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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stefan MohamedAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= StanlyAll Tomorrow's GhostFutures: Book 3 Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (The Bitter Sixteen TrilogyEditors)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to be a fairly typical teenager – unless come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you count the fact 're eighteen. Well, I must confess that his best friend was there have been more than a talking beagle named Darylfew decades of technology in my lifetime. Then came I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the superpowersfeeling that it's all getting away from me. And the super powered alliesSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. And the mysterious enemies. And Of course, I could research the terrifying monsters. And possibilities and the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now heprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's not sure m reading someone who knows what he isthey're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Or where he is I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand. Or how exactly one is supposed }}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to proceed after saving the worldLuminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. All he knows And this is that his story isn't finishedone of them. Not quite yet …|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>0356522776
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Toner1803816759|title= The Weight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Unravelling|author=Will Gibson
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|genre= Science Fiction|summary= One thing great science fiction needs It's 2038 and Joe is solid world building. When I pick up a book like this, I need to imagine that the universe has existed before bored cop policing the plot has started wealthy and will continue to do so after: it needs peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a strong sense bit of history adventure and futureto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. With this bookBut then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and seriesriots start to spread. Finally, I feel like I have just had a brief glimpse into something much largerJoe gets to do some real policing. A great deal happens in In the plot, but even more aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is happeningassigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and has happenedtech nerd, across is also on the Firmamentcase.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473211395</amazonuk>What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Amanda HockingB0CP95J1CG|title= FreeksOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating= 34.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In the spring of 1987, the carnival comes Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to small-town Caudry, Louisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, the carnival party but his interest is homepiqued by the way it arrived. It's also And it seems like a place good opportunity to get out of secrets, hidden powers his room and away from the online activities he makes a buried past - making it hard to connect with outsidersliving at. HoweverSo he makes his way there, sparks fly when she meets dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic and watching the local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparable, Mara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. And his family legacy could destroy Mara's world. They find the word 'freeks' sprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearingenergy storage indicator lights. Then workers wind up dead, killed in disturbing ways by someone or somethingShould be enough power. Mara is determined to unlock the mystery, with Gabe's helpHopefully. But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509807659</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alec BirriK P O'Donnell|title= Condition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating= 43.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions in Argentina after the Second World War may not come as VL-15, a surpriseprototype robot, but why was the twisted eugenicist not only allowed is desperate to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do so? And what has that got to do with a respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the invention of a cure for nearly all understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the horrors nations of Auschwitz? The unacceptable Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is about starting to become the disturbingly bizarrerebuild. What has the treatmentDr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's 'correction' 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 paedophiles got to do with the President a group of salvagers called the United StatesExhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the Pope slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even the UKDrexel's Green Party? ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898779</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alastair ReynoldsEmily Tesh|title= Slow BulletsSome Desperate Glory|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=When hundreds of worlds have been at war for a long time''While Earth's children live, the announcement of a ceasefire takes a while to reach everyone. Itenemy shall fear us''s perhaps not surprising that Following the worst destruction of the soldiers using the war as an excuse for crimesEarth, don't immediately give up. Scuramongst a rare number of survivors, a conscript who Kyr has just been given raised on Gaea Station – the home of the hope last scraps of returning humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her family, has people and the misfortune to run into one of these war criminals before the peacekeepers arriveworld that should have been hers. He leaves All her to dielife, but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a prison shiphas been conditioned to fall in line, only to discover that he is there too. And fulfil her duty and ensure that's the least of her worrieshumanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147321842X</amazonuk>0356521834
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alec BirriM R Carey|title= Condition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?Infinity Gate|rating= 5|genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= ItI'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's 1966, but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn't celebrating Englanda genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's win in the World Cup a hard genre to get right – instead heand when it's awakening from a coma following an aircraft accident. Waking in a world where nothing makes sensebad, heit's unable to recall the crash – but struggles to remember often terrible. But the rest premise of his life…And what's stopping him from taking his medication? Is Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it brain damage causing paranoia about the red pillwas done well, or is he right to think thereit's something more sinister going on…And, having suffered almost 100% burns, how d be fantastic. So this is he alive? Are his hallucinations trying to tell him something?where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785899686</amazonuk>0356518043
