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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andy WeirAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= ArtemisAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Welcome ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to Artemiscome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, the first city on the moon. A powerhouse for the rich and I must confess that there have been more than a once few decades of technology in a my lifetime trip for earth tourists, and also a place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis I've kept up reasonably well with her father aged six, itwhat's the only place she's ever known advantageous to me but she wouldnI't say shem left with the feeling that it's flourishingall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. In factOf course, I could research the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives in possibilities and the low end of town, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porter. However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich probabilities and to this end, she has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazzdown rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome reward, it is just too tempting to refuse. What Jazz doesnm reading someone who knows what they't know is all re talking about or the facts behind what she is being asked to dolatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956943</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Wes StuartSylvie Cathrall|title= My Name is SamA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 45|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Who is the real enemy? This is the question There are few greater joys than a book which confronts Sam, the champion of the Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, and the main character in lives up to a compelling premise. And this story. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory one of who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilitiesthem. He is also Earth's last hope for salvation from the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone on it. This is not his choice however: that is the decision of the alien Sereia, his mentors and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous task. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth to be saved, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselves. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1540504506</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C Robert Cargill1803816759|title= Sea of RustThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Have you ever watched the 'It'Terminator'' movies or some similar 'Robo-geddon' franchise s 2038 and wondered what would have happened if the robots had actually ''won?'' Well wonder no more, because ''Sea of Rust'' hinges on that exact premise; Joe is a world where bored cop policing the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earthwealthy and peaceful New York City. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace Joe longs for a bit of organic matter anywhere, since adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the robot uprising AI system that devastated the planet. Now two huge mainframes compete now runs everything, making life easier for world domination: CISSUS many, and VIRGILriots start to spread. They capture robots Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and turn them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousnessJoe is assigned to bring her home. The few remaining bots are called Joe isn'freebotst the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan,' a British superfan and inhabit a desert called tech nerd, is also on the Sea of Rust, where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare partscase.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473212782</amazonuk>What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul McAuleyB0CP95J1CG|title= AustralOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating= 34.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Austral has no doubts about who she Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is. Her birth was, as she puts it, ''a political act. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an egg. I was customised piqued by a suite of targeted genes…'' She was, as the jargon of her world has way it ''edited''arrived. She is, as And it seems like a result, a Husky. A human modified good opportunity to withstand the cold temperatures get out of his room and away from the Antarctic continentonline activities he makes a living at. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive inSo he makes his way there, but maybe not for much longer. This is a world in which dodging the threats buses that make up most of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the ice has retreated traffic and continues to retreat…a world in which watching the harshest of environments is being opened up for exploitationlocal energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217318</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geoffrey ArnoldK P O'Donnell|title= Hunted|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Tullia learns about survival The Vital Link (A Spark in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the young men and women, a mixture of awe, desire, fear and hate. Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best friends from the Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. Forming a connection with the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a short test run, the village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, he flees from the village...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785891855</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Suarez|title=Change AgentAshes)

|summary=I wish I was VL-15, a little bit tallerprototype robot, I wish I had blue eyesis desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, I wishbefore she could find any answers, I wishthe world ended, I wish. In consumed in an apocalyptic war between the genetic lottery that is our lives we are given a selection from our mother nations of Drexel and our father to work withRenada. HoweverOver half-a-century later, although they may be over six foot, you could still end up being shortercivilisation is starting to rebuild. You canDr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father't currently choose what coding you gets legacy, but what if you could cherry pick the best aspects of your family traits? It would be building a great way to save people from hereditary diseaseworld where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but would we end up with internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a world full group of identikit humans all following salvagers called the latest genetic fashions? In Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the future someone would need to be in charge of stopping science going too far.slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>110198466X</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen Baxter Emily Tesh|title= Xeelee: Vengeance Some Desperate Glory|rating= 24.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Michael Poole, ''While Earth's greatest living engineerchildren live, changed the galaxy when he opened a worm hole to allow for quick and easy transportation across enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of the solar system. HoweverEarth, such a thing was created with amongst a degree rare number of naivety and a lack of foresight because out survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the worm hole flew an unknown vessel last scraps of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes before, it is unstoppable humanity – and unfathomable. Bent on an unknown path, the vessel is unresponsive trained relentlessly to the human life around it. It ignores hails avenge her people and even direct attacks. Nothing affects it, not even the surface of the sunworld that should have been hers. All it seems her life, she has been conditioned to want is energyfall in line, to fulfil her duty and Earth has plenty of ensure that to be absorbedhumanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473217172</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel GodfreyM R Carey|title=Empire of Time (New Pompeii)Infinity Gate

