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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elizabeth MoonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Cold Welcome: VattaAll Tomorrow's PeaceFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I'm convinced we can survive anythingve heard it said that 'technology'is what happens after you're eighteen. After saving the empireWell, Admiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less I must confess that there have been more than to return to her home planeta few decades of technology in my lifetime. But after her cousin I've kept up reasonably well with what's request, advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling thatit's exactly where Ky finds herself, enroute to tie up some family businessall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Promised a hero's welcome Of course, Ky plans to stay as little time as possible back in I could research the place filled with such horrible memories. But as soon as she arrives, Ky finds herself in perilous danger, caught in possibilities and the middle of an assassination attempt. Now stranded at sea probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without communication links with really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the outside world, Ky must use every ounce of skill she possesses to battle for survivallatest conspiracy theorist. But with an unfamiliar crew who don't I needed people I knew I could trust her, sabotaged equipment and who could deliver information in a traitor in the midst, the odds aren't in her favourway I could understand. While }}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the survivors hunt for land, Ky's family members Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are doing everything possible few greater joys than a book which lives up to ensure her rescuea compelling premise. And this is one of them. Old friends are called in and new alliances are made, but will it be enough? Will they get to Ky before it's too late?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506282</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Peters1803816759|title=From Darkest SkiesThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|summary=No one likes to see It's 2038 and Joe is a loved one die, but when they do we can reflect on how they lived bored cop policing the wealthy and eventually move on with peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a piece bit of them inside usadventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. HoweverFinally, what would happen if we could take all Joe gets to do some real policing. In the memories we have saved on aftermath of the internet rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and combine them into an Artificial Intelligence that represented them? Would this work Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to keep them closesave Suki - Dylan, or just give you a false facsimile that prevents you from moving British superfan and tech nerd, is also onthe case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214750</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CP95J1CG|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like a good opportunity to get out of his room and away from the online activities he makes a living at. So he makes his way there, dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.}}{{Frontpage|author=M R CareyK P O'Donnell|title=The Boy on Vital Link (A Spark in the BridgeAshes)

|summary=It's ten years since mankind was almost wiped out by VL-15, a virus that turned the great majority of it into the hungries – zombies by any other name. A loneprototype robot, heavily armoured vehicle is travelling from the British redoubt on the south coast the length of the Kingdom, tracing a previous expedition that failed desperate to returnunderstand who she is. Unfortunately, and hoping to before she could find evidence somewhereany answers, somehowthe world ended, of something that can either counter the virus or rid consumed in an apocalyptic war between the survivors nations of their enemyDrexel and Renada. As Over half-a result the vehicle -century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is divided determined to continue her father's legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in personnel between scientists and the militaryharmony, but internal frictions and as neither side is completely cohesive external enemies might bring it's no surprise to see the crew split along partisan linesall crashing down again. That's not helped by one Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the scientistsExhumers, Samrina Khanhas 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, being heavily pregnant. But sheher determination hasn's also rubbed people up by insisting on an intriguing character being on board – a teenaged savantt diminished in the slightest, and no lesserrant machine, called Stephen Greaves. But that source of the unusual is nothing perhaps to the bizarre the team no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will find stop her on their explorations…her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356503534</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John ScalziEmily Tesh|title= The Collapsing EmpireSome Desperate Glory|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary='' While Earth''Just out of curiosity if this is the smaller problems children live, what is the bigger problem?'' ''  '' ''The complete collapse of the Flow, the end of the interdependency, and the possible extinction of the human race.'' enemy shall fear us''

