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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Guy AdamsAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= ClassAll Tomorrow's Futures: JoyrideFictions that Disrupt|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summaryauthor=Poppy is a quiet girl, right up until she steals a car Benjamin Greenaway and drives it through a shop window. Max is a nice guy, but then he kills his whole family. Just for fun. Amar always seems so happy, so why is he trying to jump to his death from the school roof? Some of the students of Coal Hill School are not themselves. Some of them are dying. Ram has just woken up in a body he doesn't recognise, and if he doesn't figure out why, he may well be next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941860</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Baxter|title=The Massacre of MankindOram (Editors)|rating=45

|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies with ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the authorshape of things to come. After a certain period the copyright '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is lifted so that an independent author can tackle the characters, hence the proliferation of Sherlock Holmes bookswhat happens after you're eighteen. For many fans of the originalWell, these books feel like cover versions and are best avoided. It is only when the estate I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of the author gets involved that their interest is piquedtechnology in my lifetime. H. G. WellsI' ve kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'The War of m left with the Worldsfeeling that it'' left enough s all getting away from me. Some of a door open to explore further it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and when you hire as an experienced a science fiction author as Stephen Baxter to pick end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the official story, it may just be worth latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a readway I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473205093</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert DickinsonSylvie Cathrall|title=The TouristA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35

|summary=Time travel in any format is There are few greater joys than a tricky business. In the real world it is pretty much impossible, or we would all be reading about how people from the future kept trying to assassinate Hitler, but he managed book which lives up to avoid them. In film, time travel can be super cool and lead to some mind bending adventures, but spend a few moments unbending your mind and you discover more plot holes than an entire Terminator Tetralogycompelling premise. In the written form And this is even worse as you don't have the visual splendour to distract the eye. The key to time travel in science fiction is to keep it simple. Or you could just ignore this advice and write ''The Tourist''one of them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508153</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genreisbn= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play games: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 12/9 -->|author= Yan Vana1803816759|title= The Message|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=The Message follows an official Inquiry into the wanton destruction of a Protected Nature Reserve. The first witnesses give evidence of the extent of the damage and later witnesses identify those responsible. As the inquiry unfolds it becomes apparent that the Nature Reserve is Earth, and that the Inquiry is being undertaken by regulators from other Galaxies who have responsibility for the protection of Reserves throughout the Cosmos. Science Fiction? A love story? A study of human civilisation? A warning message...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B019NDIP1A</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUnravelling|author=Adrian J Walker|title=The End of the World Running ClubWill Gibson

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the end wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of the world as we know it comes, Edgar is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, adventure and in a panic, he throws random items, including his daughter, down to get stuck into his cellar, and some really gritty crime detection. But then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in something goes horribly wrong with the dark until their supplies run out. Fortunately they are luckyAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and they are rescued from the cellarriots start to spread. As they emerge back into the world they see the ruin and disaster around themFinally, caused by hundreds of large asteroids hitting Joe gets to do some real policing. In the earth. Large areas aftermath of the country have been destroyed. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and towns, turning feral, trying Joe is assigned to find whatbring her home. Joe isn's left t the only one trying to help them to survive. Edgar's family are rescued by save Suki - Dylan, a small remaining army unit, but he British superfan and his wife and children become separatedtech nerd, and so begins Edgaris also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's desperate race to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another country.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nina AllanB0CP95J1CG|title= The RaceOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= The Race alternates between our world and that of one set in a future Earth scarred by fracking and ecological collapse. In our world, Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the story follows Christy, a young aspiring writer whose mother left when she was only 15 and whose life party but his interest is dominated piqued by fear of her brother, a man capable of monstrous actsthe way it arrived. Meanwhile, in Sapphire And it seems like a world similar good opportunity to our own yet very different, with get out of his room and away from the entire economy funded by illegal smart dog racingonline activities he makes a living at. So he makes his way there, we encounter Jenna Hoolman whose young niece is kidnapped at dodging the tender age buses that make up most of 4. We also learn about Alex, a man who can help Christy uncover the truth behind her past as well as Maree, an intelligent young woman who has traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power to change the world forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565036X</amazonuk>Hopefully.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geoffrey ArnoldK P O'Donnell|title= Ripped ApartThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Qwelby and Tulia are teenage aliens, growing up in a world and environment far removed from our own. When the twins interfere with a forbidden experiment, they find themselves transported to opposite ends of our Earth – Qwelby in Finland and Tulia in Africa. To survive, they must re-establish their telepathic connection, find each other, avoid capture, and return home. They say that their people arrived on Earth 75,000 years ago, were the cause of the development of the human race, and now need the help of those humans if their race is to survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624756</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=George Mann|title=Ghosts of Karnak|rating=4

