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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel GodfreyAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Empire of Time All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (New PompeiiEditors)

|summary=Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the beginningshape of things to come.''The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to a new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old one sounded great in theoryI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. The practice has Well, I must confess that there have been going on for years now, but the modern and old worlds living alongside each other more than a few decades of technology in an uneasy peacemy lifetime. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to live within me but I'm left with the experiment out of curiosity but feeling that it's more dangerous than he ever dreamtall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Since he arrivedOf course, he's watched I could research the Romans kill possibilities and the inventors of probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the machine that saved themlatest conspiracy theorist. Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give him his Roman name, is the only non-Roman living I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in New Pompeii and that's not a safe position or location in which to liveway I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785653156</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cixin LiuSylvie Cathrall|title=The Wandering EarthA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= If anyone thought that the short story as There are few greater joys than a form had been relegated book which lives up to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think againa compelling premise. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager of the short form And this is Sci-fi. So when you pick up a collection one of Sci-fi shorts, you know that it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novelthem. Add to that the intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of the rest of the planet…and add to that an author who is not only 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!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784978493</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jack Campbell1803816759|title= The Genesis Fleet: VanguardUnravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 54|genre= Science Fiction|summary=The human It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure continues! As humanity spreads and to the stars it takes get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with it both the best AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the worst examples aftermath of itselfthe rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. The isolation and edginess of Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of far-flung colonies British superfan and bullying neighbours. We follow our protagoniststech nerd, each failures in their own careers (crisis management, space navy, politics and marines) as they become heroesis also on the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650408</amazonuk>What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anne CorlettB0CP95J1CG|title= The Space Between The StarsOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Jamie Allenby wakes, alone, and realises her fever has broken. But could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, Jamie had left her partner Daniel, mourning Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is piqued by the miscarriage of their babyway it arrived. She'd just had And it seems like a good opportunity to get out of his room and away, so took a job on a distant planet. Then from the virus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate and isolated, until she receives online activities he makes a garbled message from Earthliving at. If someone from her past is still alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a So he makes his way to return. She meets others seeking Earththere, dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic and their ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dreamwatching the local energy storage indicator lights. But they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanity's past mistakes, threatening their precious fresh startShould be enough power. Jamie will also get a second chance at happinessHopefully. But can she escape her troubled past, to embrace a hopeful future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509833528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elizabeth MoonK P O'Donnell|title= Cold Welcome: Vatta's PeaceThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating= 43.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=''I'm convinced we can survive anything'' After saving the empireVL-15, Admiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less than to return to her home planet. But after her cousin's request, that's exactly where Ky finds herselfa prototype robot, enroute is desperate to tie up some family businessunderstand who she is. Promised a hero's welcomeUnfortunately, Ky plans to stay as little time as possible back in the place filled with such horrible memories. But as soon as before she arrivescould find any answers, Ky finds herself in perilous dangerthe world ended, caught consumed in an apocalyptic war between the middle nations of an assassination attemptDrexel and Renada. Now stranded at sea and without communication links with the outside worldOver half-a-century later, Ky must use every ounce of skill she possesses civilisation is starting to battle for survivalrebuild. But with an unfamiliar crew who donDr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father't trust hers legacy, sabotaged equipment 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 a traitor in group of salvagers called the midstExhumers, the odds arenhas 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 her favour. While the survivors hunt for landslightest, Ky's family members are doing everything possible to ensure her rescue. Old friends are called in and new alliances are madeno errant machine, but will it be enough? Will they get to Ky before itno savage human tribe and not even Drexel's too late?ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506282</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam PetersEmily Tesh|title=From Darkest SkiesSome Desperate Glory|rating=4.5

|summary=No one likes to see a loved one die''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of the Earth, but when they do we can reflect on how they lived and eventually move on with amongst a piece rare number of them inside us. Howeversurvivors, what would happen if we could take all Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the memories we have saved on home of the internet last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and combine them into an Artificial Intelligence the world that represented them? Would this work should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned to keep them closefall in line, or just give you a false facsimile to fulfil her duty and ensure that prevents you from moving on?humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214750</amazonuk>0356521834

