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[[Category:New Reviews|Science Fiction]]==Science fiction==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=K S TurnerAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Chronicles of Fate and Choice: Tumultus|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary=This is the follow up to [[Before the Gods (Chronicles of Fate and Choice) by K S Turner|Before The Gods]], a debut novel lauded for bringing a breath of fresh air to the world of speculative fiction and one of BookbagAll Tomorrow's [[Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2009|top picks of 2009]]. Tumultus is the second of the planned trilogy and I was looking forward to seeing how the author would really cut loose now Futures: Fictions that readers were already familiar with the Shaa-kutu and the story of their link to the origin of the human race.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956224210</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDisrupt|author=Tricia Sullivan|title=Lightborn|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=In an alternate but contemporary United States, everyone uses Lightborn technology, or shine, as it's nicknamed. Providing entertainment, education Benjamin Greenaway and self-knowledge, people live in the ultimate plugged-in society. And then the Fall comes. Rogue AIs in the shine field around the city of Los Sombres start sending out bad shine and the adults all go loco - becoming violent and murderous, or broken down and reduced to performing repetitive tasks over and over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841494070</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Palmer|title=Version 43Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45
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|summary=Version 43 is a Galactic Cop, a cyborg law enforcement officer sent from Earth to tackle an unusual murder case in Lawless City, a sort ''Opening up new ways of sci-fi Baltimore on thinking about the distant planet shape of Belladonna. He gets sidetracked from his original objective and decides things to rid the planet of its evil gang bosses while he's therecome. A huge war ensues in which all the bosses (and thousands of others) are killed, but it soon becomes apparent that the true rulers of the planet are the dead eyed 'children' he has seen dining in the most expensive restaurants, the sinister 'ancien régime' .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499218</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Iain M BanksSylvie Cathrall|title=Surface DetailA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=It is perhaps appropriate for There are few greater joys than a book that centres around the battle for the afterlife which lives up to begin this review with a confession: this was my first encounter with Iain M Banks' Culture series of science fiction novelscompelling premise. At first, I worried that this put me at a significant disadvantage as for the first 100 or so pages, I spend most of the time being completely confused about what was going on. However, as the strands started to come together, it became apparent that And this is partly Banks' style and indeed it's one he uses in his non-science fiction books too. Keep going, it does come togetherof them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498939</amazonuk>0356522776
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Gibson1803816759|title=Zero HistoryThe Unravelling|rating=4.5|genreauthor=Literary Fiction|summary=It's almost obligatory when writing anything about William Will Gibson to recall that in an earlier short story, he invented the term 'cyberspace'. Gibson remains at the cutting edge of what is 'cool'. Like most of his books, Zero History is a thriller, but at its core are issues surrounding technology, how we interact with it, branding and marketing. It would be easy to criticise much of his content as being too shallow and concerned with 'nothing' - but then that's part of his point.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919527</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charles Stross|title=The Fuller Memorandum
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Our world It's 2038 and Joe is not as it seemsa 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. We share it But then something goes horribly wrong with aliensthe AI system that now runs everything, zombiesmaking life easier for many, demonic spiritsand riots start to spread. Finally, with ancient god-like entities that are all keen Joe gets to eat our bodies and devour our soulsdo some real policing. It's lucky, then, that we have In the British secret service to protect us, more specifically a top secret branch aftermath of the secret service called The Laundryrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. This organisation is so secret that even the bosses at MI6 donJoe isn't know of its existence. The point of the Laundry is only one trying to keep all the myriad of terrors endangering the Earth at bay by the careful use of sciencesave Suki - Dylan, technology a British superfan and magictech nerd, magic being a little known branch of applied mathsis also on the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497703</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=Ian McDonaldB0CP95J1CG|title=The Dervish HouseOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=4.5
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|summary=The reader Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is plunged straight away into piqued by the busy, bustling centre of Istanbulway it arrived. And climate change appears it seems like a good opportunity to have arrived. In 2022 thousands get out of Istanbul's citizens died in his room and away from the online activities he makes a heatwave and now, only three years later it's 'Thirty-three degrees in April, living at seven in the morning. Unthinkable.' You can almost hear So he makes his way there, dodging the collective thrum buses that make up most of all those air-conditioning units trying to make life bearable for the traffic and watching the local peopleenergy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575080531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeff SomersK P O'Donnell|title=The Terminal StateVital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating=43.