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[[Category:New Reviews|Science Fiction]]==Science fiction==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janine SouthardAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Queen & Commander (A Hive Queen Novel)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=In Rhiannon's world, your entire future depends on your final school test results. Everyone is classified according to personality type and entry to any career or university depends upon your personality type. It's impossible to cheat the test... unless you're Rhiannon. Rhiannon should really be a Perceiver. But all her life she has wanted her own hive. And to achieve this, she must test as a Queen or Commander. And this she does. The only person to ever have manipulated the test. RhiannonAll Tomorrow's future is setFutures: leadership training, followed by a choice of Devoted to serve her, followed by command of a prestigious space ship and hive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BRM30SE</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFictions that Disrupt|author=Ian Tregillis|title=The Coldest War Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Milkweed TriptychEditors)
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|summary= England 1963: The war is over, Hitler defeated and the Russians (Britain's ally) retain most 'Opening up new ways of mainland Europe. The Briton in the street believes that it was Dunkirk and thinking about the Battle shape of Britain that saved the nation but ex-naval intelligence officer Raybould 'Pip' Marsh and his former friend Lord William Beauclerk know differently. The nation was saved by warlocks like Lord Will, the same warlocks that are now being murdered. However, fighting over, Pip and Will are both war-weary and want things to be left alone but the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideascome. For the Nazi experimental 'willpower' children are now adult and assembling in England, still equipped with the super powers of their childhood. This means Will and Pip have old scores to settle and greater evils waiting to be faced… Yes… ''those'' greater evils are back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Foglio and Kaja FoglioSylvie Cathrall|title=Girl genius: Agatha H and A Letter to the Clockwork PrincessLuminous Deep
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|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Nobody said that life on the road with There are few greater joys than a travelling show would be easy, but Master Payne’s Circus of Adventure seems book which lives up to face more hazards than mosta compelling premise. Firstly, there are those giant battle clanks lurking in the forest, waiting to reduce unsuspecting travellers to cinders. There are also prowling gangs And this is one of eerie Geisterdamen, or 'spider riders', with their ghostly glowing eyes and long hair. Nearby towns could be inhabited by revenants; misshapen zombie humans infected by Slaver Wasps, hungrily on the lookout for their next victim. But when a mysterious girl called Agatha and her talking cat join the troupe, that’s when the real danger begins..them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166498</amazonuk>0356522776
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Brookmyre1803816759|title=BedlamThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=3.54
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|summary=Ross Baker It's 2038 and Joe is a wage slave at Neurosphere, writing computer code bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a new brain scanning systembit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. His girlfriend, Carol, is not happy about But then something goes horribly wrong with the hours he puts into his jobAI system that now runs everything, thinking he's being played making life easier for a fool by doing extra work for no recognitionmany, and riots start to spread. Ross thinks they're about Finally, Joe gets to break up, but soon discovers their relationship do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is about assigned to move bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a level he was too busy to anticipate. After a rough morningBritish superfan and tech nerd, he agrees to have his brain scanned in one of is also on the trial machinescase.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502139</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=Phil Foglio and Kaja FoglioB0CP95J1CG|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H and the Airship City|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Agatha Clay has had a bad day. Waking 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 of her instructor. Then, without warning, the faculty had an impromptu inspection by Baron Wulfenbach, the ruthless dictator who controls most of the continent. By the time the day was through, the university had been reduced to a pile of rubble and her beloved mentor killed. 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>}} {{newreviewOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Iain M Banks|title=The Hydrogen SonataMark Lingane|rating=4.5
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|summary=ItRonan's 25 years since Iain M Banks introduced us not entirely sure why he decides to go to the utopian ''Culture'' series of sci fi adventure books and ''The Hydrogen Sonata'' party but his interest is piqued by the 13th in the seriesway it arrived. One thing Banks does particularly well is And it seems like a good opportunity to make get out of his books completely accessible as stand alones, explaining room and away from the concept afresh each time without going over old ground for long time fans, of which online activities he makes a living at. So he makes his way there are many. In many ways, this is a good introduction for those who have yet to discover dodging the joys buses that make up most of this excellent series because it's far more linear than somethe traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. He sometimes leaves even hardened ''Culture'' addicts struggling to work out what's going on with alternative realities before bringing them together, but there's little of that hereHopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501507</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin J AndersonK P O'Donnell|title=The Martian WarVital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Suppose H G Wells was not simply VL-15, a skilled writer with a spectacular imaginationprototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, but was in fact centrally involved consumed in a fantastical adventure which formed an apocalyptic war between the basis for several nations of his most successful novelsDrexel and Renada. Kevin J Anderson has supposed exactly this in his latest novel 'The Martian War'Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Real historical figures such as Percival Lowell and T H Huxley share centre stage with famous Wellsian characters like Dr Moreau Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a world where machines and Mr Cavor humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a story that borrows elements from 'War group of salvagers called the Worlds'Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn'The First Men t diminished in the Moon'slightest, and no errant machine, 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' no savage human tribe and not even Drexel'The Invisible Man'.s ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781161720</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael CobleyEmily Tesh|title=The Ascendant StarsSome Desperate Glory|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Space Opera has never been in more capable handsWhile Earth'' is the Guardian quote that concludes the blurb for thiss children live, Cobley's wrap up part of the enemy shall fear us''Humanity's Fire'' trilogy that started with [[Seeds of Earth (Humanity's Fire) by Michael Cobley|Seeds of Earth]] and continued through [[The Orphaned Worlds (Humanity's Fire) by Michael Cobley|The Orphaned Worlds]]. It's hard to disagree, but it's also hard to get away – on this evidence – from the fact that Space Opera might be closer to Soap than Classical, when it comes to opera classification.