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|title=The Boy on the BridgeInfinity Gate|rating=3.5

|summary=ItI'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's ten years since mankind was almost wiped out by a virus that turned the great majority genre I dislike – nothing of it into the hungries – zombies by any other namesort. A lone, heavily armoured vehicle is travelling from the British redoubt on the south coast the length of the Kingdom, tracing My standards are high precisely because it's a previous expedition that failed hard genre to return, get right – and hoping to find evidence somewherewhen it's bad, somehow, of something that can either counter the virus or rid the survivors of their enemy. As a result the vehicle is divided in personnel between scientists and the military, and as neither side is completely cohesive it's no surprise to see often terrible. But the crew split along partisan lines. That's not helped by one premise of the scientists, Samrina Khan, being heavily pregnantInfinity Gate had me hooked. But she's also rubbed people up by insisting on an A concept this intriguing character being on board – felt like a teenaged savanthigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, no less, called Stephen Greavesit'd be fantastic. But So this is where I sum up that source of the unusual is nothing perhaps to the bizarre the team will find on their explorations…premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356503534</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John ScalziMichael Grothaus|title= The Collapsing EmpireBeautiful Shining People|rating= 54|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary='' But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I''Just out m willing to bet most of curiosity if this is the smaller problemwhat we fear will never happen, what is the bigger problem?'' or we can take steps to change it.''

'' Beautiful Shining People''The complete collapse of revolves around the Flow, the end question of the interdependencyidentity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the possible extinction development of the human racetechnology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary='' Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''

In the distant future, mankind has been forced to leave Earth behind and has subsequently built an impressive empire compromising of 47 human colonies all connected by The Flow: I've got a river couple of alternate space-time which makes travel across the Interdependency possibleconfessions to make. Dependent I'm not keen on trade, short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the Holy Empirebook. There's survival is all thanks got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the Flow… technology which is now collapsingtakes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509835075</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geoff GaywoodMark Lingane|title= Omnipotence: Odyssey Book IGalaxy|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Against a backdrop of relentless global warming and deepening social conflict on EarthSpark, who is an expedition sets out to secure elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a foothold on a distant planet thought suitable for human habitationbattle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Almost immediately, the crew are sorely tested by Waking from a violent internal conspiracycoma that lasted years, alien aggression he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. But Earth is under threat and simmering emotional tensionshe must. They complete a spectacular transition Returned by his superiors 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. Moreoverspace station, he finds himself amid a series of perplexing events suggest that their mission may be subordinate last ditch attempt to a much greater power with save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own strategic agendasins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178589918X</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kim Stanley RobinsonTade Thompson|title= New York 2140Far From the Light of Heaven|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=By 2140 sea level has risen by around fifty feetMichelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, leaving coastal cities bound for the world over with major problems. Some places of Bloodroot, she will always essentially be desirable, howevera babysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, and when you've invested a lot she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of time her passengers butchered and money somewhere youthe Ragtime're reluctant s AI almost non-responsive, she begins to leaverealise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Consequently New York remains a thrivingDown on Bloodroot, popular place even though half of Manhattan is under water disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the streets are now canalsRagtime. There are still financial tradersMeanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, local politicianshalf-alien daughter in tow, celebritiesto see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing leaving behind the city politicking and getting bybureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. It seems like New York What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has stabilised into a newramifications not just for Bloodroot, watery normal but when a couple potentially the entirety 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?human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508757</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedClaire North|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 superpowers. 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 is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving the world. All he knows is that his story isn't finished. Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Toner|title= The Weight of Notes from the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Burning Age

