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<!-- Quine -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Quine Beasts.jpg|leftisbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|linktitle=httpsAll Tomorrow's Futures://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0992754941?ieFictions that Disrupt|author=UTF8&tagBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode5|genre=as2&campScience Fiction|summary=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0992754941]]''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine]]=== [[image:3I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Well, [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Meet JaymiI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. He I've kept up reasonably well with what's a world-class video games designer, and fresh advantageous to a new mansion in me but I'm left with the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent success. But hefeeling that it's seen the future and he doesn't like all getting away from me. Some of itis - frankly - quite frightening. His current employers, able to bring any amount of class Of course, skill and culture to I could research the world of gameplay, are beset on appealing to the most lunkheaded possibilities and lowest common denominators instead. Indeed, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be a massively disturbing environment, where people progress through the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone probabilities and everyone else on the planet, end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're playing along talking about or not, and by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a user-accepted, algorithm-designed, status quothe latest conspiracy theorist. With a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, I needed people I knew I could trust and sets up who could deliver information in a way of restoring the balance with a launch of his own, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the gameI could understand. He sees this as a way to improve society and get his own back – but the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded background, and become fully playable characters in reality… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay CummingsSylvie Cathrall|title=Zenith A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=The Bloody Baroness There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is the captain one of the starship Maurader, and she and her all-female crew wreak havoc wherever they go across the galaxy. On board, however, the bloody baroness is just Andi, the misfit crew's friend and protector. One day they are captured, something that just never happens to them, and they find themselves facing up to their past lives, that they have been trying so hard to run away from. Will they be able to face not just their fears but their own personal demons, as they are blackmailed into an impossible rescue mission?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008228337</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Brookmyre1803816759|title=Places in the DarknessThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|summary= Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort of futuristic Utopia, in It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a world bit of free thinking adventure and no major to get stuck into some really gritty crimedetection. Perhaps in a Space Station high above the Earth were But then something goes horribly wrong with the greatest minds have travelled so AI system that they can build a vessel that will send now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the next generations aftermath of humans the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to populate new planets. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be the same old problemsbring her home. You canJoe isn't really have the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a Utopia with people in British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it, can youhacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650624X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Abi CurtisB0CP95J1CG|title= Water Of Ghosts & GlassBroken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating= 4.5|genre= General Science Fiction |summary= Something has happened, something very nasty and on Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like a submarine a pregnant elephant is one good opportunity to get out of only his room and away from the online activities he makes a handful of animals living below the wavesat. We follow Nerissa CraneSo he makes his way there, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after dodging the buses that make up most of the animals traffic and falls into a world of intriguewatching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995465754</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Philip K DickP O'Donnell|title= Philip K Dick's Electric DreamsThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50sVL-15, a prototype robot, but they are more present than pastis desperate to understand who she is. On Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews nations of pure praise; Drexel and on slightly smaller screensRenada. Over half-a-century later, Channel 4 has adapted the authorcivilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's short stories for TV. Startlinglylegacy, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction building a world where machines and into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and loss external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a group of privacy to salvagers called the increasing machination of society are all headline material in today's newsExhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. It is as if half a century Even after their inceptionbeing buried for 65 years, Dickher determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's electric dreams are becoming reality.ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473223288</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George MannEmily Tesh|title=Ghosts of EmpireSome Desperate Glory|rating=4.5

|summary=Taking on ''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst a band rare number of undead Mummies will take it out survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the best last scraps of us humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and a holiday may be needed. If you are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide the world that could impress you, but London is one of themshould have been hers. SurelyAll her life, a nice visit she has been conditioned to Englandfall in line, far from the hustle to fulfil her duty and bustle of the Big Apple, will help you to relax. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumberensure that humanity perseveres. Is it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294183</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian DoescherM R Carey|title=William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the SeventhInfinity Gate|rating=4.5

