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[[Category:New Reviews|Science Fiction]]==Science fiction==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Johan HarstadAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=172 Hours On The Moon|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=ItAll Tomorrow's 2018 and people at NASA want to go back to the moon. But no one's been there since the 70s, so with funding and public support limited, they need an angle. A draw. Something to get people all over the world buzzing. Their answer is a worldwide lottery to select three teens who can accompany the NASA team on their week long jaunt into space. The chance of a lifetime! An unforgettable, unrepeatable experience! An adventure Futures: Fictions that truly is out of this world!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411518</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDisrupt|author=Matt Kindt|title=RevolverBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Graphic NovelsScience Fiction|summary=Meet Sam. He has a rather dull life, with a materialistic girlfriend, and a job in the arse-end of celebrity journalism and a boss he can't stand. All 'Opening up new ways of which is preferential to waking up and finding his home city under attack - munitions going off, skyscrapers burning and people falling from them. He ends up fleeing with said editor, only to wake thinking about the next day back in this world. He will indeed fall to being snatched from each reality in turn, at set times shape of day, forced things to suffer consumerism in one, looting in another, basic pay raises here, producing Samizdat bare-bones journalism for survivors therecome. But always with enough time to ask the important questions - how, and why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401222412</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken MacLeodSylvie Cathrall|title=IntrusionA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|summary=Pregnant Hope doesn't want There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to take the Fix, a genetic cure-all pill that corrects the DNA of an unborn child and protects it from all sorts compelling premise. And this is one of diseases. Hope's husband Hugh doesn't really understand her objections to the Fix - in fact, Hope never really articulates them at all - but supports her right to choose. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499390</amazonuk>0356522776
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Kowalski1803816759|title=The Company of the DeadUnravelling|author=Will Gibson
|rating=4
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|summary=A man stands on It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a ship checking bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that an iceberg has been missednow runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. The year is 1912Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the ship rioting global pop star Suki is the Titanic kidnapped and the man Joe is a time-traveller hoping assigned to change historybring her home. History is in fact changed as Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a result of his meddlingBritish superfan and tech nerd, but not in a good wayis also on the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686666</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=SD CrockettB0CP95J1CG|title=After the SnowOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Sean Makin was a cute, much demanded child actor. Then Ronan's not entirely sure why he grew up and the cute became creepy as the baby face that had made him famous remained (due decides to a physical condition) but was unsuited go to an adult's body. So the demand dried up and Sean tries to come to terms with party but his change of fortunes interest is piqued by writing the way it arrived. And it seems like a 'how good opportunity to act' blog, intoxicating substances get out of his room and appearances on away from the online activities he makes a reality celebrity martial arts fight showliving at. One daySo he makes his way there, whilst being beaten dodging the buses that make up for most of the cameras in a wrestling ring full of cottage cheese, he realises traffic and watching the depths to which he's sunklocal energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Something has to change! Luckily change soon arrives in the form of 'Alternate Reality' magnate, Dagmar ShawHopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498254</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip PalmerK P O'Donnell|title=ArtemisThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating=43.5
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|summary=With every novelVL-15, a prototype robot, Philip Palmer is going from strength desperate to strengthunderstand who she is. IUnfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father've not always enjoyed his writing styles legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but his eye for a story is wonderful internal frictions and his imagination is seemingly endlessexternal enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Every time I open one Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his novels, I wonder entire life turned upside down when he will find unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the limits of his inventiveness slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and itnot even Drexel's never that time. ''Artemis'' is no exception to that rule.ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499455</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marissa MeyerEmily Tesh|title=The Lunar Chronicles: CinderSome Desperate Glory
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|summary=Some time ago, I read Philip Palmer''While Earth's debut novel [[Debatable Space by Philip Palmer|Debatable Space]]. Whilst there were aspects of that novel I didn't feel entirely workedchildren live, it was a well paced read for the most part and I marked Palmer as a writer to watch. His subsequent novels, [[Red Claw by Philip Palmer|Red Claw]] and [[Version 43 by Philip Palmer|Version 43]], have been well received here at The Bookbag and his fourth, enemy shall fear us''Hell Ship'', isn't bad either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499447</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James S A CoreyM R Carey|title=Leviathan WakesInfinity Gate|rating=45
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|summary=Humanity has managed I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to venture into the solar system and colonise Mars, various moons and some asteroids and stations in science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the (asteroid) Belt between Mars and Jupitersort. Those inhabiting the Belt have evolved My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to be significantly thinner get right – and elongated compared to Earthers and Martianswhen it's bad, due it's often terrible. But the low gravity in which they live; their difference in appearance and premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a difference in attitude form the basis for a lot of the tension and uneasy relationships in the novelhigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499889</amazonuk>0356518043