|genre= Science Fiction|summary= One thing great science fiction needs At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is solid world building. When I pick up a book like thisspy thriller, with as many double crosses, I need to imagine that the universe has existed before the plot has started interrogations and will continue to do so after: it needs a strong sense of history and futurenight time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. With this bookHowever, and series, I feel like I have just had a brief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens in as with the plotbest novels, but even more it wears many masks and its most affecting one is happening, that of a new and has happened, across the Firmament.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473211395</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amanda Hocking|title= Freeks|rating= 3.5|timely genre= Science Fiction|summary= In the spring of 1987, the carnival comes to smallcli-town Caudryfi, Louisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, the carnival is homeor climate change fiction. ItNorth's also novel tells of a place world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of secretsthe modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, hidden powers and weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a buried past - making it hard to connect growing unhappiness with outsiders. Howeverthis limiting world, sparks fly when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparableand one group, Mara realizes Gabe is hiding his own secrets. And his family legacy could destroy Mara's world. They find the word 'freeks' sprayed on trailersBrotherhood, as carnival employees start disappearing. Then workers wind up dead, killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined aims to master these processes no matter the cost to unlock the mystery, with Gabe's helpEarth. But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807659</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alec BirriAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= Condition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...Shards of Earth

|summary= Discovering Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions in Argentina after unrecognisable shape by the Second World War may not come moon-sized aliens known as a surprisethe Architects. Humanity is scattered, but why was the twisted eugenicist not only allowed constantly fleeing as world after world falls 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 the worldarchitect's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried in reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the horrors of Auschwitz? The unacceptable is about to become run, the disturbingly bizarreArchitects vanished. What has And so, the treatment's 'correction' memories of paedophiles got the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to do try and communicate with the President Architects, does not want to be remembered. But, when he and the crew of the United Statessalvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the Pope spotlight. As he and even his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the UK's Green Party? real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898779</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alastair ReynoldsTerry Miles|title= Slow BulletsRabbits|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=When hundreds Welcome to the world of worlds have been at war The Game. Or should that be the game, for a long time, the announcement of a ceasefire takes a while it ought to be capitalised to reach everyonehigh heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's perhaps not surprising that also 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, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the worst fan of the soldiers using conspiracy, the computer game, the war as an excuse for crimeshack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, don't immediately give upnamed like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. ScurK and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, a conscript for the lists of who has just been given successfully won the game are in the hope of returning to her familymost peculiar places, has and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the misfortune to run into one of these war criminals before most dangerous, nay lethal, the peacekeepers arrivemost broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. He leaves her Unfortunately for K, in trying to diesort out what the game is doing, but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a prison shipif it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to discover find out that he the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is there tooa very thin one indeed.. And that's the least of her worries.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147321842X</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alec BirriC J Carey|title= Condition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?Widowland|rating= 54|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= It's 1966April 1953, but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn't celebrating Englandand Adolf Hitler's win schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World Cup War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – instead hewell, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''s awakening from . But this is most certainly a coma following an aircraft accident. Waking in different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a world where nothing makes sensecaste system, he's unable ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to recall the crash – but struggles drudges, and beyond those, right on down to remember the rest of his life…And what's stopping him from taking his medication? Is it brain damage causing paranoia about childless, the husbandless and the red pillwidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, or is he right employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to think theretake all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they's something more sinister going on…Andre stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, having suffered almost 100% burnsuntil the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, how is he alive? Are his hallucinations trying with their potential to tell him something?spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785899686</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Charlie LaidlawEverina Maxwell|title= The Things We Learn When WeWinter're Deads Orbit|rating= 5|genre= General Science Fiction|summary= On the way to Prince Kiem is a dinner partyfamous political disappointment. He's outgoing, Lorna Love steps carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the path of past few years. So when an oncoming car. Waking up in what appears important political alliance is to be a hospital, but a hospital in which wine arranged – one that is served supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for supper, everyone avoids her questions, and her nurse looks suspiciously like Sean Connery, it soon transpires that Lorna is in Heaven, or, at least, on HVNthe role. Because HVN is a lost, dysfunctional spaceship, and God the aging hippy captainLeast of all him. 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>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= William GibsonRob Winters|title= NeuromancerHis Name Was Wren|rating= 4|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=''He still dreamed of cyberspace…all the turns he'd taken and the corners he cut In September 1944 something came down in Night CityOban Woods, and he'd still see near the matrix in his dreamsvillage of Hurstwick. It came down hard, bright lattices taking the spire of logic unfolding across that colourless void'' Neuromancer follows Case, who used to be a cyber cowboy the village church with exceptional hacking skills, before attempting to steal from his former employerit, who as destroying a result severed his connection to cyberspace by injecting him with a mycotoxin. No longer able to enter the Matrixstone shack, Case enters a dark depression having suicidal thoughts and developing leaving a drug addictionwide trail through the wood, which is where but no trace of what it actually was. German secret weapon was the reader first meets our troubled protagonist local gossip, but there should have been an explosion and antihero. Waiting for someone to help 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 secrecycrater, Case joins the recruits on their mission to uncover artificial intelligence and start life afreshthere were neither of those things. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473217385</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brandon SandersonMark Lingane|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 ChildNote to Self: An Education|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction |summary=An age has passed since the fall of the old In Kry's world, and the rise discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's 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 malignant Dust people. Amongst the terrors side effect of this new age, humanity still lingers within the wreckage erasing seven years of civilisationmemory, held together by 2045 the promise of a better existence in the next life. But not all are satisfied by this dogma. Within cosmetics industry is using the smoggy city of Fort Palmer, eight year old Doran and his friend Alena stand apart, struggling same technique to retain the lost glory of "de-age" their faithcustomers by seven years. But the unquiet dead and the forces of faith do not take kindly to those who try to fix In 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 society obsessed with image and the fear within themselvesyouth, desperate to see each other again. who needs memories?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524634379</amazonuk>B08LY8J4KS}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ken LiuChristopher Paolini|title= Invisible PlanetsTo Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 4.5