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=In this futureVL-15, desolatea prototype robot, post-apocalyptic world, the last thing Avery Cates wants is desperate to do understand who she is choose a side. The police are androidsUnfortunately, before she could find any answers, artificial cases for clones of people who die in the makingworld ended, and consumed in an apocalyptic war between the other source nations of power Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is not much betterstarting to rebuild. But itDr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's them that pressgang him into joining their armylegacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. What little freedom and power he had as Craig Anderson, leader of a lone gunman is lostgroup of salvagers called the Exhumers, as has his entire life turned upside down when he's given nanotech augments to make him unearths a superprototype combat robot: none other than VL-soldier15 herself. Which is bad news - as is Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the fact the two most powerful slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and hated people in Catesnot even Drexel's universe are the very people who buy him from the army to do one last job - and they can be very persuasive about him accepting it...ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498750</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry DehartEmily Tesh|title=The UnitSome Desperate Glory|rating=34.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=We all know about the nuclear family''While Earth's children live, well now meet the post-nuclear family in Terry De Hartenemy shall fear us''s brutal vision of a post apocalyptic America.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken MacLeodM R Carey|title=The Restoration GameInfinity Gate
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Lucy Stone works for I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a videogame company in Edinburgh. She enjoys the job - particularly being one genre I dislike – nothing of the boys - and sort. My standards are high precisely because it's given her a sense of belonging that shehard genre to get right – and when it'd craved but never had. And then her mother calls. A CIA spooks bad, Amanda wants Lucyit's firm to rewrite their upcoming game to feature often terrible. But the mythology premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a small exhigh-Soviet republic. Krassnia is where Lucy stakes gamble: if it was borndone well, where she lived for her first seven years, and where she spent the scariest day of her lifeit'd be fantastic. Amanda wrote a seminal work on Krassnian mythology and Lucy uses So this to reshape the game, knowing is where I sum up that it's likely to be used as a tool in a hoped-for colour revolutionpremise. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496472</amazonuk>0356518043
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|rating=4
|genre=Science Literary 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 'blasphemies' in the early stages of the upheaval. George Simling, the introvert protagonist But fearing something and second generation Illyrian, falls in love with a beautiful woman called Lucyhaving it come to pass are two different things. 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 And I'm willing to develop a level bet most of consciousness and self-awareness outside of her programming. Lucy is due for a routine mind-wipe so George decides what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to flee with her to the technophobic outlands in order to save this newly discovered consciousnesschange it.''
''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848874626</amazonuk>191458564X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pittacus Lore1739593901|title=I am Number Four22 Ideas About The Future|rating=3.5|genreauthor=Teens|summary=Meet John Smith. By all appearances he is the usual fifteen year old American kid, except for the fact he Benjamin Greenaway 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 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 Stephen Oram (Humanity's FireEditors)|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''Our future will be more complex than we expected. 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 Instead of the galaxy's concernsflying cars, however. It might even get air-brushed out as a little minor difficulty in the history-bookswe got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to-cometrack grandma. There is a much bigger problem to worry about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496332</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert EdricMark Lingane|title=SalvageGalaxy
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Some time about Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a hundred years hence and the predictions have come to passbattle alive. The sea levels have risen; the Gulf Stream has shifted its pathHis co-pilot was not so fortunate. Climate change has hit Britain with Waking from a vengeance. Global Warming coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is the misnomer; of course the temperatures are, on balance, warmerin no physical shape to resume his duties. Snow But Earth is something most people only hear or read aboutunder threat and he must. The real changeReturned by his superiors to the space station, howeverhe finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it, is the wetbut also from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385617623</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom HoltTade Thompson|title=Blonde BombshellFar From the Light of Heaven
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=The blonde bombshell in question in Tom HoltMichelle 'Shell's latest book of that name Campion is Lucy Pavlov. If you are reading this review in 2017 fulfilling her lifelong dream of course you will know who Lucy Pavlov isgoing to space. She's As first officer aboard the beautifulsleeper ship Ragtime, talented, wealthy, CEO of PaySoft Industries - the revolutionary operating system that is running on every computer in bound for the world. Of courseof Bloodroot, if that is indeed she will essentially be a babysitter for the case, then weship've got a problems AI captain. A very big problem. Because what Lucy doesn't know is that she is literally a blonde bombshell - well she knows However, when shewakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's blondeAI almost non-responsive, just not she begins to realise that her body is a shell for a bombfirst mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. A very big Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and a very smart bombhis android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, but nevertheless a bomb. And sheformer astronaut and friend of Shell's been sent father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to destroy see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the planetpoliticking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. It kind What the five of makes Bill Gates seem OK them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the time being.entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497789</amazonuk>0356514323
