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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John ScalziAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= The Collapsing EmpireAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary='' ''Just out of curiosity if this is the smaller problem, what is the bigger problem?'' ''  '' ''The complete collapse Opening up new ways of thinking about the Flow, the end shape of the interdependency, and the possible extinction of the human racethings to come.'' ''

In the distant futureI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, mankind has I must confess that there have been forced more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to leave Earth behind and has subsequently built an impressive empire compromising of 47 human colonies me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all connected by The Flow: a river getting away from me. Some of alternate spaceit is -time which makes travel across the Interdependency possiblefrankly - quite frightening. Dependent on trade Of course, I could research the possibilities and the Holy Empireprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's survival is all thanks to re talking about or the Flow… which is now collapsinglatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509835075</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geoff GaywoodSylvie Cathrall|title= Omnipotence: Odyssey Book I|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Against a backdrop of relentless global warming and deepening social conflict on Earth, an expedition sets out to secure a foothold on a distant planet thought suitable for human habitation. Almost immediately, the crew are sorely tested by a violent internal conspiracy, alien aggression and simmering emotional tensions. They complete a spectacular transition A Letter to a remote solar system where they find that their goal, as dangerous as it is exotic, already has the ominous attention of another civilisation. Moreover, a series of perplexing events suggest that their mission may be subordinate to a much greater power with its own strategic agenda.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178589918X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kim Stanley Robinson|title= New York 2140Luminous Deep|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=By 2140 sea level has risen by around fifty feet, leaving coastal cities the world over with major problems. Some places will always be desirable, however, and when you've invested a lot of time and money somewhere you're reluctant to leave. Consequently New York remains a thriving, popular place even though half of Manhattan is under water and the streets are now canals. There are still financial traders, local politicians, celebrities, street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing the city and getting by. It seems like New York has stabilised into a new, watery normal but when few greater joys than a couple of programmers go missing from a building on Madison Square and some of the other residents start looking into it, a question begins to be asked: Does it have book which lives up to be this way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stefan Mohamed|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowerscompelling premise. And the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now he's not sure what he is. Or where he this is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving the world. All he knows is that his story isn't finishedof them. Not quite yet …|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Toner1803816759|title= The Weight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|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?

{{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>

{{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

{{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

{{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

{{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

{{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.''

Neuromancer follows Case, who used to be I've got a cyber cowboy with exceptional hacking skills, before attempting to steal from his former employer, who as a result severed his connection to cyberspace by injecting him with a mycotoxin. No longer able couple of confessions to enter the Matrix, Case enters a dark depression having suicidal thoughts and developing a drug addiction, which is where the reader first meets our troubled protagonist and antiheromake. Waiting for someone to help him escape his misery, a mysterious stranger proposes a deal to restore Case I's ability to connect to cyberspace in exchange for working for him. Surrounded by secrecy, Case joins the recruits m not keen on their mission to uncover artificial intelligence and start life afresh. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217385</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Brandon Sanderson|title= Arcanum Unbounded|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy |summary= Brandon Sanderson is more cannon than man. He fires out more works than any other author of fantasy. Not only does he write an awe inspiring amount 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473218039</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= James Young|title= Rise of the Dust Child|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction |summary=An age has passed since the fall of the old world, and the rise of the malignant Dust people. Amongst the terrors of this new age, humanity still lingers within the wreckage of civilisation, held together by the promise of a better existence in the next life. But not all are satisfied by this dogma. Within the smoggy city of Fort Palmer, eight year old Doran and his friend Alena stand apart, struggling stories as I find it easy to retain the lost glory of their faith. But the unquiet dead and the forces of faith do not take kindly to those who try to fix read a broken world. As the quest to save the future leads each of them down a dark path, they are cast apart - struggling to overcome the monstrous dusters and the fear within themselves, desperate to see each other again. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634379</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ken Liu|title= Invisible Planets|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Invisible Planets is an eclectic collection, translated beautifully, and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides a welcome introduction for those who aren’t familiar with the genre. The few 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 then forget 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 return to get involved. All in the name of charitybook. At first people just get hurt. Then their lives are ruined. Finally, they disappear. As April There's fragile group of friends starts got to fracture, she decides she's going be a very compelling hook to uncover the truth behind thie site herselfkeep me engaged. Whatever it takes, whoever she hurts, April Then there'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= Classscience fiction: The Stone House|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=Therefar too often it'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 technology which takes centre stage along with the face of a girl, pressed up against a window. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn to the stone houseworld-building. There It'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 human beings who fascinate me: 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 technology 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 world scape are not themselvespurely incidental. Some So, what did I think of them are dying. Ram has just woken up in a body he doesn't recognisebook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, and if he doesn't figure out why, he may well be nextI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785941860</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen BaxterMark Lingane|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 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 networks, stealing millions from banks to give to othersMeanwhile, they realise that Louie former astronaut and his friends mean trouble. As Billy 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, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terroristshalf-alien daughter in tow, and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see why the insanity of Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the American political, economic politicking 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 bureaucracy of a Protected Nature ReserveSpace Station Lagos. The first witnesses give evidence of What the extent five of them discover on the damage and later witnesses identify those responsible. As the inquiry unfolds it becomes apparent that the Nature Reserve is EarthRagtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, and that the Inquiry is being undertaken by regulators from other Galaxies who have responsibility for the protection of Reserves throughout but potentially the Cosmos. Science Fiction? A love story? A study entirety of human civilisation? A warning message...space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B019NDIP1A</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian J WalkerClaire North|title=The End of Notes from 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 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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George MannC J Carey|title=Ghosts of KarnakWidowland