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeff SomersMichael Grothaus|title=The Final EvolutionBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Don't assume too much when starting this book. Certainly, do not assume you can jump straight into this series at this, part five - start much nearer [[The Electric Church by Jeff Somers|the beginning]], as I did. Don't assume the first person narrative means the narrator survives, for this is a world of cyborgs, But fearing something and psychic human intelligences stored in robot hardware, and morehaving it come to pass are two different things. Don't assume the lulling opening chapters herald a simple revenge actioner, as Avery Cates lives in a tangled web of vengeful villains, and nothing is very straightforward. And donI't assume the unremarkable opening is from an author low on ideas, for when Cates is proven m willing to be the one man to save the world, we find it suitably meaty, and gripping, despite that old saw - and it's a rich nightmare of post-apocalypse for him to be saving, as well...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499439</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel H Wilson|title=Robopocalypse|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Rob is out to kill us all, and is going to take some beating. He already has many advantages, and can adapt easily where he finds a fault in his plans. He already has bet most of us deadwhat we fear will never happen, or in concentration campswe can take steps to change it. Rob is the generic nickname for all robot-kind, all controlled by one supreme Artificial Intelligence, who is set on eradication of our species.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857204122</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Trevillian1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The A-Men ReturnFuture|ratingauthor=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's been several years since the Phoenix Tower came down and the A-Men split. Dead City is a shadow of its former self: an urban wasteland and the centre of the sort of gang warfare that finds Benjamin Greenaway and exploits drugs and hopelessness with a ruthless talent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184876619X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen Mark Norman|title=Meklyan and the Fourth Piece of the Artefact|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Four billion years after our Sun has become a red giant and died, taking all life with it, there are still humans in the universe. How so? By man-made panspermia. When Earth's civilisation realised it couldn't master long distance space travel in sufficient time to avoid annihilation, it sent out DNA probes filled with bacteria far out into space, to planets in the temperate zones of solar systems; planets that could potentially sustain life. And on eight planets, sustain life they did. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956202713</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Morden|title=Equations of Life|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's a book that is certainly not short of action. We are not told what the Armageddon event was, although aspects of it are hinted at. Perhaps that will become explained later in the series. What we do know is that it has wiped out Japan, and one of the first victims of the event in London appears to have been the Congestion Charge as it is now a heaving metropolis with gridlock traffic Oram (although this and the masses of people seem to mysteriously evaporate as the story unfoldsEditors).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149948X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paolo Bacigalupi|title=The Windup Girl|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Although only recently released in paperback in the UK, Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl has been gaining considerable critical acclaim across 'the pond'Our future will be more complex than we expected. Set in a future version Instead of Thailandflying cars, it's an interesting take on the environmental meltdown scenario that has garnered it a couple of science fiction awards (the Hugo and Nebula awards) we got night-vision killer drones and was named as the ninth best fiction book of 2009 by Time magazine. No less than three of the review extracts used by the publishers in this edition liken Bacigalupi automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to William Gibsontrack grandma. High praise indeed. Does it rise to these expectations?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500535</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tricia SullivanMark Lingane|title=LightbornGalaxy
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=In Spark, who is an alternate but contemporary United Stateselite pilot with the Space Academy, everyone uses Lightborn technology, or shine, as barely makes it's nicknamedthrough a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Providing entertainmentWaking from a coma that lasted years, education he remembers little and self-knowledge, people live is in the ultimate plugged-in societyno physical shape to resume his duties. And then the Fall comesBut Earth is under threat and he must. Rogue AIs in Returned by his superiors to the shine field around the city of Los Sombres start sending out bad shine space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from the adults all go loco - becoming violent and murderousalien threats against it, or broken down and reduced to performing repetitive tasks over and overbut also from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841494070</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip PalmerTade Thompson|title=Version 43|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|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 of sci-fi Baltimore on Far From the distant planet Light of Belladonna. He gets sidetracked from his original objective and decides to rid the planet of its evil gang bosses while he's there. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Margaret Atwood|title=The Handmaid's TaleHeaven
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|summary=It Michelle 'Shell' Campion is perhaps appropriate 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 book that centres around the battle babysitter for the afterlife to begin this review with a confession: this was my first encounter with Iain M Banksship' Culture series of science fiction novelss AI captain. At firstHowever, I worried that this put me when she wakes up at a significant disadvantage as for the first 100 or so pages, I spend most end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the time being completely confused about what was Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on. HoweverBloodroot, as disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the strands started to come togetherRagtime. Meanwhile, it became apparent that this is partly Banks' style former astronaut and indeed itfriend of Shell's one he uses father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in his non-science fiction books tootow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. Keep goingWhat the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, it does come together.but potentially the entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498939</amazonuk>0356514323
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William GibsonClaire North|title=Zero History|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=It's almost obligatory when writing anything about William Gibson to recall that in an earlier short story, he invented the term 'cyberspace'. Gibson remains at Notes from 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 is not as it seems. We share it with aliens, zombies, demonic spirits, with ancient god-like entities that are all keen 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 existence. The point of the Laundry 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 of applied maths.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497703</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian McDonald|title=The Dervish HouseBurning Age