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charlie LaidlawMichael Grothaus|title= The Things We Learn When We're DeadBeautiful Shining People|rating= 54|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= On the way ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to a dinner partybet most of what we fear will never happen, Lorna Love or we can take steps into to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the path question of an oncoming caridentity and acceptance. Waking up in Of what appears it means to be a hospital, but a hospital in which wine human. Of what is served for supper, everyone avoids her questions, real and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is in Heaven, or, at least, on HVN. Because HVN what is a lost, dysfunctional spaceshipartificial, and God whether the aging hippy captaindevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening. 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786150352</amazonuk>191458564X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= William Gibson1739593901|title= Neuromancer22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= Science Fiction|summary=''He still dreamed Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of cyberspace…all the turns he'd taken and the corners he cut in Night Cityflying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and he'd still see the matrix in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colourless voidautomated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James GossMark Lingane|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 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 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 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
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|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert DickinsonTade Thompson|title=The TouristFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=34.5
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|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 real world it is pretty much impossiblesleeper ship Ragtime, or we would all be reading about how people from bound for the future kept trying to assassinate Hitlerworld of Bloodroot, but he managed to avoid them. In film, time travel can she will essentially be super cool and lead to some mind bending adventures, but spend a few moments unbending your mind and you discover more plot holes than an entire Terminator Tetralogy. In babysitter for the written form this is even worse as you donship't have s AI captain. However, when she wakes up at the visual splendour end of her trip to distract find dozens of her passengers butchered and the eye. The key to time travel in science fiction is to keep it simple. Or you could just ignore this advice and write Ragtime''The Tourist''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508153</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Supers AI almost non-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And theyresponsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won've come to earth to have funt be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayDown on Bloodroot, and he disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his family quickly come android partner Salvo are sent up to love discover exactly what went wrong on the playful alienRagtime. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networksMeanwhile, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy former astronaut and his family begin a roller coaster ride friend of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBIShell's most wanted listfather Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Government soon decides that these aliens are terroristsRagtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and must be eliminatedbureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see What the insanity five of them discover on the American politicalRagtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that but potentially the Powers that Be don't play games: they make war. entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>0356514323
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{{newreview <!-- remove 12/9 -->Frontpage|author= Yan VanaClaire North|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
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|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nina AllanAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= The RaceShards of Earth
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|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geoffrey ArnoldTerry Miles|title= Ripped ApartRabbits|rating= 34.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Qwelby and Tulia are teenage aliens, growing up in a Welcome to the world and environment far removed from our ownof The Game. When Or should that be the twins interfere with a forbidden experimentgame, they find themselves transported for while it ought to be capitalised to opposite ends of our Earth high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – Qwelby in Finland and Tulia in Africa. To surviveas far as anyone knows, they must re-establish their telepathic connectionit has no official title, find each otherno official source, avoid captureno hard and fast structure, and return hometo the average person no obvious entry point. They say that their A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people arrived on Earth 75– the fan of the conspiracy,000 years agothe computer game, were the cause hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the development least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the human racegame, and now need have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the help lists of those humans who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if their race it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to survivefind out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624756</amazonuk>1529016932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George MannC J Carey|title=Ghosts of KarnakWidowland
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|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=The superhero market is crowded It's April 1953, and sometimes a little boring. Who cares about what a God-like person can do when Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the rest state funeral of us are scrambling Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around trying a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to avoid papercutsthe throne of Edward VIII with his wife, never mind trying to repel a rogue asteroidQueen Wallis. The best heroes are those For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are just normal blokes or ladies dressed up in some fancy outfitnow a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. When it comes But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to it Batman or The Shadow are just menthe childless, but it the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is their vulnerability that makes them ace to read aboutactively discouraged. Add And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to this list George Mann's 'The Ghosttake all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, a World War One veteran who returns until the first emerging signs of female protest come to New York no longer willing light, with their potential to watch the criminals taking over his home townspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294167</amazonuk>152941198X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneEverina Maxwell|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River SongWinter's Orbit|rating=35
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|summary=''Hello, sweetiePrince Kiem is a famous political disappointment.He'' And with those words we know where we are – in the company of River Songs outgoing, one of modern TV's more infuriating characters. Now she's likeable enoughcarefree, it was just and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made her hard to live withpast few years. I would say this was a return So when an important political alliance is to her side, but have we had be arranged – one that pleasure yet is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – 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 no one expects him to a YA audience. The results can be bordering on chosen for the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usualrole. Least of all him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>0356515885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alex LambRob Winters|title= NemesisHis Name Was Wren|rating= 3.54|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= I'm not a great lover of back-cover blurbIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, but every now and again it tells you everything you need to know…if you read between near the linesvillage of Hurstwick. ''Hugely promising'' said SFX. ''Hits It came down hard, taking the ground running'' said spire of the Guardian. village church with it, destroying a stone shack, I can't disagree with either and leaving a wide trail through the wood, but no trace of those two statementswhat it actually was. Unfortunately for this particular readerGerman secret weapon was the local gossip, it ran very quickly into but there should have been an explosion and a swamp crater, and there were neither of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weed. And didn't live up to the promisethose things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473206111</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma GeenMark Lingane|title=The Many Selves of Katherine North|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=As a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut', nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into the lab-grown bodies of all sorts of creatures. She's recently spent a lot of time as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) and got particularly close with a vixen named Tomoko. It's becoming much harder for her to leave the animal world behind at the end of her 'jumps'. Even after Buckley, her neuroengineer, signals her Note to 'Come home' and she resumes her original body, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialism, toileting outdoors and raiding bins.