|summary=The superhero market VL-15, a prototype robot, is crowded desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and sometimes a little boringRenada. Who cares about what Over half-a God-like person can do when the rest of us are scrambling around trying century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to avoid papercutscontinue her father's legacy, never mind trying to repel building a rogue asteroid. The best heroes are those that are just normal blokes or ladies dressed up world where machines and humans can live together in some fancy outfit. When it comes down to it Batman or The Shadow are just menharmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it is their vulnerability that makes them ace to read aboutall crashing down again. Add to this list George Mann's 'The Ghost'Craig Anderson, leader of a World War One veteran who returns to New York no longer willing to watch group of salvagers called the criminals taking over Exhumers, has his home townentire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself.Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294167</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneEmily Tesh|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River SongSome Desperate Glory|rating=34.5

|summary=''HelloWhile Earth's children live, sweetie.the enemy shall fear us'' And with those words we know where we are – in  Following the company destruction of River Songthe Earth, one amongst a rare number of modern TV's more infuriating characters. Now she's likeable enoughsurvivors, it was just Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that made her hard to live withshould have been hers. I would say this was a return to All her sidelife, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it she has been conditioned to fall in our futureline, which is to fulfil her past, duty and vice versa at the same, er, time? Either way, five tales here bring a selection of her escapades to a YA audience. The results can be bordering on the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usualensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alex LambM R Carey|title= NemesisInfinity Gate|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= I'm not a great lover of back-cover blurb, but every now and again it tells you everything you need to know…if you read between the lines. ''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-weed. And didn't live up to the promise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473206111</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Emma Geen|title=The Many Selves of Katherine North|rating=3.5

|summary=As a Bristol-area I'phenomenautm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it', nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into s a genre I dislike – nothing of the lab-grown bodies of all sorts of creaturessort. SheMy standards are high precisely because it's recently spent a lot of time as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) hard genre to get right – and got particularly close with a vixen named Tomoko. Itwhen it's bad, it's becoming much harder for her to leave the animal world behind at often terrible. But the end premise of her 'jumps'Infinity Gate had me hooked. Even after BuckleyA concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, her neuroengineer, signals her to it'Come home' and she resumes her original body, she has trouble giving d be fantastic. So this is where I sum up animal tendencies like territorialism, toileting outdoors and raiding binsthat premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858436</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip MartinMichael Grothaus|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor WhoBut fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'' had access to a time machine, they would be able m willing to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found the likes of [[Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis bet most of the Daleks]] to be too violent, she and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to a prison worldwhat we fear will never happen, where soon-or we can take steps to-be victims of snuff movies are trapped in a reality-show styled existence, and a hard-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executions, the morgues and worsechange it. If those watching ''Doctor Who ''Beautiful Shining People'' had revolves around the benefit question of foresight they might have responded identity and acceptance. Of what it means to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differentlybe human. They were quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being a trade delegate who Of what is half-man, half-slug real and wholly stupid evil laughwhat is artificial, and such an artificial premisewhether the development of technology is exciting or frightening. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Saward1739593901|title=Doctor Who: 22 Ideas About The VisitationFuture|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=35

