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[[Category:New Reviews|Science Fiction]]==Science fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Extras|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future city of this book, many people live with what is called a reputation economy. With everybody practically a cyborg, they're online permanently, using optical and brain implants to see everybody's status, output and more. Many people have hovercam companions, to make their own documentaries and film their own lives. They rely on metablogs to interact and keep their popularity up. They continuously spread their opinions and interests in order to become more well<!--known. A girl called Aya is struggling to get any renown, but things change, when she meets other people doing incredibly notorious things, but in complete secrecy and anonymity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389228</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Specials|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=In the unRemove -named city of the future, all the adults are living in the delusion that their city is right. After a teenage life as an ugly, they all undergo a welter of medical procedures, to make their minds and bodies conform to the bland, but gorgeous, society norm. But one young woman is not like that. She is going to a party, looking ugly, and she knows it is not what we look like, but how special we feel inside, that is of most importance. The good news is that this woman is our returning heroine, Tally. The bad news is that her ugliness is a temporary disguise, and worse than that - she knows how to feel special inside, because she IS A Special.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389082</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scott WesterfeldAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Pretties|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the unnamed city of the future, all the adults are pretty. TheyAll Tomorrow've had mental and physical surgery to make them calm, placid and perfectly aesthetic human beings. If they have any trouble as young adults it is the problem of what to wear at parties, or how to get rid of their hangovers when they wake up at 5pm. Unfortunately, one of these bright young things is our heroine, Tally, one of the few people in the world to have learnt how damnably horrid and sapping the life of Riley can be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389074</amazonuk>}} {{newreviews Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jeff Somers|title=The Eternal Prison|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=This book stands out in the high-energy, hard-edged sci-fi adventure/thriller genre, in that it covers two stories at the same time. In one chapter we have Avery Cates, practically the best gun-for-hire in his post-apocalyptic North America, being told to kill one of the most protected Benjamin Greenaway and important people left in the world, by other, almost as important people, in the cruel mix of powerplays that make up the current politics. In the other corner is Cates, being thrown in prison - one of those basic, hell-on-earth, surrounded by miles of desert, prisons. Here, too, he will be told to do jobs for other people...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497053</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Orson Scott Card|title=Ender in ExileStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=3.5

|summary='Ender in Exile' is the most recently published in the series set in the universe of 'Ender's Game', a long standing and one Opening up new ways of thinking about the best known series shape of science-fiction by Orson Scott Cardthings to come. It's been defined as an 'interquel', fitting chronologically between 'Ender's Game' and the 'Speaker for the Dead', the first two (and probably the best two) novels in the sequence. Technically speaking, 'Ender in Exile' actually fits in-between the last chapters of 'Ender's Game' and describes in more detail events outlined in the resolving sections of 'Ender's Game'. Confusingly for the uninitiated, 'Ender in Exile' is also a sequel to the 'Shadow of the Giant', a parallel sub-series from the universe of the 'Ender's Game'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841492272</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=John Dickinson|title=WE|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Paul Munro has I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been disconnected from the World Ear more than a few decades of technology in readiness for a mission that will last a my lifetime. Sent I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to man a tiny station built at enormous effort and expense on a desolate moon in me but I'm left with the outer reaches feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of our solar system, he will never be able to return. Gravity it is one-tenth that of Earth frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and his flesh has wasted, his bones enbrittled end up down rabbit holes without the strength of calcium. really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'If he stood on re talking about or the Earth nowlatest conspiracy theorist... his skeleton would splinter under his weight.' It took eight years to get there I needed people I knew I could trust and the rest of his life stretches before him fearfullywho could deliver information in a way I could understand. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617895</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula K Le GuinSylvie Cathrall|title=The Left Hand of DarknessA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary=It's hard There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to believe that ''The Left Hand a compelling premise. And this is one of Darkness'' dates back to 1969: forty years on, it reads as well, or even better, then when it was originally written, and - deservedly - enjoys a classic status in the science-fiction canon, as well as being perhaps the best known sci-fi novel by Ursula LeGuinthem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496065</amazonuk>0356522776

