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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Abi CurtisAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Water & GlassAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= General Science Fiction |summary= Something has happened''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only I must confess that there have been more than a handful few decades of animals living below technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the wavesfeeling that it's all getting away from me. We follow Nerissa CraneSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the animals latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and falls into who could deliver information in a world of intrigueway I could understand. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995465754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Philip K DickSylvie Cathrall|title= Philip K Dick's Electric DreamsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 35|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they There are more present few greater joys than past. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic a book which lives up to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TVa compelling premise. Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy to the increasing machination And this is one of society are all headline material in today's news. It is as if half a century after their inception, Dick's electric dreams are becoming realitythem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473223288</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Mann1803816759|title=Ghosts of EmpireThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|summary=Taking on It's 2038 and Joe is a band of undead Mummies will take it out of bored cop policing the best wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of us adventure and a holiday may be neededto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. If you are from New York there are not But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many other cities worldwide that could impress you, but London is one of themand riots start to spread. SurelyFinally, a nice visit Joe gets to England, far from do some real policing. In the hustle and bustle aftermath of the Big Apple, will help you rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to relaxbring her home. It Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is not as if Russian Tsarists are also on the loose with magical powers case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or the events are conspiring to raise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumber. Is was ithacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294183</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian DoescherB0CP95J1CG|title=William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the SeventhOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane

|summary=A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', party but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in interest is piqued by the family til way it hurtsarrived. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on it seems like a good opportunity to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection get out of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes his room and Verse |summary=Consider away from the Doctoronline activities he makes a living at. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must So he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of makes his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for exampleway there, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate dodging the life of a Time Lord and buses that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock make up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andy Weir|title= Artemis|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to Artemis, the first city on the moon. A powerhouse for the rich and a once in a 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 with her father aged six, it's the only place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives in 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 traffic and to this end, she has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activitywatching the local energy storage indicator lights. When one of Jazz's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome reward, it is just too tempting to refuseShould be enough power. What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to doHopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956943</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Wes Stuart|title= My Name is Sam|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Who is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts Sam, the champion of the Sereia in their cosmos-spanning war with the Gibbus, and the main character in this story. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he is, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also EarthK P O'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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1540504506</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= C Robert CargillDonnell|title= Sea of Rust|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Have you ever watched the ''Terminator'' movies or some similar 'Robo-geddon' franchise 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; a world where the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of organic matter anywhere, since the robot uprising that devastated the planet. Now two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS and VIRGIL. They capture robots and turn them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousness. The few remaining bots are called 'freebots,' and inhabit a desert called the Sea of Rust, where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473212782</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul McAuley|title= Austral|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Austral has no doubts about who she 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 by a suite of targeted genes…'' She was, as the jargon of her world has it ''edited''. She is, as a result, a Husky. Vital Link (A human modified to withstand the cold temperatures of the Antarctic continent. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive in, but maybe not for much longer. This is a world in which the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the ice has retreated and continues to retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments is being opened up for exploitation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217318</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geoffrey Arnold|title= Hunted|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Tullia learns about survival 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 Spark 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 StarsGalaxy|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Jamie Allenby wakesSpark, alone, and realises her fever has broken. But could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlier, Jamie had left her partner Daniel, mourning who is an elite pilot with the miscarriage of their baby. She'd just had to get awaySpace Academy, so took barely makes it through a job on a distant planet. Then the virus hitbattle alive. Jamie survived as it swept through our farHis co-flung coloniespilot was not so fortunate. Now she feels desperate Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little 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 in no physical shape to returnresume his duties. She meets others seeking But Earth, is under threat and their ill-matched group will travel across he must. Returned by his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to achieve their dream. But they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating save humanity's past mistakes- and not just from the alien threats against it, threatening their precious fresh start. Jamie will but also get a second chance at happinessfrom its own sins against itself. But can she escape her troubled past, to embrace a hopeful future?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509833528</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elizabeth MoonTade Thompson|title= Cold Welcome: Vatta's PeaceFar From the Light of Heaven|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell'I'm convinced we can survive anything'' After saving Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the empiresleeper ship Ragtime, Admiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less than to return to her home planet. But after her cousin's requestbound for the world of Bloodroot, thatshe will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's exactly where Ky finds herselfAI captain. However, enroute when she wakes up at the end of her trip to tie up some family business. Promised a herofind dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's welcomeAI almost non-responsive, Ky plans she begins to stay realise that her first mission won't be going as little time smoothly as possible back in the place filled with such horrible memoriesshe hoped it would. But as soon as she arrivesDown on Bloodroot, Ky finds herself in perilous danger, caught in disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the middle of an assassination attemptRagtime. Now stranded at sea Meanwhile, former astronaut and without communication links with the outside world, Ky must use every ounce friend of skill she possesses Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to battle for survival. But with an unfamiliar crew who don't trust herBloodroot, sabotaged equipment and a traitor half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the midstRagtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the odds aren't in her favourpoliticking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. While What the five of them discover on the survivors hunt Ragtime has ramifications not just for land, Ky's family members are doing everything possible to ensure her rescue. Old friends are called in and new alliances are madeBloodroot, but will it be enough? Will they get to Ky before it's too late?potentially the entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506282</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam PetersClaire North|title=From Darkest SkiesNotes from the Burning Age