In Following the distant futuredestruction of the Earth, mankind amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been forced raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to leave Earth behind avenge her people and has subsequently built an impressive empire compromising of 47 human colonies all connected by The Flow: a river of alternate space-time which makes travel across the Interdependency possibleworld that should have been hers. Dependent on tradeAll her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, the Holy Empire's survival is all thanks to the Flow… which is now collapsingfulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509835075</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geoff GaywoodM R Carey|title= Omnipotence: Odyssey Book IInfinity Gate|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Against I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a backdrop genre I dislike – nothing 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 habitationthe sort. Almost immediately, the crew My standards are sorely tested by high precisely because it's a violent internal conspiracy, alien aggression hard genre to get right – and simmering emotional tensions. They complete a spectacular transition to a remote solar system where they find that their goalwhen it's bad, as dangerous as it is exotic, already has 's often terrible. But the ominous attention premise of another civilisationInfinity Gate had me hooked. MoreoverA concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, a series of perplexing events suggest it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that their mission may be subordinate to a much greater power with its own strategic agendapremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178589918X</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kim Stanley RobinsonMichael Grothaus|title= New York 2140Beautiful Shining People|rating= 54|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary=By 2140 sea level has risen by around fifty feet, leaving coastal cities the world over with major problems''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. Some places And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will always be desirablenever happen, however, and when youor we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People''ve invested a lot revolves around the question of time identity and money somewhere you're reluctant acceptance. Of what it means to leavebe human. Consequently New York remains a thriving, popular place even though half of Manhattan Of what is under water real and the streets are now canals. There are still financial traderswhat is artificial, local politicians, celebrities, street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing and whether the city and getting bydevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening. It seems like New York has stabilised into a new, watery normal but when 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 to be this way?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508757</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stefan Mohamed1739593901|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (The Bitter Sixteen TrilogyEditors)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Cynical''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, solitary Stanly Bird used we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to be track grandma.'' I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a fairly typical teenager – unless you count few stories and then forget to return to the fact that his best friend was book. There's got to be a talking beagle named Darylvery compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then came the superpowers. And there's science fiction: far too often it's the super powered allies. And technology which takes centre stage along with the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypseworld-building. Now he It's not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the worldscape are purely incidental. All he knows is that his story isn't finished So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom TonerMark Lingane|title= The Weight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Galaxy

|genre= Science Fiction|summary= One thing great science fiction needs Spark, who is solid world buildingan elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive. When I pick up His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a book like thiscoma that lasted years, I need to imagine that the universe has existed before the plot has started he remembers little and will continue is in no physical shape to do so after: it needs a strong sense of history resume his duties. But Earth is under threat and futurehe must. With this bookReturned by his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and series, I feel like I have not just had a brief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens in from the plotalien threats against it, but even more is happening, and has happened, across the Firmamentalso from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211395</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda HockingTade Thompson|title= FreeksFar From the Light of Heaven|rating= 34.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the spring of 1987sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the carnival comes to small-town Caudryworld of Bloodroot, Louisiana. Then events take she will essentially be a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, babysitter for the carnival is home. Itship's also a place of secrets, hidden powers and a buried past - making it hard to connect with outsidersAI captain. However, sparks fly when she meets 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 wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the word Ragtime'freekss AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won' sprayed t be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on trailersBloodroot, as carnival employees start disappearingdisgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Then workers wind up deadMeanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, killed half-alien daughter in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined tow, to unlock see why the mysteryRagtime has gone quiet, with Gabe's helpleaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. But can they really halt this campaign What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of fear?human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807659</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alec BirriClaire North|title= Condition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...Notes from the Burning Age|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions in Argentina after At its core ''Notes From the Second World War may not come Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as a surprisemany double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, but why was as with the twisted eugenicist not only allowed to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do so? And what has best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that got to do with of a respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the invention new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a cure for nearly all the world's ailments can't possibly devastated by climate change where humans have its roots buried in been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the horrors modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of Auschwitz? The unacceptable mass destruction, intensive farming). There is about to become the disturbingly bizarre. What has the treatment's 'correction' of paedophiles got to do a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the President of the United StatesBrotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the Pope and even cost to the UK's Green Party? Earth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898779</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alastair ReynoldsAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= Slow BulletsShards of Earth