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496367</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam ThompsonM R Carey|title=Communion TownInfinity Gate
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=ItI'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the near future and the Olympics go on, but not without changessort. A new event has been added My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to those that weget right – and when it'd recognise: genetically engineered gladiatorial combat. This is no holds barred competitions bad, with one rule: each countryit's gladiator must be devoid often terrible. But the premise of any human DNAInfinity Gate had me hooked. IndeedA concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, America is so good that their team has won all the last three gamesit' golds, thanks to geneticist Dr Silas Williams, but d be fantastic. So 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 where I sum up 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 gladiatorspremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781164142</amazonuk>0356518043
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|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kim Stanley Robinson1739593901|title=231222 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary='Intellectually engaged…intensely humane… exuberantly speculative' was Iain M Banks' blurb for ''2312''Our future will be more complex than we expected. So who am I Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to disagree with one of the current masters of the genre?track grandma.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth NixMark Lingane|title=A Confusion of PrincesGalaxy
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|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=The best thing about Paolo Bacigalupi's latest young adult novel Spark, who is that you almost certainly wouldn't realise it was intended for a younger audience unless someone pointed it out to you. ''The Drowned Cities'' may lack an elite pilot with the sexSpace Academy, swearing and amoral protagonists of his award-winning adult novel '[[The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi|The Windup Girl]], but barely makes it has all the needle-sharp description, complex world-building and brilliant characters that have rapidly made through a name for Bacigalupi as one of this centuries preeminent sciencebattle alive. His co-fiction writerspilot was not so fortunate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411119</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Lancaster|title=1.4|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter Vincent lives Waking from a privileged life. His father coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is a world-renowned scientist and fully expects his son in no physical shape to follow in resume his footstepsduties. But Peter has other ideas. He wants to study literature. Although he enjoys gaming Earth is under threat 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 planetmust. So when he meets Strakerite Alpha, he is immediately attracted Returned by his superiors 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 disappearingspace station, he is more than willing to help. Together, they will uncover finds himself amid a conspiracy last ditch attempt to hide save humanity - and not just from the clock ticking down to the next upgrade... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258187</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan Wells|title=Partials|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Since the Break, no baby has lived longer than three days. Scientists have studied every baby to try and find a curealien threats against it, 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 the deadly virus that has wiped out most of the population. For those lucky to survive, they now spend their time trying to cure the virus that kills every babyalso from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000746522X</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Johan HarstadTade Thompson|title=172 Hours On The MoonFar From the Light of Heaven
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=RachelMichelle 's world Shell' Campion is in a state fulfilling her lifelong dream of decaygoing to space. Her house is falling apartAs first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, her boyfriend has left her and civilization has crumbled in bound for the wake world of plague and extreme climate changeBloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. Her only friend, StephanieHowever, is separated from Rachel by when she wakes up at the now insurmountable barrier end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Atlantic OceanRagtime'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 Bloodroot, their communication dependent disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on an increasingly unreliable satellite connecting their phonesthe Ragtime. At StephanieMeanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's prompting Rachel gives her number father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to local trader NoahBloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, who promises to call. Instead see why the number falls into Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the hands politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the mysterious and sinister Jez White, initiating a disturbing game five of cat and mousethem discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, where but potentially the line between stalker and victim becomes blurred as Rachel finally decides to take control entirety of her life.human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434120</amazonuk>0356514323
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken MacLeodClaire North|title=IntrusionNotes from the Burning Age|rating=54
