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|summary=It is perhaps appropriate for a book that centres around the battle for the afterlife to begin this review with a confession: this was my first encounter with Iain M Banks' Culture series 'Opening up new ways of science fiction novels. At first, I worried that this put me at a significant disadvantage as for thinking about the first 100 or so pages, I spend most shape of the time being completely confused about what was going on. However, as the strands started things to come together, it became apparent that this is partly Banks.' style and indeed it's one he uses in his non-science fiction books too. Keep going, it does come together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498939</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=William Gibson|title=Zero History|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=ItI's almost obligatory when writing anything about William Gibson to recall ve heard it said that in an earlier short story, he invented the term 'cyberspacetechnology'. Gibson remains at the cutting edge of is what is 'coolhappens after you're eighteen. Like most of his books Well, Zero History is I must confess that there have been more than a thriller, but at its core are issues surrounding few decades of technology, how we interact with it, branding and marketingin my lifetime. It would be easy to criticise much of his content as being too shallow and concerned I've kept up reasonably well with what'nothings advantageous to me but I' - but then m left with the feeling thatit's part all getting away from me. Some of his pointit 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919527</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charles StrossSylvie Cathrall|title=The Fuller MemorandumA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45

|summary=Our world is not as it seems. We share it with aliens, zombies, demonic spirits, with ancient god-like entities that There are all keen few greater joys than a book which lives up to eat our bodies and devour our souls. It's lucky, then, that we have the British secret service to protect us, more specifically a top secret branch of the secret service called The Laundry. This organisation is so secret that even the bosses at MI6 don't know of its existencecompelling premise. The point of the Laundry And this is to keep all the myriad of terrors endangering the Earth at bay by the careful use of science, technology and magic, magic being a little known branch one of applied mathsthem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497703</amazonuk>0356522776

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McDonald1803816759|title=The Dervish HouseUnravelling|author=Will Gibson

|summary=The reader It's 2038 and Joe is plunged straight away a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the busyAI system that now runs everything, bustling centre of Istanbulmaking life easier for many, and riots start to spread. And climate change appears Finally, Joe gets to have arriveddo some real policing. In 2022 thousands the aftermath of Istanbul's citizens died in a heatwave the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and now, only three years later it's 'Thirty-three degrees in April, at seven in the morning. UnthinkableJoe is assigned to bring her home.Joe isn' You can almost hear t the collective thrum of all those air-conditioning units only one trying to make life bearable for save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the local peoplecase.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575080531</amazonuk>What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff SomersB0CP95J1CG|title=The Terminal StateOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=4.5

|summary=In this future, desolate, post-apocalyptic world, Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the last thing Avery Cates wants to do party but his interest is choose piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like a side. The police are androids, artificial cases for clones good opportunity to get out of people who die in the making, his room and away from the other source of power is not much betteronline activities he makes a living at. But it's them that pressgang him into joining their army. What little freedom and power So he had as a lone gunman is lostmakes his way there, as he's given nanotech augments to dodging the buses that make him a super-soldier. Which is bad news - as is the fact up most of the two most powerful traffic and hated people in Cates's universe are watching the very people who buy him from the army to do one last job - and they can local energy storage indicator lights. Should be very persuasive about him accepting it.enough power.Hopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498750</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry DehartK P O'Donnell|title=The UnitVital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|summary=We all know about the nuclear familyVL-15, well now meet the post-nuclear family in Terry De Hart's brutal vision of a post apocalyptic Americaprototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. We know Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the score; terrorists attack key US cities with nuclear devicesworld ended, US retaliates on consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations supporting the terroristof Drexel and Renada. There Over half-a-century later, civilisation is only one possible outcome, mass casualties and the breakdown of civil society leading starting to the rise of barbarism in a devastated landscape in the grip of a nuclear winterrebuild. Within this madness Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a family survives not knowing how much of the country or the world has been destroyed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499331</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ken MacLeod|title=The Restoration Game|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Lucy Stone works for a videogame company where machines and humans can live together in Edinburghharmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. She enjoys the job - particularly being one Craig Anderson, leader of the boys - and it's given her a sense group of belonging that she'd craved but never had. And then her mother calls. A CIA spooksalvagers called the Exhumers, Amanda wants Lucy's firm to rewrite their upcoming game to feature the mythology of has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a small exprototype combat robot: none other than VL-Soviet republic15 herself. Krassnia is where Lucy was born, where she lived Even after being buried for her first seven 65 years, and where she spent her determination hasn't diminished in the scariest day of her life. Amanda wrote a seminal work on Krassnian mythology slightest, and Lucy uses this to reshape the gameno errant machine, knowing that itno savage human tribe and not even Drexel's likely to be used as a tool in a hoped-ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for colour revolution. answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496472</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingEmily Tesh|title=Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty JaySome Desperate Glory

