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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= James YoungAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Rise of the Dust ChildAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= Science Fiction |summary=An age has passed since the fall ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the old world, and the rise shape of the malignant Dust peoplethings to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Amongst the terrors of this new age Well, humanity still lingers within the wreckage I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of civilisation, held together by the promise of a better existence technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the next life. But not feeling that it's all are satisfied by this dogmagetting away from me. Within the smoggy city Some of Fort Palmerit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, eight year old Doran I could research the possibilities and his friend Alena stand apart, struggling to retain the lost glory of their faith. But the unquiet dead probabilities and the forces of faith do not take kindly to those end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who try to fix a broken world. As the quest to save the future leads each of them down a dark path, knows what they are cast apart - struggling to overcome 're talking about or the monstrous dusters latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and the fear within themselves, desperate to see each other againwho could deliver information in a way I could understand. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634379</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ken LiuSylvie Cathrall|title= Invisible PlanetsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Invisible Planets is an eclectic collection, translated beautifully, and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides a welcome introduction for those who aren’t familiar with the genre. The stories There are dreamlike and hypnotic, evocative and inspiring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784978809</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= James Goss|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound You|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy |summary=At Coal Hill School, things have started to get public. Kids have become obsessed with few greater joys than a website that demands you perform risky stunts, or tell it your most painful secrets. And Seraphin, everyone's favourite vlogger, wants you to get involved. All in the name of charity. At first people just get hurt. Then their book which lives are ruined. Finally, they disappear. As April's fragile group of friends starts to fracture, she decides she's going to uncover the truth behind thie site herself. Whatever it takes, whoever she hurts, April's going to win. But then, to her horror, she wakes up and finds her whole world's changed. What she does next will astound you. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941887</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= A K Benedict|title= Class: The Stone House|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=There's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. They've heard the stories. But, if you stop, and look up, you'll see the face of a girl, pressed up against a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn to the stone house. There's a mystery there, and she's going to solve itcompelling premise. But the more she investigates, the more she realises that there's a presence in the house. One that wants her. Something And this is waiting for Tanya in the stone house. Something that has been trapping others in its web over the years. Something that is far worse than any ghost..one of them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941879</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Guy Adams1803816759|title= Class: Joyride|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Poppy is a quiet girl, right up until she steals a car 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>}}{{newreviewThe Unravelling|author=Stephen Baxter|title=The Massacre of MankindWill Gibson

|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies with It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the authorwealthy and peaceful New York City. After Joe longs for a certain period bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the copyright is lifted so AI system that an independent author can tackle the charactersnow runs everything, hence the proliferation of Sherlock Holmes books. For making life easier for many fans of the original, these books feel like cover versions and are best avoidedriots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. It is only when In the estate aftermath of the author gets involved that their interest rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is piquedassigned to bring her home. H. G. Wells' 'Joe isn'The War of t the Worlds'' left enough of only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a door open to explore further British superfan and when you hire as an experienced a science fiction author as Stephen Baxter to pick up tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the official story, system fail or was it may just be worth a read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473205093</amazonuk>hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert DickinsonB0CP95J1CG|title=The TouristOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=34.5