|summary=Have you ever given your children a time machine? ''Our future will be more complex than we expected. No? Are you sure? What about that thing in the corner upstairs called Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a dressing-up box – have they never been transported bodily couple of confessions to the 1970s by some orange cords and wide-collared shirts or whatnot? make. Have they never been in a museum and put I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a mediaeval smock few stories and told they're now in then forget to return to the middle ages? book. Well adults can get involved in that, too, of course – the cast of this There''Doctor Who'' adventure had s got to be a very compelling hook to put on 17th Century garb, and that was pretty much it as far as looks gokeep me engaged. Yes, Then there is an evil-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 's science fiction: far too often it's the whole it was one of technology which takes centre stage along with the more simple episodesworld-building. Still, whoIt's to say human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the novel isn't much more substantialworld scape are purely incidental. So, rich and variedwhat did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940392</amazonuk> Well, I loved it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terrance DicksMark Lingane|title=Doctor Who and the Genesis of the DaleksGalaxy|rating=54

|summary=If you were to randomly travel in time and spaceSpark, where would you end up? Wellwho is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, if our own barely makes it through a battlealive. His co-torn history pilot was anything to go by, you'd like as not end up in so fortunate. Waking from a time coma that lasted years, he remembers little and place of waris in no physical shape to resume his duties. The thing But Earth is, however, the Doctor is not, for once, travelling randomly – under threat and he's been charged with carrying out errands for the Time Lordsmust. And the most tricky of those is Returned by his superiors to go the planet Skarospace station, deeply enmeshed in he finds himself amid a thousand year war, last ditch attempt to save humanity - and put paid to one of not just from the most heinous plans that could risk the universe – that of Davros to create his Dalek racealien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940384</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm HulkeTade Thompson|title=Doctor Who and 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= ArenaRabbits|rating= 34.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Kali Ling competes in Welcome to the RAGE tournaments – a competition world of Virtual GamingThe Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, where the worldit never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's best gamers compete in also called Rabbits, although only as a fight slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the digital deathaverage person no obvious entry point. Every fights is broadcast to millions, and each player leads lives A bit like the game of famelife then. Although the weapons are digitalYes, this is the players feel every blow… Kali Ling game of life for a certain tribe of people – the first female captain in tournament historyfan of the conspiracy, the computer game, is famed for her prowess – but has her world shaken when her teammate and lover overdosesthe hack from the darkest of webs. NowPeople like our hero, K, she must win named like that in the tournament least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and uncover his bezzies are trying to be historians of the truth about game, and have studied amongst many things the tournamentmost unique of high score boards, for the Virtual Gaming League lists of who has dark secretssuccessfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. And However this time it's different. This time the only way game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to change sort out what the rules game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to fight from find out that the line between observing and learning about the inside…game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101988762</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael CobleyC J Carey|title= Ancestral MachinesWidowland|rating= 34|genre= Science General Fiction|summary=Having completed the HumanityIt's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's Fire trilogy with schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the Ascendant Starsstate funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, I expected and watching over the sanctioned return to go off and do something completely differentthe throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. He For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't. In Ancestral Machineshappen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, weshare enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''re back in the same universemainland''. The Construct (an ancient AI But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on a mission) down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is still doing its best employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to protect sentient speciestake all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the drone Rensik party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is still one her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of its key agentsfemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501779</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo WaltonEverina Maxwell|title= The Philosopher KingsWinter's Orbit|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 Sky|rating=4.5

|summary=Making money Prince Kiem is not easy, especially if you live life on the edges of known space scraping a living doing odd jobs with your crew; some legal, some not so legalfamous political disappointment. You may not have much moneyHe's outgoing, a good ship or even adequate washing facilitiescarefree, but what you do have is and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the friendship and comradery of your fellow crewmatespast few years. That So when an important political alliance is unless you have all just discovered that the captain used to be a space pirate who once suffocated his entire crew so arranged – one that he could escape. Welcome is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the jolly ship Keikorole. Least of all him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195665X</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Samuel R DelanyRob Winters|title= NovaHis Name Was Wren|rating= 54|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. It came down hard, taking the 31st century spire of the rare element Illyrion is village church with it, destroying a crucial energy sourcestone shack, and naturally enough leaving a whole lot wide trail through the wood, but no trace of politics and power are bound up with whoever controls what it actually was. German secret weapon was the supply. Lorq Von Raylocal gossip, daring spaceship captainbut there should have been an explosion and a crater, has this mad idea that flying into an imploding star will – as long as he can get out again – allow him to gather Illyrion in unimaginable quantities. Luckily his rag-bag crew don't know about this when they sign onand there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211913</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma NewmanMark Lingane|title= PlanetfallNote 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

