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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 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]] In 2031, genetic engineering I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and robotics is changing then forget to return to the world at an unprecedented rate, with book. There's got to be a regimen known as Revision making people stronger, faster and smarter than ever beforevery compelling hook to keep me engaged. Baseline humanity is slowly being rendered obsolete, with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the wayside as these new superhumans dominate technology which takes centre stage along with the workforceworld-building. Without Revision, Dorian can It't go to University s human beings who fascinate me: the technology and can't get the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a job. And so begins Dorian's slow spiral book of selftwenty-destructiontwo science fiction short stories? Well, robbing houses with his best friend Ethan to pay for his Revision, all the time desperately trying to keep this activity secret from his familyI loved it. But, with his psychopathic brother already suspicious of him and the police gaining ground, Dorian slowly begins to realise that he's going to have to risk everything to stay ahead...[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage<!-- Peter F Hamilton -->|author=Mark Lingane|-title=Galaxy| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4|genre=Science Fiction[[image:1447281357.jpg|linksummary=http://www.amazonSpark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive.His co-pilot was not so fortunate.uk/dp/1447281357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="verticalWaking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. But Earth is under threat and he must. Returned by his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity -align: top; text-align: left;"and not just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself. |===[[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton]]==isbn=B09X3NZ76W }}[[image:4star{{Frontpage|author=Tade Thompson|title=Far From the Light of Heaven|rating=4.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]] Humanity |summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is at a turning pointfulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. After Feriton Kane's investigation uncovers As first officer aboard the supposedly benign Olyix's plan to harvest humanity in sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the name world of their godBloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the entire human race prepares to fight backship's AI captain. But However, when she wakes up at the Olyixend of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's harvesting ships appear and start heading towards EarthAI almost non-responsive, and Olyix-derived technology she begins preparing them for transportation, humanity realises to realise that they are vastly outnumbered and outgunnedher first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Some people to fleeDown on Bloodroot, taking disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the stars in an effort to hide from their aggressorsRagtime. Meanwhile, even though only former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a small percentage of humanity would survive. But others choose shuttle to fight them head-on. As humanity comes faceBloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to-face with see why the largest ever threat to their existenceRagtime has gone quiet, old grudges will have to be put aside to focus on obliterating this enemyleaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. Even if it means planning What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for a future than none Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of them will ever live to see...[[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamiltonhuman space…|Full Review]]isbn=0356514323}}<!-- Megan E O'Keefe -->{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|-title=Notes from the Burning Age| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4|genre=Science Fiction[[image:0356512223.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwAt its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512223/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="verticalHowever, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new and timely genre, cli-align: top; text-align: left;fi, or climate change fiction. 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 modern and corrupting "|===[[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe]]=== [[imageluxuries" (read:4fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming).5starThere 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.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{0356514757}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of Earth|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:= 4|genre= Science Fiction]] After her gunship is |summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed in a battle, Sanda Greeve expects to wake up in a friendly medical ward, fully healed and ready to get back warped into an unrecognisable shape by the fightmoon-sized aliens known as the Architects. HoweverHumanity is scattered, instead she wakes up a quarter of a millenia later, missing a leg, aboard an enemy starship called The Light of Berossus (or "Bero", as constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the starshiparchitect's rather grumpy AI prefers to call himself)reshaping. Bero tells Sanda that Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the war is long overArchitects vanished. And so, and that the entire population memories of the system is dead. The only optionwar fades, it seemsheroes are forgotten, is and humanity begins to travel fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the nearest star systemArchitects, does not want to be remembered. But, as when he and the starship makes preparations for its decades-long voyage across crew of the starssalvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, it becomes clear to Sanda that something else suddenly he is going onthrust back into the spotlight... [[Velocity Weapon As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by Megan E O'Keefealien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|Full Review]]isbn=1529051886}}<!-- Vaughn -->{{Frontpage|-author=Terry Miles| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Rabbits|rating=4.5[[image:0751568228.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751568228/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 century. Try a space epic. [[Across Or should that be the Void by S K Vaughn|Full Review]] <!-- Chiang -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1529014484game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529014484/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang]]=== [[image:5starIt's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy 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. A bit like the game of life then.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short storieshack from the darkest of webs. 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, these magnificent stories and have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the work by Ted Chiang. If you haven't than take game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this opportunity to do so nowtime it's different. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style=This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. 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=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styleisbn=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''1529016932}}{{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=[[William ShakespeareIt's Get Thee Back April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the Future! by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]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, [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] A long time agoQueen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky 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 put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to see if 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, with its tales of time travelour heroine, bullyingRose Ransom, and parent/child strife like no other? [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back is employed with the task of 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.uk/dp/1529001579/ref=nosim?tag 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.|isbn=thebookbag-21]]152941198X}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Everina Maxwell|===[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]=title=Winter's Orbit|rating=5 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] The problem with Martinesummary= Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's fiction debut outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years. So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and errs on chosen for the side role. Least of making them unpronounceable by most readersall him. I can see why she does both, but it's a disappointment because they're the blocks against which the brilliance of the book stumbles. [[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine|Full Review]]isbn=0356515885}}<!-- Lingane -->{{Frontpage|-author=Rob Winters| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"His Name Was Wren|rating=4[[image:B07NV8NY4Y.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NV8NY4Y/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  Confident Readers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The RoseIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. It came down hard, taking the spire of the Nightvillage church with it, destroying a stone shack, and leaving a wide trail through the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]==wood, but no trace of what it actually was. German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a crater, and there were neither of those things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{Frontpage|author=Mark Lingane|title=Note to Self: An Education|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction=4|genre=Science Fiction]]  Julian|summary= In Kry's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status. They feel that world, the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To discovery that end, they have managed to find him human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a job tutoring the children cascade of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their strangeregeneration state seven years before, austere mansion in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with little in the way side effect of erasing seven years of expectation. Victormemory, by 2045 the politician cosmetics industry is not at homeusing the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. But EsisIn a society obsessed with image and youth, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in her children and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his rooma Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the library in which he will teach efforts to make the childrenplanet habitable to human life. However, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with fooda strange alien entity. [[The Rose, After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the Nightresearch station, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane|Full Review]]  <!-- Arnold -->|-| style=''width: 10%; verticalUnited 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. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1789016525tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789016525/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagThe same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the 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…|===[[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnold]]==isbn=1529046505}}{{Frontpage|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May[[image:3.5star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{Seven Devils|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction= 4|genre= Science Fiction]] In an extension |summary= 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 booksher past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. When we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling 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, is not doing so well - shocked by 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 violence on ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the earthEmpire. Rescued by an old friendEris's brother Damocles, he then tries the runner-up heir to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove the Empire, is plotting to drive a wedge disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the twins as they try to reconnectfree alien species... [[Betrayed by Geoffrey ArnoldIt's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|Full Review]]isbn=1473231140}}<!-- Marrs -->{{Frontpage|-author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)| styletitle=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''A Life Without End|rating=4[[image:1785038885.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785038885/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styleLiterary Fiction|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''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: left;numbers, and if all goes well, I''|===[[The Passengers by John Marrs]]=== [[image:4ll be an OBE.5star (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] In the near future, self-drive cars are the norm - a convenient and easy way of transportI guess I have to be happy. However Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, when someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a fatal collision coursebut he might be said to be living one. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, the public have Determined to find out how to judge who should survive. But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by 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 -->}