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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alastair ReynoldsAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Slow Bullets|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=When hundreds of worlds have been at war for a long time, the announcement of a ceasefire takes a while to reach everyone. ItAll Tomorrow's perhaps not surprising Futures: Fictions that the worst of the soldiers using the war as an excuse for crimes, don't immediately give up. Scur, a conscript who has just been given the hope of returning to her family, has the misfortune to run into one of these war criminals before the peacekeepers arrive. He leaves her to die, but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a prison ship, only to discover that he is there too. And that's the least of her worries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147321842X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDisrupt|author= Alec Birri|title= Condition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= It's 1966, but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn't celebrating England's win in the World Cup – instead he's awakening from a coma following an aircraft accident. Waking in a world where nothing makes sense, he's unable to recall the crash – but struggles to remember the rest Opening up new ways of his life…And what's stopping him from taking his medication? Is it brain damage causing paranoia thinking about the red pill, or is he right to think there's something more sinister going on…And, having suffered almost 100% burns, how is he alive? Are his hallucinations trying to tell him something?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785899686</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Charlie Laidlaw|title= The Things We Learn When We're Dead|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= On the way to a dinner party, Lorna Love steps into the path shape of an oncoming car. Waking up in what appears things to be a hospital, but a hospital in which wine is served for supper, everyone avoids her questions, and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is in Heaven, or, at least, on HVN. Because HVN is a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, and God the aging hippy captaincome. At first Lorna can remember nothing, but as her memories return – some good, some bad, she realises that she has a decision to make, and that maybe, she needs to find a way home…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786150352</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= William Gibson|title= Neuromancer|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=''He still dreamed of cyberspace…all the turns he'd taken and the corners he cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colourless void''

