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|authorisbn=Cixin LiuAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=DeathAll Tomorrow's EndFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary= If I'd been paying more attention when I picked this book 'Opening up, I would have put it back on new ways of thinking about the shelfshape of things to come. Not because '' I didn't want to read ve heard itsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, but because I'd must confess that there have figured out that it was the final part been more than a few decades of a trilogytechnology in my lifetime. Coming in part way through a saga is never the easiest thing I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to do and itme but I's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing m left with the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when feeling that it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understandall getting away from me. This latter is particularly true Some of Cixin Liu's work – his range it is phenomenal- frankly - quite frightening. George R R MartinOf 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 a thing what they're talking about or two about world-creation, described it as ''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, the latest conspiracy theory and cosmology''theorist. All of that I needed people I knew I could trust and morewho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1784971650

|author=Andy BriggsSylvie Cathrall|title=Ctrl+SA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary= In the near future, lifeThere 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=The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's pretty good. Climate change has been brought under control, 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the bee population has been brought back from near-extinction, wealthy and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker than ever beforepeaceful New York City. But the biggest triumph has got to be SPACE, Joe longs for a simulated world that has the ability bit of adventure and to mimic emotions as well as imagesget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But, as then something goes horribly wrong with every technologythe AI system that now runs everything, there is the potential making life easier for it many, and riots start to be abusedspread. Every dayFinally, people are being Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnappedand Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, plugged into SPACE a British superfan and have their emotions and feelings harvested for tech nerd, is also on the richest and sickest members of societycase. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And now Theohow is Suki's mum has gone missingkidnapping connected?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CP95J1CG|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=4. As 5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Ronan's not entirely sure why he follows decides to go to the trail left party but his interest is piqued by her, he uncovers the way it arrived. And it seems like a vast conspiracy that would use any means necessary good opportunity to stop him get out of his room and away from finding out where the online activities he makes a living at. So he makes his mum has goneway there, dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights.Should be enough power.Hopefully.|isbn=1409184641

|author= Stephen BaxterK P O'Donnell|title= World Engines: DestroyerThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating= 43.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= The last thing Colonel Reid Malenfant remembers VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is his Space Shuttle crashing - until he wakes up in . Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the mid-24th Centuryworld ended, on consumed in an Earth massively depopulated apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and patiently waiting for the coming apocalypseRenada. Suffering from severe culture shockOver half-a-century later, he tries civilisation is starting to adjust rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to this new continue her father's legacy, building a worldwhere machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. But all Craig Anderson, leader of this is changed when he receives a message from his wife Emma...who died on a mission to Phobos all group of salvagers called the way back in 2004. As it slowly dawns on him that their timelines don't match upExhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he resolves to find unearths a way to Phobosprototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. ButEven after being buried for 65 years, this new society doesnher determination hasn't believe diminished in space travel the slightest, and no-one is willing to help himerrant machine, until he meets a driven young woman who desperately wants to explore as much as he does...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]] After his entire family is killed in summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a shuttle crash, one that he was piloting no less, Aaron Sheridan enlists in genre I dislike – nothing of the Martian Fleet, fully expecting sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to die in the ongoing Rim War. Insteadget right – and when it's bad, he winds up on Corinth Station, the Fleetit's command schooloften terrible. At first, he is apathetic towards But the brutality and scheming ways premise of the students and staff, but after standing up for his only friend, he becomes Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a target for the dreaded Caelus Erikhigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, the most feared cadet on Corinthit'd be fantastic. Scared So this is where I sum up that any further actions will put others on his flight team at risk, Aaron shuts himself off from everyonepremise. |isbn=0356518043}}{{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ''Butfearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, when he discovers that the staff on Corinth have a motive other than training officers, he begins or we can take steps to realise that risking his all might be the safest thing he can dochange it... [[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 evertechnology which takes centre stage along with the world-expanding portion of humanity building. It's human beings who can’t afford fascinate me: the nano-implant technology and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revisionthe world scape are purely incidental. And because he can’t afford Revision So, he can’t get into collegewhat did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. He can’t get a job. And when he sees the brilliant and mesmerizing Lena for }}{{Frontpage|author=Mark Lingane|title=Galaxy|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Spark, who is an elite pilot with the first timeSpace Academy, he knows he doesn’t have barely makes it through a chance with her, eitherbattle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Feeling thoroughly lost and exasperated, Dorian robs Waking from a house with his best friendcoma that lasted years, Ethan. Then they do it againhe remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. It’s thrilling But Earth is under threat and terrifying and deeply unsettlinghe must. But since they take so little each time that their targets don’t noticeReturned by his superiors to the space station, they’re able he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to keep at save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it until they have enough money saved up, but also from its own sins against itself. 