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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Amanda HockingAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= FreeksAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the spring shape of 1987, the carnival comes things to small-town Caudry, Louisianacome. Then events take a dangerous turn'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. For Mara Beznik Well, the carnival is homeI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. It I've kept up reasonably well with what's also a place of secrets, hidden powers and a buried past - making it hard advantageous to connect me but I'm left with outsidersthe feeling that it's all getting away from me. However, sparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe AlvaradoSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. As they become inseparable Of course, Mara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. And his family legacy I could destroy Mara's world. They find research the possibilities and the word probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'freeksm reading someone who knows what they' sprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearingre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Then workers wind up dead, killed I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in disturbing ways by someone or somethinga way I could understand. Mara is determined to unlock the mystery, with Gabe's help. But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509807659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alec BirriSylvie Cathrall|title= Condition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 45|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions in Argentina after the Second World War may not come as There are few greater joys than a surprise, but why was the twisted eugenicist not only allowed book which lives up to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do so? a compelling premise. And what has that got to do with a respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the invention this is one of a cure for nearly all the world's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried in the horrors of Auschwitz? The unacceptable is about to become the disturbingly bizarrethem. What has the treatment's 'correction' of paedophiles got to do with the President of the United States, the Pope and even the UK's Green Party? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898779</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alastair Reynolds1803816759|title= Slow BulletsThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=When hundreds of worlds have been at war It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a long time, the announcement bit of a ceasefire takes a while adventure and to reach everyoneget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. It's perhaps not surprising But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that the worst of the soldiers using the war as an excuse now runs everything, making life easier for crimesmany, don't immediately give upand riots start to spread. ScurFinally, a conscript who has just been given Joe gets to do some real policing. In the hope aftermath of returning the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her family, has home. Joe isn't the misfortune to run into only one of these war criminals before the peacekeepers arrive. He leaves her trying to diesave Suki - Dylan, but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a prison shipBritish superfan and tech nerd, only to discover that he is there tooalso on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And thathow is Suki's the least of her worries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147321842X</amazonuk>kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alec BirriB0CP95J1CG|title= Condition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= ItRonan's 1966, not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn't celebrating England's win in his interest is piqued by the World Cup – instead he's awakening from a coma following an aircraft accidentway it arrived. Waking in And it seems like a world where nothing makes sense, he's unable to recall the crash – but struggles good opportunity to remember the rest get out of his life…And what's stopping him room and away from taking his medication? Is it brain damage causing paranoia about the red pill, or is online activities he makes a living at. So he right to think makes his way 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>dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charlie LaidlawK P O'Donnell|title= The Things We Learn When We're DeadVital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating= 3.5|genre= General Science Fiction|summary= On the way to VL-15, a dinner partyprototype robot, Lorna Love steps into the path of an oncoming caris desperate to understand who she is. Waking up in what appears to be a hospitalUnfortunately, but a hospital in which wine is served for supperbefore she could find any answers, everyone avoids her questionsthe world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean ConneryRenada. Over half-a-century later, it soon transpires that Lorna civilisation is in Heaven, or, at least, on HVNstarting to rebuild. Because HVN Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, world where machines and God the aging hippy captain. At first Lorna humans can remember nothinglive together in harmony, but as her memories return – some goodinternal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, some badleader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, she realises that she has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a decision to makeprototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and that maybeno errant machine, she needs to find a way home…no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786150352</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= William GibsonEmily Tesh|title= NeuromancerSome Desperate Glory|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=''He still dreamed of cyberspace…all the turns heWhile Earth'd taken and the corners he cut in Night Citys children live, and he'd still see the matrix in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colourless voidenemy shall fear us''