Neuromancer follows CaseI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, who used to be I must confess that there have been more than a cyber cowboy few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with exceptional hacking skills, before attempting what's advantageous to steal me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from his former employerme. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, who as a result severed his connection to cyberspace by injecting him with a mycotoxin. No longer able to enter I could research the Matrix, Case enters a dark depression having suicidal thoughts possibilities and developing a drug addiction, which is where the reader first meets our troubled protagonist probabilities and antihero. Waiting for end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone to help him escape his misery, a mysterious stranger proposes a deal to restore Casewho knows what they's ability to connect to cyberspace in exchange for working for himre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Surrounded by secrecy, Case joins the recruits on their mission to uncover artificial intelligence I needed people I knew I could trust and start life afreshwho could deliver information in a way I could understand. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217385</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brandon SandersonSylvie Cathrall|title= Arcanum UnboundedA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 45|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary= Brandon Sanderson is more cannon There are few greater joys than mana book which lives up to a compelling premise. He fires out more works than any other author of fantasy. Not only does he write an awe inspiring amount And this is one of novels, but he also writes various short fictions that go alongside them. And in here, for the first time, all the major ones are collected together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473218039</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= James Young1803816759|title= Rise of the Dust ChildThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction |summary=An age has passed since It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the fall wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of the old world, adventure and the rise of the malignant Dust peopleto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Amongst the terrors of this new age, humanity still lingers within But then something goes horribly wrong with the wreckage of civilisationAI system that now runs everything, held together by the promise of a better existence in the next making life. But not all are satisfied by this dogma. Within the smoggy city of Fort Palmereasier for many, eight year old Doran and his friend Alena stand apartriots start to spread. Finally, struggling Joe gets to retain do some real policing. In the lost glory aftermath of their faith. But the unquiet dead rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and the forces of faith do not take kindly Joe is assigned to those who try to fix a broken worldbring her home. As Joe isn't the quest only one trying to save the future leads each of them down Suki - Dylan, a dark pathBritish superfan and tech nerd, they are cast apart - struggling to overcome is also on the monstrous dusters and case. What went wrong? Did the fear within themselves, desperate to see each other again. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634379</amazonuk>system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ken LiuB0CP95J1CG|title= Invisible PlanetsOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Invisible Planets Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is an eclectic collection, translated beautifully, piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like a good opportunity to get out of his room and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides away from the online activities he makes a welcome introduction for those who aren’t familiar with the genreliving at. The stories are dreamlike and hypnoticSo he makes his way there, evocative dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic and inspiringwatching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784978809</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James GossK P O'Donnell|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound YouThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating= 43.5|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary=At Coal Hill SchoolVL-15, things have started a prototype robot, is desperate to get publicunderstand who she is. Kids have become obsessed with a website that demands you perform risky stuntsUnfortunately, or tell it your most painful secrets. And Seraphinbefore she could find any answers, everyone's favourite vloggerthe world ended, wants you to get involved. All consumed in an apocalyptic war between the name nations of charityDrexel and Renada. At first people just get hurt. Then their lives are ruined. FinallyOver half-a-century later, they disappearcivilisation is starting to rebuild. As AprilDr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's fragile legacy, building a 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 a group of friends starts to fracturesalvagers called the Exhumers, she decides she's going to uncover the truth behind thie site has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Whatever it takesEven after being buried for 65 years, whoever she hurts, Aprilher determination hasn's going to win. But thent diminished in the slightest, to her horrorand no errant machine, she wakes up no savage human tribe and finds her whole worldnot even Drexel's changed. What she does next ravaged ecosystem will astound you. stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941887</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A K BenedictEmily Tesh|title= Class: The Stone HouseSome Desperate Glory|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary=There''While Earth's an old stone house near Coal Hill School. Most people hurry past it. Theychildren live, the enemy shall fear us''ve heard  Following the destruction of the stories. ButEarth, if you stopamongst a rare number of survivors, and look up, you'll see Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the face home of a girl, pressed up against a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn to the stone house. There's a mystery there, last scraps of humanity – and she's going trained relentlessly to solve it. But the more she investigates, avenge her people and the more she realises world that there's a presence in the houseshould have been hers. One that wants All her. Something is waiting for Tanya in the stone house. Something that life, she has been trapping others conditioned to fall in its web over the years. Something line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that is far worse than any ghost..humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941879</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Guy AdamsM R Carey|title= Class: JoyrideInfinity Gate|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Poppy is I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a quiet girl, hard genre to get right up until she steals a car – and drives when it through a shop window. Max is a nice guy's bad, but then he kills his whole family. Just for funit's often terrible. Amar always seems so happy, so why is he trying to jump to his death from the school roof? Some of But the students premise of Coal Hill School are not themselvesInfinity Gate had me hooked. Some of them are dying. Ram has just woken up in A concept this intriguing felt like a body he doesn't recognisehigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, and if he doesnit't figure out why, he may well d be nextfantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941860</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen BaxterMichael Grothaus|title=The Massacre of MankindBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies with the author. After a certain period the copyright is lifted so that an independent author can tackle the characters, hence the proliferation of Sherlock Holmes books. For many fans of the original, these books feel like cover versions ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are best avoidedtwo different things. It is only when the estate And I'm willing to bet most of the author gets involved that their interest is piquedwhat we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it. H. G. Wells' ' ''The War of the WorldsBeautiful Shining People'' left enough revolves around the question of a door open identity and acceptance. Of what it means to explore further be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and when you hire as an experienced a science fiction author as Stephen Baxter to pick up whether the official story, it may just be worth a readdevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473205093</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Dickinson1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The TouristFuture|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=35