|summary= Ren believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision On the moon of a world far beyond our onedistant gas giant, calling Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to humanity. A make the planet promising habitable to reveal human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the truth about our place in moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the cosmos, and untainted by overpopulation, pollution and war. Ren believed in that vision enough entity bonded to give up everything, her loses control and followed kills half the pathfinder Suh-Mi into staff of the unknown. Twenty two years laterresearch station, the new colony still functions – based around a mysterious alien structure into which Suh-Mi has resided United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in isolationfor examination. Ren works hard aloneThings go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, generating the tools needed for survival – and harbouring a secret that could destroy everything they have worked she has to flee to buildthe 61 Cygnus star system. When a stranger appearsShe is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, bearing crewed by Captain Falconi and a strong resemblance to the hidden Suhrag-Mitag bunch of misfits, secrets can no longer be hidden – secrets and the news is grim. The same aliens that may just destroy destroyed the colony…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0425282392</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Hickman|title= The Art Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of Stephen Hickman|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Stephen Hickman has been human-occupied space, and only a well mythical weapon known artist in as the Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds for a number Staff of years now, having created covers for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and Larry Niven. His paintings more players are vibrantintroduced into this war, 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 Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a fascinating glimpse into greater hand in the artistic process. conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298456</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ursula K Le GuinLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass RoseSeven Devils

|summary=I'll start by saying that I think Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the SF Masterworks series are pretty much always and without fail Novantae, a really interesting readresistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. I've bought quite a few from this publisher now and I find they will always pick interesting titles from Clo, an ace pilot for the science fiction genreNovantae, making them has a mission: hijack a great place Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to start if you are either just dipping your toe into science fiction for the first time or if youwar effort. Although she're looking s less than pleased to build up your collection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320576X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jason M Hough|title=Zero World|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Memory discover that her former friend Eris is an important element of making us who we areher partner on this mission. Do we avoid certain courses of action knowing that Things get more interesting as the memory of it would haunt us for mission commences; aboard the rest of our lives? Most of us would not kill, but what if you ship are three defectors with a secret that could forget that you just ended someonepotentially cripple the Empire. Eris's life? Then you may be a sociopathbrother Damocles, but a useful sociopath that can be trained the runner-up heir to be an assassin who killsthe Empire, forgets is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and kills againthe last of the free alien species. This type It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of person may even forget that they have visited new worlds.lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295252</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip K DickFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Nick and the GlimmungA Life Without End

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet NickI looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. He lives on a future Earth, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just It won't be one holographic teacherof the major numbers, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice the time when you declare to I have the class that you are breaking same number as Heinz varieties looms on the lawhorizon. Nick, you see, has And then a pet catfew of the big 0-numbers, and in this massively over-populated and under-resourced worldif all goes well, pets are illegalI'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) ThereNow if that's a simple solution – wait for the ''antiextent of my mid-pet manlife crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn'' to turn up with his weaponry and armour and dispose of itt use that exact phrase, but the family have decided he might be said to be living one. Determined to take the other way find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – emigrate he would like to an entirely different world. Hence they embark on see 400 – he hops right into bed with the trip assistant to be pioneer farmers on Plowman's Planetthe first geneticist he interviews, even when and they're forewarned end up with a child, which is at least a way of a host continuing the life of different his genes, and most unusual animals already resident therea motive to keep on going. That advice still doesnBut how can he get to not flick the 'final way out't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057513299X</amazonuk>1642860670