|summary=When hundreds of worlds have been at war for a long timeEighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the announcement of a ceasefire takes a while moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to reach everyone. Itthe architect's perhaps not surprising that reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the worst memories of the soldiers using the war as an excuse for crimesfades, heroes are forgotten, don't immediately give upand humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. ScurIdris Telemmier, a conscript who has just been given man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the hope of returning Architects, does not want to her familybe remembered. But, has when he and the crew of the misfortune salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to run be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into one of these war criminals before the peacekeepers arrivespotlight. He leaves her As he and his allies bounce from star system to diestar system, but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a prison shipchased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, only he slowly begins to discover realise that he the real war is there too. And that's the least of her worries.only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147321842X</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alec BirriTerry Miles|title= Condition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?Rabbits|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Welcome to the world of The 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. It's 1966also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn't celebrating England's win in this is the World Cup game of life for a certain tribe of people – instead he's awakening the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from a coma following an aircraft accidentthe darkest of webs. Waking People like our hero, K, named like that in a world where nothing makes sensethe least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, heand are still very short. However this time it's unable to recall different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the crash most broken it's ever been – but struggles morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to remember sort out what the rest of his life…And whatgame is doing, if it's stopping him from taking even being played, and how his medication? Is it brain damage causing paranoia about the red pillloved ones might be kept safe, or he is he right only to think there's something more sinister going on…Andfind out that the line between observing and learning about the game, having suffered almost 100% burnsand playing it, how is he alive? Are his hallucinations trying to tell him something?a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785899686</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charlie LaidlawC J Carey|title= The Things We Learn When We're DeadWidowland|rating= 54|genre= General Fiction|summary= On It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the way state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a dinner partybit, Lorna Love steps into and watching over the sanctioned return to the path throne of an oncoming carEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. Waking For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up in what appears to be the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a hospitalprotectorate – well, but we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a hospital in which wine is served different Britain, for supperNazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, everyone avoids her questionsranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connerybeyond those, right on down to the childless, it soon transpires that Lorna the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in Heaventhis puritanical existence, orour heroine, at leastRose Ransom, on HVN. Because HVN is a lostemployed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, dysfunctional spaceshipnot every book can be banned, and God not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the aging hippy captainparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. At first Lorna can remember nothing, but as That is her memories return – some goodjob, some badat least, she realises that she has a decision until the first emerging signs of female protest come to makelight, and that maybe, she needs with their potential to find a way home…spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786150352</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= William GibsonEverina Maxwell|title= NeuromancerWinter's Orbit|rating= 45|genre= Science Fiction|summary=''Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He still dreamed of cyberspace…all the turns he'd taken and the corners he cut in Night Citys outgoing, carefree, and he'd still see has gotten into many drunken scandals over the matrix in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colourless void'' Neuromancer follows Case, who used past few years. So when an important political alliance is to be a cyber cowboy with exceptional hacking skills, before attempting to steal from his former employer, who as a result severed his connection arranged – one that is supposed to cyberspace by injecting prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him with a mycotoxin. No longer able to enter the Matrix, Case enters a dark depression having suicidal thoughts and developing a drug addiction, which is where be chosen for the reader first meets our troubled protagonist and antiherorole. Waiting for someone to help Least of all him escape his misery, a mysterious stranger proposes a deal to restore Case's ability to connect to cyberspace in exchange for working for him. Surrounded by secrecy, Case joins the recruits on their mission to uncover artificial intelligence and start life afresh. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473217385</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brandon SandersonRob Winters|title= Arcanum UnboundedHis Name Was Wren|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy Confident Readers|summary= Brandon Sanderson is more cannon than man. He fires out more works than any other author In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of fantasyHurstwick. Not only does he write an awe inspiring amount It came down hard, taking the spire of novelsthe village church with it, destroying a stone shack, and leaving a wide trail through the wood, but he also writes various short fictions that go alongside themno trace of what it actually was. And in here German secret weapon was the local gossip, for the first timebut there should have been an explosion and a crater, all the major ones are collected togetherand there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473218039</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James YoungMark Lingane|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 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 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 Note 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 stories are dreamlike and hypnotic, evocative and inspiring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784978809</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= James Goss|title= ClassSelf: 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 MankindAn Education

|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies with the author. After a certain period the copyright is lifted so that an independent author can tackle the characters, hence the proliferation of Sherlock Holmes books. For many fans of the originalIn Kry's world, these books feel like cover versions and are best avoided. It is only when the estate of the author gets involved discovery that their interest is piqued. H. G. Wells' ''The War human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of the Worldsmedical "advances": in 2030 it'' left enough of a door open s found that radiation can return cells back to explore further and when you hire as an experienced a science fiction author as Stephen Baxter to pick up the official storytheir regeneration state seven years before, it may just be worth a read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473205093</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Dickinson|title=The Tourist|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Time travel in any format is a tricky business. In the real world 2035 it is pretty much impossible, or we would all be reading about how people from the future kept trying 's possible to assassinate Hitler, cure cancerous tumours but he managed to avoid them. In filmwith the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, time travel can 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 by 2045 the written form this cosmetics industry is even worse as you don't have the visual splendour to distract using the eye. The key to time travel in science fiction is same technique to keep it simple. Or you could just ignore this advice and write ''The Tourist''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508153</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super"de-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 age" 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 troublecustomers by seven years. As Billy and his family begin In a roller coaster ride of fame society obsessed with image and fortuneyouth, 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. who needs memories?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>B08LY8J4KS}} {{newreview <!-- remove 12/9 -->Frontpage|author= Yan VanaChristopher Paolini|title= The MessageTo Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 3.5

