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|summary=Agatha Clay has had a bad day. Waking ''Opening up late was just the beginning. She got mugged in a dark alley on her way to university and her precious locket was stolen. Things did not get any better when she arrived at the university. When demonstrating her latest mechanical design, it malfunctioned and exploded in front new ways of her instructor. Then, without warning, the faculty had an impromptu inspection by Baron Wulfenbach, thinking about the ruthless dictator who controls most shape of the continent. By the time the day was through, the university had been reduced things to a pile of rubble and her beloved mentor killedcome. And then,of course, she had ''those'' blinding headaches to deal with. But if today was bad, tomorrow is set to be even worse...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166471</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Iain M Banks|title=The Hydrogen Sonata|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=ItI's 25 years since Iain M Banks introduced us to the utopian ve heard it said that 'technology'Cultureis what happens after you'' series of sci fi adventure books and ''The Hydrogen Sonata'' is the 13th in the seriesre eighteen. One thing Banks does particularly well is to make his books completely accessible as stand alones Well, explaining the concept afresh each time without going over old ground for long time fans, of which I must confess that there are many. In many ways, this is a good introduction for those who have yet to discover the joys of this excellent series because it's far been more linear than somea few decades of technology in my lifetime. He sometimes leaves even hardened I've kept up reasonably well with what'Culture'' addicts struggling s advantageous to work out whatme but I's going on m left with alternative realities before bringing them together, but therethe feeling that it's little all getting away from me. Some of that hereit 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>0356501507</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin J AndersonSylvie Cathrall|title=The Martian WarA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5

|summary=Suppose H G Wells was not simply There are few greater joys than a skilled writer with a spectacular imagination, but was in fact centrally involved in book which lives up to a fantastical adventure which formed the basis for several of his most successful novelscompelling premise. Kevin J Anderson has supposed exactly And this in his latest novel 'The Martian War'. Real historical figures such as Percival Lowell and T H Huxley share centre stage with famous Wellsian characters like Dr Moreau and Mr Cavor in a story that borrows elements from 'War of the Worlds', 'The First Men in the Moon', 'The Island is one of Doctor Moreau' and 'The Invisible Man'them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781161720</amazonuk>0356522776

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Cobley1803816759|title=The Ascendant StarsUnravelling|author=Will Gibson

|summary=It''Space Opera has never been in more capable hands'' s 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the Guardian quote 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 AI system that concludes the blurb now runs everything, making life easier for thismany, and riots start to spread. Finally, Cobley's wrap up part Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the ''Humanity's Fire'' trilogy that started with [[Seeds of Earth (Humanity's Fire) by Michael Cobley|Seeds of Earth]] rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and continued through [[The Orphaned Worlds (Humanity's Fire) by Michael Cobley|The Orphaned Worlds]]Joe is assigned to bring her home. ItJoe isn's hard t the only one trying to disagreesave Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, but it's is also hard to get away – on this evidence – from the fact that Space Opera might be closer to Soap than Classical, when case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it comes to opera classification.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496367</amazonuk>hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter HellerB0CP95J1CG|title=The Dog StarsOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=We are in North America in a near but post-Apocalyptic future. Those few humans Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to survive a pandemic have go to be treated as carriers, and/or armed and desperate, and so are particularly of note to military-minded survivalist Bangleythe party but his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. And climate and eco-problems have killed off many common species, something closer it seems like a good opportunity to narrator Hig's heart, as he's a more placid, huntin', shootin' and fishin' guy. These two solitary men are an unlikely partnership, but both look get out for each other in complementary ways. Bangley has of his watch-tower, while Hig takes off in his Cessna to get room and away from it all, and his flights act as the online activities he makes a first line of defenseliving at. But is it all life could beSo he makes his way there, for Hig and his dog and Bangley? What is Hig still to dodging the buses that make up most of the last inviting contact he heard on his plane's radio - even if that was three years ago? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755392590</amazonuk>traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam ThompsonK P O'Donnell|title=Communion Town|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Communion Town – one city but it may as well be many as each person's perception of it is coloured by their experiences within it. Each chapter introduces us to a different story, a different viewpoint and therefore, practically a different city. Starting with The Vital Link (A Spark in the ominous, creepy story of Nicolas, through stories encapsulating such themes as recaptured friendship, murder and an enigmatic take on the life of a private investigator, we start to piece together the nature of Communion Town... or do we?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007454767</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Denman|title=ConnectedAshes)