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eoin Colfer1803816759|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=3.54

|summary=Of all It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the big books announced wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for this yeara bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, this one must have raised more eyebrows than making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Why try and write a new Hitchhiker's Guide Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the Galaxy book, when way before aftermath of the end, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such a task? And why approach an Irishman, Eoin Colfer, when rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the originals - tempered with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing a scione trying to save Suki -fi Terry PratchettDylan, a British superfan and with their cups of tea and dressing gownstech nerd, could only be described as very Englishis also on the case. What went wrong? Well Did the answer system fail or was it hacked? And how is most evident - Colfer is a world-beater when it comes to knocking up a story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>Suki's kidnapping connected?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Law B0CP95J1CG|title=Bringing Forth the End of DaysOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=4.5

|summary=Imagine Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the hell of a dying world, less than a generation from now. World War Three has been and gone - ended with conventional bombs galore party but started his interest is piqued by a plague on all plant-life, that removed all the oxygen from the planet's atmosphereway it arrived. As And it seems like a result, good opportunity to get out of his room and away from the few survivors must live in air-tight houses with special oxygenating equipment - the ultimate in air conditioning - or, they must have got in early with online activities he makes a special biomechanical adaptation that allows them mobility and independence, but living at a freakish cost. WorseSo he makes his way there, religion has mutated - the Jehovah's Witnesses are now dodging the buses that make up most violent gang, rushing to nudge what's left of humanity towards its final judgmentthe traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Worse still - even worse than all of that - you're living in CrawleyShould be enough power. Hopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1608602036</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Salisbury K P O'Donnell|title=Passengers to SentienceThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|summary=Human beings are spread across VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the galaxyworld ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. The technology that allowed this Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to happen? Not faster than light travel, suspended animation or matter transfer but cloningrebuild. Want Dr Amelia Wong is determined to start continue her father's legacy, building a new life elsewhere? Your mind world where machines and personality humans can be mapped as informationlive together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Unmanned ships are sent to inhabitable planets across Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the furthest reaches of space and upon arrivalExhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the automated cloning vats begin re-creating your body slightest, and entering your stored mind no errant machine, no savage human tribe and personality data.not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755211596</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreview|author=Philip Palmer |title=Red Claw|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=New Amazon, home to some Following the destruction of the most violent and deadly alien life imaginableEarth, is due to be razed to the ground in order to make way for human habitation. A team amongst a rare number of scientistssurvivors, led by the charismatic Richard Helms, have Kyr has been stationed raised on this planet under military protection, in order Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to study avenge her people and catalogue the flora and faunaworld that should have been hers. HoweverAll her life, the computer super brain handling all the technology she has inconceivably turned on been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her human charges, forcing soldier duty and scientist alike to abandon base head quarters. As if the planet's hostile environment (including bouts of acid rain) were not enough of a threat, the characters are also pursued by legions of killer robots. Life expectancy does not look goodensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496243</amazonuk>0356521834

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K S Turner M R Carey|title=Before the Gods (Chronicles of Fate and Choice)Infinity Gate

|summary=WeI're in the third century, Japan. A queen and her young retainer are wandering to the edge of their territory, m annoyingly picky when a baddy appears - an alien seeming it comes to be some local creaturescience fiction. Handily enough Not because it's a saviour, warrior hero appears too, from way in the future, complete with talking sword, and saves genre I dislike – nothing of the daysort. This incident is bad news for the queen to take back My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to court get right – and discusswhen it's bad, but it's even worse for often terrible. But the messenger - sent on premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a onehigh-way ticket from his own lifestakes gamble: if it was done well, to advise of timelines it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that need saved - and the people that might just save Earth from this cosmic battlepremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1421527626</amazonuk>0356518043

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hiroshi SakurazakaMichael Grothaus|title=All You Need Is KillBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=In a global war between humans and invading aliens, called Mimics, Keiji is a trooper at the beginning of his short career in the army. Despite his high-tech body armour, he's not destined to last long - he's quickly dead. But then he's quickly alive again, as somehow his life is rewound a day. It only makes for prolonged horror for the rookie, but fearing something and having it happens again and againcome to pass are two different things. Each time he gets a better intelligence And I'm willing to bet most of what his destiny might have been - we fear will never happen, or we can he learn enough each time round take steps to make a difference, and possibly break the loop?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1421527618</amazonuk>}}change it.''