Neuromancer follows CaseFollowing the destruction of the Earth, who used to be amongst a cyber cowboy with exceptional hacking skillsrare number of survivors, before attempting Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to steal from his former employer, who as a result severed his connection to cyberspace by injecting him with a mycotoxin. No longer able to enter the Matrix, Case enters a dark depression having suicidal thoughts avenge her people and developing a drug addiction, which is where the reader first meets our troubled protagonist and antiheroworld that should have been hers. Waiting for someone to help him escape his miseryAll her life, a mysterious stranger proposes a deal to restore Case's ability to connect she has been conditioned to cyberspace fall in exchange for working for him. Surrounded by secrecyline, Case joins the recruits on their mission to uncover artificial intelligence fulfil her duty and start life afreshensure that humanity perseveres. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473217385</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brandon SandersonM R Carey|title= Arcanum UnboundedInfinity Gate|rating= 45|genre= Fantasy Science Fiction|summary= Brandon Sanderson is more cannon than manI'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. He fires out more works than any other author Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of fantasythe sort. Not only does he write an awe inspiring amount of novelsMy standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and when it's bad, but he also writes various short fictions that go alongside themit's often terrible. And in here, for But the first timepremise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, all the major ones are collected togetherit'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473218039</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James YoungMichael Grothaus|title= Rise of the Dust ChildBeautiful Shining People|rating= 4|genre= Science Literary Fiction |summary=An age has passed since the fall of the old world, ''But fearing something and the rise of the malignant Dust peoplehaving it come to pass are two different things. Amongst the terrors And I'm willing to bet most of this new agewhat we fear will never happen, humanity still lingers within the wreckage of civilisation, held together by the promise of a better existence in the next lifeor we can take steps to change it. But not all are satisfied by this dogma. Within '' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the smoggy city question of Fort Palmer, eight year old Doran identity and his friend Alena stand apart, struggling acceptance. Of what it means to retain the lost glory of their faithbe human. But the unquiet dead Of what is real and the forces of faith do not take kindly to those who try to fix a broken world. As the quest to save the future leads each of them down a dark pathwhat is artificial, they are cast apart - struggling to overcome the monstrous dusters and whether the fear within themselves, desperate to see each other againdevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524634379</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ken Liu1739593901|title= Invisible Planets22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Invisible Planets is an eclectic collection, translated beautifully''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides a welcome introduction for those who aren’t familiar automated elderly care with the genregeolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma. The stories 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 I've got a couple of confessions to get publicmake. Kids have become obsessed with I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a website that demands you perform risky stunts, or tell it your most painful secretsfew stories and then forget to return to the book. And Seraphin, everyone There's favourite vlogger, wants you got to be a very compelling hook to get involved. All in the name of charity. At first people just get hurtkeep me engaged. Then their lives are ruined. Finally, they disappear. As Aprilthere's fragile group of friends starts to fracture, she decides shescience fiction: far too often it's going to uncover the truth behind thie site herselftechnology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. Whatever it takes, whoever she hurts, April It's going to winhuman beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. But then So, to her horrorwhat did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, she wakes up and finds her whole world's changed. What she does next will astound youI loved it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941887</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A K BenedictMark Lingane|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 it. But the more she investigates, the more she realises that there's a presence in the house. One that wants her. Something 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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941879</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Guy Adams|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>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Baxter|title=The Massacre of MankindGalaxy

|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies Spark, who is an elite pilot with the authorSpace Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive. After His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a certain period the copyright is lifted so coma that an independent author can tackle the characterslasted years, hence the proliferation of Sherlock Holmes books. For many fans of the original, these books feel like cover versions he remembers little and are best avoidedis in no physical shape to resume his duties. It But Earth is only when the estate of the author gets involved that their interest is piquedunder threat and he must. H. G. Wells' ''The War of Returned by his superiors to the Worlds'' left enough of space station, he finds himself amid a door open last ditch attempt to explore further save humanity - and when you hire as an experienced a science fiction author as Stephen Baxter to pick up not just from the official storyalien threats against it, it may just be worth a readbut also from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473205093</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert DickinsonTade Thompson|title=The TouristFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=34.5

|summary=Time travel in any format Michelle 'Shell' Campion is a tricky businessfulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. In As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the real world it is pretty much impossibleof Bloodroot, or we would all she will essentially be reading about how people from a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, when she wakes up at the future kept trying end of her trip to assassinate Hitlerfind dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, but he managed she begins to avoid themrealise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. In filmDown on Bloodroot, time travel can be super cool disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and lead his android partner Salvo are sent up to some mind bending adventuresdiscover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, but spend a few moments unbending your mind former astronaut and you discover more plot holes than an entire Terminator Tetralogy. In the written form this is even worse as you donfriend of Shell't have the visual splendour s father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to distract the eye. The key to time travel Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in science fiction is tow, to keep it simplesee why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. Or you could What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just ignore this advice and write ''The Tourist''.for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508153</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Luke RhinehartClaire North|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= 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 Vana|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 Notes 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 ClubBurning Age

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When At its core ''Notes From the end of the world as we know it comes, Edgar Burning Age'' by Claire North is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, and in a panicspy thriller, he throws random itemswith as many double crosses, including his daughterinterrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, down into his cellaras with the best novels, it wears many masks and then he its most affecting one is that of a new and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in the dark until their supplies run out. Fortunately they are luckytimely genre, cli-fi, and they are rescued from the cellaror climate change fiction. As they emerge back into the North's novel tells of a world they see the ruin and disaster around them, caused devastated by hundreds of large asteroids hitting the earth. Large areas of the country climate change where humans have been destroyed. Groups forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of people left alive scavenge houses the modern and townscorrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, turning feralweapons of mass destruction, trying to find what's left to help them to surviveintensive farming). Edgar's family are rescued by There is a small remaining army unitgrowing unhappiness with this limiting world, but he and his wife and children become separatedone group, the Brotherhood, and so begins Edgar's desperate race aims to master these processes no matter the cost to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another countrythe Earth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nina AllanAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= The RaceShards of Earth

