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[[Category:New Reviews|Science Fiction]]==Science fiction==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris WoodingAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Things on board the Ketty Jay have never been as low. Darian Frey and his crew are even having trouble thieving from defenceless orphanages. So when the next token job-they-can't-refuse comes along, they fall under itAll Tomorrow's spell. An explorer has returned with tales of untold riches, courtesy of the most mysterious artefacts and treasures of an unknown civilization. The fact Futures: Fictions that the remains are those of an aircraft crashed in the most Arctic of rainforests, inhabited by the most evil beast-men monsters, is neither here nor there. The problems start with what they find there, which is worse than anyone could have expected - or indeed years ago, with a mysterious connection between the remains and the more unusual crewmember...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575085177</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDisrupt|author=Chris Beckett|title=The Holy MachineBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45
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|summary=In the near future, only Illyria city stands for science, technology and progress in a world dominated by religious fundamentalism of every faith (and then some). The city was founded as a haven for those intellectuals not possessing any such religious convictions, who advocated reason and logic instead, and were persecuted for their 'blasphemies' in the early stages Opening up new ways of thinking about the upheaval. George Simling, the introvert protagonist and second generation Illyrian, falls in love with a beautiful woman called Lucy. Unfortunately however, Lucy is actually a syntec, a robot ASPU: Advanced Sensory Pleasure Unit, a prostitute. As George obsessively visits her, he realises that she is starting to develop a level of consciousness and self-awareness outside shape of her programming. Lucy is due for a routine mind-wipe so George decides to flee with her to the technophobic outlands in order things to save this newly discovered consciousnesscome.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pittacus LoreSylvie Cathrall|title=I am Number Four|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet John Smith. By all appearances he is the usual fifteen year old American kid, except for the fact he and his 'father' shift location every few months. John is certainly not his real name, but has to face up to reality - school bullies, hot girls and in fact any friends being unattainable with such a peripatetic lifestyle. 'Dad' stays at home, scanning the internet and all news sources, in order A Letter to protect the pair - for they are among the remaining dozen or so inhabitants of Lorien, living in hidden exile on Earth, but hunted by their enemies from yet another alien race. Can the fact they are permanently pursued grant them any peace - especially when 'John' is about to undergo some rather prominent alien-style puberty?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141332476</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Cobley|title=The Orphaned Worlds (Humanity's Fire)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The planet Darien, once a lost outpost where earth colonists co-existed with the native Uvovo, is now the focal point of an intergalactic struggle. Hegemony forces are in occupation mode, Earth is standing back reined in by inter-planetary politics, whilst planet-side local alliances are fighting back guerrilla-style. This is the least of the galaxy's concerns, however. It might even get air-brushed out as a little minor difficulty in the history-books-to-come. There is a much bigger problem to worry about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496332</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mira Grant|title=FeedLuminous Deep
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|summary=In 2014 the common cold was cured. So was cancer. But in their wake something terrible came – the two viruses used to cure the ailments combined There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to form a terrifying plague that turned humans and large animals into the living deadcompelling premise. Now what's left And this is one of the human race lives every day with the fear that the virus they hold dormant in their bodies could go into amplification, causing them to turn. People stay indoors, stop meeting in crowds, and conduct most of their lives online. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149898X</amazonuk>0356522776
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Edric1803816759|title=SalvageThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson
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|summary=Some time about It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a hundred years hence bit of adventure and the predictions have come to passget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. The sea levels have risen; But then something goes horribly wrong with the Gulf Stream has shifted its pathAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Climate change has hit Britain with a vengeanceFinally, Joe gets to do some real policing. Global Warming is In the misnomer; aftermath of course the temperatures are, on balance, warmerrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Snow is something most people Joe isn't the only hear or read about. The real changeone trying to save Suki - Dylan, howevera British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the wetcase.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617623</amazonuk>What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom HoltB0CP95J1CG|title=Blonde BombshellOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane
|rating=4.5
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|summary=The blonde bombshell in question in Tom Holt's latest book of that name is Lucy Pavlov. If you are reading this review in 2017 of course you will know who Lucy Pavlov is. SheRonan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the beautiful, talented, wealthy, CEO of PaySoft Industries - the revolutionary operating system that party but his interest is running on every computer in piqued by the worldway it arrived. Of course, if that is indeed the case, then we've got And it seems like a problem. A very big problem. Because what Lucy doesn't know is that she is literally a blonde bombshell - well she knows she's blonde, just not that her body is a shell for a bomb. A very big good opportunity to get out of his room and a very smart bomb, but nevertheless a bomb. And she's been sent to destroy away from the planet. It kind of online activities he makes Bill Gates seem OK for the time being.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497789</amazonuk>}} {{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 economyliving at. With everybody practically a cyborgSo he makes his way there, they're online permanently, using optical and brain implants to see everybody's status, output and more. Many people have hovercam companions, to dodging the buses that 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 un-named city most 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 traffic and bodies conform to watching 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 importancelocal energy storage indicator lights. The good news is that this woman is our returning heroine, TallyShould be enough power. 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 SpecialHopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldK P O'Donnell|title=Pretties|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the unnamed city of the future, all the adults are pretty. They'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 The Vital Link (A Spark in the world to have learnt how damnably horrid and sapping the life of Riley can be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389074</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeff Somers|title=The Eternal PrisonAshes)