|summary=Time travel in any format is a tricky business''Our future will be more complex than we expected. In the real world it is pretty much impossibleInstead of flying cars, or we would all be reading about how people from the future kept trying got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to assassinate Hitler, but he managed track grandma.'' I've got a couple of confessions to avoid themmake. In film, time travel can be super cool and lead I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to some mind bending adventures, but spend read a few moments unbending your mind stories and you discover more plot holes than an entire Terminator Tetralogy. In the written form this is even worse as you don't have the visual splendour then forget to return to distract the eyebook. The key There's got to time travel in science fiction is be a very compelling hook to keep it simpleme engaged. Or you could just ignore this advice and write Then there's science fiction: far too often it'The Tourist''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508153</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Supers the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universebuilding. And they It'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 s human beings who fascinate me: 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 technology and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens world scape are terrorists, and must be eliminatedpurely incidental. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American political So, 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 Vana|title= The Message|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=The Message follows an official Inquiry into the wanton destruction what did I think of a Protected Nature Reserve. The first witnesses give evidence book of the extent of the damage and later witnesses identify those responsible. As the inquiry unfolds twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian J WalkerMark Lingane|title=The End of the World Running ClubGalaxy

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When Spark, who is an elite pilot with the end of the world as we know Space Academy, barely makes it comes, Edgar is totally unpreparedthrough a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Still slightly drunk Waking from drowning his sorrowsa coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is in a panic, he throws random items, including no physical shape to resume his daughter, down into his cellar, duties. But Earth is under threat and then he and must. Returned by his family eke out a nightmarish existence in superiors to the dark until their supplies run out. Fortunately they are luckyspace station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and they are rescued not just 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 unitalien threats against it, 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 countryalso from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nina AllanTade Thompson|title= The RaceFar From the Light of Heaven|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= The Race alternates between our world and that Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of one set in a future Earth scarred by fracking and ecological collapsegoing to space. In our As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the worldof Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the story follows Christyship's AI captain. However, a young aspiring writer whose mother left when she was only 15 and whose life is dominated by fear wakes up at the end of her brother, a man capable trip to find dozens of monstrous acts. Meanwhileher passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, in Sapphire a world similar she begins 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 realise that her past first mission won't be going as well smoothly as Mareeshe hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, an intelligent young woman who has the power disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to change discover exactly what went wrong on the world foreverRagtime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565036X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geoffrey Arnold|title= Ripped Apart|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Qwelby and Tulia are teenage aliensMeanwhile, growing up in a world former astronaut and environment far removed from our own. When the twins interfere with friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a forbidden experiment, they find themselves transported shuttle to opposite ends of our Earth – Qwelby in Finland and Tulia in Africa. To surviveBloodroot, they must rehalf-establish their telepathic connectionalien daughter in tow, find each other, avoid captureto see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and return homebureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. They say that their people arrived on Earth 75,000 years ago, were What the cause five of them discover on the development of the human raceRagtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, and now need but potentially the help entirety of those humans if their race is to survive.human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624756</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George MannClaire North|title=Ghosts of KarnakNotes from the Burning Age

|summary=The superhero market At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is crowded a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and sometimes a little boringnight time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. Who cares about what a God-like person can do when However, as with the rest of us are scrambling around trying to avoid papercuts, never mind trying to repel a rogue asteroid. The best heroes are those that are just normal blokes or ladies dressed up in some fancy outfit. When it comes down to it Batman or The Shadow are just mennovels, but it wears many masks and its most affecting one is their vulnerability that makes them ace of a new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read about: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). Add to There is a growing unhappiness with this list George Mann's 'The Ghost'limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, a World War One veteran who returns aims to New York master these processes no longer willing matter the cost to watch the criminals taking over his home townEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294167</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneAdrian Tchaikovsky|title=Doctor Who: The Legends Shards of River SongEarth|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Hello, sweetie.'' And with those words we know where we are – in the company of River Song, one of modern TV's more infuriating characters. Now she's likeable enough, it was just the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made her hard to live with. I would say this was a return to her side, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it in our future, which 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 usual.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alex Lamb|title= Nemesis|rating= 3.54

|summary= I'm not a great lover of backEighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-cover blurbsized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, but every now and again it tells you everything you need constantly fleeing as world after world falls to know…if you read between the lines. ''Hugely promising'architect' said SFXs reshaping. ''Hits Then, just when they had the human race on the ground running'' said run, the GuardianArchitects vanished. I can't disagree with either And so, the memories of those two statementsthe war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Unfortunately for this particular readerIdris Telemmier, it ran very quickly into a swamp man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. But, when he and the crew of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weedthe salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. And didn't live up As he and his 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 promise.real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473206111</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma GeenTerry Miles|title=The Many Selves of Katherine NorthRabbits|rating=34.5

