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|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Rob WintersBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=His Name Was WrenA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the village wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of Hurstwickadventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. It came down hard, taking the spire of But then something goes horribly wrong with the village church with itAI system that now runs everything, destroying a stone shackmaking life easier for many, and leaving a wide trail through riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the wood, but no trace aftermath of what it actually wasthe rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. German secret weapon was Joe isn't the local gossiponly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, but there should have been an explosion a British superfan and a cratertech nerd, and there were neither of those thingsis also on the case.|isbn=B08KGVNVNBWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|title=Note to Self: An Education|rating=4.5

|summary= In KryRonan'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 not entirely sure why he decides to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible go to cure cancerous tumours the party but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, his interest is piqued by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven yearsway it arrived. In And it seems like a society obsessed with image good opportunity to get out of his room 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 away from the moon of online activities he makes a distant gas giantliving at. So he makes his way there, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with dodging the efforts to buses that make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff up most 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, traffic and she has to flee to watching the 61 Cygnus star systemlocal energy storage indicator lights. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grimShould be enough power. 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 themHopefully. 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…|isbn=1529046505

|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth MayK P O'Donnell|title= Seven DevilsThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating= 43.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris VL-15, a prototype robot, is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantaedesperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire before she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordiacould find any answers, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clothe world ended, consumed in an ace pilot for apocalyptic war between the Novantaenations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft civilisation is starting to gather information vital to the war effortrebuild. Although she's less than pleased Dr Amelia Wong is determined to discover that continue 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. Erisfather's brother Damocleslegacy, the runner-up heir to the Empirebuilding a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos but internal frictions and the last external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of the free alien species. It's a race against time as group of salvagers called the rebels move to put Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a stop Damoclesprototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn' plans, with millions of lives hanging t diminished in the balance…slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=1473231140B0CKRYFRZM

|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Emily Tesh|title=A Life Without EndSome Desperate Glory|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=I looked at ''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us'' Following the calendar destruction of the other weekEarth, and disappointedly realised I have amongst a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one rare number of the major numberssurvivors, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the horizon. And then a few home of the big 0-numbers, last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eightythe world that should have been hers.) Now if that's the extent of my mid-All her life crisis, I guess I have she has been conditioned to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrasefall in line, 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, fulfil her duty and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, and a motive to keep on goingensure that humanity perseveres. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=16428606700356521834

|author= Adrian TchaikovskyM R Carey|title= The Doors of EdenInfinity Gate|rating= 4.5

|summary= Wow I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – this novel is gigantic, in every sense nothing of the wordsort. "Epic" is My standards are high precisely because it's a word thathard genre to get right – and when it's thrown around a lot these daysbad, but if a book ever earned the name it's often terrible. But the premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this one. It's intriguing felt like a doorstopper full of big ideashigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, and at times it almost felt too big for my brain'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|isbn=15098658880356518043

|isbnauthor=B0867X8NW7Michael Grothaus|title=Access Point|author=T R GabbayBeautiful Shining People

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's 'But fearing something and having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention sheit come to pass are two different things. And I's helped a man who has been blind for decades m willing to see an image bet most of a hummingbirdwhat we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it. She's thirty-six years old ' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and her life is about acceptance. Of what it means to change radically as, cycling home, she's involved in an accident with a busbe human. It's two years before we meet her again Of what is real and in the meantimewhat is artificial, she's spent 392 days in a coma and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some incomewhether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X

|authorisbn= M R Carey1739593901|title= 22 Ideas About The Book of KoliFuture|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= Science Fiction|summary= ''The Book Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of Koli'' is the first in a postflying cars, we got night-apocalyptic trilogy, titled vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''The Rampart Trilogy I'', by M.R. Carey. The novel is set in ve got a world where nature has turned against humanscouple of confessions to make. Trees move as fast I'm not keen on short stories as animals I find it easy to crush their prey read a few stories and then soak up their bloodforget to return to the book. Humans have eked out There's got to be a small existence in isolated villagesvery compelling hook to keep me engaged. They are primitive except for their reverence of Then there'old techs science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. This is It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology from and the old world that seems to only work for certain chosen peoplescape are purely incidental. However, Koli So, what did I think of a young woodsmithbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, uncovers a secret about this technology that will upend his life and take him on a perilous journeyI loved it.|isbn=0316477532