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|summary=This book stands out in the highVL-energy15, hard-edged sci-fi adventure/thriller genrea prototype robot, in that it covers two stories at the same timeis desperate to understand who she is. In one chapter we have Avery CatesUnfortunately, practically the best gun-for-hire in his post-apocalyptic North Americabefore she could find any answers, being told to kill one of the most protected and important people left in the worldended, by other, almost as important people, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the cruel mix nations of powerplays that make up the current politicsDrexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. In the other corner Dr Amelia Wong is Catesdetermined to continue her father's legacy, being thrown building a world where machines and humans can live together in prison - one of those basicharmony, hell-on-earthbut internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, surrounded by miles leader of a group of desertsalvagers called the Exhumers, prisonshas his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. HereEven after being buried for 65 years, tooher determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, he no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will be told to do jobs stop her on her quest for other people...answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497053</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Orson Scott CardEmily Tesh|title=Ender in ExileSome Desperate Glory|rating=34.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|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 of the best known series of science-fiction by Orson Scott Card. 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 'EnderWhile Earth's Game'. Confusingly for the uninitiated, 'Ender in Exile' is also a sequel to the 'Shadow of the Giant'children live, a parallel sub-series from the universe of the enemy shall fear us'Ender's Game'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841492272</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula K Le GuinM R Carey|title=The Left Hand of DarknessInfinity Gate
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=ItI's hard to believe that ''The Left Hand of Darkness'' dates back to 1969: forty years on, it reads as well, or even better, then m annoyingly picky when it was originally written, and - deservedly - enjoys a classic status in the comes to science-fiction canon, as well as being perhaps the best known sci-fi novel by Ursula LeGuin.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496065</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' HitchhikerNot because it's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six a genre I dislike – nothing of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) |rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Of all the big books announced for this year, this one must have raised more eyebrows than manysort. Why try and write a new HitchhikerMy standards are high precisely because it's Guide a hard genre to the Galaxy book, get right – and when way before the endit's bad, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such a task? And why approach an Irishman, Eoin Colfer, when it's often terrible. But the originals - tempered with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a scihigh-fi Terry Pratchettstakes gamble: if it was done well, and with their cups of tea and dressing gowns, could only it'd be described as very English? Well the answer fantastic. So this is most evident - Colfer is a world-beater when it comes to knocking where I sum up a storythat premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>0356518043
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon Law Michael Grothaus|title=Bringing Forth the End of DaysBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Imagine the hell of a dying world, less than a generation from now. World War Three has been and gone - ended with conventional bombs galore but started by a plague on all plant-life, that removed all the oxygen from the planet's atmosphere. As a result, 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 a special biomechanical adaptation that allows them mobility 'But fearing something and independence, but at a freakish costhaving it come to pass are two different things. Worse, religion has mutated - the JehovahAnd I's Witnesses are now the m willing to bet most violent gangof what we fear will never happen, rushing or we can take steps to nudge whatchange it.'s left of humanity towards its final judgment. Worse still - even worse than all of that - you're living in Crawley.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1608602036</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Palmer 1739593901|title=Red Claw22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45
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|summary=New Amazon, home to some of the most violent and deadly alien life imaginable, is due to ''Our future will be razed to the ground in order to make way for human habitation. A team of scientists, led by the charismatic Richard Helms, have been stationed on this planet under military protection, in order to study and catalogue the flora and faunamore complex than we expected. However, the computer super brain handling all the technology has inconceivably turned on her human charges, forcing soldier and scientist alike to abandon base head quarters. As if the planet's hostile environment (including bouts Instead of acid rain) were not enough of a threatflying cars, the characters are also pursued by legions of we got night-vision killer robots. Life expectancy does not look good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496243</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K S Turner |title=Before the Gods (Chronicles of Fate drones and Choice)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Before The Gods'' is presented as an enigma, wrapped in a puzzle and shrouded in mystery. The front is adorned by a beguiling image created by the author. A glance at the back cover serves only automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to tantalise rather than reveal what might be in store. ''This is where it all began. Everything. Love, hate, good, evil, us and them. This is before they were godstrack grandma.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956224202</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hiroshi SakurazakaMark Lingane|title=All You Need Is KillGalaxy