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 and on in a downward spiral |isbn=B09X3NZ76W}}{{Frontpage|author=Tade Thompson|title=Far From the Light of self-destructionHeaven|rating=4. Dorian desperately wants 5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to slow things down and figure out space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the kind world of person he really wants to Bloodroot, she will essentially be, but with a babysitter for the police one step behind them and a contentious relationship with his brothership's AI captain. However, Jaden, threatening to unravel everything, it’s when she wakes up at the expedient choices that he’s finding himself more end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and more compelled the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to makerealise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. [[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves|Full Review]] <!Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-- Peter F Hamilton -->alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|-isbn=0356514323| style}}{{Frontpage|author="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Claire North|title=Notes from the Burning Age[[image:1447281357.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447281357/ref4|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Salvation Lost At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Peter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]] In the twenty-third century, humanity Claire North is enjoying a comparative utopiaspy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. Yet life on Earth is about to changeHowever, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered as with the worst threat ever to face mankind – best novels, it wears many masks and we've almost no time to fight backits most affecting one is that of a new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry us to their god at North'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 end modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of the universemass destruction, intensive farming). And as their agents conclude schemes down on earthThere is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, vast warships converge above aims to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, master these processes no matter the cost to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in time. But others refuse to break before the storm. As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never see. [[Salvation Lost by Peter F HamiltonEarth.|isbn=0356514757}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of Earth|Full Review]]rating= 4 <!-- Megan E O'Keefe -->|-|genre= Science Fiction| stylesummary="width: 10%; verticalEighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0356512223sized aliens known as the Architects.jpg|link=http://wwwHumanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's reshaping.amazonThen, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished.coAnd so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves.uk/dp/0356512223/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe]]=== [[image:4Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. But, 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.5star.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=Category:{1529051886}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=Rabbits|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:=4.5|genre=Science Fiction]] |summary=Welcome to the world of The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship exploding. She expected Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be recovered by salvage-medics and capitalised to awaken in friendly handshigh heaven, patched-up and ready to rejoin the fightit never leaves lower case throughout this book. Instead she wakes up 230 years laterIt's also called Rabbits, on although only as a deserted enemy starship called The Light of Berossus - or, slangy term for it – as far as he prefers to call himselfanyone knows, 'Bero'. Bero tells Sanda it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the war is lostaverage person no obvious entry point. That A bit like the entire star system is deadgame of life then. But Yes, this is that the full story? After allgame of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, in the vastness hack from the darkest of spacewebs. People like our hero, anything is possible . K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be 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. [[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe|Full Review]] <!-- Vaughn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751568228.jpg|link=http://wwwHowever this time it's different.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751568228/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Across This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the Void by S K Vaughn]]=== [[image:4starmost broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Sea epics? So 20th century. Try a space epic. [[Across Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's 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 Void by S K Vaughngame, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|Full Review]]isbn=1529016932}}<!-- Chiang -->{{Frontpage|-author=C J Carey| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Widowland|rating=4[[image:1529014484.