[[Category:Science Fiction]]{{newreview|author=Jonathan Luna ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and Joshua Luna |title=Girls Volume 1: Conception|rating=4acceptance.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ethan, we see with a great, broad comic stroke or six, is not the best when Of what it comes means to girlsbe human. Letting his mouth run away with him too often, he Of what is not very successful at relationships. But let us look at real and what happens when he drives away from an altercation at the local baris artificial, and sees a gorgeous - and very naked - young woman standing in whether the middle development of the roadtechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1582405298</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreview|author=Charles Stross |title=Wireless|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=In his introduction, Stross explains that one I've got a couple of the reasons he likes writing shorts stories is because they are the ideal format in which confessions to focus on a particular concept of the future and play around with itmake. It doesn I't matter so much if the idea doesn't ultimately work because neither the reader nor the author has invested in m not keen on short stories as I find it the way they would in easy to read a novel. ''Wireless'' then, is something of an experiment. Stross employs many different styles, tackles many different subjects and is very skilful at creating mood. His few stories are a strange blend of the technical and then forget to return to the archaicbook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497711</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Buettner |title=Orphan There's Triumph (Jason Wander)|rating=4got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged.5|genre=Science Fiction |summary=One of the major problems with Then there's science fiction series is that the titles aren: far too often it't always terribly imaginative. At first glance, s the cover of ''Orphan's Triumph'' gives away exactly how technology which takes centre stage along with the story is going to turn outworld-building. It's great credit to Robert Buettner that what I expected wasn't what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497622</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen Woodworth |title=Through Violet Eyes (Violet Series)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction |summary=To every generation, a few souls are born with violet-coloured eyes. These Violets can channel human beings who fascinate me: the dead. Viewed by technology and the government as a commodity, they world scape are taken into the care of the School from an early age and taught to use their abilities. While the School does teach them to control the souls constantly trying to invade their bodies from the black of death, it also trains them to serve the government – calling on the victims of murder and horrific accidents to ascertain exactly how they died or who killed thempurely incidental.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749941278</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle |title=Graphic Classics, Volume 17: Science Fiction Classics|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=So, an introduction. The Graphic Classics collection is a series whereby the best in genre fiction, from sources both highly likely and remarkably unexpected, is collected and dressed up for us in graphic novel form. This seventeenth edition, a belated best-what did I think of sci-fi volume, is their first foray into full colour, and is headlined by a version book of The War of the Worlds. The supporting material ranges from a onetwenty-page strip to thirty-page two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0978791975</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Sean Williams |title=Earth Ascendant (Astropolis)|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction |summary=Science-fiction has come a long way since H G Wells first looked up at the night sky and thought how cool it would be to have giant Martian tripod war machines trampling all over the Home Counties. Now that the most daring innovations of even quite recent science-fiction can be found readily in your home - from videophones to genetically modified food - the genre continues to evolve and develop.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495212</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Samantha Hunt|title=The Invention of Everything Else|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Nikola Tesla, born in 1856, was a young engineering student in Croatia, a Serb with a ferocious talent for invention when he sailed to America armed only with a note of introduction from his former employer to Thomas Edison which said: ''I know two great men and you are one of them; the other is this young man.'' Promised prodigious amounts of money to reorganise Edison's workshops, he was in the end cheated by Edison, who made a joke about the American sense of humour when Tesla asked to be paid.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099524007</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaine FennMark Lingane|title=Consorts of HeavenGalaxy

|summary=Fantasy and science fiction are genres Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that mesh well together. Some authors have written successfully across both genreslasted years, but not usually 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 same story. Jaine Fenn has managed space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to combine both in one book save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it's an interesting read, but also from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575083239</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard BeckettTade Thompson|title=GenesisFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=4.5

|summary=The reviewer sat down with Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the fancy hardback review copy sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship''Genesis'' by Bernard Beckett and turned the pagess AI captain. However, not knowing when she wakes up at all what the end of her trip to expect. * What did he find? * He found a science fiction tale set in a futuristic New Zealand. The setting dozens of her passengers butchered and the book is based on current concerns Ragtime's AI almost non- environmental problemsresponsive, global oil wars and animosityshe begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and so his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong onthe Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and a plague war has meant NZ is cordoned off with a Great Sea Fence. It is living under a strange Platofriend of Shell's Republic, based on father Lawrence Biz takes a mix of ancient Greek life (naked wrestling and so on) with the modern (relationships arbitrated by rampant gene testing). One of the soldiers defending itshuttle to Bloodroot, Adam, takes it upon himself, howeverhalf-alien daughter in tow, to betray his statesee why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and let a young girl alone bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the five of them discover on a raft through the cordonRagtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, and befriend her. But it is not her that will provide but potentially the crux entirety of the book.human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847247296</amazonuk>0356514323