|summary=Time travel in any format Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is a tricky businesspiqued by the way it arrived. In the real world And it is pretty much impossible, or we would all be reading about how people seems like a good opportunity to get out of his room and away from the future kept trying to assassinate Hitler, but online activities he managed to avoid themmakes a living at. In film, time travel can be super cool and lead to some mind bending adventuresSo he makes his way there, but spend a few moments unbending your mind and you discover more plot holes than an entire Terminator Tetralogy. In dodging the written form this is even worse as you don't have buses that make up most of the visual splendour to distract traffic and watching the eyelocal energy storage indicator lights. The key to time travel in science fiction is to keep it simpleShould be enough power. Or you could just ignore this advice and write ''The Tourist''Hopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508153</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Luke RhinehartK P O'Donnell|title= InvasionThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating= 43.5|genre= Humour Science Fiction|summary=SuperVL-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth 15, a prototype robot, is desperate to have fununderstand who she is. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayUnfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and he and his family quickly come Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to love the playful alienrebuild. But when Louie starts using their computer Dr Amelia Wong is determined to hack into government continue her father's legacy, building a world where machines and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to othershumans can live together in harmony, they realise that Louie but internal frictions and his friends mean troubleexternal enemies might bring it all crashing down again. As Billy and his family begin Craig Anderson, leader of a roller coaster ride group of fame and fortunesalvagers called the Exhumers, as well as has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a ranking high on the FBIprototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn's most wanted list, t diminished in the Government soon decides that these aliens are terroristsslightest, and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American politicalno errant machine, economic no savage human tribe and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be donnot even Drexel't play games: they make war. s ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreview <!-- remove 12/9 -->Frontpage|author= Yan VanaEmily Tesh|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>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian J Walker|title=The End of the World Running Club|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=When the end of the world as we know it comes, Edgar is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, and in a panic, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellar, and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in the dark until their supplies run out. Fortunately they are lucky, and they are rescued from the cellar. As they emerge back into the world they see the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds of large asteroids hitting the earth. Large areas of the country have been destroyed. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and towns, turning feral, trying to find what's left to help them to survive. Edgar's family are rescued by a small remaining army unit, but he and his wife and children become separated, and so begins Edgar'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>}}{{newreview|author= Nina Allan|title= The RaceSome Desperate Glory|rating= 4|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, the story follows Christy, a young aspiring writer whose mother left when she was only 15 and whose life is dominated by fear of her brother, a man capable of monstrous acts. Meanwhile, in Sapphire a world similar to our own yet very different, with the entire economy funded by illegal smart dog racing, we encounter Jenna Hoolman whose young niece is kidnapped at the tender age 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 the power to change the world forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565036X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geoffrey Arnold|title= Ripped Apart|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 is crowded and sometimes ''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst a little boring. Who cares about what a God-like person can do when rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the rest last scraps of us are scrambling around trying humanity – and trained relentlessly to avoid papercuts, never mind trying to repel a rogue asteroid. The best heroes are those avenge her people and the world that are just normal blokes or ladies dressed up in some fancy outfitshould have been hers. When it comes down to it Batman or The Shadow are just menAll her life, but it is their vulnerability that makes them ace she has been conditioned to read about. Add to this list George Mann's 'The Ghost'fall in line, a World War One veteran who returns to New York no longer willing to watch the criminals taking over his home townfulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294167</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneM R Carey|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River SongInfinity Gate|rating=35

|summary=I''Hello, sweetiem annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction.Not because it'' And with those words we know where we are s a genre I dislike – in nothing of the company of River Song, one of modern TVsort. My standards are high precisely because it's more infuriating characters. Now shea hard genre to get right – and when it's likeable enoughbad, it was just 's often terrible. But the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made her hard to live withpremise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. I would say A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was a return to her sidedone well, but have we had that pleasure yet – isnit't it in our future, which d be fantastic. So this is her past, 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 usualwhere I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alex LambMichael Grothaus|title= NemesisBeautiful Shining People|rating= 3.54|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm not a great lover willing to bet most of back-cover blurbwhat we fear will never happen, but every now and again or we can take steps to change it tells you everything you need to know…if you read between the lines. ''Hugely promising '' said SFX. Beautiful Shining People''Hits revolves around the ground running'' said the Guardian. I can't disagree with either question of those two statementsidentity and acceptance. Unfortunately for this particular reader, Of what it ran very quickly into a swamp of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weedmeans to be human. And didn't live up to Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the promisedevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473206111</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Geen1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The Many Selves of Katherine NorthFuture|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=3.5

|summary=As a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut'Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, nineteenwe got night-year-old Kit projects herself into the lab-grown bodies of all sorts of creaturesvision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma. She's recently spent ' I've got a lot couple of time confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a fox (appropriate given her nickname) few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got particularly close with to be a vixen named Tomokovery compelling hook to keep me engaged. It Then there's science fiction: far too often it's becoming much harder for her to leave the animal technology which takes centre stage along with the world behind at the end of her 'jumps'-building. Even after Buckley, her neuroengineer, signals her to 'Come home It' s human beings who fascinate me: the technology and she resumes her original bodythe world scape are purely incidental. So, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialismwhat did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, toileting outdoors and raiding binsI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip MartinMark Lingane|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosGalaxy

|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' had access to 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 time machinecoma that lasted years, they would be able he remembers little and is in no physical shape to temper all their responsesresume his duties. When Mary Whitehouse found the likes of [[Doctor Who But Earth is under threat and the Genesis of the Daleks he must. Returned by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of his superiors to the Daleks]] to be too violentspace station, she and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to he finds himself amid a prison world, where soon-last ditch attempt tosave humanity -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 not just from the executionsalien threats against it, the morgues and worse. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had the benefit of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differentlybut also from its own sins against itself. 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, and such an artificial premise. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric SawardTade Thompson|title=Doctor Who: The VisitationFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=34.5

|summary=Have you ever given your children a time machine? No? Are you sure? What about that thing in Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the corner upstairs called world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a dressing-up box – have they never been transported bodily to babysitter for 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 theyship're now in s AI captain. However, when she wakes up at the middle ages? Well adults can get involved in that, too, end of her trip to find dozens of course – her passengers butchered and the cast of this Ragtime''Doctor Who'' adventure had s AI almost non-responsive, she begins to put on 17th Century garb, and realise that was pretty much it her first mission won't be going as far smoothly as looks goshe hoped it would. Yes, there is an evil-seeming alien, yes there are some control bands he makes us poor humans wearDown on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and yes there is a giant his android dressed as Death, but partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the whole it was one of the more simple episodesRagtime. StillMeanwhile, whoformer astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to say see why the novel isn't much more substantialRagtime has gone quiet, rich leaving behind the politicking and varied?bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940392</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terrance DicksClaire North|title=Doctor Who and Notes from the Genesis of the DaleksBurning Age|rating=54

|summary=If you were to randomly travel in At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new and spacetimely genre, where would you end up? Well, if our own battlecli-torn history was anything to go byfi, youor climate change fiction. North'd like as not end up in s novel tells of a time world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and place corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of warmass destruction, intensive farming). The thing There isa growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.|isbn=0356514757}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of Earth|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, howeverEarth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the Doctor moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is notscattered, for once, travelling randomly – heconstantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's been charged with carrying out errands for reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Time LordsArchitects vanished. And so, the most tricky memories of those is to go the planet Skarowar fades, deeply enmeshed in a thousand year warheroes are forgotten, and put paid humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to one of try and communicate with the most heinous plans that could risk Architects, does not want to be remembered. But, when he and the universe – that crew of Davros the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to create be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he and his Dalek race.allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940384</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm HulkeTerry Miles|title=Doctor Who and the Dinosaur InvasionRabbits

|summary=What effect do you think you'd have if you were Welcome to time travel? I dare say the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it depends who or what you were ought to be capitalised to begin withhigh heaven, and when you went and what you didit never leaves lower case throughout this book. The creatures in this story It's also called Rabbits, although only seem to stay in the same placeas a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and do just what comes natural – but as they're giant rampaging dinosaurs fast structure, and they suddenly appear in to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the middle game of modern-day Central London they do kind life then. Yes, this is the game of get noticed. As life for a result certain tribe of people – the entire place has been evacuatedfan of the conspiracy, all ten million people shipped outthe computer game, and the Government resettled hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in that hotbed the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of politicsthe game, Harrogate. As a resultand have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, when for the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn up they immediately get accused lists of being looters – who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and UNIT are just a touch too much out of contactstill very short. However this time it's different. What is causing 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 leave sort out what the dinosaurs moving around Londongame is doing, if it's even being played, and what how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is a mediaeval manonly to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, complaining of witchcraft under King Johnand playing it, doing there too?is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940376</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terrance DicksC J Carey|title=Doctor Who and the Web of FearWidowland

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=What do you look like if you time travel? Perhaps like It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a lunk-headed Austrianbit, naked and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with fizzy blue stuff all over youhis wife, Queen Wallis. Or perhapsFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the confusion World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of Professor Travers, you look exactly the same blood as you did when he met you in Tibet forty years agothe Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. That escapade has had But this is most certainly a legacydifferent Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, as he has brought back put all of that gender into a deactivated robot Yeti – caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and has mistakenly managed beyond those, right on down to reactivate itthe childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Or perhapsAnd in this puritanical existence, you look very much like yourself if you're a time travellerour heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for just by reading this female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book you won't change your appearancecan be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, but youand so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they'll be sent back to 1968re stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, by way of 1975at least, when this book-of-until the-series was first publishedemerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940368</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bill StruttonEverina Maxwell|title=Doctor Who and the ZarbiWinter's Orbit|rating=3.5