|summary=No one likes to see At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a loved one diespy thriller, with as many double crosses, but when they do we can reflect on how they lived interrogations and eventually move on with a piece of them inside usnight time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, what would happen if we could take all as with the memories we best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have saved on been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the internet modern and combine them into an Artificial Intelligence that represented them? Would corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this work limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to keep them close, or just give you a false facsimile that prevents you from moving on?the Earth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214750</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M R CareyAdrian Tchaikovsky|title=The Boy on the Bridge|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's ten years since mankind was almost wiped out by a virus that turned the great majority of it into the hungries – zombies by any other name. A lone, heavily armoured vehicle is travelling from the British redoubt on the south coast the length of the Kingdom, tracing a previous expedition that failed to return, and hoping to find evidence somewhere, 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 the crew split along partisan lines. That's not helped by one of the scientists, Samrina Khan, being heavily pregnant. But she's also rubbed people up by insisting on an intriguing character being on board – a teenaged savant, no less, called Stephen Greaves. But that source Shards of the unusual is nothing perhaps to the bizarre the team will find on their explorations…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356503534</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Scalzi|title= The Collapsing EmpireEarth|rating= 54

|summary='' ''Just out of curiosity if this Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the smaller problemarchitect's reshaping. Then, what is just when they had the human race on the bigger problem?'' ''  '' ''The complete collapse of run, the FlowArchitects vanished. And so, the end memories of the interdependencywar fades, heroes are forgotten, and the possible extinction of the human racehumanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves.'' '' In Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the distant futureArchitects, mankind has been forced does not want to leave Earth behind be remembered. But, when he and has subsequently built an impressive empire compromising the crew of 47 human colonies all connected by The Flow: a river of alternate space-time which makes travel across the Interdependency possiblesalvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. Dependent on tradeAs he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, the Holy Empire's survival is all thanks he slowly begins to realise that the Flow… which real war is now collapsing.only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509835075</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geoff GaywoodTerry Miles|title= Omnipotence: Odyssey Book IRabbits|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Against a backdrop Welcome to the world of relentless global warming and deepening social conflict on EarthThe Game. Or should that be the game, an expedition sets out for while it ought to be capitalised to secure a foothold on high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a distant planet thought suitable slangy term for human habitationit – 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. Almost immediatelyYes, this is the crew are sorely tested by game of life for a violent internal certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, alien aggression the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and simmering emotional tensions. They complete a spectacular transition his bezzies are trying to a remote solar system where they find that their goalbe historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, as and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous as , nay lethal, the most broken it 's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is exoticdoing, already has the ominous attention of another civilisation. Moreoverif it's even being played, a series of perplexing events suggest that their mission may and how his loved ones might be subordinate kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a much greater power with its own strategic agendavery thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178589918X</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kim Stanley RobinsonC J Carey|title= New York 2140Widowland|rating= 54|genre= Science General Fiction|summary=By 2140 sea level has risen by It'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 fifty feeta bit, leaving coastal cities and watching over the sanctioned return to the world over throne of Edward VIII with major problemshis wife, Queen Wallis. Some places will always be desirable For yes, howeverBritain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and when you've invested we are now a lot protectorate – well, we share enough of time and money somewhere youthe same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''re reluctant to leave. Consequently New York remains But this is most certainly a thrivingdifferent Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, popular place even though half and ideas of Manhattan is under water and female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the streets are now canals. There are still financial tradersdrudges, local politiciansand beyond those, celebritiesright on down to the childless, street urchins (albeit known as water rats) sharing the city husbandless and getting bythe widows. It seems like New York has stabilised into a new Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, watery normal but when a couple is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of programmers go missing it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a building on Madison Square and some of hefty tweak towards the other residents start looking into itparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, a question begins until the first emerging signs of female protest come to be asked: Does it have light, with their potential to be this way?spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356508757</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedEverina Maxwell|title= StanlyWinter's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)Orbit|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be Prince Kiem is 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 apocalypsefamous political disappointment. Now heHe's not sure what he isoutgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years. Or where he So when an important political alliance is. Or how exactly to be arranged – one that is supposed to proceed after saving prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the worldrole. All he knows is that his story isn't finishedLeast of all him. Not quite yet …|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom TonerRob Winters|title= The Weight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)His Name Was Wren