|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 it'While Earth'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 that the remains are those of an aircraft crashed in the most Arctic of rainforests, inhabited by the most evil beast-men monsterschildren live, 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>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Beckett|title=The Holy Machine|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|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 enemy shall fear us'blasphemies' in the early stages of 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 of her programming. Lucy is due for a routine mind-wipe so George decides to flee with her to the technophobic outlands in order to save this newly discovered consciousness. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848874626</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Pittacus Lore|title=I am Number Four|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet John Smith. By all appearances he is Following the destruction of the usual fifteen year old American kidEarth, except for the fact he and his 'father' shift location every few months. John is certainly not his real nameamongst a rare number of survivors, but Kyr 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 been raised on Gaea Station – the home, scanning of the internet last scraps of humanity – and all news sources, in order trained relentlessly to protect avenge her people and the pair - for they are among the remaining dozen or so inhabitants of Lorienworld that should have been hers. All her life, living she has been conditioned to fall in hidden exile on Earthline, but hunted by their enemies from yet another alien raceto fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres. Can the fact they are permanently pursued grant them any peace - especially when 'John' is about to undergo some rather prominent alien-style puberty?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141332476</amazonuk>0356521834

 {{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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mira GrantM R Carey|title=FeedInfinity Gate

|summary=In 2014 the common cold was curedI'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. So was cancer. But in their wake something terrible came Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the two viruses used sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to cure the ailments combined to form a terrifying plague that turned humans get right – and large animals into the living dead. Now whatwhen it's bad, it's left often terrible. But the premise of the human race lives every day with the fear that the virus they hold dormant in their bodies could go into amplificationInfinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, causing them to turnit'd be fantastic. People stay indoors, stop meeting in crowds, and conduct most of their lives onlineSo this is where I sum up that premise. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149898X</amazonuk>0356518043

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert EdricMichael Grothaus|title=SalvageBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Some time about a hundred years hence ''But fearing something and the predictions have having it come to pass. The sea levels have risen; the Gulf Stream has shifted its path. Climate change has hit Britain with a vengeance. Global Warming is the misnomer; of course the temperatures are, on balance, warmertwo different things. Snow is something And I'm willing to bet most people only hear or read about. The real change, however, is the wet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617623</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Holt|title=Blonde Bombshell|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|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 what we fear will know who Lucy Pavlov is. She's the beautifulnever happen, talented, wealthy, CEO of PaySoft Industries - the revolutionary operating system that is running on every computer in the world. Of course, if that is indeed the case, then or we've got a problemcan take steps to change it. 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 and a very smart bomb, but nevertheless a bomb. And she's been sent to destroy the planet. It kind of 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 ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the future city question 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 identity and moreacceptance. Many people have hovercam companions, Of what it means to make their own documentaries and film their own livesbe human. They rely on metablogs to interact Of what is real and keep their popularity up. They continuously spread their opinions and interests in order to become more well-known. A girl called Aya what is struggling to get any renown, but things change, when she meets other people doing incredibly notorious thingsartificial, but in complete secrecy and anonymitywhether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389228</amazonuk>191458564X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scott Westerfeld1739593901|title=Specials|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=In the un-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. 22 Ideas About 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>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|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 in the world to have learnt how damnably horrid and sapping the life of Riley can be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389074</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFuture|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 Exile|rating=3.5|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 Stephen Oram (and probably the best twoEditors) 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 been disconnected from the World Ear in readiness for a mission that will last a lifetime. Sent to man a tiny station built at enormous effort and expense on a desolate moon in the outer reaches of our solar system, he will never be able to return. Gravity is one-tenth that of Earth and his flesh has wasted, his bones enbrittled without the strength of calcium. 'If he stood on the Earth now... his skeleton would splinter under his weight.' It took eight years to get there and the rest of his life stretches before him fearfully. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617895</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ursula K Le Guin|title=The Left Hand of Darkness

