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|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author= Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen BaxterOram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''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, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, 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 latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803816759|title= World Engines: DestroyerThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Hundreds It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of years in the futurerioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, on a stagnating British superfan and almost empty Earthtech nerd, a space shuttle pilot from is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the early days of system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CP95J1CG|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the 21st century party but his interest is awoken piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like a good opportunity to get out of his room and away from the cryogenic sleep online activities he entered after makes a devastating accidentliving at. As So he comes to terms with this new worldmakes his way there, he begins to realise dodging the buses that their history does not match what he remembers - make up most of the traffic and that only he may watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be able enough power. Hopefully.}}{{Frontpage|author=K P O'Donnell|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to stop understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the coming catastrophe destined to destroy world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the planetnations of Drexel and Renada. Until he meets Over half-a young woman who seems -century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to have continue her father's legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a drive group of salvagers called the 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 owndetermination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and a plan...no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=1473223172B0CKRYFRZM

{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->Emily Tesh|title=Some Desperate Glory|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us''

<!-- Graves -->Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres.|-isbn=0356521834}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|M R Carey[[image:194927201X.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/194927201X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Infinity Gate| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|5===[[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Aaron Sheridan doesnsummary= I't want m annoyingly picky when it comes to live anymorescience fiction. His entire family is dead by his own hand, killed in Not because it's a shuttle crashgenre I dislike – nothing of the sort. Unable to deal with the guilt, he signs up for the Fleet expecting My standards are high precisely because it's a fatal deployment hard genre to the Rim Warget right – and when it's bad, but instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, Corinth Station. Initially, heit's detached from often terrible. But the brutality premise of his instructors and the Machiavellian tactics of the other students there, but after he sticks up for his only friend he makes himself Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a target of the most feared cadet on the stationhigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, Caelus Erikit'd be fantastic. Unsure of whom to trust and worried So this is where I sum up that anything he does will make others on his flight team targets as well, Aaron retreats deeper premise.|isbn=0356518043}}{{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ''But fearing something and deeper inside himselfhaving it come to pass are two different things. However, when he discovers that officer training is not the stationAnd I's only purposem willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it becomes increasingly clear that risking everything is the safest thing he can do. [[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]''

<!--Merritt Graves -->''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|-isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The Future[[image:1949272028.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1949272028/refBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=nosim?tag5|genre=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary="vertical''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-align: top; text-align: left;"|vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''

===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]===I've got a couple of confessions to make. [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. If the game wasn’t fair before, it’s definitely not fair nowThere's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Or so thinks Dorian Waters, part of Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the ever-expanding portion of humanity who can’t afford technology which takes centre stage along with the nanoworld-implant and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revisionbuilding. And because he can’t afford Revision, he can’t get into college. He can’t get a job. And when he sees It's human beings who fascinate me: the brilliant technology and mesmerizing Lena for the first timeworld scape are purely incidental. So, he knows he doesn’t have what did I think of a chance with herbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, eitherI loved it. Feeling thoroughly lost and exasperated, Dorian robs a house }}{{Frontpage|author=Mark Lingane|title=Galaxy|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Spark, who is an elite pilot with his best friendthe Space Academy, Ethan. Then they do barely makes it againthrough a battle alive. It’s thrilling and terrifying and deeply unsettlingHis co-pilot was not so fortunate. But since they take so little each time Waking from a coma that their targets don’t noticelasted years, they’re able to keep at it until they have enough money saved uphe remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. Once they do their first Revision, their initial choices in self-enhancement start impacting their future choices, which in turn impact their future Revision––on But Earth is under threat and on in a downward spiral of self-destructionhe must. Dorian desperately wants Returned by his superiors to slow things down and figure out the kind of person space station, he really wants finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to besave humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it, but with the police one step behind them and a contentious relationship with his brother, Jaden, threatening to unravel everything, it’s the expedient choices that he’s finding himself more and more compelled to makealso from its own sins against itself. [[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]isbn=B09X3NZ76W}}<!-- Peter F Hamilton -->{{Frontpage|-author=Tade Thompson| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Far From the Light of Heaven|rating=4.5[[image:1447281357.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447281357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4starMichelle 'Shell' Campion 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]] In However, when she wakes up at the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about end of her trip to change, forever. Feriton Kanefind dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever AI almost non-responsive, she begins to face mankind – and werealise that her first mission won've almost no time to fight backt be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanityDown on Bloodroot, in order disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to carry us to their god at the end of discover exactly what went wrong on the universeRagtime. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earthMeanwhile, vast warships converge above former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to fleeBloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to live in hiding amongst see why the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in timeRagtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. But others refuse to break before What the storm. As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus five of them discover on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never see. [[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamiltonhuman space…|Full Review]]isbn=0356514323}}<!-- Megan E O'Keefe -->{{Frontpage|-author=Claire North| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Notes from the Burning Age[[image:0356512223.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512223/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Science Fiction|summary===[[Velocity Weapon At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Megan E O'Keefe]]=== [[image:4Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming.5starHowever, as with the 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.jpg|link=CategoryNorth's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read:{{{rating}fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.|isbn=0356514757}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]] {{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of Earth|rating= 4The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship exploding. She expected to be recovered by salvage-medics and to awaken in friendly hands|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, patchedwarped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-up and ready to rejoin sized aliens known as the fightArchitects. Instead she wakes up 230 years laterHumanity is scattered, on a deserted enemy starship called The Light of Berossus - or, as he prefers constantly fleeing as world after world falls to call himself, 'Berothe architect's reshaping. Bero tells Sanda Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the war is lostArchitects vanished. That the entire star system is dead. But is that the full story? After allAnd so, in the vastness memories of spacethe war fades, heroes are forgotten, anything is possible . and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. [[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe|Full Review]] <!-- Vaughn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751568228But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight.jpgAs he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751568228/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]1529051886}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary==[[Across Welcome to the Void by S K Vaughn]]=== [[image:4starworld of The Game.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Sea epics? So 20th centuryOr should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. Try It's also called Rabbits, although only as a space epicslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. [[Across A bit like the Void by S K Vaughn|Full Review]] <!-- Chiang -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1529014484game of life then.jpg|link=http://wwwYes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529014484/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang lists of who has published fifteen science fiction short stories, these magnificent stories have successfully won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you the game are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of in the work by Ted Chiangmost peculiar places, and are still very short. If you havenHowever this time it't than take this opportunity to do so nows different. Trust me; your imagination will be gratefulThis time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. [[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style=Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:168369094X.jpg|link=http://wwws even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed.amazon.co.uk/dp/168369094X/ref|isbn=nosim?tag1529016932}}{{Frontpage|author=thebookbag-21]]C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4| stylegenre=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''General Fiction|summary===[[William ShakespeareIt's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's Get Thee Back schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the Future! by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4state 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.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] For yes, [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky Britain caved in the lead-up to rewrite the story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameterWorld War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such we are now a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. It was then duly repeated for all protectorate – well, we share enough of the other films in same blood as the main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someoneGermanic peoples on ''s buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge the day before I writemainland''. In the hiatusBut this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, howeverand ideas of female purpose, the effort has been made to see if put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the same shtick works with other textsdrudges, and beyond those, right on down to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambsthe childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the Futurein this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with its tales the task of time travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other? [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back bowdlerising classical literature to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Martine -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1529001579take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.uk/dp/1529001579/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Everina Maxwell|title=Winter's Orbit|rating=5|genre=[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]Science Fiction|summary=== [[image:4Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment.5starHe's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years.jpg|link=Category:{{{ratingSo when an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the role. Least of all him.|isbn=0356515885}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction{{Frontpage|author=Rob Winters|title=His Name Was Wren|Science Fiction]]rating=4|genre=Confident ReadersThe problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors |summary=In September 1944 something came down in SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and errs on Oban Woods, near the side village of making them unpronounceable by most readersHurstwick. I can see why she does bothIt came down hard, taking the spire of the village church with it, destroying a stone shack, but it's and leaving a disappointment because they're wide trail through the blocks against which the brilliance wood, but no trace of the book stumbleswhat it actually was. [[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a crater, and there were neither of those things.|Full Review]]isbn=B08KGVNVNB}}<!-- Lingane -->{{Frontpage|-author=Mark Lingane| styletitle="widthNote to Self: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"An Education|rating=4[[image:B07NV8NY4Y.