceship captainfor Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has this mad idea put all of that flying gender into an imploding star will a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – as long as he after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get out again – allow him a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to gather Illyrion in unimaginable quantities. Luckily his rag-bag crew donspoil Hitler't know about this when they sign ons visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211913</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma NewmanEverina Maxwell|title= Planetfall|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Ren believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond our one, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, and untainted by overpopulation, pollution and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything, and followed the pathfinder Suh-Mi into the unknown. Twenty two years later, the new colony still functions – based around a mysterious alien structure into which Suh-Mi has resided in isolation. Ren works hard alone, generating the tools needed for survival – and harbouring a secret that could destroy everything they have worked to build. When a stranger appears, bearing a strong resemblance to the hidden Suh-Mi, secrets can no longer be hidden – secrets that may just destroy the colony…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0425282392</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Hickman|title= The Art of Stephen Hickman|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Stephen Hickman has been a well known artist in the Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds for a number of years now, having created covers for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, and Larry Niven. His paintings are vibrant, kinetic, sometimes scary, often sensual, traditional, and yet modern. ''The Art of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds of these paintings, and the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic process. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298456</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ursula K Le Guin|title= The WindWinter's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=I'll start by saying that I think the SF Masterworks series are pretty much always and without fail a really interesting read. I've bought quite a few from this publisher now and I find they will always pick interesting titles from the science fiction genre, making them a great place to start if you are either just dipping your toe into science fiction for the first time or if you're looking to build up your collection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320576X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jason M Hough|title=Zero WorldOrbit|rating=3.5

|summary=Memory Prince Kiem is an important element of making us who we area famous political disappointment. Do we avoid certain courses of action knowing that the memory of it would haunt us for the rest of our lives? Most of us would not kill, but what if you could forget that you just ended someoneHe's life? Then you may outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years. So when an important political alliance is to be a sociopath, but a useful sociopath arranged – one that can be trained is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be an assassin who kills, forgets and kills againchosen for the role. This type Least of person may even forget that they have visited new worldsall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295252</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip K DickRob Winters|title=Nick and the GlimmungHis Name Was Wren

|summary=Meet NickIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. He lives on a future Earth, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacherIt came down hard, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare to taking the class that you are breaking spire of the law. Nick, you seevillage church with it, has destroying a pet catstone shack, and in this massively over-populated and under-resourced worldleaving a wide trail through the wood, pets are illegalbut no trace of what it actually was. There's a simple solution – wait for German secret weapon was the ''anti-pet man'' to turn up with his weaponry and armour and dispose of itlocal gossip, but the family there should have decided to take the other way out – emigrate to been an entirely different world. Hence they embark on the trip to be pioneer farmers on Plowman's Planetexplosion and a crater, even when they're forewarned of a host of different and most unusual animals already resident therewere neither of those things. That advice still doesn't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057513299X</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul McAuleyMark Lingane|title= ConfluenceNote to Self: An Education|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary= In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

|genre= Dystopian Science Fiction|summary=Yama is a foundling orphan adopted as a baby by On the Aedile (chief civil servant) moon of a small city downriver of distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the mightyplanet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient city of Ys, capital of alien bunker under the man-made world of Confluencemoon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. Longing After the entity bonded to become a soldier her loses control and take his late brother's place in kills half the long-running war against staff of the hereticsresearch station, the restless seventeen year old United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is about to be taken as attacked and destroyed by an apprentice clerk despite his young agealien ship, and she has to keep him out flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of troublemisfits, and the news is grim. DestinyThe same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, howeverand only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, has other plans for him.Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057511942X</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Walter M Miller JrLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Dark BenedictionSeven Devils|rating= 54

|summary= Walter M. Miller Jr Eris is rightly placed among one of the foremost operatives of the science fiction giants H.G. WellsNovantae, Michael Moorcocka resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, and Philip Kwhom everyone believed has been dead for years. Dick in Clo, an ace pilot for the ''Masterworks'' seriesNovantae, has a mission: hijack a large selection of genre-defining writers and works at Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the centre of what war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is now such her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a popular and diverse range of literaturessecret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, filmsthe runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and television productions. Miller is considered one of the finest science fiction writers last of the 1950s, and in ''Dark Benedictionfree alien species. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles'plans, fourteen with millions of this author's best short stories are brought together lives hanging in one collection.the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211948</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby Frederic Beigbeder and Kevin Moffett|title=The Silent History|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Well, they kept this quiet – for reasons that will become obvious. A couple of years ago people in America were giving birth to problematic kids. They Frank Wynne (the childrentranslator) were soon found to be unnaturally quiet – perhaps crying with hunger or pain, but never even trying to 'ooga-wooga' their way into their parents' hearts. They were later found to be completely unable to speak, they could not read and indeed they could not understand anything said to them, or shown them, as an instruction. They were physically unable to parse anything as language, and were in a silent world of their own. But right about now they and we are combining worlds – schools are being set up, and funds are being made available, and people are coming down on the endless divide as to whether they are just problematic, disabled – or even the blessed. In a couple of years, however, the problems the virus that is causing these people to be born with will be shown to be a major problem – and that is before the kids themselves change. For they will be able to switch their mental abilities much like a blind man can hear more than the average, and will be able to comprehend body and facial language much more coherently than anyone else. Throughout this timeline, however, people will be working hard to try and study the problem, and put it right – if indeed 'right' is the correct word…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959286X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kieran Shea|title=Koko the Mighty|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Many people have dreamed of packing up their old jobs and opening a B&B or hotel with their partner somewhere in a picturesque holiday destination. You may just deserve this new life, but running a hotel is not easy, especially when it is on a pleasure island known for its indiscriminate violence and hedonism. Koko Martsteller had her last hotel/brothel blown up, but after a series of extraordinary events she has a new hostelry and a new partner. It's a shame then that nothing is ever easy for Koko.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168628</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Boffard|title=Tracer|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction |summary=Just because the Earth has been destroyed does not mean that humans are now extinct. As a bunch, humans are resourceful, so rather than sit on a dying Earth we all pack our bags and get a place on the orbiting station called New Earth. However, after a couple of hundred years the old space station is starting to feel a little cramped and appears to be falling to pieces. What is the common link to both Earth and New Earth being destroyed? Perhaps it is time someone did something about these pesky humans who ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356505138</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lev Rosen|title=DepthA Life Without End

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=The private investigator genre is I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a great birthday this year – I know, yet another one. Not because they all feel pretty similar so that picking It won't be one up is like slipping on a pair of comfortable slippersthe major numbers, but because you can put the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a PI anywhere – even few of the futurebig 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) Writing about a New York Now if that is partially underwater could 's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be done in many ways; action, cerebralhappy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but why not use an investigator he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong life for hire? Mixing a solid crime story as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with an intriguing glance at the future assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is sure to be at least a winnerway of continuing the life of his genes, but you better put and a motive to keep on your best trench coat as you are going . But how can he get to get wet.not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298634</amazonuk>1642860670