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|summary=The reader is plunged straight away into the busy, bustling centre of Istanbul. And climate change appears to have arrived. In 2022 thousands of IstanbulAt its core 's citizens died in a heatwave and now, only three years later it's Notes From the Burning Age'Thirty-three degrees in April, at seven in the morning. Unthinkable.' You can almost hear the collective thrum of all those air-conditioning units trying to make life bearable for the local people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575080531</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeff Somers|title=The Terminal State|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=In this futureby Claire North is a spy thriller, desolatewith as many double crosses, post-apocalyptic world, the last thing Avery Cates wants to do is choose a sideinterrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. The police are androidsHowever, artificial cases for clones of people who die in as with the makingbest novels, it wears many masks and the other source of power its most affecting one is not much better. But it's them that pressgang him into joining their army. What little freedom of a new and power he had as a lone gunman is losttimely genre, as he's given nanotech augments to make him a supercli-soldierfi, or climate change fiction. Which is bad news - as is the fact the two most powerful and hated people in CatesNorth's universe are the very people who buy him from the army novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to do one last job - start anew and they can be very persuasive about him accepting it...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498750</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Terry Dehart|title=The Unit|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=We all know about live alongside nature without any of the nuclear familymodern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, well now meet the post-nuclear family in Terry De Hart's brutal vision weapons of a post apocalyptic America. We know the score; terrorists attack key US cities with nuclear devicesmass destruction, US retaliates on the nations supporting the terroristintensive farming). There is only a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one possible outcomegroup, mass casualties and the breakdown of civil society leading Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the rise of barbarism in a devastated landscape in cost to the grip of a nuclear winter. Within this madness a family survives not knowing how much of the country or the world has been destroyedEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499331</amazonuk>0356514757
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken MacLeodAdrian Tchaikovsky|title=The Restoration GameShards of Earth|rating=54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Lucy Stone works for a videogame company in Edinburgh. She enjoys Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the job moon- particularly being one of sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the boys - and itarchitect's given her a sense of belonging that she'd craved but never reshaping. Then, just when they hadthe human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And then her mother callsso, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. A CIA spookIdris Telemmier, Amanda wants Lucy's firm a man genetically engineered to rewrite their upcoming game try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to feature the mythology of a small ex-Soviet republicbe remembered. Krassnia is where Lucy was born, where she lived for her first seven yearsBut, when he and where she spent the scariest day crew of her lifethe salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. Amanda wrote a seminal work on Krassnian mythology As he and Lucy uses this his allies bounce from star system to reshape the gamestar system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, knowing he slowly begins to realise that it's likely to be used as a tool in a hoped-for colour revolution. the real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841496472</amazonuk>1529051886
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingTerry Miles|title=Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty JayRabbits
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|summary=Things on board Welcome to the Ketty Jay have never been as lowworld of The Game. Darian Frey and his crew are even having trouble thieving from defenceless orphanages. So when Or should that be the next token job-they-can't-refuse comes alonggame, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, they fall under itnever leaves lower case throughout this book. It's spellalso 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. An explorer has returned with tales A bit like the game of untold richeslife then. Yes, courtesy this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the most mysterious artefacts and treasures darkest of an unknown civilizationwebs. The fact People like our hero, K, named like that in the remains least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are those trying to be historians of an aircraft crashed the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most Arctic of rainforestspeculiar places, inhabited by and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most evil beast-men monstersdangerous, nay lethal, is neither here nor therethe most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. The problems start with Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what they find therethe game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, which he is worse than anyone could have expected - or indeed years ago, with a mysterious connection only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the remains game, and the more unusual crewmemberplaying it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575085177</amazonuk>1529016932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris BeckettC J Carey|title=The Holy MachineWidowland
|rating=4
|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=In It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the near futurestate funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, only Illyria city stands for scienceparading around a bit, technology and progress watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a world dominated by religious fundamentalism protectorate – well, we share enough of every faith (and then some)the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. The city was founded as But this is most certainly a haven different Britain, for those intellectuals not possessing any such religious convictionsNazi-styled phrenology, who advocated reason and logic insteadideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and were persecuted for their 'blasphemies' in the early stages of beyond those, right on down to the upheaval. George Simlingchildless, the introvert protagonist husbandless and second generation Illyrian, falls in love with a beautiful woman called Lucythe widows. Unfortunately however, Lucy Female literacy is actually a syntecactively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, a robot ASPU: Advanced Sensory Pleasure Unitour heroine, a prostitute. As George obsessively visits herRose Ransom, he realises that she is starting employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to develop a level take all encouragement for female emancipation out of consciousness it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and self-awareness outside of her programmingso they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. Lucy That is due for a routine mind-wipe so George decides her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to flee light, with her their potential to the technophobic outlands in order to save this newly discovered consciousnessspoil Hitler's visit. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848874626</amazonuk>152941198X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pittacus LoreEverina Maxwell|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 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 (HumanityWinter'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=FeedOrbit