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neal AsherClaire North|title=Shadow of the Scorpion (Novel of Notes from the Polity) Burning Age

|summary=At its core ''Shadow of Notes From the ScorpionBurning Age'' by Claire North is a better book than either the title or the cover (a cartoon-ish mechanical scorpion) might at first suggest. It's an engaging espionage-type spy thriller of course, but the emotional repercussions are sensitively dealt with.  The body of the novel is set during the aftermath of an interplanetary war between the Polity, humans as governed by benign AIsmany double crosses, interrogations and a vicious alien race named the Pradornight time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. CormacHowever, as with the protagonistbest novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a 22 year old recruit for Earth Central Security (ECS)new and timely genre, the military arm of the Polity. He is assigned to guard a crashcli-landed Prador spaceship on a remote planet and prevent some alien weaponry from falling into the wrong handsfi, or climate change fiction. Due to circumstances outside North's novel tells of his Control, Cormac is required a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to infiltrate an underground network start anew and live alongside nature without any of Separatiststhe modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, the Terrorists weapons of the futuremass destruction, who rebel against the AI rule: intensive farming). There is a perfect set-up for some gripping interrogation growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and torture scenes of one group, the technologically advanced type. ButBrotherhood, there is more aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the novel than thatEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230738591</amazonuk>0356514757

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=D J MacHaleAdrian Tchaikovsky|title=Quillan Games (Pendragon)Shards of Earth|rating=4|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=I would like to start with Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an admission. I know unrecognisable shape by now, having read three earlier books in this series, the setmoon-upsized aliens known as the Architects. We have a demonic entity creating chaos and destroying life itself, territory by territory, and a young teen and his friends, originally Humanity is scattered across said territories one by one, combatting the nasty and putting each and every constantly fleeing as world after world falls to rights. What I donthe architect't know is to what extent this is a religious allegorys reshaping. I saw a lot of sloth in book four (orThen, just when they had the human race on the run, if you preferthe Architects vanished. And so, the first commandment)memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and gluttony humanity begins to fracture and covetousness in books five fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and sixcommunicate with the Architects, which had similar plotsdoes not want to be remembered. But I wasn't helped by , when he and the ending crew of book sixthe salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, in wondering if this suddenly he is a straightforward Christian tale, disguised as teen fantasythrust back into the spotlight. Does acolyte equate As he and his allies bounce from star system to apostle? How messianic are the characters going to turn out to be? Do the ten planets star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and ten adventures here point us rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the Decalogue?real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385060</amazonuk>1529051886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip K DickTerry Miles|title=Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Rabbits

|summary=World War Terminus Welcome 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, 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. Yes, this is overthe game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack 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, and Earth is have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in ruinsthe most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. While This time the game seems the most people have emigrated to Marsdangerous, nay lethal, some continue to live their lives on Earth while radioactivity slowly impairs their brain the most broken it's ever been – morally and reproductive functionotherwise.  Upon emigrating Unfortunately for K, in trying to Marssort out what the game is doing, all citizens were given a highly sophisticated android servantif it's even being played, and now six have escaped from captivity and fled to Earthhow his loved ones might be kept safe, killing all in their path. Rick Deckard he is only to find out that the bounty hunter commissioned to track down line between observing and destroy these androidslearning about the game, almost indiscernible from humansand playing it, in return for is a feevery thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575079932</amazonuk>1529016932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingC J Carey|title=Retribution FallsWidowland|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Things are never quiet when it comes 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 life on the Ketty Jaythrone of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For Captain Frey yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and his mismatched band we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of friendsthe same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, colleaguesfor Nazi-styled phrenology, call them what you willand ideas of female purpose, has put all of that make the ragglegender into a caste system, ranging from high-taggle crew of brow office bigwigs to the craftdrudges, will always find a dodgy scrapeand beyond those, right on down to the childless, a damsel the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in distress or some risky cargo this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to transport take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and up til now have survived 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 consequencesfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575085142</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter Jon WilliamsEverina Maxwell|title=This Is Not A GameWinter's Orbit|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Dagmar is trapped in a hotel, with rioting Jakarta burning around her. When the conventional attempts to get her out fail, she decides to request help form the Group Mind: the on-line community of gamers who participate in Alternate Reality Games: games that happen in real life, not on the computer screen or over the Internet. Dagmar writes such games, working for Charlie, a phenomenally successful owner of a software company.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149657X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Heath A Hague|title=The Unique Creation|rating=4

|summary=Terrorism – Prince Kiem is a happenstance where one might truthfully say an unwitting heroism can be bornfamous political disappointment. But never as in this bookHe's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years.  Steve Westerman So when an important political alliance is in a malaise after a car crash killed his wife and children, when a nuclear bomb to be arranged – one that is set off in the centre of London. It all appears supposed to our eyes prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be a mysterious techno-cult, but chosen for the act has caused a big change to Westerman, and launched role. Least of all him as one of the Uniques.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1438928424</amazonuk>0356515885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harry HarrisonRob Winters|title=Make Room! Make Room!His Name Was Wren