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858436</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Philip Martin|title=Doctor WhoSelf: Vengeance on VarosAn Education
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|summary=If only those critiquing In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it'Doctor Who's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it' had access s possible to a time machinecure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, they would be able by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to temper all "de-age" their responsescustomers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} When Mary Whitehouse found the likes {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of [[Doctor Who and Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the Genesis moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of efforts to make the Daleks]] planet habitable to be too violenthuman life. However, she and a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her coterie had no idea bonded with a strange alien entity. After the series would soon turn entity bonded to a prison worldher loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, where soon-the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to-be victims of snuff movies are trapped take Kira in a reality-show styled existencefor 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 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a hardrag-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executionstag bunch of misfits, and the morgues and worsenews is grim. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had The same aliens that destroyed the benefit Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differently. They were quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being a trade delegate who is halfhuman-manoccupied space, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laugh, and such an artificial premiseonly a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. Little did they know As the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langforddeath toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>1529046505
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric SawardLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=Doctor Who: The VisitationSeven Devils|rating=34|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Have you ever given your children Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a time machine? No? Are you sure? What about that thing in resistance movement fighting against the corner upstairs called a dressing-up box ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – have they never an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been transported bodily to dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the 1970s by some orange cords and wide-collared shirts or whatnot? Have they never been in Novantae, has a museum and put on mission: hijack a mediaeval smock and told they're now in Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the middle ages? Well adults can get involved in that, too, of course – the cast of this war effort. Although she''Doctor Who'' adventure had s less than pleased to put discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on 17th Century garb, and this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that was pretty much it as far as looks gocould potentially cripple the Empire. YesEris's brother Damocles, there is an evilthe runner-seeming alien, yes there are some control bands he makes us poor humans wearup heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and yes there is a giant android dressed as Death, but on the whole it was one last of the more simple episodesfree alien species. Still, whoIt's a race against time as the rebels move to say the novel isnput a stop Damocles't much more substantialplans, rich and varied?with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940392</amazonuk>1473231140
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terrance Dicks|title=Doctor Who Frederic Beigbeder and the Genesis of the Daleks|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|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 a time and place of war. The thing is, however, the Doctor is not, for once, travelling randomly – he's been charged with carrying out errands for the Time Lords. And the most tricky of those is to go the planet Skaro, deeply enmeshed in a thousand year war, and put paid to one of the most heinous plans that could risk the universe – that of Davros to create his Dalek race.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940384</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Malcolm HulkeFrank Wynne (translator)|title=Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|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 the same place, and do just what comes natural – but as they're giant rampaging dinosaurs and they suddenly appear in the middle of modern-day Central London they do kind of get noticed. As a result the entire place has been evacuated, all ten million people shipped out, and the Government resettled in that hotbed of politics, Harrogate. As a result, when the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn up they immediately get accused of being looters – and UNIT are just a touch too much out of contact. What is causing time to leave the dinosaurs moving around London, and what is a mediaeval man, complaining of witchcraft under King John, doing there too?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940376</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Terrance Dicks|title=Doctor Who and the Web of FearA Life Without End
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|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=What do you look like if you time travel? Perhaps like I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a lunk-headed Austrianbirthday this year – I know, naked and with fizzy blue stuff all over youyet another one. Or perhapsIt won't be one of the major numbers, to but the time when I have the confusion of Professor Travers, you look exactly same number as you did when he met you in Tibet forty years agoHeinz varieties looms on the horizon. That escapade has had And then a legacyfew of the big 0-numbers, as he has brought back a deactivated robot Yeti – and has mistakenly managed to reactivate itif all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) Or perhaps, you look very much like yourself Now if youthat're a time travellers the extent of my mid-life crisis, for just by reading this book you wonI guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't change your appearanceuse that exact phrase, but you'll he might be said to be sent back living one. Determined to 1968find 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, by which is at least a way of 1975continuing the life of his genes, and a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when this book-of-the-series was first published.foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940368</amazonuk>1642860670
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