|summary=A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to create science fiction. Not because it's a series genre I dislike – nothing of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdythe sort. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth AwakenMy standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and when it's bad, 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 's often terrible. But the family til it hurtspremise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. And A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if you need further encouragementit was done well, donit't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series d be fantastic. So this is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James Goss and Russell T DaviesMichael Grothaus|title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)Beautiful Shining People|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse Literary Fiction|summary=Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday ''But fearing something and Christmas gifts must he have having it come to hand out each year, were he pass are two different things. And I'm willing to keep in touch with even half bet most of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of themwhat we fear will never happen, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the life question of a Time Lord identity and that of some of his friends and enemiesacceptance. As luck would have Of what it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice means to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium human. Of what is real and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespanwhat is artificial, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice whether the development of technology is pretty much the sameexciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andy Weir1739593901|title= Artemis22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to Artemis, the first city on the moon''Our future will be more complex than we expected. A powerhouse for the rich and a once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and also a place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizenautomated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, it's the only place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she I's flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is ve got a waste couple of talentconfessions to make. Jazz lives in the low end of town, sleeping I'm not keen on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job short stories as I find it easy to read a porter. However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich few stories and then forget to return to this end, she has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activitythe book. When one of Jazz There's regular clients wants her got to step up from petty criminal be a very compelling hook to major criminal for a handsome reward, keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it is just too tempting to refuse's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. What Jazz doesn It't know is all s human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the facts behind world scape are purely incidental. So, what she is being asked to dodid I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956943</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Wes StuartMark Lingane|title= My Name is SamGalaxy|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Who Spark, who is an elite pilot with the real enemy? This is the question which confronts SamSpace Academy, the champion of the Sereia in their cosmosbarely makes it through a battle alive. His co-spanning war with the Gibbuspilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little and the main character is in this storyno physical shape to resume his duties. Sam But Earth is an unimposing boy who has no past under threat and no memory of who he ismust. Returned by his superiors to the space station, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's finds himself amid a last hope for salvation from the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the planet ditch attempt to save humanity - and everyone on it. This is not his choice however: that is the decision of just from the alien Sereiathreats against it, his mentors and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous task. They have their but also from its own reasons for wanting Earth to be saved, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselvessins against itself. 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>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= C Robert CargillTade Thompson|title= Sea Far From the Light of RustHeaven|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Have you ever watched the Michelle 'Shell'TerminatorCampion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime' movies or some similar 'Robos AI almost non-geddonresponsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won' franchise t be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and wondered his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what would have happened if went wrong on the robots had actually ''won?'' Well wonder no moreRagtime. Meanwhile, because ''Sea former astronaut and friend of RustShell'' hinges on that exact premise; s father Lawrence Biz takes a world where shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of organic matter anywhereRagtime has gone quiet, since the robot uprising that devastated leaving behind the planet. Now two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS politicking and VIRGILbureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. They capture robots and turn What the five of them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousness. The few remaining bots are called 'freebotsdiscover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot,' and inhabit a desert called but potentially the Sea entirety of Rust, where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts.human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473212782</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul McAuleyClaire North|title= AustralNotes from the Burning Age|rating= 3.54|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Austral has no doubts about who she At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is. Her birth wasa spy thriller, with as she puts itmany double crosses, ''a political actinterrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an egg. I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She wasHowever, as with the jargon of her world has best novels, it ''edited''. She wears many masks and its most affecting one isthat of a new and timely genre, as a resultcli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a Husky. A human modified world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to withstand start anew and live alongside nature without any of the cold temperatures modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of the Antarctic continent. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive inmass destruction, but maybe not for much longerintensive farming). This There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world in which , and one group, the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the ice has retreated and continues cost to retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments is being opened up for exploitationEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473217318</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geoffrey ArnoldAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= HuntedShards of Earth

|summary=Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into a Bushman family and an unrecognisable shape by the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst moon-sized aliens known as the young men and women, a mixture of awe, desire, fear and hateArchitects. Living a very different lifeHumanity is scattered, Qwelby, Tulliaconstantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's twinreshaping. Then, is deeply shocked by just when they had the violence human race on Earththe run, the Architects vanished. As he is rescued by his four best friends from And so, the Pit memories of Despairthe war fades, he experiences his first feelings for Taminaheroes are forgotten, a girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries and humanity begins to help during a violent attack from his own world as he fracture and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic linkfight among themselves. Forming Idris Telemmier, a connection man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the twins during the attackArchitects, the girldoes not want to be remembered. But, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – when he and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on crew of the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build salvage ship he calls home discover what they hope will appears to be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a short test runrecent Architect activity, the village where suddenly he is staying is discoveredthrust back into the spotlight. When Quelby finds out As he is being watchedand his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he flees from slowly begins to realise that the village...real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785891855</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel SuarezTerry Miles|title=Change AgentRabbits|rating=34.5