|summary= The Race alternates between our world and that of one set in a future Eighty years ago, Earth scarred was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by fracking and ecological collapsethe moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. In our Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after worldfalls to the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the story follows Christywar fades, a young aspiring writer whose mother left when she was only 15 heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and whose life is dominated by fear of her brotherfight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man capable of monstrous acts. Meanwhilegenetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, in Sapphire a world similar does not want to our own yet very differentbe remembered. But, with when he and the crew of the entire economy funded by illegal smart dog racingsalvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, we encounter Jenna Hoolman whose young niece suddenly he is kidnapped at thrust back into the tender age of 4spotlight. We also learn about AlexAs he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, a man who can help Christy uncover the truth behind her past as well as Mareechased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, an intelligent young woman who has the power he slowly begins to change realise that the world forever.real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178565036X</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geoffrey ArnoldTerry Miles|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 KarnakRabbits|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The superhero market is crowded and sometimes a little boring. Who cares about what a God-like person can do when 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 men, but it is their vulnerability that makes them ace to read about. Add to this list George Mann's 'The Ghost', a World War One veteran who returns to New York no longer willing to watch the criminals taking over his home town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294167</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew Lane|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song|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= 3.5|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 '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 the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a realitydifferent Britain, for Nazi-show styled existencephrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a hardcaste system, ranging from high-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching brow office bigwigs to the feeds from drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the executionschildless, the morgues husbandless and worsethe widows. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had the benefit of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differentlyFemale literacy is actively discouraged. They were quite vocal And in complaining about a horrific character being a trade delegate who this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is half-manemployed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laughnot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and such an artificial premiseso they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. Little did they know That is her job, at least, until the series would soon lumber people first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric SawardEverina Maxwell|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 that thing in the corner upstairs called a dressing-up box – have they never been transported bodily to the 1970s by some orange cords and wide-collared shirts or whatnot? Have they never been in a museum and put on a mediaeval smock and told they're now in the middle ages? Well adults can get involved in that, too, of course – the cast of this ''Doctor Who'' adventure had to put on 17th Century garb, and that was pretty much it as far as looks go. Yes, 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 the whole it was one of the more simple episodes. Still, whoWinter's to say the novel isn't much more substantial, rich and varied?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940392</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Terrance Dicks|title=Doctor Who and the Genesis of the DaleksOrbit

|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 In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a lunk-headed Austriancascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, naked and in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with fizzy blue stuff all over you. Or perhaps, to the confusion side effect of Professor Traverserasing seven years of memory, you look exactly as you did when he met you in Tibet forty by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years ago. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} That escapade has had {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a legacydistant gas giant, as he has brought back a deactivated robot Yeti – and has mistakenly managed Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to reactivate ithuman life. Or perhapsHowever, you look very much like yourself if youa discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon're s surface leaves her bonded with a time travellerstrange 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 just examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by reading this book you won't change your appearancean alien ship, but you'll be sent back and she has to flee to 1968the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by way Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of 1975misfits, when this book-and the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all ofhuman-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the-series was first publishedStaff of Blue can stop them.As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940368</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bill StruttonLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=Doctor Who and the ZarbiSeven Devils|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Consider Eris is one of the time machine. You probably know foremost operatives of it as looking like either some fancy Edwardian sit-upon machine that the Morlocks nickNovantae, or perhaps a battered old English police call box. I would suggest it can also look like a small paperback book resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – pretty much like the subject at handan Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. This reprint of a ''Doctor Who'' novelClo, first presented in 1973 from an ace pilot for the series shown in 1965Novantae, certainly has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the ability war effort. Although she's less than pleased to take you backdiscover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. I grew up with Things get more interesting as the series on TV and mission commences; aboard the books in ship are three defectors with a Target imprint, but this predates secret that – it was, apparently, could potentially cripple the second ever Who book-of-the-seriesEmpire. In itEris's brother Damocles, the good Doctor and his three companions arrive on a certain quarryrunner-like planet. One stays in up heir to the TARDISEmpire, only is plotting to find it disrupt peace talks between Tholos and her nicked by aliens; another needs rescuing from the last of the free alien mind control by species. It's a different species of aliens; and race against time as the third rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with our irascible hero work out what actually took control millions of their ship and stranded them there lives hanging in the first place…balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178594035X</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David WingroveFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title= The Ocean of TimeA Life Without End|rating= 3.54|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary= The War for Time continuesI looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. From It won't be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the frozen tundra horizon. And then a few of 13th Century Russia to the battle of Paltava in 1709 big 0-numbers, and beyondif all goes well, Otto Behr has waged I'll be an unquestioningOBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) 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, unending war across time 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 the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his peoplegenes, and a motive to keep on going. But now a third unidentified power has joined the game across how can he get to not flick the ocean of time'final way out' switch, and everything Otto holds dear could be unmade…especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195617X</amazonuk>1642860670