|rating=5
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|summary=In 2014 Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the common cold was curedpast few years. So was cancer. But in their wake something terrible came when an important political alliance is to be arranged – the two viruses used one that is supposed to cure the ailments combined prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to form a terrifying plague that turned humans and large animals into the living dead. Now what's left of the human race lives every day with the fear that be chosen for the virus they hold dormant in their bodies could go into amplification, causing them to turnrole. People stay indoors, stop meeting in crowds, and conduct most Least of their lives onlineall him. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149898X</amazonuk>0356515885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert EdricRob Winters|title=SalvageHis Name Was Wren
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|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Some time about a hundred years hence and In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the predictions have come to passvillage of Hurstwick. The sea levels have risen; It came down hard, taking the spire of the Gulf Stream has shifted its path. Climate change has hit Britain village church with it, destroying a vengeance. stone shack, Global Warming is and leaving a wide trail through the misnomer; wood, but no trace of course the temperatures are, on balance, warmerwhat it actually was. Snow is something most people only hear or read about. The real changeGerman secret weapon was the local gossip, howeverbut there should have been an explosion and a crater, is the wetand there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385617623</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom HoltMark Lingane|title=Blonde BombshellNote to Self: An Education|rating=4.5
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|summary=The blonde bombshell In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in question a cascade of medical "advances": in Tom Holt2030 it's latest book of found that name is Lucy Pavlov. If you are reading this review radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2017 of course you will know who Lucy Pavlov is. She2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the beautifulside effect of erasing seven years of memory, talentedby 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, wealthy, CEO who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of PaySoft Industries - Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the revolutionary operating system that moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is running on every computer in helping with the efforts to make the worldplanet habitable to human life. Of courseHowever, if that is indeed a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the case, then wemoon've got s surface leaves her bonded with a problemstrange alien entity. A very big problemAfter 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 take Kira in for examination. Because what Lucy doesn't know Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is that attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is literally revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a blonde bombshell rag- well she knows she's blondetag bunch of misfits, just not and the news is grim. The same aliens that her body is destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a shell for a bombmythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. A very big As the death toll climbs and a very smart bombmore players are introduced into this war, but nevertheless Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a bomb. And greater hand in the conflict than shecould's been sent to destroy the planet. It kind of makes Bill Gates seem OK for the time being.ve possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841497789</amazonuk>1529046505
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=ExtrasSeven Devils|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=In Eris is one of the future city foremost operatives of this bookthe Novantae, many people live with what is called a reputation economyresistance 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. With everybody practically a cyborgClo, they're online permanentlyan ace pilot for the Novantae, using optical and brain implants has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to see everybodythe war effort. Although she's status, output and less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get moreinteresting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Many people have hovercam companionsEris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to make their own documentaries and film their own lives. They rely on metablogs the Empire, is plotting to interact disrupt peace talks between Tholos and keep their popularity upthe last of the free alien species. They continuously spread their opinions and interests in order It's a race against time as the rebels move to become more well-known. A girl called Aya is struggling to get any renownput a stop Damocles' plans, but things change, when she meets other people doing incredibly notorious things, but with millions of lives hanging in complete secrecy and anonymity.the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389228</amazonuk>1473231140
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=SpecialsA Life Without End
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|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=In I looked at the un-named city calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the futuremajor numbers, all but the time when I have the adults are living in same number as Heinz varieties looms on the delusion that their city is righthorizon. After a teenage life as an ugly, they all undergo And then a welter few of medical proceduresthe big 0-numbers, to make their minds and bodies conform to the blandif all goes well, but gorgeous, society normI'll be an OBE. But one young woman is not like that(Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) She is going to a party, looking ugly, and she knows it is not what we look like, but how special we feel inside, Now if that is 's the extent of most importancemy mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. The good news is Our author here doesn't use that this woman is our returning heroineexact phrase, Tallybut he might be said to be living one. The bad news is that her ugliness Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a temporary disguiseway of continuing the life of his genes, and worse than that - she knows a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to feel special insidenot flick the 'final way out' switch, because she IS A Special.especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389082</amazonuk>1642860670
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