|summary=Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from the beginningI'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction.The experiment to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time to Not because it's a new Pompeii just before genre I dislike – nothing of the disaster hits the old one sounded great in theorysort. The practice has been going on for years now, but the modern My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – 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 when it's more dangerous than he ever dreamt. Since he arrivedbad, heit's watched often terrible. But the Romans kill the inventors premise of the machine that saved themInfinity Gate had me hooked. Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give him his Roman nameA concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it'd be fantastic. So this is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and where I sum up that's not a safe position or location in which to livepremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785653156</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cixin LiuMichael Grothaus|title=The Wandering EarthBeautiful Shining People|rating= 54|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary= If anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to the pages of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think again. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter 'But fearing something and encourager of the short form is Sci-fihaving it come to pass are two different things. So when you pick up a collection And I'm willing to bet most of Sci-fi shortswhat we fear will never happen, you know that or we can take steps to change it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novel. Add to that '' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the intrigue question of seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the rest development of the planet…and add to that an author who technology 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!exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784978493</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jack Campbell1739593901|title= 22 Ideas About The Genesis Fleet: VanguardFuture|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=The human adventure continues! As humanity spreads ''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.'' I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the stars book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it 's the technology which takes centre stage along with it both the best world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the worst examples of itselfworld scape are purely incidental. The isolation and edginess So, what did I think of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Sci-Fi in this tale book of fartwenty-flung colonies and bullying neighbours. We follow our protagoniststwo science fiction short stories? Well, each failures in their own careers (crisis management, space navy, politics and marines) as they become heroesI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650408</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anne CorlettMark Lingane|title= The Space Between The Stars|rating= 4|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 the miscarriage of their baby. She'd just had to get away, so took a job on a distant planet. Then the virus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate and isolated, until she receives a garbled message from Earth. If someone from her past is still alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a way to return. She meets others seeking Earth, and their ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dream. But they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanity's past mistakes, threatening their precious fresh 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= 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 planet. But after her cousin's request, that's exactly where Ky finds herself, enroute to tie up some family business. Promised a hero's welcome, Ky plans to stay as little time as possible back in the place filled with such horrible memories. But as soon as she arrives, Ky finds herself in perilous danger, caught in the middle of an assassination attempt. Now stranded at sea and without communication links with the outside world, 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 aren't in her favour. While 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 it be enough? Will they get to Ky before it's too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356506282</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sam Peters|title=From Darkest SkiesGalaxy

|summary=No one likes to see a loved one dieSpark, but when they do we can reflect on how they lived and eventually move on who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a piece of them inside usbattle alive. HoweverHis co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, what would happen if we could take all the memories we have saved on the internet he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. But Earth is under threat and combine them into an Artificial Intelligence that represented them? Would this work he must. Returned by his superiors to keep them closethe space station, or he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just give you a false facsimile that prevents you from moving on?the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214750</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M R CareyTade Thompson|title=The Boy on Far From the BridgeLight of Heaven|rating=34.5