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NV8NY4Y/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styleScience Fiction|summary=In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Rosein 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 Night, and side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the Mirror same technique to "de-age" their customers by Mark Lingane]]==seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionFrontpage|Science Fiction]] author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsJulian's family are getting pretty fed up |rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with his perma-student status. They feel that the maths PHD candidate should start earning some moneyefforts to make the planet habitable to human life. To that endHowever, they have managed to find him a job tutoring discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the children of moon's surface leaves her bonded with a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in the way of expectationalien entity. Victor, After the politician is not at home. But Esis, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in entity bonded to her children loses control and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his roomkills half the staff of the research station, the library United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in which he will teach the childrensystem 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. She is revived aboard the kitchenfreighter Wallfish, whose chefbot will provide him with food. [[crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. The Rose, same aliens that destroyed the NightExtenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the Mirror by Mark LinganeStaff 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…|Full Review]] isbn=1529046505}}<!-- Arnold -->{{Frontpage|-author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May| styletitle=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''Seven Devils|rating= 4[[image:1789016525.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789016525/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnold]]=== [[image:3Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] In Clo, an extension of ace pilot for the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart''Novantae, he continues has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to tell the story of the Quantum twinswar effort. Born 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 parallel worldsecret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through spacethe runner-time up heir to the Empire, is plotting to our earth - disrupt peace talks between Tholos and a series the last of adventures ensued in the following booksfree alien species. When we rejoin them in It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles'Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life plans, with millions of lives hanging in the bush - adopted by a Bushman family and made part of a tribe. Twin Qwelby however, is not doing so well - shocked by the violence on the earth. Rescued by an old friend, he then tries to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive a wedge between the twins as they try to reconnect... [[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnoldbalance…|isbn=1473231140}}{{Frontpage|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=A Life Without End|Full Review]]rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction<!-- Marrs -->|-| style|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won''width: 10%; verticalt be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-align: top; text-align: center;numbers, and if all goes well, I''|[[image:1785038885ll be an OBE.jpg|link=http://www (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785038885/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=) Now if that''verticals the extent of my mid-align: top; text-align: left;life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn''|===[[The Passengers by John Marrs]]=== [[image:4t use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] In 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 the near futurefirst geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, self-drive cars are the norm - which is at least a convenient and easy way of transport. However, when someone hacks into continuing the systems life of eight self-drive carshis genes, their passengers are set on and a fatal collision course. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, the public have motive to judge who should survivekeep on going. But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by how can he get to not flick the public - will they turn 'final way out to be what they seem' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice? [[The Passengers by John Marrs|Full Review]] <!-- Beckett -->|-isbn=1642860670| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786491559.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786491559/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, with terrifying results... [[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett|Full Review]] <!-- Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789090016.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789090016/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Zero Bomb by M T Hill]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Meet Remi. He's a fan of running, and indeed has been – from the wife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. Now working in London as a courier, he's taking a routine piece of samizdat literature across town when he's seemingly attacked by a driverless car. Struggling to keep to his schedule, he takes to the Tube, where mysterious people sit with him – and regale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. Slowly, woozily, he's drawn into a completely surreal scenario, as he tries to find out what is wanted of him, and by whom – and indeed, who he himself even is. [[Zero Bomb by M T Hill|Full Review]] <!-- Jason Boggs -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:154564134X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/154564134X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Dragon's Harvest by Jason F Boggs]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'. As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and self-discovery, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's Dragon'', Nelson is on an expedition to uncover the mystery of the sungates, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhile, the humans and the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to glory. As Nelson and his friends race against the clock in order to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[The Dragon's Harvest by Jason F Boggs|Full Review]] <!-- Anders -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785653199.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785653199/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] January is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders|Full Review]] <!-- Hamilton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1447281322.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447281322/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Salvation by Peter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Apparently the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as a pejorative. It was borrowed not from the high-brow musical art form, but from the common or garden 'soap opera'. It related to a particular kind of science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn". It would be fifty years later before the term started to be re-appropriated to cover – if still the same themes of distant futures, military conflict, heroism and a simplistic set of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as compliment. [[Salvation by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]] <!-- Chadwick -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:0349700249.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349700249/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[XX by Angela Chadwick]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of their own without the need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, and the general public, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to the demise of men. [[XX by Angela Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}}