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumMark Lingane|title= TroofriendGalaxy|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences Spark, who is an elite pilot with people? Introducing the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-ofSpace Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking 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 thespace station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity -art machines are capable of emulating and not just from the full range of human emotions without lyingalien threats against it, stealing or bullyingbut also from its own sins against itself. They're the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?|isbn=1788003470B09X3NZ76W

|author= N K JemisinTade Thompson|title= The City We BecameFar From the Light of Heaven|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= New York is being born, the city has reached critical mass and has matured into a living almost-breathing entity and is ready to make it's way out into the world. Before it can be established, 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 process, people who embody the values are selected to become the living embodiment of the city, some cities have one, some have twelve and New York has six. Together these human-embodiments must defeat the woman in white and save New York from very real destruction. But these are five different boroughs which don't always see eye to eye, it's a personality clash on an epic scale and unity is both critical and not remotely guaranteed.|isbn=0356512665}}{{Frontpage|author=Cixin Liu|title=Death's End|rating=5

|summary= If IMichelle 'd been paying more attention when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on the shelf. Not because I didnShell't want Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to read itspace. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, but because I'd have figured out that it was bound for the final part world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a trilogybabysitter for the ship's AI captain. Coming in part way through a saga is never However, when she wakes up at the easiest thing end of her trip to do find dozens of her passengers butchered and itthe Ragtime's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing the backAI almost non-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing responsive, she begins to you (when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts realise that you her first mission won't understandbe going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. This latter is particularly true Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Cixin LiuShell's work – his range is phenomenal. George R R Martinfather Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, who knows a thing or two about worldhalf-creationalien daughter in tow, described it as ''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculationto see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, conspiracy theory leaving behind the politicking and cosmology''bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. All What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of that and more.human space…|isbn=17849716500356514323

|author=Andy BriggsClaire North|title=Ctrl+SNotes from the Burning Age|rating=54

|summary= In At its core ''Notes From the near future, lifeBurning Age''s pretty good. Climate change has been brought under controlby Claire North is a spy thriller, the bee population has been brought back from near-extinctionwith as many double crosses, interrogations and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker than ever before. But the biggest triumph has got to be SPACE, a simulated world that has the ability to mimic emotions night time escapes as well as imagesLe Carre or Fleming. ButHowever, as with every technologythe best novels, there it wears many masks and its most affecting one is the potential for it to be abused. Every daythat of a new and timely genre, people are being kidnappedcli-fi, plugged into SPACE and or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have their emotions been forced to start anew and feelings harvested for live alongside nature without any of the richest modern and sickest members corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of societymass destruction, intensive farming). And now Theo's mum has gone missing. As he follows There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the trail left by herBrotherhood, he uncovers a vast conspiracy that would use any means necessary aims to master these processes no matter the cost to stop him from finding out where his mum has gone..the Earth.|isbn=14091846410356514757

|author= Stephen BaxterAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= World Engines: DestroyerShards of Earth

|summary= The last thing Colonel Reid Malenfant remembers Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is his Space Shuttle crashing - until he wakes up in scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the mid-24th Centuryarchitect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on an Earth massively depopulated the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and patiently waiting for the coming apocalypsefight among themselves. Suffering from severe culture shockIdris Telemmier, he tries a man genetically engineered to adjust try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to this new worldbe remembered. But all , when he and the crew of this is changed when the salvage ship he receives a message from his wife Emma...who died on a mission calls home discover what appears to Phobos all be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the way back in 2004spotlight. As it slowly dawns on him that their timelines don't match up, he resolves and his allies bounce from star system to find a way to Phobos. Butstar system, chased by alien crime syndicates, this new society doesn't believe in space travel human secret police and no-one is willing to help himrich slavers, until he meets a driven young woman who desperately wants slowly begins to explore as much as he does...realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=14732231721529051886

|isbnauthor=168369094XTerry Miles|title=William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Ian DoescherRabbits

|genre=HumourScience Fiction|summary=A long time agoWelcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, in although only as a publishing house slangy term for it – as far awayas anyone knows, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to rewrite the story average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of Star Wars webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in Shakespearean pentameterthe least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. It was then duly repeated have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for all the other films lists of who has successfully won the game are in the main Star Wars cyclemost peculiar places, and clearly someoneare still very short. However this time it's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge different. This time the day before I write. In game seems the hiatusmost dangerous, howevernay lethal, the effort has most broken it's ever been made – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to see sort out what the game is doing, if the same shtick works with other textsit's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to find out that the line between observing and learning about the Futuregame, with its tales of time traveland playing it, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other?is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932