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=DougVL-15, a maths and computing undergraduate at Essex Universityprototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, has just pulled the most amazing girl. So he's not really that interested world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the file nations of fractals research best friend Kal has just sent himDrexel and Renada. But while Doug and Cindy are busily getting it onOver half-a-century later, something has gone horribly wrong for Kal and Doug emerges from afternoon delight civilisation is starting to the horrific discovery that his friend has committed suiciderebuild. Miles away in the countryside, Peter Dr Amelia Wong is attending his brotherdetermined to continue her father's funeral. Martin was legacy, building a musician world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but not a tortured artist internal frictions and external enemies might bring it seems inconceivable that he too would take all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his own entire lifeturned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. But Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the tripslightest, for Peterand no errant machine, is more than a family obligation - itno savage human tribe and not even Drexel's the chance of a break from a stale marriage and an opportunity to indulge in some guilty proximity to his newly-bereaved sister-in-law. ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0089YQPI0</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ted KosmatkaEmily Tesh|title=The GamesSome Desperate Glory

|summary=It's the near future and the Olympics go on, but not without changes. A new event has been added to those that we'd recognise: genetically engineered gladiatorial combat. This is no holds barred competition, with one rule: each countryWhile Earth's gladiator must be devoid of any human DNA. Indeedchildren live, America is so good that their team has won all the last three gamesenemy shall fear us' golds, thanks to geneticist Dr Silas Williams, but this year is different. This year he has nothing to do with the design; someone sent a single design criterion to an experimental intelligence computer. (You just know that was a bad idea day don't you?) The design criteria is just one sentence, just words, but words can be misunderstood and misunderstanding can be devastating for more than just genetically manufactured gladiators.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781164142</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=David Brin|title=Existence|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=We are Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst a few decades further into rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the 21st Century at home of the start last scraps of this sci-fi novel. The humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world is buckling under climate change, and over-populationthat should have been hers. Those with enough funds are completely wired into a virtual worldAll her life, but wherever they live out their existence things are going she has been conditioned to be changedfall in line, when a space-based labourer, clearing space junk from orbit, finds an alien artifact containing contact with various races in a sort of memory bank cum virtual reality. Where are the aliens that had previously been so silent while we sought for them with our Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence? What is the purpose to fulfil her duty and message behind this capsule? And who can be sure ensure that this alleged First Contact was actually the first?humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501728</amazonuk>0356521834

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim Stanley RobinsonM R Carey|title=2312Infinity Gate|rating=45

|summary=I'Intellectually engaged…intensely humane… exuberantly speculativem annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it' was Iain M Banks' blurb for ''2312''. So who am s a genre I to disagree with one of the current masters dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre? No-one. Just an ordinary reader. And actuallyto get right – and when it's bad, the more I think about the less I do – actually – as such – disagree. Banksit' phrases are true and accurates often terrible. They're just not But the whole story. Not for premise of Infinity Gate had me anywayhooked. For A concept this intriguing felt like a reader, as opposed to another writerhigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, the book is much more difficult than that. ''Publishers Weekly'' called it ''challenging'' and d be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that's much nearer the markpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499978</amazonuk>0356518043

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth NixMichael Grothaus|title=A Confusion of PrincesBeautiful Shining People

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Khemri. One of the universe's chosen, he has been selected as a Prince, giving him biological enhancements, mental connection to priests to aid his psychic ability, and so much more. It has also probably led to the death of his parents, 'But fearing something and meant he is alone except for a very close bodyguard, but - at least he is in the running to become Emperor, and thus almost godlike. But in a world where you can have everything - including more than one chance at living - having it might still be wise come to think more about what you wish for..pass are two different things.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007298358</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paolo Bacigalupi|title=The Drowned Cities|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The best thing about Paolo BacigalupiAnd I's latest young adult novel is that you almost certainly wouldn't realise it was intended for a younger audience unless someone pointed it out m willing to you. ''The Drowned Cities'' may lack the sex, swearing and amoral protagonists bet most of his award-winning adult novel '[[The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi|The Windup Girl]]what we fear will never happen, but or we can take steps to change it has all the needle-sharp description, complex world-building and brilliant characters that have rapidly made a name for Bacigalupi as one of this centuries preeminent science-fiction writers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411119</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Lancaster|title=1.4|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter Vincent lives a privileged life. His father is a world-renowned scientist and fully expects his son to follow in his footsteps. But Peter has other ideas. He wants to study literature. Although he enjoys gaming and social networking, he's uncomfortable about spending too much time on The Link, a system which connects the minds of every individual on the planet. So when he meets Strakerite Alpha, he is immediately attracted to her. Peter's father hates the Strakerites, who believe that human evolution depends on regular upgrades from alien aggressors. So when Alpha contacts Peter to tell him that people are disappearing, he is more than willing to help. Together, they will uncover a conspiracy to hide the clock ticking down to the next upgrade... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258187</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Dan Wells|title=Partials|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Since ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the Break, no baby has lived longer than three daysquestion of identity and acceptance. Scientists have studied every baby Of what it means to try be human. Of what is real and find a curewhat is artificial, but with no luck. The human race is on the verge of extinction after the Partials (genetically engineered soldiers who were made to fight for humans) turned on their makers and released whether the deadly virus that has wiped out most development of the population. For those lucky to survive, they now spend their time trying to cure the virus that kills every babytechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000746522X</amazonuk>191458564X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Johan Harstad1739593901|title=172 Hours On 22 Ideas About The MoonFuture|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summaryauthor=It'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 Benjamin Greenaway 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 that truly is out of this world!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411518</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Matt Kindt|title=RevolverStephen Oram (Editors)