|summary= Invisible Planets On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an eclectic collectionalien ship, translated beautifullyand she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides a welcome introduction for those who aren’t familiar with rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the genrenews is grim. The stories same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are dreamlike and hypnoticnow wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, evocative and inspiringonly a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them.As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784978809</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James GossLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound YouSeven Devils

|summary=Poppy Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a quiet girlresistance 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, right up until she steals has a car and drives it through mission: hijack a shop windowTholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Max Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a nice guysecret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, but then he kills his whole family. Just for fun. Amar always seems so happythe runner-up heir to the Empire, so why is he trying plotting to jump to his death from disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the school roof? Some last of the students of Coal Hill School are not themselvesfree alien species. Some of them are dying. Ram has just woken up in It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a body he doesnstop Damocles't recogniseplans, and if he doesn't figure out why, he may well be next.with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941860</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen BaxterFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=The Massacre of MankindA Life Without End

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=An intellectual property no longer dies with I looked at the author. After a certain period calendar the copyright is lifted so that an independent author can tackle the charactersother week, hence the proliferation of Sherlock Holmes books. For many fans of the originaland disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, these books feel like cover versions and are best avoidedyet another one. It is only when the estate won't be one of the author gets involved that their interest is piqued. H. G. Wells' ''The War of major numbers, but the Worlds'' left enough of a door open to explore further and time when you hire I have the same number as an experienced a science fiction author as Stephen Baxter to pick up Heinz varieties looms on the official story, it may just be worth a readhorizon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473205093</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Dickinson|title=The Tourist|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Time travel in any format is And then a tricky business. In few of the real world it is pretty much impossiblebig 0-numbers, or we would and if all goes well, I'll be reading about how people from the future kept trying to assassinate Hitler, but he managed to avoid theman OBE. In film, 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(Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) In Now if that's the written form this is even worse as you don't extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have the visual splendour to distract the eye. The key to time travel in science fiction is to keep it simplebe happy. Or you could just ignore this advice and write ''The Tourist''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508153</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|Our author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And theyhere doesn've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayt use that exact phrase, and but he and his family quickly come might be said to love the playful alienbe living one. But when Louie starts using their computer Determined to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks find out how to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, prolong life for as well long 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 he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the insanity of assistant to the American politicalfirst geneticist he interviews, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play games: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 12/9 -->|author= Yan Vana|title= The Message|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=The Message follows an official Inquiry into the wanton destruction of end up with a Protected Nature Reserve. The first witnesses give evidence of the extent of the damage and later witnesses identify those responsible. As the inquiry unfolds it becomes apparent that the Nature Reserve is Earthchild, and that the Inquiry which is being undertaken by regulators from other Galaxies who have responsibility for the protection at least a way of Reserves throughout continuing the Cosmos. Science Fiction? A love story? 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