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529014484/refGeneral Fiction|summary=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang]]=== [[image:5starIt's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short storiesWorld War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you and we are now a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some protectorate – well, we share enough of the work by Ted Chiangsame blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. If you haven't than take But this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|Full Review]] <!is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high- Doescher -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:168369094Xbrow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows.jpg|link=http://www Female literacy is actively discouraged.amazon.co.uk/dp/168369094X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to the Future! by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] A long time agonot every book can be banned, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the and not every story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameterexcised immediately from British civilisation, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such so they just get a clever way hefty tweak towards the party line before they seemed perfectly suited. It was then duly repeated for all the other films in the main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their quills re stamped ready for Episode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge the day before I writereprint. In the hiatusThat is her job, howeverat least, until the effort has been made first emerging signs of female protest come to see if the same shtick works light, with other texts, and their potential to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambsspoil Hitler's visit. And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the Future, with its tales of time travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other? [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Full Review]]|isbn=152941198X}}<!-- Martine -->{{Frontpage|-author=Everina Maxwell| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Winter's Orbit|rating=5[[image:1529001579.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529001579/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]=== [[image:4Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years.5star.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, but taking the spire of the village church with it's , destroying a stone shack, 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}}<!-- {{Frontpage|author=Mark Lingane -->|-title=Note to Self: An Education| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4|genre=Science Fiction[[image:B07NV8NY4Y.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NV8NY4Y/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | stylesummary=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 the Mirror side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by Mark Lingane]]=== [[image:4star2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years.jpgIn a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|linkisbn=Category:{{{ratingB08LY8J4KS}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] {{FrontpageJulian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status. They feel that the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. |author= Christopher Paolini|title= To that end, they have managed to find him Sleep in a job tutoring the children Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strangedistant gas giant, austere mansion Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with little in the way of expectationefforts to make the planet habitable to human life. VictorHowever, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the politician is not at homemoon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. But Esis, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in After the entity bonded to her children loses control and not much more kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in Julian. She directs him towards his room, the library system to take Kira in which he will teach for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the childrenExtenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with foodshe has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. [[The RoseShe is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, the Nightcrewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane|Full Review]]  <!news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-- Arnold -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1789016525occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789016525/ref=nosim?tagAs 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…|isbn=thebookbag-21]]1529046505}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Seven Devils|rating= 4|genre===[[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnold]]===Science Fiction [[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] In an extension Eris is one of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart'', he continues to tell the story foremost operatives of the Quantum twins. Born on Novantae, a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an experiment and were hurtled through space-time Empire she was destined to our earth - and a series of adventures ensued inherit in the following books. When we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to adapt gather information vital to life in the bush - adopted by a Bushman family and made part of a tribewar effort. Twin Qwelby however, Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is not doing so well - shocked by the violence her partner on the earththis mission. Rescued by an old friendThings get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, he then tries to help a girl called Xaala the runner- but her ulterior motives may well prove up heir to drive a wedge between the twins as they try Empire, is plotting to reconnectdisrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species... [[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnold|Full Review]] <!-- Marrs -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles'plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140}}{{Frontpage[[image:1785038885.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785038885/refFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=nosim?tagA Life Without End|rating=thebookbag-21]]4|genre=Literary Fiction| stylesummary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Passengers by John Marrs]]=== [[image:4t be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] In And then a few of the near futurebig 0-numbers, self-drive cars are the norm - a convenient and easy way if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of transportcourse stands for Over Bloody Eighty. However, when someone hacks into ) Now if that's the systems extent of eight selfmy mid-drive carslife crisis, their passengers are set on a fatal collision courseI guess I have to be happy. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, the public have but he might be said to judge who should survivebe living one. But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by 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 public - will they turn out assistant to be what the first geneticist he interviews, and they seem? [[The Passengers by John Marrs|Full Review]] <!-- Beckett -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786491559end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, and a motive to keep on going.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786491559/ref=nosim But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|1642860670===[[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]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}