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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cixin LiuAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Wandering EarthAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= If anyone thought that ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the short story as a form had been relegated shape of things to the pages of womencome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you's magazines (no disrespect) – think againre eighteen. One genre Well, I must confess that has always there have been more than a stalwart supporter and encourager few decades of the short form is Sci-fitechnology in my lifetime. So when you pick I've kept up a collection reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of Sciit is -fi shorts, you know that it will have just as much depth and thoughtfrankly -provoking philosophy as any similar novelquite frightening. Add to that Of course, I could research the intrigue of seeing how possibilities and the concepts are approached by probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone from China which – to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of who knows what they're talking about or the rest of the planet…and add to that an author latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who is not only could deliver information in a best-seller in his home country but has the distinction of having produced the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784978493</amazonuk>way I could understand.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jack CampbellSylvie Cathrall|title= The Genesis Fleet: VanguardA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=The human adventure continues! As humanity spreads There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to the stars it takes with it both the best and the worst examples of itselfa compelling premise. The isolation and edginess of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in And this tale is one of far-flung colonies and bullying neighbours. We follow our protagonists, each failures in their own careers (crisis management, space navy, politics and marines) as they become heroesthem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650408</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anne Corlett1803816759|title= The Space Between The StarsUnravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Jamie Allenby wakes, alone, It's 2038 and realises her fever has broken. But could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, Jamie had left her partner Daniel, mourning the miscarriage of their baby. She'd just had to get away, so took Joe is a job on a distant planet. Then bored cop policing the virus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate wealthy and isolated, until she receives a garbled message from Earthpeaceful New York City. If someone from her past is still alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find Joe longs for a way to return. She meets others seeking Earth, bit of adventure and their ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dreamget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But they'll clash then something goes horribly wrong with survivors intent on repeating humanity's past mistakesthe AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, threatening their precious fresh and riots start. Jamie will also get a second chance at happiness. But can she escape her troubled past, to embrace a hopeful future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509833528</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elizabeth Moon|title= Cold Welcome: Vatta's Peace|rating= 4spread.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=''I'm convinced we can survive anything'' After saving the empireFinally, Admiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less than Joe gets to return to her home planet. But after her cousin's request, that's exactly where Ky finds herself, enroute to tie up do some family businessreal policing. Promised a hero's welcome, Ky plans to stay as little time as possible back in In the place filled with such horrible memories. But as soon as she arrives, Ky finds herself in perilous danger, caught in aftermath of the middle of an assassination attempt. Now stranded at sea rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and without communication links with the outside world, Ky must use every ounce of skill she possesses Joe is assigned to battle for survivalbring her home. But with an unfamiliar crew who donJoe isn't trust herthe only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, sabotaged equipment a British superfan and a traitor in the midsttech nerd, is also on the odds aren't in her favourcase. While What went wrong? Did the survivors hunt for land, Ky's family members are doing everything possible to ensure her rescue. Old friends are called in and new alliances are made, but will system fail or was it be enoughhacked? Will they get to Ky before itAnd how is Suki's too latekidnapping connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356506282</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam PetersB0CP95J1CG|title=From Darkest SkiesOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=4.5

|summary=No one likes Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to see go to the party but his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like a loved one die, but when they do we can reflect on how they lived good opportunity to get out of his room and eventually move on with away from the online activities he makes a piece of them inside usliving at. HoweverSo he makes his way there, what would happen if we could take all dodging the memories we have saved on buses that make up most of the internet traffic and combine them into an Artificial Intelligence that represented them? Would this work to keep them close, or just give you a false facsimile that prevents you from moving on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214750</amazonuk>watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.

{{newreviewFrontpage|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?'' enemy shall fear us''

'' ''The complete collapse Following the destruction of the FlowEarth, amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the end home of the interdependency, last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the possible extinction of the human raceworld that should have been hers.'' '' In the distant futureAll her life, mankind she has been forced conditioned to leave Earth behind 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 possible. Dependent on tradefall 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 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 September 1944 something came down in hereOban Woods, for near the first time, all the major ones are collected togethervillage of Hurstwick.|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 It came down hard, and taking the rise spire of the malignant Dust people. Amongst the terrors of this new agevillage church with it, humanity still lingers within the wreckage of civilisationdestroying a stone shack, held together by the promise of and leaving a better existence in wide trail through the next life. But not all are satisfied by this dogma. Within the smoggy city of Fort Palmerwood, eight year old Doran and his friend Alena stand apart, struggling to retain the lost glory but no trace of their faithwhat it actually was. 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 German secret weapon was the fear within themselveslocal gossip, 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 but there should have been an eclectic collection, translated beautifully, explosion and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides a welcome introduction for those who aren’t familiar with the genre. The stories are dreamlike and hypnoticcrater, evocative and inspiringthere were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784978809</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{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 Note 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= ClassSelf: 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 the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in a future Earth scarred by fracking and ecological collapseher past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. In our worldClo, an ace pilot for the story follows ChristyNovantae, has a mission: hijack a young aspiring writer whose mother left when Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she was only 15 and whose life 's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is dominated by fear of her brother, partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a man capable of monstrous actssecret that could potentially cripple the Empire. MeanwhileEris's brother Damocles, in Sapphire a world similar the runner-up heir to our own yet very different, with the entire economy funded by illegal smart dog racingEmpire, we encounter Jenna Hoolman whose young niece is kidnapped at plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the tender age last of 4the free alien species. We also learn about Alex, It's a man who can help Christy uncover the truth behind her past as well race against time as Maree, an intelligent young woman who has the power rebels move to change put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the world forever.balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178565036X</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geoffrey ArnoldFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title= Ripped ApartA Life Without End|rating= 3.54|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary= Qwelby I looked at the calendar the other week, and Tulia are teenage aliensdisappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, growing up in yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a world few of the big 0-numbers, and environment far removed from our ownif all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. When ) Now if that's the twins interfere with a forbidden experimentextent of my mid-life crisis, they find themselves transported I guess I have to opposite ends of our Earth – Qwelby in Finland and Tulia in Africabe happy. To survive, they must re-establish their telepathic connection Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find each other, avoid captureout 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 return home. They say that their people arrived on Earth 75they end up with a child,000 years ago, were the cause which is at least a way of continuing the development life of the human racehis genes, and now need the help of those humans if their race is a motive to survivekeep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624756</amazonuk>1642860670