|isbnauthor=194927201XC J Carey|title=Lakes Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It'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''. 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 caste 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 Marsfemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Merritt GravesEverina Maxwell|title=Winter's Orbit|rating=4.5

|summary=After his entire family Prince Kiem is killed in a shuttle crash, one that he was piloting no less, Aaron Sheridan enlists in the Martian Fleet, fully expecting to die in the ongoing Rim Warfamous political disappointment. Instead, he winds up on Corinth Station, the FleetHe's command school. At firstoutgoing, carefree, he is apathetic towards the brutality and scheming of the students and staff, but after standing up for his only friend, he becomes a target for has gotten into many drunken scandals over the dreaded Caelus Erik, the most feared cadet on Corinth. Scared that any further actions will put others on his flight team at risk, Aaron shuts himself off from everyonepast few years. But, So when he discovers an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that the staff on Corinth have a motive other than training officers, he begins is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to realise that risking his all might be chosen for the safest thing he can do.role.Least of all him.|isbn=0356515885

|isbnauthor=1949272028Rob Winters|title=Sunlight 24|author=Merritt GravesHis Name Was Wren

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=In 2031September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, genetic engineering and robotics is changing near the world at an unprecedented rate, with a regimen known as Revision making people stronger, faster and smarter than ever beforevillage of Hurstwick. Baseline humanity is slowly being rendered obsolete It came down hard, with people like 16-year-old Dorian Waters being left by taking the wayside as these new superhumans dominate spire of the workforce. Without Revisionvillage church with it, destroying a stone shack, Dorian can't go to University and can't get leaving a job. And so begins Dorian's slow spiral of self-destruction, robbing houses with his best friend Ethan to pay for his Revision, all wide trail through the time desperately trying to keep this activity secret from his family. Butwood, with his psychopathic brother already suspicious but no trace of him and what it actually was. German secret weapon was the police gaining groundlocal gossip, Dorian slowly begins to realise that he's going to but there should have to risk everything to stay ahead..been an explosion and a crater, and there were neither of those things.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB

|isbnauthor=1447281357Mark Lingane|title=Salvation Lost|author=Peter F HamiltonNote to Self: An Education

|summary=Humanity is at a turning point. After Feriton KaneIn Kry's investigation uncovers world, the supposedly benign Olyixdiscovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's plan found that radiation can return cells back to harvest humanity their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the name side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their godcustomers 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 entire moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human race prepares to fight backlife. But when However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the Olyixmoon's harvesting ships appear surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and start heading towards Earthkills 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 Olyix-derived technology begins preparing them for transportationdestroyed by an alien ship, humanity realises that they are vastly outnumbered and outgunned. Some people she has to fleeto the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, taking to crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the stars in an effort to hide from their aggressorsExtenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, even though and only a small percentage mythical weapon known as the Staff of humanity would survive. But others choose to fight Blue can stop them head-on. As humanity comes face-to-face with the largest ever threat death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to their existence, old grudges will realise that she may have to be put aside to focus on obliterating this enemy. Even if it means planning for had a future that none of them will ever live to see...greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505

|isbnauthor=0356512223Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=Velocity Weapon|author=Megan E O'KeefeSeven Devils|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=After her gunship Eris is destroyed in one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a battle, Sanda Greeve expects resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to wake up inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a friendly medical ward, fully healed and ready mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get back into more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the fightEmpire. HoweverEris's brother Damocles, insteadthe runner-up heir to the Empire, she wakes up is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a quarter stop Damocles' plans, with millions of a millenia laterlives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140}}{{Frontpage|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=A Life Without End|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, missing and disappointedly realised I have a legbirthday this year – I know, aboard an enemy starship called The Light yet another one. It won't be one of Berossus (or "Bero"the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the starship's rather grumpy AI prefers to call himself)horizon. Bero tells Sanda that And then a few of the war is long over 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 entire population extent of the system is deadmy mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. The only option Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, it seems, is 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 travel see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the nearest star system. Butfirst geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, as which is at least a way of continuing the starship makes preparations for its decades-long voyage across the starslife of his genes, it becomes clear and a motive to Sanda that something else is keep on going on... But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670