|summary=Rachel's world is in a state of decay. Her house is falling apart, her boyfriend has left her and civilization has crumbled in the wake of plague and extreme climate change. Her only friend, Stephanie, is separated from Rachel by the now insurmountable barrier of the Atlantic Ocean, their communication dependent on an increasingly unreliable satellite connecting their phones. At Stephanie's prompting Rachel gives her number to local trader Noah, who promises to callOur future will be more complex than we expected. Instead the number falls into the hands of the mysterious and sinister Jez Whiteflying cars, initiating a disturbing game of cat we got night-vision killer drones and mouse, where the line between stalker and victim becomes blurred as Rachel finally decides automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to take control of her lifetrack grandma.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434120</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Ken MacLeod|title=Intrusion|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Pregnant Hope doesnI't want 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 take the Fix, book. There's got to be a genetic cure-all pill that corrects the DNA of an unborn child and protects it from all sorts of diseasesvery compelling hook to keep me engaged. Hope Then there's husband Hugh doesnscience fiction: far too often it't really understand her objections to s the technology which takes centre stage along with the Fix world- in factbuilding. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, Hope never really articulates them at all what did I think of a book of twenty- but supports her right to choosetwo science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499390</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David KowalskiMark Lingane|title=The Company of the DeadGalaxy

|summary=A man stands on Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a ship checking battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that an iceberg has been missed. The year is 1912lasted years, the ship is the Titanic he remembers little and the man is a time-traveller hoping in no physical shape to change historyresume his duties. History But Earth is in fact changed as under threat and he must. Returned by his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a result of his meddlinglast ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it, but not in a good wayalso from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857686666</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=SD CrockettTade Thompson|title=After Far From the SnowLight of Heaven

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=On a near future EarthMichelle '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, Willo lives with his family in an isolated community without technology. His parents remember she will essentially be a time when there were machines but all this has changed. Now therebabysitter for the ship's only enough petrol for the sinister government trucksAI captain. One day Willo finds himself totally aloneHowever, his parents missing, presumed taken. Armed with his fatherwhen she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's cryptic sayings and his only friendAI almost non-responsive, (a dogshe begins to realise that her first mission won's skull that speaks through t be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his imagination) Willo leaves all that's familiar in order android partner Salvo are sent up to find his loved onesdiscover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. The unknown is a ruthless place filled with Stealers Meanwhile, former astronaut and starvation but therefriend of Shell's escape from what he needs father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to dosee why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy 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>0230759351</amazonuk>0356514323

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter Jon WilliamsClaire North|title=The Fourth WallNotes from the Burning Age

|summary=Sean Makin was At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a cutespy thriller, much demanded child actorwith as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. Then he grew up and the cute became creepy However, as with the baby face best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that had made him famous remained (due to of a physical condition) but was unsuited to an adultnew and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's bodynovel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). So There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the demand dried up and Sean tries Brotherhood, aims to come master these processes no matter the cost to terms with his change the Earth.|isbn=0356514757}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of fortunes Earth|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by writing a 'how the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to actthe architect' blogs reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, intoxicating substances the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and appearances on fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a reality celebrity martial arts fight showman genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. One dayBut, whilst being beaten up for when he and the cameras in a wrestling ring full crew of cottage cheesethe salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he realises is thrust back into the depths spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to which star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he's sunk. Something has slowly begins to change! Luckily change soon arrives in realise that the form of 'Alternate Reality' magnate, Dagmar Shaw.real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498254</amazonuk>1529051886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip PalmerTerry Miles|title=ArtemisRabbits