|summary=ItMichelle 's ten years since mankind was almost wiped out by a virus that turned the great majority Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of it into going to space. As first officer aboard the hungries – zombies by any other name. A lonesleeper ship Ragtime, heavily armoured vehicle is travelling from the British redoubt on the south coast bound for the length world of the KingdomBloodroot, tracing she will essentially be a previous expedition that failed to returnbabysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, and hoping when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find evidence somewhere, somehow, of something that can either counter the virus or rid the survivors dozens of their enemy. As a result the vehicle is divided in personnel between scientists her passengers butchered and the militaryRagtime's AI almost non-responsive, and she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as neither side is completely cohesive she hoped it's no surprise would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to see discover exactly what went wrong on the crew split along partisan linesRagtime. That's not helped by one Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of the scientists, Samrina Khan, being heavily pregnant. But sheShell's also rubbed people up by insisting on an intriguing character being on board – father Lawrence Biz takes a teenaged savantshuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, no lessto see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, called Stephen Greavesleaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. But that source What the five of them discover on the unusual is nothing perhaps to Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the bizarre the team will find on their explorations…entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356503534</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John ScalziClaire North|title= The Collapsing EmpireNotes from the Burning Age|rating= 54|genre= Science Fiction|summary=At its core '' Notes From the Burning Age''Just out of curiosity if this by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the smaller problembest novels, what it wears many masks and its most affecting one is the bigger problem?'' ''  '' ''The complete collapse that of the Flowa new and timely genre, the end of the interdependencycli-fi, and the possible extinction of the human raceor climate change fiction.North'' '' In the distant future, mankind has s novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to leave Earth behind start anew and has subsequently built an impressive empire compromising live alongside nature without any of 47 human colonies all connected by The Flowthe modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a river of alternate space-time which makes travel across growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Interdependency possible. Dependent on tradeBrotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the Holy Empire's survival is all thanks cost to the Flow… which is now collapsingEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509835075</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geoff GaywoodAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= Omnipotence: Odyssey Book IShards of Earth|rating= 4.5

|summary= Against a backdrop of relentless global warming and deepening social conflict on Eighty years ago, Earthwas destroyed, warped into an expedition sets out unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to secure a foothold the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on a distant planet thought suitable for human habitationthe run, the Architects vanished. Almost immediatelyAnd so, the crew memories of the war fades, heroes are sorely tested by a violent internal conspiracyforgotten, alien aggression and simmering emotional tensionshumanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. They complete Idris Telemmier, a spectacular transition man genetically engineered to a remote solar system where they find that their goaltry and communicate with the Architects, as dangerous as it is exoticdoes not want to be remembered. But, already has when he and the ominous attention crew of another civilisationthe salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. MoreoverAs he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, a series of perplexing events suggest human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that their mission may be subordinate to a much greater power with its own strategic agenda.the real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178589918X</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kim Stanley RobinsonTerry Miles|title= New York 2140Rabbits|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=By 2140 sea level has risen by around fifty feet, leaving coastal cities Welcome to the world over with major problemsof The Game. Some places will always Or should that be desirablethe game, howeverfor while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, and when youit never leaves lower case throughout this book. It've invested s also called Rabbits, although only as a lot of time slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and money somewhere you're reluctant to leavethe average person no obvious entry point. Consequently New York remains A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a thrivingcertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, popular place even though half named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of Manhattan is under water the game, and have studied amongst many things the streets most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are now canals. There in the most peculiar places, and are still financial tradersvery short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, local politiciansnay lethal, celebritiesthe most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing in trying to sort out what the city game is doing, if it's even being played, and getting by. It seems like New York has stabilised into a newhow his loved ones might be kept safe, watery normal but when a couple of programmers go missing from a building on Madison Square he is only to find out that the line between observing and some of learning about the other residents start looking into game, and playing it, is a question begins to be asked: Does it have to be this way?very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508757</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedC J Carey|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 the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Widowland