|summary=The superhero market Prince Kiem is crowded a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and sometimes a little boringhas gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years. Who cares about what a God-like person can do So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the rest role. Least of us are scrambling around trying to avoid papercuts, never mind trying to repel a rogue asteroidall him. The best heroes are those that are just normal blokes or ladies dressed up |isbn=0356515885}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Winters|title=His Name Was Wren|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In September 1944 something came down in some fancy outfitOban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. When it comes It came down to hard, taking the spire of the village church with it Batman or The Shadow are just men, destroying a stone shack, and leaving a wide trail through the wood, but no trace of what it is their vulnerability that makes them ace to read aboutactually was. Add to this list George Mann's 'The Ghost'German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a World War One veteran who returns to New York no longer willing to watch the criminals taking over his home towncrater, and there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294167</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneMark Lingane|title=Doctor WhoNote to Self: The Legends of River SongAn Education|rating=34

|summary=In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it'Hellos found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, sweetieby 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years.'' In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} And with those words we know where we are – {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the company moon of River Songa distant gas giant, one Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of modern TVan ancient alien bunker under the moon's more infuriating characters. Now she's likeable enough, it was just the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made surface leaves her hard to live bonded witha strange alien entity. I would say this was a return After the entity bonded to her sideloses control and kills half the staff of the research station, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in our futurefor examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, which and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is her pastrevived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and vice versa at the news is grim. The samealiens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, er, time? Either way, five tales here bring and only a selection mythical weapon known as the Staff of her escapades 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 YA audience. The results can be bordering on greater hand in the written conflict than she could''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usual.ve possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alex LambLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= NemesisSeven Devils|rating= 3.54

|summary= I'm not Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a great lover of back-cover blurbresistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, but every now and again it tells you everything you need has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to know…if you read between the lineswar effort. Although she''Hugely promising'' said SFXs less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. ''Hits Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ground running'' said ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the GuardianEmpire. I canEris't disagree with either of those two statements. Unfortunately for this particular readers brother Damocles, it ran very quickly into a swamp of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-stranglethe runner-weed. And didn't live up heir to the promise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473206111</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Emma Geen|title=The Many Selves of Katherine North|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=As a Bristol-area 'phenomenaut'Empire, nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the lab-grown bodies last of all sorts of creaturesthe free alien species. SheIt's recently spent a lot of race against 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 rebels move to put a stop Damocles'Come home' and she resumes her original bodyplans, she has trouble giving up animal tendencies like territorialism, toileting outdoors and raiding bins.with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858436</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip MartinFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosA Life Without End

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' had access to a time machine, they would be able to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found I looked at the likes of [[Doctor Who and calendar the Genesis of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of the Daleks]] to be too violentother week, she and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to disappointedly realised I have a prison worldbirthday this year – I know, where soon-to-yet another one. It won't be victims one of snuff movies are trapped in a reality-show styled existence, and a hard-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executionsmajor numbers, but the morgues and worse. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had time when I have the benefit of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance same number as Heinz varieties looms on Varos'' differentlythe horizon. They were quite vocal in complaining about And then a horrific character being a trade delegate who is halffew of the big 0-mannumbers, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laughif all goes well, and such I'll be an artificial premiseOBE. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langford, 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? (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Are you sure? What about Now if that thing in 's the corner upstairs called a dressingextent of my mid-up box – life crisis, I guess I have they never been transported bodily to the 1970s by some orange cords and wide-collared shirts or whatnot? be happy. Have they never been in a museum and put on a mediaeval smock and told theyOur author here doesn're now in the middle ages? Well adults can get involved in t use thatexact phrase, too, of course 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 cast of this ''Doctor Who'' adventure had assistant to put on 17th Century garbthe first geneticist he interviews, and that was pretty much it as far as looks go. Yesthey end up with a child, there which is an evil-seeming alien, yes there are some control bands he makes us poor humans wearat least a way of continuing the life of his genes, and yes there is a giant android dressed as Death, but motive to keep on the whole it was one of the more simple episodesgoing. Still, who's But how can he get to say not flick the novel isn't much more substantialfinal way out' switch, rich and variedespecially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940392</amazonuk>1642860670