|summary=As a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut', nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into Welcome to the lab-grown bodies world of all sorts of creaturesThe 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. SheIt's recently spent also called Rabbits, although only as a lot of time slangy term for it – as far as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and got particularly close with to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a vixen certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named Tomokolike that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. It's becoming much harder for her K and his bezzies are trying to leave be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the animal world behind at most unique of high score boards, for the end lists of her who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it'jumpss different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Even after BuckleyUnfortunately for K, her neuroengineerin trying to sort out what the game is doing, signals her to 'Come homeif it' s even being played, and she resumes her original bodyhow his loved ones might be kept safe, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialismhe is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, toileting outdoors and raiding binsplaying it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858436</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip MartinC J Carey|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosWidowland

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler'Doctor Who'' had access s schedule includes going to a time machine, they would be able Moscow to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found attend the likes state funeral of [[Doctor Who Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the Genesis of sanctioned return to the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the Daleks]] lead-up to be too violentthe World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, she and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to we are now a prison worldprotectorate – well, where soon-to-be victims we share enough 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 same blood as the executions, the morgues and worse. If those watching Germanic peoples on ''Doctor Who'' had the benefit of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance on Varosmainland'' differently. They were quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being But this is most certainly a trade delegate who is half-mandifferent Britain, halffor Nazi-slug and wholly stupid evil laughstyled phrenology, and such an artificial premise. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langfordideas of female purpose, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eric Saward|title=Doctor Who: The Visitation|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Have you ever given your children a time machine? No? Are you sure? What about has put all of that thing in the corner upstairs called gender into a dressingcaste system, ranging from high-up box – have they never been transported bodily brow office bigwigs to the 1970s by some orange cords drudges, and wide-collared shirts or whatnot? Have they never been in a museum and put beyond those, right on a mediaeval smock down to the childless, the husbandless and told they're now in the middle ages? widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Well adults can get involved And in thatthis puritanical existence, our heroine, tooRose Ransom, of course – is employed with the cast task of this ''Doctor Who'' adventure had bowdlerising classical literature to put on 17th Century garbtake 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 that was pretty much it as far as looks goso they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. Yes, there That is an evil-seeming alienher job, yes there are some control bands he makes us poor humans wear, and yes there is a giant android dressed as Deathat least, but on until the whole it was one first emerging signs of the more simple episodes. Stillfemale protest come to light, whowith their potential to spoil Hitler's to say the novel isn't much more substantial, rich and varied?visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940392</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terrance DicksEverina Maxwell|title=Doctor Who and the Genesis of the DaleksWinter's Orbit

|summary=If you were to randomly travel in time and space, where would you end up? Well, if our own battle-torn history was anything to go by, you'd like as not end up in Prince Kiem is a time and place of warfamous political disappointment. The thing isHe's outgoing, howevercarefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the Doctor past few years. So when an important political alliance is not, for once, travelling randomly to be arranged – he's been charged with carrying out errands for the Time Lords. And the most tricky of those one that is supposed to go the planet Skaro, deeply enmeshed in a thousand year prevent an interplanetary war, and put paid – no one expects him to one of be chosen for the most heinous plans that could risk the universe – that role. Least of Davros to create his Dalek raceall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940384</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm HulkeRob Winters|title=Doctor Who and the Dinosaur InvasionHis Name Was Wren|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=What effect do you think you'd have if you were to time travel? I dare say it depends who or what you were to begin with, and when you went and what you did. The creatures in this story only seem to stay In September 1944 something came down in the same placeOban Woods, and do just what comes natural – but as they're giant rampaging dinosaurs and they suddenly appear in near the middle of modern-day Central London they do kind village of get noticedHurstwick. As a result the entire place has been evacuatedIt came down hard, all ten million people shipped out, and taking the Government resettled in that hotbed spire of politicsthe village church with it, Harrogate. As destroying a resultstone shack, when the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn up they immediately get accused of being looters – and UNIT are just leaving a touch too much out wide trail through the wood, but no trace of contactwhat it actually was. What is causing time to leave German secret weapon was the dinosaurs moving around Londonlocal gossip, but there should have been an explosion and what is a mediaeval mancrater, complaining and there were neither of witchcraft under King John, doing there too?those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940376</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terrance DicksMark Lingane|title=Doctor Who and the Web of FearNote to Self: An Education