|summary=It's hard to believe that ''The Left Hand Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of Darkness'' dates back to 1969: forty years on, it reads as well, or even better, then when it was originally writtenflying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and - deservedly - enjoys a classic status in the science-fiction canon, as well as being perhaps the best known sci-fi novel by Ursula LeGuinautomated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496065</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer|title=And Another Thing I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Douglas Adams Then there' Hitchhikers science fiction: far too often it's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) |rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Of all technology which takes centre stage along with the big books announced for this year, this one must have raised more eyebrows than manyworld-building. Why try and write a new HitchhikerIt's Guide to human beings who fascinate me: the Galaxy book, when way before technology and the end, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such a task? world scape are purely incidental. And why approach an IrishmanSo, Eoin Colfer, when the originals - tempered with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing what did I think of a scibook of twenty-fi Terry Pratchett, and with their cups of tea and dressing gowns, could only be described as very Englishtwo science fiction short stories? Well the answer is most evident - Colfer is a world-beater when , I loved it comes to knocking up a story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon Law Mark Lingane|title=Bringing Forth the End of DaysGalaxy

|summary=Imagine Spark, who is an elite pilot with the hell of a dying worldSpace Academy, less than barely makes it through a generation from nowbattle alive. World War Three has been and gone His co- ended with conventional bombs galore but started by pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a plague on all plant-lifecoma that lasted years, that removed all the oxygen from the planet's atmospherehe remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. As a result, the few survivors But Earth is under threat and he must live in air-tight houses with special oxygenating equipment - . Returned by his superiors to the ultimate in air conditioning - orspace station, they must have got in early with he finds himself amid a special biomechanical adaptation that allows them mobility last ditch attempt to save humanity - and independencenot just from the alien threats against it, but at a freakish cost. Worse, religion has mutated - the Jehovah's Witnesses are now the most violent gang, rushing to nudge what's left of humanity towards also from its final judgment. Worse still - even worse than all of that - you're living in Crawleyown sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1608602036</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Salisbury Tade Thompson|title=Passengers to SentienceFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=34.5

|summary=Human beings are spread across Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the galaxyship's AI captain. The technology that allowed this However, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to happen? Not faster than light travelfind dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, suspended animation or matter transfer but cloning. Want she begins to start a new life elsewhere? Your mind and personality can realise that her first mission won't be mapped going as smoothly as informationshe hoped it would. Unmanned ships Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to inhabitable planets across discover exactly what went wrong on the furthest reaches Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of space and upon arrivalShell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the automated cloning vats begin re-creating your body politicking and entering your stored mind and personality databureaucracy of Space Station Lagos.What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755211596</amazonuk>0356514323

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Palmer Claire North|title=Red ClawNotes from the Burning Age

|summary=New AmazonAt its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, home to some of as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most violent affecting one is that of a new and deadly alien life imaginabletimely genre, cli-fi, is due to be razed to the ground in order to make way for human habitationor climate change fiction. A team North's novel tells of scientists, led a world devastated by the charismatic Richard Helms, climate change where humans have been stationed on this planet under military protection, in order forced to study start anew and catalogue live alongside nature without any of the flora modern and faunacorrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). HoweverThere is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the computer super brain handling all the technology has inconceivably turned on her human chargesBrotherhood, forcing soldier and scientist alike aims to abandon base head quarters. As if master these processes no matter the planet's hostile environment (including bouts of acid rain) were not enough of a threat, cost to the characters are also pursued by legions of killer robots. Life expectancy does not look goodEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496243</amazonuk>0356514757