|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= One thing great science fiction needs is solid world buildingIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. When I pick up a book like this It came down hard, I need to imagine that taking the universe has existed before spire of the plot has started and will continue to do so after: village church with it needs , destroying a strong sense of history and future. With this bookstone shack, and seriesleaving a wide trail through the wood, I feel like I have just had a brief glimpse into something much largerbut no trace of what it actually was. A great deal happens in German secret weapon was the plotlocal gossip, but even more is happeningthere should have been an explosion and a crater, and has happened, across the Firmamentthere were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211395</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda HockingMark Lingane|title= FreeksNote to Self: An Education|rating= 34|genre=Science Fiction|summary= In Kry's world, the 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 side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years.In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5

|summary= In On the spring moon of 1987a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the carnival comes planet habitable to small-town Caudryhuman life. However, Louisiana. Then events take a dangerous turn. For Mara Beznik, discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the carnival is home. Itmoon's also surface leaves her bonded with a place strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of secretsthe research station, hidden powers and a buried past - making it hard the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to connect with outsiderstake Kira in for examination. HoweverThings go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, sparks fly when and she meets local boy Gabe Alvaradohas to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. As they become inseparableShe is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, Mara realizes Gabe and the news is hiding his own secrets. And his family legacy could destroy Mara's worldgrim. They find The same aliens that destroyed the word 'freeks' sprayed on trailersExtenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as carnival employees start disappearingthe Staff of Blue can stop them. Then workers wind up deadAs the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, killed Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in disturbing ways by someone or something. Mara is determined to unlock the mystery, with Gabeconflict than she could's help. But can they really halt this campaign of fear?ve possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807659</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alec BirriLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Condition: Book Two - The Curing Begins...Seven Devils

|summary= Discovering Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an infamous Nazi doctor conducted abortions Empire she was destined to inherit in Argentina after the Second World War may not come her past life as a surprisePrincess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, but why was an ace pilot for the twisted eugenicist not only allowed Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to continue his evil experiments but encouraged gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased to do so? And what has discover that got to do 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 respected neurologist in 2027? Surely secret that could potentially cripple the invention of a cure for nearly all the worldEmpire. Eris's ailments can't possibly have its roots buried in brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the horrors of Auschwitz? The unacceptable Empire, is about plotting to become disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the disturbingly bizarrelast of the free alien species. What has the treatmentIt's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles'correction' of paedophiles got to do plans, with the President millions of lives hanging in the United States, the Pope and even the UK's Green Party? balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898779</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alastair ReynoldsFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title= Slow BulletsA Life Without End|rating= 4|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary=When hundreds of worlds I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have been at war for a long timebirthday this year – I know, the announcement of a ceasefire takes a while to reach everyoneyet another one. Itwon's perhaps not surprising that t be one of the worst of major numbers, but the soldiers using time when I have the war same number as an excuse for crimes, don't immediately give upHeinz varieties looms on the horizon. Scur, And then a conscript who has just been given the hope of returning to her family, has the misfortune to run into one few of these war criminals before the peacekeepers arrive. He leaves her to diebig 0-numbers, but she subsequently wakes up from hibernation on a prison shipand if all goes well, only to discover that he is there tooI'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. And ) Now if that's the least extent of her worriesmy mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147321842X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview| Our author= Alec Birri|title= Condition: Book One - A Medical Miracle?|rating= 5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ithere doesn's 1966t use that exact phrase, but RAF Pilot Dan Stewart isn't celebrating England's win in the World Cup – instead he's awakening from a coma following an aircraft accidentmight be said to be living one. Waking in a world where nothing makes sense, Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he's unable would like to recall see 400 – he hops right into bed with the crash – but struggles assistant to remember the rest first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his life…And what's stopping him from taking his medication? Is it brain damage causing paranoia about the red pillgenes, or is he right and a motive to think there's something more sinister keep on going on…And, having suffered almost 100% burns, . But how is can he alive? Are his hallucinations trying get to tell him somethingnot flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785899686</amazonuk>1642860670