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldClaire North|title=Extras|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In Notes from 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=SpecialsBurning Age
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=At its core 'Ender in Exile' is the most recently published in the series set in Notes From the universe of Burning Age'Ender's Game'by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, a long standing interrogations and one of night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the best known series novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of sciencea new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction by Orson Scott Card. ItNorth's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been defined as an 'interquel', fitting chronologically between 'Ender's Game' forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the 'Speaker for the Dead'modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, the first two (and probably the best twointensive farming) novels in the sequence. Technically speakingThere is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, 'Ender in Exile' actually fits in-between the last chapters of 'Ender's Game' and describes in more detail events outlined in one group, the resolving sections of 'Ender's Game'. Confusingly for the uninitiatedBrotherhood, 'Ender in Exile' is also a sequel aims to master these processes no matter the 'Shadow of cost to the Giant', a parallel sub-series from the universe of the 'Ender's Game'Earth. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841492272</amazonuk>0356514757
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John DickinsonAdrian Tchaikovsky|title=WEShards of Earth|rating=54|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Paul Munro has been disconnected from Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the World Ear in readiness for a mission that will last a lifetimeArchitects. Sent Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to man a tiny station built at enormous effort and expense the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on a desolate moon in the outer reaches run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of our solar systemthe war fades, heroes are forgotten, he will never be able and humanity begins to returnfracture and fight among themselves. Gravity is one-tenth that of Earth Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and his flesh has wastedcommunicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. But, his bones enbrittled without when he and the strength crew of calcium. 'If the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he stood on is thrust back into the Earth now..spotlight. As he and his skeleton would splinter under his weight.' It took eight years allies bounce from star system to get there star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the rest of his life stretches before him fearfully. real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385617895</amazonuk>1529051886
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|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Of all Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the big books announced game, for this yearwhile it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this one must have raised more eyebrows than manybook. Why try and write a new HitchhikerIt's Guide 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 Galaxy bookaverage person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, when way before the endcomputer game, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such a task? And why approach an Irishmanthe hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, Eoin ColferK, when named like that in the originals - tempered with their humour which could only least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be described as Monty Python doing a sci-fi Terry Pratchetthistorians of the game, and with their cups have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of tea who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and dressing gownsare still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, could only be described as very English? Well the answer is most evident - Colfer broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is a world-beater when doing, if it comes 's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to knocking up find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a storyvery thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>1529016932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon Law C J Carey|title=Bringing Forth the End of DaysWidowland
|rating=4
|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Imagine It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the hell state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a dying worldbit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, less than a generation from nowQueen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Three has been Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and gone - ended with conventional bombs galore but started by we are now a plague on all plant-lifeprotectorate – well, that removed all we share enough of the same blood as the oxygen from Germanic peoples on ''the planetmainland''s atmosphere. As But this is most certainly a resultdifferent Britain, the few survivors must live in airfor Nazi-tight houses with special oxygenating equipment styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high- brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the ultimate widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in air conditioning - orthis puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, they must have got in early is employed with a special biomechanical adaptation that allows them mobility the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and independencenot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, but at and so they just get a freakish costhefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. WorseThat is her job, at least, religion has mutated - until the Jehovah's Witnesses are now the most violent gangfirst emerging signs of female protest come to light, rushing with their potential to nudge whatspoil Hitler's left of humanity towards its final judgment. Worse still - even worse than all of that - you're living in Crawleyvisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1608602036</amazonuk>152941198X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter Salisbury Everina Maxwell|title=Passengers to SentienceWinter's Orbit|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Human beings are spread across Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the galaxypast few years. The technology So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that allowed this is supposed to happen? Not faster than light travel, suspended animation or matter transfer but cloning. Want prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to start a new life elsewhere? Your mind and personality can be mapped as informationchosen for the role. Unmanned ships are sent to inhabitable planets across the furthest reaches Least of space and upon arrival, the automated cloning vats begin re-creating your body and entering your stored mind and personality dataall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755211596</amazonuk>0356515885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Palmer Rob Winters|title=Red ClawHis Name Was Wren
|rating=4
|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=New AmazonIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, home to some of near the most violent and deadly alien life imaginable, is due to be razed to the ground in order to make way for human habitation. A team village 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 faunaHurstwick. However It came down hard, taking the computer super brain handling all spire of the technology has inconceivably turned on her human chargesvillage church with it, forcing soldier and scientist alike to abandon base head quarters. As if the planet's hostile environment (including bouts of acid rain) were not enough of destroying a threatstone shack, the characters are also pursued by legions of killer robots. Life expectancy does not look good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496243</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K S Turner |title=Before the Gods (Chronicles of Fate and Choice)|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''Before The Gods'' is presented as an enigma, wrapped in leaving a puzzle and shrouded in mystery. The front is adorned by a beguiling image created by wide trail through the author. A glance at the back cover serves only to tantalise rather than reveal wood, but no trace of what might be in store. ''This is where it all began. Everything. Love, hate, good, evil, us and them. This is before they were gods.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956224202</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Issui Ogawa |title=The Lords of the Sands of Time|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=We're in the third century, Japanactually was. A queen and her young retainer are wandering to German secret weapon was the edge of their territorylocal gossip, when a baddy appears - but there should have been an alien seeming to be some local creature. Handily enough explosion and a saviour, warrior hero appears too, from way in the future, complete with talking swordcrater, and saves the day. This incident is bad news for the queen to take back to court and discuss, but it's even worse for the messenger - sent on a one-way ticket from his own life, to advise there were neither of timelines that need saved - and the people that might just save Earth from this cosmic battlethose things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1421527626</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hiroshi SakurazakaMark Lingane|title=All You Need Is KillNote to Self: An Education
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a global war between humans and invading alienscascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, called Mimicsin 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, Keiji by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a trooper at Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the beginning moon of his short career in a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the armyplanet habitable to human life. Despite his high-tech body armourHowever, hea discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's not destined 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 last long - he's quickly deadtake Kira in for examination. But then he's quickly alive againThings go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, as somehow his life and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is rewound revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a dayrag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. It only makes for prolonged horror for The same aliens that destroyed the rookieExtenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, but it happens again and again. Each time he gets only a better intelligence mythical weapon known as the Staff of what his destiny might have been - Blue can he learn enough each time round stop them. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to make realise that she may have had a difference, and greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly break the loop?imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1421527618</amazonuk>1529046505
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charles Stross Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=WirelessA Life Without End
|rating=4
|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=In his introductionI looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, Stross explains that yet another one. It won't be one of the reasons he likes writing shorts stories is because they are major numbers, but the time when I have the ideal format in which to focus same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a particular concept few of the future big 0-numbers, and play around with itif all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. It doesn) Now if that't matter so much if s the idea extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't ultimately work because neither 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 reader nor assistant to the author has invested in it the way first geneticist he interviews, and they would in end up with a novel. ''Wireless'' thenchild, which is something of an experiment. Stross employs many different styles, tackles many different subjects and is very skilful at creating mood. His stories are least a strange blend way of continuing the technical life of his genes, and a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the archaic.'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497711</amazonuk>1642860670
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