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|authorisbn= Laura Lam and Elizabeth MayAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Seven DevilsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris is one ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the foremost operatives shape of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined things to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordiacome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, whom everyone believed has I must confess that there have been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has more than a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effortfew decades of technology in my lifetime. Although she I've kept up reasonably well with what's less than pleased advantageous to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as me but I'm left with the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret feeling that could potentially cripple the Empire. Erisit's brother Damoclesall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the runner-up heir to possibilities and the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the last of the free alien specieslatest conspiracy theorist. It's I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140way I could understand.

|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Life Without End|rating=4|genre=Literary 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't 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-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. 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 first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, and a motive Letter to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= The Doors of EdenLuminous Deep|rating= 4.5

|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic, in every sense of the word. "Epic" is There are few greater joys than a word that's thrown around book which lives up to a lot these days, but if a book ever earned the name it's compelling premise. And this is one. It's a doorstopper full of big ideas, and at times it almost felt too big for my brainthem.|isbn=15098658880356522776

|isbn=B0867X8NW71803816759|title=Access PointThe Unravelling|author=T R GabbayWill Gibson

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin sheIt's having something of 2038 and Joe is a professional success: using bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a device bit of her own invention she's helped a man who has been blind 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 decades many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to see an image do some real policing. In the aftermath of a hummingbird. She's thirty-six years old the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and her life Joe is about assigned to change radically as, cycling bring her home, she's involved in an accident with a bus. ItJoe isn's two years before we meet her again and in t the meantimeonly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, she's spent 392 days in a coma British superfan and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some incometech nerd, is also on the case.What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn= M R CareyB0CP95J1CG|title= The Book of KoliOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= ''The Book of Koli'Ronan' s not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is piqued by the first in a post-apocalyptic trilogy, titled ''The Rampart Trilogy'', by Mway it arrived.R. Carey. The novel is set in And it seems like a world where nature has turned against humans. Trees move as fast as animals good opportunity to crush their prey and then soak up their blood. Humans have eked get out a small existence in isolated villages. They are primitive except for their reverence of 'old tech'. This is technology his room and away from the old world that seems to only work for certain chosen peopleonline activities he makes a living at. HoweverSo he makes his way there, Koli, a young woodsmith, uncovers a secret about this technology dodging the buses that will upend his life make up most of the traffic and take him on a perilous journeywatching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.|isbn=0316477532

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumK P O'Donnell|title= TroofriendThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating= 43.5|genre= Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-nations ofDrexel and Renada. Over half-thea-art century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a world where machines are capable 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 group of emulating salvagers called the full range of human emotions without lyingExhumers, stealing or bullyinghas his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. TheyEven after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn're t diminished in the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to develop real slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours tribe and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=1788003470B0CKRYFRZM

|author= N K JemisinEmily Tesh|title= The City We BecameSome Desperate Glory|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= New York is being born''While Earth's children live, the city has reached critical mass and has matured into a living almost-breathing entity and is ready to make itenemy shall fear us''s way out into  Following the destruction of the world. Before it can be establishedEarth, an ancient evil appears to attempt to destroy it just as it destroyed Atlantis and other forgotten places. The city is not alone through the birthing processamongst a rare number of survivors, people who embody Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the values are selected to become home of the living embodiment last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the city, some cities world that should have onebeen hers. All her life, some have twelve and New York she has six. Together these human-embodiments must defeat the woman been conditioned to fall in white and save New York from very real destruction. But these are five different boroughs which don't always see eye line, to eye, it's a personality clash on an epic scale and unity is both critical fulfil her duty and not remotely guaranteedensure that humanity perseveres.|isbn=03565126650356521834

|author=Cixin LiuM R Carey|title=Death's EndInfinity Gate

|summary= If I'd been paying more attention m annoyingly picky when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on the shelfcomes to science fiction. Not because I didnit't want to read it, but because s a genre I'd have figured out that it was dislike – nothing of the final part of a trilogysort. Coming in part way through My standards are high precisely because it's a saga is never the easiest thing hard genre to do get right – and when it's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing bad, it's often terrible. But the backpremise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when stakes gamble: if it was done well, it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts d be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that you wonpremise.|isbn=0356518043}}{{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= 't understand'But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. This latter is particularly true And I'm willing to bet most of Cixin Liu's work – his range is phenomenal. George R R Martinwhat we fear will never happen, who knows a thing or two about world-creation, described we can take steps to change it as .'' ''Beautiful Shining People''a unique blend revolves around the question of scientific identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and philosophical speculationwhat is artificial, conspiracy theory and cosmology''. All whether the development of that and moretechnology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=1784971650191458564X