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=In a global war between humans and invading aliensSpark, called Mimicswho is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, Keiji is barely makes it through a trooper at the beginning of his short career in the armybattle alive. Despite his highHis co-tech body armourpilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, he's not destined remembers little and is in no physical shape to last long - he's quickly deadresume his duties. But then Earth is under threat and he's quickly alive again, as somehow must. Returned by his life is rewound a day. It only makes for prolonged horror for superiors to the rookiespace station, but it happens again and again. Each time he gets finds himself amid a better intelligence of what his destiny might have been last ditch attempt to save humanity - can he learn enough each time round to make a difference, and possibly break not just from the loop?alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1421527618</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W
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|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neal AsherClaire North|title=Shadow of the Scorpion (Novel of Notes from the Polity) Burning Age
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|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
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip K DickTerry Miles|title=Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Rabbits
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|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
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter Jon WilliamsEverina Maxwell|title=This Is Not A GameWinter's Orbit|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Dagmar Prince Kiem is trapped in a hotel, with rioting Jakarta burning around herfamous political disappointment. When the conventional attempts to get her out failHe's outgoing, 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 lifecarefree, not on the computer screen or and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the Internetpast few years. Dagmar writes such games, working 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 Charlie, a phenomenally successful owner the role. Least of a software companyall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149657X</amazonuk>0356515885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heath A HagueRob Winters|title=The Unique CreationHis Name Was Wren
|rating=4
|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Terrorism – a happenstance where one might truthfully say an unwitting heroism can be bornIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. But never as in this book. Steve Westerman is in It came down hard, taking the spire of the village church with it, destroying a malaise after a car crash killed his wife stone shack, and children, when leaving a nuclear bomb is set off in wide trail through the centre wood, but no trace of Londonwhat it actually was. It all appears to our eyes to be a mysterious techno-cultGerman secret weapon was the local gossip, but the act has caused there should have been an explosion and a big change to Westermancrater, and launched him as one there were neither of the Uniquesthose things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1438928424</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harry HarrisonMark Lingane|title=Make Room! Make Room!Note to Self: An Education
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=A young man practically living on In Kry's world, the streets finds discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a change cascade of fortune with a job as a messenger boymedical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, but will in 2035 it lead 's possible to quite cure cancerous tumours but with the right kind side effect of luckerasing 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}} A political Mister Big Nasty gets killed{{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 the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, leaving behind a lovely 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 glamorous moll-type characterkills half the staff of the research station, Shirlthe United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. AndyThings go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the policeman from 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the incredibly underfreighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-resourced police forcetag bunch of misfits, while surprised at and the amount he news is ordered to concentrate on this murder forgrim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, falls in love with Shirland only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. But As the biggest character 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 this book remains the setting.conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014119023X</amazonuk>1529046505
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Buettner Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=Orphan's Alliance (Jason Wander 4)Seven Devils|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=[[:Category:Chris Bunch|Chris Bunch]] 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 her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the first Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to make the sci-fi space army genre his own, but Robert Buettner is certainly following close behindwar effort. Whilst I've always preferred BunchAlthough she's work over Buettnerless 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'sbrother Damocles, that by no means makes Buettner a bad writer the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and his work has always been enjoyablethe last of the free alien species. Once againIt's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, Buettner has included much with millions of what makes his work so much fun to read.lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497525</amazonuk>1473231140
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marianne De Pierres Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Chaos Space (Sentients of Orion)A Life Without End
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|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have to admit that when I first opened a birthday this book year – I was at a lossknow, yet another one. It is Book 2 won't be one of the ''The Sentients of Orion'' seriesmajor numbers, so but the time when I did encounter some confusion have the same number as to what had happened before to lead to Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of the events big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I was reading about'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I stuck with it though, and as guess I read alonghave to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, things but he might be said to be living one. became much clearer though I Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would heartily recommend reading like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first book in geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the series before jumping into this onelife of his genes, as the plot has many threads and is quite complicateda motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841494291</amazonuk>1642860670
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