|summary=The Message follows an official Inquiry into On the wanton destruction moon of a Protected Nature Reserve. The first witnesses give evidence of distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the extent of efforts to make the damage and later witnesses identify those responsibleplanet habitable to human life. As the inquiry unfolds it becomes apparent that the Nature Reserve is EarthHowever, and that the Inquiry is being undertaken by regulators from other Galaxies who have responsibility for the protection a discovery of Reserves throughout an ancient alien bunker under the Cosmosmoon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. 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 After the World Running Club|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=When entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the end staff of the world as we know it comesresearch station, Edgar is totally unpreparedthe United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Still slightly drunk Things go from drowning his sorrows, bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and in a panic, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellardestroyed by an alien ship, and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in she has to flee to the dark until their supplies run out61 Cygnus star system. Fortunately they are lucky, and they are rescued from She is revived aboard the cellar. As they emerge back into the world they see the ruin and disaster around themfreighter Wallfish, caused crewed by hundreds Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of large asteroids hitting misfits, and the earthnews is grim. Large areas The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the country have been destroyed. Groups Staff of people left alive scavenge houses and towns, turning feral, trying to find what's left to help Blue can stop them to survive. Edgar's family As the death toll climbs and more players are rescued by a small remaining army unit, but he and his wife and children become separatedintroduced into this war, and so Kira slowly begins Edgarto realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could's desperate race to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another country.ve possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nina AllanLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= The RaceSeven Devils

|summary= The Race alternates between our world and that Eris is one of the foremost operatives of one set in a future Earth scarred by fracking and ecological collapse. In our world, the story follows ChristyNovantae, a young aspiring writer whose mother left when resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was only 15 and whose destined to inherit in her past life is dominated by fear of her brotheras Princess Discordia, a man capable of monstrous actswhom everyone believed has been dead for years. MeanwhileClo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, in Sapphire has a mission: hijack a world similar Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to our own yet very different, with the entire economy funded by illegal smart dog racing, we encounter Jenna Hoolman whose young niece war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is kidnapped at the tender age of 4her partner on this mission. We also learn about Alex, a man who can help Christy uncover the truth behind her past as well Things get more interesting as Maree, an intelligent young woman who has the power to change mission commences; aboard the world forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565036X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geoffrey Arnold|title= Ripped Apart|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Qwelby and Tulia ship are teenage aliens, growing up in three defectors with a world and environment far removed from our own. When secret that could potentially cripple the twins interfere with a forbidden experiment, they find themselves transported to opposite ends of our Earth – Qwelby in Finland and Tulia in AfricaEmpire. To surviveEris's brother Damocles, they must rethe runner-establish their telepathic connection, find each other, avoid captureup heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and return home. They say that their people arrived on Earth 75,000 years ago, were the cause last of the development of free alien species. It's a race against time as the human racerebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, and now need with millions of lives hanging in the help of those humans if their race is to survive.balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624756</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George MannFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Ghosts of KarnakA Life Without End

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=The superhero market is crowded I looked at the calendar the other week, and sometimes disappointedly realised I have a little boringbirthday this year – I know, yet another one. Who cares about what a God-like person can do when It won't be one of 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 menmajor numbers, but it is their vulnerability that makes them ace to read aboutthe time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. Add to this list George Mann's 'The Ghost', And then a World War One veteran who returns to New York no longer willing to watch few of the criminals taking over his home town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294167</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenny T Colganbig 0-numbers, Jacqueline Raynerand if all goes well, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew Lane|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=I''Hello, sweetiell be an OBE.'' And with those words we know where we are – in the company (Which of River Song, one of modern TV's more infuriating characterscourse stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) Now sheif that's likeable enoughthe extent of my mid-life crisis, it was just the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that made her hard exact phrase, but he might be said to live withbe living one. I Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would say this was a return like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to her sidethe first geneticist he interviews, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it in our futureand they end up with a child, which is her past, and vice versa at the same, er, time? Either least a way, five tales here bring a selection of her escapades to a YA audience. The results can be bordering on continuing 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 life of back-cover blurbhis genes, but every now and again it tells you everything you need a motive to know…if you read between the lineskeep on going. ''Hugely promising'' said SFX. ''Hits But how can he get to not flick the ground running'final way out' said the Guardian. I can't disagree with either of those two statements. Unfortunately for this particular readerswitch, it ran very quickly into a swamp of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weed. And didn't live up to the promise.especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473206111</amazonuk>1642860670