|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 Prince Kiem is a small paperback book – pretty much like the subject at handfamous political disappointment. This reprint of a ''Doctor Who'He' novels outgoing, first presented in 1973 from the series shown in 1965carefree, certainly and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the ability past few years. So when an important political alliance is to take you back. I grew up with the series on TV and the books in a Target imprint, but this predates be arranged – one that is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – it was, apparently, no one expects him to be chosen for the second ever Who book-role. Least of-the-series. In it, the good Doctor and his three companions arrive on a certain quarry-like planetall him. 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178594035X</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David WingroveRob Winters|title= The Ocean of TimeHis Name Was Wren|rating= 3.54|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= The War for Time continuesIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. From It came down hard, taking the frozen tundra spire of 13th Century Russia to the battle of Paltava in 1709 and beyondvillage church with it, Otto Behr has waged an unquestioningdestroying a stone shack, unending war across time for his people. But now and leaving a third unidentified power has joined wide trail through the game across wood, but no trace of what it actually was. German secret weapon was the ocean of timelocal gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a crater, and everything Otto holds dear could be unmade…there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195617X</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Holly JenningsMark Lingane|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 Note 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 SkySelf: An Education|rating=4.5

|summary=Making money is not easyIn Kry's world, especially if you live life on the edges discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of known space scraping a living doing odd jobs with your crew; some legal, some not so legal. You may not have much money, a good ship or even adequate washing facilitiesmedical "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 what you do have is with the friendship and comradery side effect of erasing seven years of your fellow crewmates. That memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is unless you have all just discovered that using the captain used same technique to be "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a space pirate society obsessed with image and youth, who once suffocated his entire crew so that he could escape. Welcome to the jolly ship Keiko.needs memories?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195665X</amazonuk>B08LY8J4KS}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Samuel R DelanyChristopher Paolini|title= NovaTo Sleep in a Sea of Stars

|summary=In On the 31st century moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the 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 attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the rare element Illyrion 61 Cygnus star system. She is a crucial energy sourcerevived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and naturally enough a whole lot rag-tag bunch of politics misfits, and power are bound up with whoever controls the supplynews is grim. Lorq Von RayThe same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, daring spaceship captain, has this mad idea that flying into an imploding star will – and only a mythical weapon known as long as he the Staff of Blue can get out again – allow him stop them. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to gather Illyrion realise that she may have had a greater hand in unimaginable quantities. Luckily his rag-bag crew donthe conflict than she could't know about this when they sign on.ve possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211913</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma NewmanLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= PlanetfallSeven Devils|rating= 54

|summary= Ren believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a world far beyond our oneresistance 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. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, calling has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to humanitygather information vital to the war effort. A planet promising Although she's less than pleased to reveal discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the truth about our place in mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the cosmos, and untainted by overpopulation, pollution and warEmpire. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everythingEris's brother Damocles, and followed the pathfinder Suhrunner-Mi into up heir to the unknown. Twenty two years laterEmpire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the new colony still functions – based around a mysterious last of the free alien structure into which Suh-Mi has resided in isolationspecies. Ren works hard alone, generating It's a race against time as the tools needed for survival – and harbouring a secret that could destroy everything they have worked rebels move to build. When put a stranger appearsstop Damocles' plans, bearing a strong resemblance to the hidden Suh-Mi, secrets can no longer be hidden – secrets that may just destroy with millions of lives hanging in the colony…balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0425282392</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen HickmanFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title= The Art of Stephen HickmanA Life Without End|rating= 4|genre= FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= Stephen Hickman has been a well known artist in I looked at the calendar the Fantasy other week, and Science Fiction worlds for disappointedly realised I have a number birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of years nowthe major numbers, having created covers for authors such but the time when I have the same number as Harlan EllisonHeinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, Robert Heinleinand if all goes well, Anne McCaffreyI'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, and Larry NivenI guess I have to be happy. His paintings are vibrant Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, kineticbut he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, sometimes scaryand they end up with a child, often sensual, traditionalwhich is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, and yet moderna motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out'The Art of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds of these paintingsswitch, and the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic process. especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298456</amazonuk>1642860670