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K S Turner Adrian Tchaikovsky|title=Before the Gods (Chronicles Shards of Fate and Choice)Earth|rating=54|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=''Before The Gods'' Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is presented scattered, constantly fleeing as an enigmaworld after world falls to the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, wrapped in a puzzle and shrouded in mysteryhumanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. The front is adorned by Idris Telemmier, a beguiling image created by man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the authorArchitects, does not want to be remembered. A glance at But, when he and the back cover serves only crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to tantalise rather than reveal what might be in store. ''This recent Architect activity, suddenly he is where it all beganthrust back into the spotlight. Everything. LoveAs he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, hatechased by alien crime syndicates, goodhuman secret police and rich slavers, evil, us and them. This he slowly begins to realise that the real war is before they were gods.''only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956224202</amazonuk>1529051886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Issui Ogawa Terry Miles|title=The Lords of the Sands of TimeRabbits|rating=34.5

|summary=We're in Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the third centurygame, Japanfor while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. A queen 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 her young retainer are wandering to the edge average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of their territorylife then. Yes, when this is the game of life for a baddy appears - an alien seeming 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 some local creature. Handily enough a saviourhistorians of the game, warrior hero appears tooand have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, from way for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the futuremost peculiar places, complete with talking swordand are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and saves the dayotherwise. This incident is bad news Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the queen to take back to court and discussgame is doing, but if it's even worse for the messenger - sent on a one-way ticket from being played, and how his own lifeloved ones might be kept safe, he is only to advise of timelines find out that need saved - the line between observing and learning about the people that might just save Earth from this cosmic battlegame, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1421527626</amazonuk>1529016932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hiroshi SakurazakaC J Carey|title=All You Need Is KillWidowland

|summary=In a global war between humans and invading aliens, called Mimics, Keiji Prince Kiem 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 deadfamous political disappointment. But then heHe's quickly alive againoutgoing, as somehow his life is rewound a day. It only makes for prolonged horror for the rookiecarefree, but it happens again and again. Each time he gets a better intelligence of what his destiny might have been - can he learn enough each time round to make a difference, and possibly break has gotten into many drunken scandals over the loop?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1421527618</amazonuk>}} [[Category:Science Fiction]]{{newreview|author=Jonathan Luna and Joshua Luna |title=Girls Volume 1: Conception|rating=4past few years.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Ethan, we see with a great, broad comic stroke or six, is not the best when it comes to girls. Letting his mouth run away with him too often, he is not very successful at relationships. But let us look at what happens So when he drives away from an altercation at the local bar, and sees a gorgeous - and very naked - young woman standing in the middle of the road.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1582405298</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charles Stross |title=Wireless|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=In his introduction, Stross explains that one of the reasons he likes writing shorts stories important political alliance is because they are the ideal format in which to focus on a particular concept of the future and play around with it. It doesn't matter so much if the idea doesn't ultimately work because neither the reader nor the author has invested in it the way they would in 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 stories are a strange blend of the technical and the archaic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497711</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Buettner |title=Orphan's Triumph (Jason Wander)|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction |summary=One of the major problems with science fiction series is be arranged – one that the titles aren't always terribly imaginative. At first glance, the cover of ''Orphan's Triumph'' gives away exactly how the story is going supposed to turn out. 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 the dead. Viewed by the government as a commodity, they are taken into the care of the School from prevent 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 interplanetary war – calling on the victims of murder and horrific accidents to ascertain exactly how they died or who killed them.|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-of sci-fi volume, is their first foray into full colour, and is headlined by a version of The War of the Worlds. The supporting material ranges from a no one-page strip expects him to thirty-page stories.|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 chosen for the Home Countiesrole. Now that the most daring innovations Least 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 developall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841495212</amazonuk>0356515885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha HuntRob Winters|title=The Invention of Everything ElseHis Name Was Wren

|genre=Literary Fiction Confident Readers|summary=Nikola Tesla, born In September 1944 something came down in 1856Oban Woods, was a young engineering student in Croatianear the village of Hurstwick. It came down hard, a Serb taking the spire of the village church with it, destroying a ferocious talent for invention when he sailed to America armed only with stone shack, and leaving a note wide trail through the wood, but no trace 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 manwhat it actually was.'' Promised prodigious amounts of money to reorganise Edison's workshops, he German secret weapon was in the end cheated by Edisonlocal gossip, who made but there should have been an explosion and a joke about the American sense crater, and there were neither of humour when Tesla asked to be paidthose things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099524007</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaine FennMark Lingane|title=Consorts of HeavenNote to Self: An Education

|summary=Fantasy and science fiction are genres In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that mesh well together. Some authors have written successfully across both genresradiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but not usually in with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same storytechnique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} Jaine Fenn has managed {{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, 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 of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to combine both take Kira in one book for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and it's destroyed by an interesting readalien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim.The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575083239</amazonuk>1529046505