|summary=What do you look like if you time travel? Perhaps like a lunk-headed AustrianIn Kry's world, naked and with fizzy blue stuff all over you. Or perhaps, to the confusion discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of Professor Travers, you look exactly as you did when he met you medical "advances": in Tibet forty years ago. That escapade has had a legacy, as he has brought back a deactivated robot Yeti – and has mistakenly managed to reactivate 2030 it. Or perhaps, you look very much like yourself if you're a time traveller, for just by reading this book you won't change your appearance, but you'll be sent s found that radiation can return cells back to 1968their regeneration state seven years before, by way of 1975, when this book-of-the-series was first published.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940368</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bill Strutton|title=Doctor Who and the Zarbi|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Consider the time machine. You probably know of in 2035 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 s possible to take you back. I grew up cure cancerous tumours but with the series on TV and the books in a Target imprint, but this predates that – it was, apparentlyside effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the second ever Who book-of-cosmetics industry is using thesame technique to "de-seriesage" their customers by seven years. In it, the good Doctor a society obsessed with image and his three companions arrive on a certain quarry-like planet. One stays in the TARDISyouth, only to find it and her nicked by aliens; another who 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…memories?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178594035X</amazonuk>B08LY8J4KS}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author= David WingroveChristopher Paolini|title= The Ocean To Sleep in a Sea of TimeStars|rating= 3.5

|summary= The War for Time continuesOn the 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. From After the frozen tundra of 13th Century Russia entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the battle staff of Paltava the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in 1709 for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and beyonddestroyed by an alien ship, Otto Behr and she has waged an unquestioningto flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, unending war across time for his peopleand the news is grim. But The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a third unidentified power has joined mythical weapon known as the game across Staff of Blue can stop them. As the ocean of timedeath toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, and everything Otto holds dear Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could be unmade…'ve possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195617X</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Holly JenningsLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= ArenaSeven Devils|rating= 3.54

|summary= Kali Ling competes in Eris is one of the RAGE tournaments – a competition foremost operatives of Virtual Gamingthe Novantae, where a resistance movement fighting against the world's best gamers compete 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, has a fight mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the digital deathwar effort. Every fights Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is broadcast to millions, and each player leads lives of fameher partner on this mission. Although Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the weapons ship are digitalthree defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the players feel every blow… Kali Ling – runner-up heir to the first female captain in tournament historyEmpire, is famed for her prowess – but has her world shaken when her teammate plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and lover overdoses. Now, she must win the tournament and uncover the truth about the tournament, for last of the Virtual Gaming League has dark secretsfree alien species. And It's a race against time as the only way rebels move to change the rules is to fight from put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the inside…balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101988762</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael CobleyFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title= Ancestral MachinesA Life Without End|rating= 34|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary=Having completed I looked at the Humanity's Fire trilogy with calendar the Ascendant Starsother week, and disappointedly realised I expected to go off and do something completely differenthave a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. He didnIt won'tbe one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. In Ancestral Machines And then a few of the big 0-numbers, weand if all goes well, I're back in the same universell be an OBE. The Construct (an ancient AI on a missionWhich of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) is still doing its best Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but 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 protect sentient speciesthe first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the drone Rensik is still one life of its key agentshis genes, and a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501779</amazonuk>1642860670