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=A young man practically living on In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. It came down hard, taking the streets finds a change spire of fortune the village church with it, destroying a job as a messenger boystone shack, but will it lead to quite the right kind of luck? A political Mister Big Nasty gets killed, and leaving behind a lovely and glamorous moll-type characterwide trail through the wood, Shirlbut no trace of what it actually was. Andy, the policeman from German secret weapon was the incredibly under-resourced police forcelocal gossip, while surprised at the amount he is ordered to concentrate on this murder forbut there should have been an explosion and a crater, falls in love with Shirl. But the biggest character in this book remains the settingand there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014119023X</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Buettner Mark Lingane|title=Orphan's Alliance (Jason Wander 4)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=[[:CategoryNote to Self:Chris Bunch|Chris Bunch]] was the first to make the sci-fi space army genre his own, but Robert Buettner is certainly following close behind. Whilst I've always preferred Bunch's work over Buettner's, that by no means makes Buettner a bad writer and his work has always been enjoyable. Once again, Buettner has included much of what makes his work so much fun to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497525</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marianne De Pierres |title=Chaos Space (Sentients of Orion)An Education

|summary=I have to admit In Kry's world, the discovery that when I first opened this book I was at human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a losscascade 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. It 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 Book 2 helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon''The Sentients s surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of Orion'' seriesthe research station, so I did encounter some confusion as the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to what had happened before worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to lead flee to the events I was reading about61 Cygnus star system. I stuck with it thoughShe 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 I read along, things became much clearer though I would heartily recommend reading the first book in Staff of Blue can stop them. As the series before jumping death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this onewar, as Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the plot has many threads and is quite complicated.conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841494291</amazonuk>1529046505

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael CobleyLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=Seeds of Earth (Humanity's Fire)Seven Devils|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a strange fact of resistance movement fighting against the human psyche that while we send out our travellers ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in peace and exploration…we fear that whoever else is travelling out thereher past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, towards herean ace pilot for the Novantae, does so with malice aforethoughthas a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Cobley Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is no exception to her partner on this rulemission. In his future world EarthThings get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's first contact with aliens came with brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the Swarm: a free alien species of . It'many reptilian similarities yet their appearance was unavoidably insectoid. With six, eight, ten or more limbs they could be as small as s a pony or as large race against time as the rebels move to put a whale…stop Damocles' and they ravaged through our home galaxy like locusts destroying all plans, with millions of lives hanging in their path.the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496324</amazonuk>1473231140

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken MacLeod |title=Night Sessions|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The world post Faith Wars Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (or Oil Wars, as the fundamentalists are inclined to call themtranslator) is both very different and, at the same time - as it should be in relatively close-future s-f - uncannily similar to ours. It's a world of the Second Enlightenment, where, at least in Europe, religion has been truly separated from politics and became a genuinely private and societaly marginalised activity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496510</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Buettner|title=Orphanage|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=I recently enjoyed Chris Bunch's [[The Last Legion by Chris Bunch|Last Legion]] series, which told the story of training, combat and down time in an army marooned without help and seemingly without hope in deep space. Robert Buettner's ''Orphanage'' promised more of the same, although based a little closer to home, so I was greatly looking forward to it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497541</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charles Stross|title=Saturn's ChildrenA Life Without End

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=My first encounter with Charles Stross was through [[Halting State by Charles Stross|Halting State]]I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a William Gibson-meets-Christopher Brookmyre near-future post-cyberpunk crime caperbirthday 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'Saturnll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's Children'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 different species within broadly way of continuing the same habitatlife of his genes, and a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not-flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so-near-future space-opera thriller, more of a Asimov-meets-Philip K Dick-with-a-sprinkling-of-Douglas Adams.nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495670</amazonuk>1642860670

{{newreview|author=Sean Williams |title=Saturn Returns (Astropolis)|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Imre is surprised Move on to wake up in a bunk in an alien spacecraft. It's an alien with a hive-mind, drifting around the outer rim of the Milky Way trying to find God, and/or the first ever life-forms of the galaxy. Imre quickly finds out he has a form of amnesia – quite unsurprising, given that the aliens have had to built him from scratch, using a stash of data contained within an iron casket, sent into space millennia ago. Imre also quickly finds out he is now a female.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495190</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Short Story Reviews]]