|authorisbn=Andy Briggs1739593901|title=Ctrl+S22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary= In the near ''Our future, life's pretty goodwill be more complex than we expected. Climate change has been brought under control Instead of flying cars, the bee population has been brought back from nearwe got night-extinction, vision killer drones and 3D printing has made things cheaper automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and quicker than ever beforethen forget to return to the book. But the biggest triumph has There's got to be SPACE, a simulated world that has the ability very compelling hook to mimic emotions as well as imageskeep me engaged. But, as with every technology, Then there is 's science fiction: far too often it's the potential for it to be abused. Every day, people are being kidnapped, plugged into SPACE and have their emotions and feelings harvested for technology which takes centre stage along with the richest and sickest members of societyworld-building. And now Theo It's mum has gone missinghuman beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. As he follows the trail left by her So, he uncovers what did I think of a vast conspiracy that would use any means necessary to stop him from finding out where his mum has gonebook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it...|isbn=1409184641

|author= Stephen BaxterMark Lingane|title= World Engines: DestroyerGalaxy|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= The last thing Colonel Reid Malenfant remembers Spark, who is his an elite pilot with the Space Shuttle crashing - until he wakes up in the midAcademy, barely makes it through a battle alive. His co-24th Century, on an Earth massively depopulated and patiently waiting for the coming apocalypsepilot was not so fortunate. Suffering Waking from severe culture shocka coma that lasted years, he tries remembers little and is in no physical shape to adjust to this new worldresume his duties. But all of this Earth is changed when under threat and he receives a message from must. Returned by his wife Emma...who died on a mission superiors to Phobos all the way back in 2004. As it slowly dawns on him that their timelines don't match upspace station, he resolves to find finds himself amid a way last ditch attempt to Phobos. But, this new society doesn't believe in space travel save humanity - and no-one is willing to help himnot just from the alien threats against it, until he meets a driven young woman who desperately wants to explore as much as he does..but also from its own sins against itself.|isbn=1473223172B09X3NZ76W

|isbnauthor=168369094XTade Thompson|title=William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to Far From the Future!|author=Ian Doescher|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the story Light of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way 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 ready for Episode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge the day before I write. In the hiatus, however, the effort has been made to see if the same shtick works with other texts, and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. 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?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=194927201X|title=Lakes of Mars|author=Merritt GravesHeaven

|summary=After his entire family Michelle 'Shell' Campion is killed in a shuttle crashfulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, one that he was piloting no lessbound for the world of Bloodroot, Aaron Sheridan enlists in she will essentially be a babysitter for the Martian Fleetship's AI captain. However, fully expecting when she wakes up at the end of her trip to die in find dozens of her passengers butchered and the ongoing Rim WarRagtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. InsteadDown on Bloodroot, he winds disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on Corinth Station, the Fleet's command schoolRagtime. At firstMeanwhile, he is apathetic towards the brutality former astronaut and scheming friend of the students and staffShell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, but after standing up for his only friendhalf-alien daughter in tow, he becomes a target for to see why the dreaded Caelus ErikRagtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the most feared cadet on Corinthpoliticking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. Scared that any further actions will put others What the five of them discover on his flight team at risk, Aaron shuts himself off from everyone. But, when he discovers that the staff on Corinth have a motive other than training officersRagtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, he begins to realise that risking his all might be but potentially the safest thing he can do...entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323

|isbnauthor=1949272028Claire North|title=Sunlight 24|author=Merritt GravesNotes from the Burning Age

|summary=In 2031, genetic engineering and robotics At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is changing the world at an unprecedented ratea spy thriller, with a regimen known as Revision making people strongermany double crosses, faster interrogations and smarter than ever beforenight time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. Baseline humanity is slowly being rendered obsoleteHowever, as with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by the wayside as these new superhumans dominate the workforce. Without Revisionbest novels, Dorian can't go to University it wears many masks and can't get its most affecting one is that of a jobnew and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. And so begins DorianNorth's slow spiral novel tells of self-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: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, robbing houses intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with his best friend Ethan to pay for his Revision, all the time desperately trying to keep this activity secret from his family. Butlimiting world, with his psychopathic brother already suspicious of him and one group, the police gaining groundBrotherhood, Dorian slowly begins aims to realise that he's going master these processes no matter the cost to have to risk everything to stay ahead..the Earth.|isbn=0356514757

