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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel SuarezAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Change AgentAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=3.5

|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I had blue eyes, I wish, I wish, I wish. In the genetic lottery 've heard it said that 'technology' is our lives we are given a selection from our mother and our father to work withwhat happens after you're eighteen. HoweverWell, although they may be over six foot, you could still end up being shorterI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. You canI't currently choose ve kept up reasonably well with what coding you get, 's advantageous to me but what if you could cherry pick I'm left with the best aspects feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of your family traits? it is - frankly - quite frightening. It would be a great way to save people from hereditary diseaseOf course, but would we I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up with a world full of identikit humans all following down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest genetic fashions? conspiracy theorist. In the future someone would need to be I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in charge of stopping science going too fara way I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>110198466X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen Baxter Sylvie Cathrall|title= Xeelee: Vengeance |rating= 2|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Michael Poole, Earth's greatest living engineer, changed the galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar system. However, such a thing was created with a degree of naivety and a lack of foresight because out of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, it is unstoppable and unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, the vessel is unresponsive A Letter to the human life around it. It ignores hails and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it, not even the surface of the sun. All it seems to want is energy, and Earth has plenty of that to be absorbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217172</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Godfrey|title=Empire of Time (New Pompeii)Luminous Deep

|summary=Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the beginning.The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old compelling premise. And this is one sounded great in theory. The practice has been going on for years now, but the modern and old worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the experiment out of curiosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. Since he arrived, he's watched the Romans kill the inventors of the machine that saved them. Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give him his Roman name, is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and that's not a safe position or location in which to live.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785653156</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cixin Liu1803816759|title=The Wandering EarthUnravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 54|genre= Science Fiction|summary= If anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages of womenIt's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. One genre that has always been 2038 and Joe is a stalwart supporter bored cop policing the wealthy and encourager of the short form is Sci-fipeaceful New York City. So when you pick up Joe longs for a collection bit of Sci-fi shortsadventure 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, you know that it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novelriots start to spread. Add Finally, Joe gets to that do some real policing. In the intrigue aftermath of seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of bring her home. Joe isn't the rest of the planet…and add only one trying to that an author who save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is not only a best-seller in his home country but has also on the distinction of having produced case. What went wrong? Did the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784978493</amazonuk>system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jack CampbellB0CP95J1CG|title= The Genesis Fleet: VanguardOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=The human adventure continues! As humanity spreads Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the stars party but his interest is piqued by the way it takes with arrived. And it both the best seems like a good opportunity to get out of his room and away from the worst examples of itselfonline activities he makes a living at. The isolation and edginess So he makes his way there, dodging the buses that make up most of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale of far-flung colonies the traffic and bullying neighbourswatching the local energy storage indicator lights. We follow our protagonists, each failures in their own careers (crisis management, space navy, politics and marines) as they become heroesShould be enough power. Hopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650408</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anne CorlettK P O'Donnell|title= The Space Between The StarsVital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating= 43.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Jamie Allenby wakesVL-15, alonea prototype robot, and realises her fever has brokenis desperate to understand who she is. But Unfortunately, before she could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlierfind any answers, Jamie had left her partner Danielthe world ended, mourning consumed in an apocalyptic war between the miscarriage nations of their babyDrexel and Renada. She'd just had to get away, so took a job on Over half-a distant planet. Then the virus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate and isolatedcentury later, until she receives a garbled message from Earth. If someone from her past civilisation is still alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a way starting to returnrebuild. She meets others seeking Earth, and their ill-matched group will travel across space Dr Amelia Wong is determined to achieve their dream. But they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanitycontinue her father's past mistakeslegacy, threatening their precious fresh start. Jamie will also get building a second chance at happiness. But world where machines and humans can she escape her troubled pastlive together in harmony, to embrace a hopeful future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509833528</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elizabeth Moon|title= Cold Welcome: Vatta's Peace|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=''I'm convinced we can survive anything'' After saving the empire, Admiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less than to return to her home planetbut internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. But after her cousin's requestCraig Anderson, that's exactly where Ky finds herself, enroute to tie up some family business. Promised leader of a hero's welcome, Ky plans to stay as little time as possible back in group of salvagers called the place filled with such horrible memories. But as soon as she arrivesExhumers, Ky finds has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself in perilous danger, caught in the middle of an assassination attempt. Now stranded at sea and without communication links with the outside worldEven after being buried for 65 years, Ky must use every ounce of skill she possesses to battle for survival. But with an unfamiliar crew who don't trust her, sabotaged equipment and a traitor in the midst, the odds arendetermination 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 desirablea babysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, 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 the streets his android partner Salvo are now canals. There are still financial traders, local politicians, celebrities, street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the city and getting byRagtime. It seems like New York has stabilised into a newMeanwhile, watery normal but when a couple of programmers go missing from a building on Madison Square former astronaut and some friend of the other residents start looking into it, Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a question begins shuttle to be asked: Does it have to be this way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stefan Mohamed|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= CynicalBloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count see why the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the superpowerspoliticking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. And What the super powered allies. And five of them discover on the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now he's Ragtime has ramifications not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving just for Bloodroot, but potentially the world. All he knows is that his story isn't finished. Not quite yet …entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom TonerClaire North|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 buildinga spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. When I pick up However, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a book like thisnew and timely genre, cli-fi, I need or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to imagine that the universe has existed before start anew and live alongside nature without any of the plot has started modern and will continue to do so aftercorrupting "luxuries" (read: it needs a strong sense fossil fuels, weapons of history and futuremass destruction, intensive farming). With There is a growing unhappiness with this booklimiting world, and seriesone group, I feel like I have just had a brief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens in the plotBrotherhood, but even more is happening, and has happened, across aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the FirmamentEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211395</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda HockingAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= Freeks|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In the spring of 1987, the carnival comes to small-town Caudry, Louisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, the carnival is home. It's also a place Shards of secrets, hidden powers and a buried past - making it hard to connect with outsiders. 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 find the word 'freeks' sprayed on trailers, as carnival employees start disappearing. Then workers wind up dead, killed in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined to unlock the mystery, with Gabe's help. But can they really halt this campaign of fear?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509807659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alec Birri|title= Condition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...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 an eclectic collection, translated beautifullyhelping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides a welcome introduction for those who aren’t familiar 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 genresystem to take Kira in for examination. The stories are dreamlike Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and hypnoticdestroyed by an alien ship, evocative and inspiringshe has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784978809</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= James Goss|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound You|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy |summary=At Coal Hill Schoolis revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, things have started to get public. Kids have become obsessed with crewed by Captain Falconi and a website that demands you perform risky stuntsrag-tag bunch of misfits, or tell it your most painful secretsand the news is grim. And SeraphinThe same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, everyone's favourite vlogger, wants you to get involved. All in and only a mythical weapon known as the name Staff of charityBlue can stop them. At first people just get hurt. Then their lives As the death toll climbs and more players are ruined. Finallyintroduced into this war, they disappear. As April's fragile group of friends starts Kira slowly begins to fracture, realise that she decides she's going to uncover may have had a greater hand in the truth behind thie site herself. Whatever it takes, whoever she hurts, April's going to win. But then, to her horror, conflict than she wakes up and finds her whole worldcould's changed. What she does next will astound you. ve possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941887</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A K BenedictLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Class: The Stone HouseSeven 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

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