|genre= Science General Fiction|summary= One thing great science fiction needs is solid world buildingIt's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's 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. When I pick For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a book like protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But thisis most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, I need has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to imagine that the universe has existed before the plot has started drudges, and will continue beyond those, right on down to do so after: it needs a strong sense of history the childless, the husbandless and futurethe widows. With Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every bookcan be banned, and seriesnot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, I feel like I have and so they just had get a brief glimpse into something much largerhefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. A great deal happens in the plot, but even more That is happeningher job, and has happenedat least, across until the Firmamentfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211395</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda HockingEverina Maxwell|title= FreeksWinter's Orbit|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In the spring of 1987, the carnival comes to small-town Caudry, Louisiana. Then events take Prince Kiem is a dangerous turnfamous political disappointment. For Mara Beznik, the carnival is home. ItHe's also a place of secretsoutgoing, carefree, hidden powers and a buried has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past - making it hard to connect with outsidersfew years. However, sparks fly So when she meets local boy Gabe Alvarado. As they become inseparable, Mara realizes Gabe an important political alliance 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 to be arranged – one that is determined supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to unlock be chosen for the mystery, with Gabe's helprole. But can they really halt this campaign Least of fear?all him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807659</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alec BirriRob Winters|title= Condition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...His Name Was Wren|rating= 4|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= Discovering an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions In September 1944 something came down in Argentina after Oban Woods, near the Second World War may not come as a surprisevillage of Hurstwick. It came down hard, but why was taking the spire of the twisted eugenicist not only allowed to continue his evil experiments but encouraged to do so? And what has that got to do village church with it, destroying a respected neurologist in 2027? Surely the invention of stone shack, and leaving a cure for nearly all wide trail through the world's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried in the horrors wood, but no trace of Auschwitz? The unacceptable is about to become the disturbingly bizarrewhat it actually was. What has German secret weapon was the treatment's 'correction' of paedophiles got to do with the President of the United Stateslocal gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a crater, the Pope and even the UK's Green Party? there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898779</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alastair ReynoldsMark Lingane|title= Slow BulletsNote to Self: An Education|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=When hundreds of worlds have been at war for a long timeIn Kry's world, the announcement discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of a ceasefire takes a while to reach everyone. Itmedical "advances": in 2030 it's perhaps not surprising found that the worst of the soldiers using the war as an excuse for crimesradiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, donin 2035 it't immediately give up. Scur, a conscript who has just been given s possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the hope side effect of erasing seven years of returning to her familymemory, has by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the misfortune same technique to run into one of these war criminals before the peacekeepers arrive"de-age" their customers by seven years. He leaves her to die, but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on In a prison shipsociety obsessed with image and youth, only to discover that he is there too. And that's the least of her worries.who needs memories?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147321842X</amazonuk>B08LY8J4KS}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alec BirriChristopher Paolini|title= Condition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

|summary=''He still dreamed 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 cyberspace…all an ancient alien bunker under the turns hemoon'd taken 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 corners he cut United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix system to take Kira in his dreams, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colourless void'' Neuromancer follows Case, who used for examination. Things go from bad to be a cyber cowboy with exceptional hacking skillsworse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, before attempting and she has to steal from his former employer, who as a result severed his connection flee to cyberspace by injecting him with a mycotoxinthe 61 Cygnus star system. No longer able to enter She is revived aboard the Matrixfreighter Wallfish, Case enters a dark depression having suicidal thoughts crewed by Captain Falconi and developing a drug addictionrag-tag bunch of misfits, which and the news is where grim. The same aliens that destroyed the reader first meets our troubled protagonist Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and antiheroonly a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. Waiting for someone As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to help him escape his misery, realise that she may have had a mysterious stranger proposes a deal to restore Case's ability to connect to cyberspace greater hand in exchange for working for him. Surrounded by secrecy, Case joins the recruits on their mission to uncover artificial intelligence and start life afresh. conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473217385</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brandon SandersonLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Arcanum UnboundedSeven Devils

|summary= Invisible Planets Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an eclectic collectionEmpire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, translated beautifullywhom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, and Ken Liu’s opening essay provides has a mission: hijack a welcome introduction for those who aren’t familiar Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. 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 secret that could potentially cripple the genreEmpire. The stories are dreamlike and hypnoticEris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, evocative is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and inspiringthe last of the free alien species.It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784978809</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= James GossFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title= Class: What She Does Next Will Astound YouA Life Without End|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy Literary Fiction|summary=At Coal Hill SchoolI looked at the calendar the other week, things and disappointedly realised I have started to get publica birthday this year – I know, yet another one. Kids It won't be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have become obsessed with the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a website that demands you perform risky stuntsfew of the big 0-numbers, or tell it your most painful secrets. And Seraphinand if all goes well, everyoneI's favourite vlogger, wants you to get involvedll be an OBE. All in the name (Which of charitycourse stands for Over Bloody Eighty. At first people just get hurt. Then their lives are ruined. Finally, they disappear. As April) Now if that's fragile group the extent of friends starts to fracturemy mid-life crisis, she decides she's going I guess I have to uncover the truth behind thie site herselfbe happy. Whatever it takes Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, whoever she hurts, April's going but he might be said to winbe living one. But then, Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant 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 stopfirst geneticist he interviews, and look they end upwith a child, you'll see which is at least a way of continuing the face life of a girlhis genes, pressed up against and a windowmotive to keep on going. Screaming. Tanya finds herself drawn But how can he get to not flick the stone house. There's a mystery there, and shefinal way out's going to solve it. But the more she investigatesswitch, 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...especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785941879</amazonuk>1642860670