|summary=I wish I was Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a little bit tallerslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, I wish I had blue eyesit has no official title, I wishno official source, I wishno hard and fast structure, I wishand to the average person no obvious entry point. In A bit like the genetic lottery that game of life then. Yes, this is our lives we are given the game of life for a selection certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our mother hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and our father his bezzies are trying to work withbe 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, and are still very short. Howeverthis time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, although they may be over six footnay lethal, you could still end up being shorterthe most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. You can't currently choose Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what coding you getthe game is doing, but what if you could cherry pick the best aspects of your family traits? It would it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be a great way kept safe, he is only to save people from hereditary diseasefind out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, but would we end up with is a world full of identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashions? In the future someone would need to be in charge of stopping science going too farvery thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>110198466X</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen Baxter C J Carey|title= Xeelee: Vengeance Widowland|rating= 24|genre= Science General Fiction|summary=Michael PooleIt's April 1953, Earthand Adolf Hitler's greatest living engineerschedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, changed parading around a bit, and watching over the galaxy when he opened a worm hole sanctioned return to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar systemthrone of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. However For yes, such 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 thing was created with protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a degree of naivety different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and a lack ideas of foresight because out female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes beforedrudges, it is unstoppable and unfathomable. Bent beyond those, right on an unknown pathdown to the childless, the vessel is unresponsive to husbandless and the human life around itwidows. It ignores hails and even direct attacks Female literacy is actively discouraged. Nothing affects 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 even every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the surface of the sunparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. All it seems to want That is energyher job, and Earth has plenty at least, until the first emerging signs of that female protest come to light, with their potential to be absorbedspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473217172</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel GodfreyEverina Maxwell|title=Empire of Time (New Pompeii)Winter's Orbit

|summary=Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the beginningpast few years.The experiment So when an important political alliance is to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time be arranged – one that is supposed to a new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old prevent an interplanetary war – no one sounded great in theory. The practice has been going on expects him to be chosen 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 dreamtrole. Since he arrived, he's watched the Romans kill the inventors Least of the machine that saved them. Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give all 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>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cixin LiuRob Winters|title=The Wandering EarthHis Name Was Wren|rating= 54|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= If anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the pages village of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think againHurstwick. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager It came down hard, taking the spire of the short form is Sci-fi. village church with it, destroying a stone shack, So when you pick up and leaving a collection wide trail through the wood, but no trace of Sci-fi shorts, you know that what it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novelactually was. Add to that German secret weapon was the intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of the rest of the planet…and add to that local gossip, but there should have been an author who is not only explosion and a best-seller in his home country but has the distinction crater, and there were neither of having produced the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be good!those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784978493</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jack CampbellMark Lingane|title= The Genesis FleetNote to Self: VanguardAn Education|rating=4|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

|summary=The On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the stars it takes moon's surface leaves her bonded with it both a strange alien entity. After the best entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the worst examples staff of itselfthe research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. The isolation She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and edginess of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Scirag-Fi in this tale tag bunch of far-flung colonies misfits, and bullying neighboursthe news is grim. We follow our protagonists, each failures in their own careers (crisis management, The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space navy, politics and marines) only a mythical weapon known as they become heroesthe Staff of Blue can stop them.As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650408</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anne CorlettLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= The Space Between The StarsSeven Devils

|summary= Jamie Allenby wakesEris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, alonea resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, and realises her fever whom everyone believed has brokenbeen dead for years. But could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlierClo, Jamie had left her partner Danielan ace pilot for the Novantae, mourning has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the miscarriage of their babywar effort. SheAlthough she'd just had s less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get away, so took more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a job on a distant planetsecret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Then Eris's brother Damocles, the virus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our farrunner-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate and isolatedup heir to the Empire, 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 plotting to return. She meets others seeking Earth, disrupt peace talks between Tholos and their ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dreamthe last of the free alien species. But they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanityIt's past mistakes, threatening their precious fresh start. Jamie will also get a second chance at happiness. But can she escape her troubled past, race against time as the rebels move to embrace put a hopeful future?stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509833528</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elizabeth MoonFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title= Cold Welcome: Vatta's PeaceA Life Without End|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary=''I'm convinced we can survive anything'' After saving looked at the calendar the empireother week, 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 herselfand disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, enroute to tie up some family businessyet another one. Promised a hero It won's welcomet be one of the major numbers, Ky plans to stay as little but the time when I have the same number as possible back in Heinz varieties looms on the place filled with such horrible memorieshorizon. But as soon as she arrives And then a few of the big 0-numbers, Ky finds herself in perilous dangerand if all goes well, caught in the middle I'll be an OBE. (Which of an assassination attemptcourse stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) Now stranded at sea and without communication links with if that's the outside worldextent of my mid-life crisis, Ky must I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use every ounce of skill she possesses that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to battle prolong life for survival. But as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with an unfamiliar crew who don't trust herthe assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, sabotaged equipment and they end up with a traitor in the midstchild, which is at least a way of continuing the odds aren't in her favour. While the survivors hunt for landlife of his genes, Ky's family members are doing everything possible and a motive to ensure her rescuekeep on going. Old friends are called in and new alliances are made, but will it be enough? Will they But how can he get to Ky before itnot flick the 'final way out's too lateswitch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506282</amazonuk>1642860670