|isbnauthor=1447281357Adrian Tchaikovsky|title=Salvation Lost|author=Peter F HamiltonShards of Earth|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is at a turning point. After Feriton Kane's investigation uncovers scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the supposedly benign Olyixarchitect's plan to harvest humanity in the name of their godreshaping. Then, just when they had the entire human race prepares to fight backon the run, the Architects vanished. But when And so, the memories of the Olyix's harvesting ships appear and start heading towards Earthwar fades, heroes are forgotten, and Olyix-derived technology humanity begins preparing them for transportation, humanity realises that they are vastly outnumbered to fracture and outgunnedfight among themselves. Some people to fleeIdris Telemmier, taking a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the stars in an effort Architects, does not want to hide from their aggressorsbe remembered. But, even though only a small percentage when he and the crew of humanity would survive. But others choose the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to fight them head-onbe recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As humanity comes face-he and his allies bounce from star system to-face with the largest ever threat to their existencestar system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, old grudges will have he slowly begins to be put aside to focus on obliterating this enemy. Even if it means planning for a future realise that none of them will ever live to see...the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886

|isbnauthor=0356512223Terry Miles|title=Velocity Weapon|author=Megan E O'KeefeRabbits

|summary=After her gunship is destroyed in a battleWelcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, Sanda Greeve expects for while it ought to wake up in be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a friendly medical wardslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, fully healed and ready to get back into the fightaverage person no obvious entry point. HoweverA bit like the game of life then. Yes, instead, she wakes up this is the game of life for a quarter certain tribe of people – the fan of a millenia laterthe conspiracy, missing a legthe computer game, aboard an enemy starship called The Light the hack from the darkest of Berossus (or "Bero"webs. People like our hero, K, as named like that in the starship's rather grumpy AI prefers least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to call himself). Bero tells Sanda that be historians of the war is long over game, and that have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the entire population lists of who has successfully won the system is deadgame are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. The only option, However this time it 's different. This time the game seemsthe most dangerous, nay lethal, is to travel to the nearest star systemmost broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. ButUnfortunately for K, as in trying to sort out what the starship makes preparations for its decades-long voyage across the starsgame is doing, if it becomes clear 's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to Sanda find out that something else the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is going ona very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932

|isbnauthor=0751568228C J Carey|title=Across the Void|author=S K VaughnWidowland

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Sea epics? So 20th centuryIt'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. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. Try But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a space epiccaste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not 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. 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=152941198X

|isbnauthor=1529014484Everina Maxwell|title=Exhalation |author=Ted ChiangWinter's Orbit

|summary=Over Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past twenty-eight few years. So 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Winters|title=His Name Was Wren|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. It came down hard, taking the spire of the village church with it, Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short storiesdestroying a stone shack, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are and leaving a science fiction fan wide trail through the wood, but no trace of what it is likely that you actually was. German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have already come across some been an explosion and a crater, and there were neither of the work by Ted Chiang. If you haven't then take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be gratefulthose things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB

|isbnauthor=1529001579Mark Lingane|title=A Memory Called Empire|author=Arkady MartineNote to Self: An Education|rating=4.5

|summary=The problem In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with Martinethe efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's fiction debut surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-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 makes may have had a greater hand in the two commonest errors conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505}}{{Frontpage|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Seven Devils|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris 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 SF writingher 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 gather information vital to the war effort. Although she tries '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 secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to be too clever disrupt peace talks between Tholos and she wants her fictional languages the last of the free alien species. It's a race against time as the rebels move to be complex put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140}}{{Frontpage|author=Frederic Beigbeder and rich Frank Wynne (translator)|title=A Life Without End|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and errs disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the side horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of making them unpronounceable by most readerscourse stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I can guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see why she does both400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, but it's and they end up with a disappointment because they're the blocks against child, which is at least a way of continuing the brilliance life of his genes, and a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the book stumbles.'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670