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard BeckettLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=GenesisSeven Devils|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The reviewer sat down with Eris is one of the fancy hardback review copy foremost operatives of ''Genesis'' by Bernard Beckett and turned the pagesNovantae, not knowing at all what a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to expect. * What did he find? * He found a science fiction tale set inherit in a futuristic New Zealandher past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. The setting of Clo, an ace pilot for the book is based on current concerns - environmental problemsNovantae, global oil wars and animosity, and so on, and has a mission: hijack a plague Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war has meant NZ effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is cordoned off her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a Great Sea Fencesecret that could potentially cripple the Empire. It is living under a strange PlatoEris's Republicbrother Damocles, based on a mix of ancient Greek life (naked wrestling and so on) with the modern (relationships arbitrated by rampant gene testing). One of runner-up heir to the soldiers defending it, Adam, takes it upon himself, howeverEmpire, is plotting to betray his state, disrupt peace talks between Tholos and let the last of the free alien species. It's a young girl alone on race against time as the rebels move to put a raft through the cordonstop Damocles' plans, and befriend her. But it is not her that will provide the crux with millions of lives hanging in the book.balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847247296</amazonuk>1473231140

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neal AsherFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Shadow of the Scorpion (Novel of the Polity) A Life Without End

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=''Shadow of I looked at the Scorpion'' is a better book than either calendar the title or the cover (other week, and disappointedly realised I have a cartoon-ish mechanical scorpion) might at first suggestbirthday this year – I know, yet another one. Itwon's an engaging espionage-type thriller t be one of coursethe major numbers, but the emotional repercussions are sensitively dealt with.  The body of time when I have the novel is set during same number as Heinz varieties looms on the aftermath horizon. And then a few of an interplanetary war between the Politybig 0-numbers, humans as governed by benign AIsand if all goes well, and a vicious alien race named the PradorI'll be an OBE. Cormac, the protagonist, is a 22 year old recruit (Which of course stands for Earth Central Security (ECSOver Bloody Eighty.), Now if that's the military arm extent of the Politymy 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. He is assigned Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to guard a crash-landed Prador spaceship on a remote planet and prevent some alien weaponry from falling see 400 – he hops right into bed with the wrong hands. Due assistant to circumstances outside of his Controlthe first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, Cormac which is required to infiltrate an underground network at least a way of Separatists, continuing the Terrorists life of the futurehis genes, who rebel against the AI rule: and a perfect set-up for some gripping interrogation and torture scenes of the technologically advanced typemotive to keep on going. But, there is more how can he get to not flick the novel than that.'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230738591</amazonuk>1642860670

{{newreview|author=D J MacHale|title=Quillan Games (Pendragon)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=I would like to start with an admission. I know by now, having read three earlier books in this series, the set-up. We have a demonic entity creating chaos and destroying life itself, territory by territory, and a young teen and his friends, originally scattered across said territories one by one, combatting the nasty and putting each and every world to rights. What I don't know is to what extent this is a religious allegory. I saw a lot of sloth in book four (or, if you prefer, the first commandment), and gluttony and covetousness in books five and six, which had similar plots. But I wasn't helped by the ending of book six, in wondering if this is a straightforward Christian tale, disguised as teen fantasy. Does acolyte equate to apostle? How messianic are the characters going to turn out to be? Do the ten planets and ten adventures here point us to the Decalogue?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385060</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip K Dick|title=Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=World War Terminus is over, and Earth is in ruins. While most people have emigrated to Mars, some continue to live their lives on Earth while radioactivity slowly impairs their brain and reproductive function.  Upon emigrating to Mars, all citizens were given a highly sophisticated android servant, and now six have escaped from captivity and fled to Earth, killing all in their path. Rick Deckard is the bounty hunter commissioned to track down and destroy these androids, almost indiscernible from humans, in return for a fee.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575079932</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Wooding|title=Retribution Falls|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Things are never quiet when it comes to life Move on the Ketty Jay. For Captain Frey and his mismatched band of friends, colleagues, call them what you will, that make the raggle-taggle crew of the craft, will always find a dodgy scrape, a damsel in distress or some risky cargo to transport – and up til now have survived the consequences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575085142</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Short Story Reviews]]