|summary=With every novelWelcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, Philip Palmer is going from strength for while it ought to be capitalised to strengthhigh heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. IIt've not always enjoyed his writing styles also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, but his eye this is the game of life for a story is wonderful 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 imagination is seemingly endless. Every time I open one bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of his novelshigh score boards, I wonder when he will find for the limits lists of his inventiveness who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's never that different. This timethe game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. ''Artemis'Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it' s even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is no exception only to find out that rulethe line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499455</amazonuk>1529016932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marissa MeyerC J Carey|title=The Lunar Chronicles: CinderWidowland|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=This Cinderella does not have It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to sweep attend the grate state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and clean watching over the dishes - she has to mend maglev vehicle tracks. This Cinders does not leave her shoe behind when invited sanctioned return to the ballthrone of Edward VIII with his wife, she has her entire foot fall offQueen Wallis. This Cinder does not live For yes, Britain caved in a realm of fairy queens and pumpkin carriages, but New Beijingthe lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, a massive city of just two and we are now a half millionprotectorate – well, due to we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the Fourth World Warmainland''. She's But this is most certainly a cyborg different Britain, for Nazi- hence the footstyled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, but she's still owned by a crotchety bigot has put all of that gender into a stepcaste system, ranging from high-motherbrow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, with two step-sistersthe husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is a very different worldemployed with 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 not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, where and so they just get a global plague hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is going her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to be brought too close light, with their potential to home..spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141340134</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip PalmerEverina Maxwell|title=Hell ShipWinter's Orbit|rating=45

|summary=Some time ago, I read Philip PalmerPrince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's debut novel [[Debatable Space by Philip Palmer|Debatable Space]]outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years. Whilst there were aspects of So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that novel I didn't feel entirely worked, it was a well paced read is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the most part and I marked Palmer as a writer to watchrole. 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, ''Hell Ship'', isn't bad eitherLeast of all him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499447</amazonuk>0356515885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ira LevinRob Winters|title=The Stepford WivesHis Name Was Wren|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary='It can't be a coincidence that Stepford women are all In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the way they are' says Bobbie, Joanna Eberhart's only friend in Stepfordvillage of Hurstwick. Joanna has recently come to live in It came down hard, taking the idyllic suburban town spire of Stepford the village church with her husband it, destroying a stone shack, and two childrenleaving a wide trail through the wood, but no trace of what it actually was. She is German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have been an independent woman with her own part-time career as explosion and a photographercrater, is intelligent, liberated and has a keen interest in feminismthere were neither of those things. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849015899</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James S A CoreyMark Lingane|title=Leviathan WakesNote to Self: An Education

|summary=Humanity has managed 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 radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to venture into cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the solar system same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and colonise Marsyouth, various moons and some asteroids and stations who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the (asteroid) Belt between Mars and Jupitermoon 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. Those inhabiting After the Belt have evolved entity bonded to be significantly thinner her loses control and elongated compared kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to Earthers take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and Martiansdestroyed by an alien ship, due and she has to flee to the low gravity in which they live; their difference in appearance 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a difference in attitude form rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the basis for Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a lot mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the tension death toll climbs and uneasy relationships more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the novel.conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499889</amazonuk>1529046505

{{Frontpage|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Seven Devils|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeff SomersFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=The Final EvolutionA Life Without End

|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 I looked at this, part five - start much nearer [[The Electric Church by Jeff Somers|the beginning]]calendar the other week, as and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I didknow, yet another one. DonIt won't assume be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the first person narrative means same number as Heinz varieties looms on the narrator survives, for this is horizon. And then a world few of cyborgsthe big 0-numbers, and psychic human intelligences stored in robot hardwareif all goes well, and moreI'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) DonNow if that't assume s the lulling opening chapters herald a simple revenge actioner, as Avery Cates lives in a tangled web extent of vengeful villainsmy mid-life crisis, and nothing is very straightforwardI guess I have to be happy. And donOur author here doesn't assume the unremarkable opening is from an author low on ideasuse that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong life for when Cates is proven as long as he wants – he would like to be see 400 – he hops right into bed with the one man assistant to save the worldfirst geneticist he interviews, we find it suitably meatyand they end up with a child, and grippingwhich is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, despite that old saw - and it's a rich nightmare of post-apocalypse for him motive to keep on going. But how can he get to be savingnot flick the 'final way out' switch, as well...especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499439</amazonuk>1642860670

{{newreview|author=Daniel H Wilson|title=Robopocalypse|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Rob is out Move on 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 most of us dead, or in concentration camps. 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>}}[[Newest Short Story Reviews]]