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|summary=Pregnant Hope doesnAt its core 't want to take 'Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the Fixbest novels, a genetic cure-all pill it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that corrects the DNA of an unborn child a new and protects it from all sorts of diseasestimely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. HopeNorth's husband Hugh doesn't really understand her objections novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the Fix - in factmodern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, Hope never really articulates them at all - but supports her right aims to master these processes no matter the cost to choosethe Earth. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499390</amazonuk>0356514757
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David KowalskiAdrian Tchaikovsky|title=The Company Shards of the DeadEarth|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=A man stands on a ship checking that Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an iceberg has been missedunrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. The year Humanity is 1912scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the ship is human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the Titanic war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the man is a time-traveller hoping Architects, does not want to change historybe remembered. History But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is in fact changed as a result of thrust back into the spotlight. As he and his meddlingallies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, but not in a good way.human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857686666</amazonuk>1529051886
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=SD CrockettTerry Miles|title=After the SnowRabbits
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=On a near future EarthWelcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, Willo lives with his family in an isolated community without technology. His parents remember a time when there were machines but all it never leaves lower case throughout this has changedbook. Now thereIt's also called Rabbits, although only enough petrol 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 sinister government trucksaverage person no obvious entry point. One day Willo finds himself totally aloneA bit like the game of life then. Yes, his parents missingthis is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, presumed takennamed like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. Armed with K and his father's cryptic sayings bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and his only friendhave 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 peculiar places, (a dogand are still very short. However this time it's skull that speaks through his imagination) Willo leaves all thatdifferent. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's familiar ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in order trying to find sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones. The unknown might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a ruthless place filled with Stealers and starvation but there's escape from what he needs to dovery thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230759351</amazonuk>1529016932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter Jon WilliamsC J Carey|title=The Fourth WallWidowland
|rating=4
|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Sean Makin was It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a cutebit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, much demanded child actorQueen Wallis. Then he grew 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 protectorate – well, we share enough of the cute became creepy same blood as the baby face that had made him famous remained (due to a physical condition) but was unsuited to an adultGermanic peoples on ''the mainland''s body. So the demand dried up But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and Sean tries to come to terms with his change ideas of female purpose, has put all of fortunes by writing that gender into a 'how caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to act' blogthe drudges, intoxicating substances and appearances beyond those, right on a reality celebrity martial arts fight showdown to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. One dayAnd in this puritanical existence, whilst being beaten up our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for the cameras in a wrestling ring full female emancipation out of cottage cheeseit – after all, he realises not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the depths to which heparty line before they's sunkre stamped ready for reprint. Something has to change! Luckily change soon arrives in That is her job, at least, until the form first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler'Alternate Reality' magnate, Dagmar Shaws visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498254</amazonuk>152941198X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip PalmerEverina Maxwell|title=ArtemisWinter's Orbit|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=With every novel, Philip Palmer Prince Kiem is going from strength to strengtha famous political disappointment. IHe've not always enjoyed his writing styles outgoing, carefree, but his eye for a story is wonderful and his imagination has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years. So when an important political alliance is seemingly endless. Every time I open to be arranged – one of his novels, I wonder when he will find the limits of his inventiveness and it's never that time. ''Artemis'' is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no exception one expects him to that rulebe chosen for the role. Least of all him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499455</amazonuk>0356515885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marissa MeyerRob Winters|title=The Lunar Chronicles: CinderHis Name Was Wren|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=This Cinderella does not have to sweep In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the grate and clean the dishes - she has to mend maglev vehicle tracksvillage of Hurstwick. This Cinders does not leave her shoe behind when invited to It came down hard, taking the ball, she has her entire foot fall off. This Cinder does not live in a realm spire of fairy queens and pumpkin carriages, but New Beijingthe village church with it, destroying a massive city of just two and a half millionstone shack, due to the Fourth World War. She's and leaving a cyborg - hence wide trail through the footwood, but she's still owned by a crotchety bigot no trace of a step-mother, with two step-sisterswhat it actually was. And this is German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a very different worldcrater, where a global plague is going to be brought too close to home..and there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141340134</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip PalmerMark Lingane|title=Hell ShipNote to Self: An Education
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Some time agoIn Kry's world, I read Philip Palmerthe discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's debut novel [[Debatable Space found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by Philip Palmerseven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|Debatable Space]]summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. Whilst there were aspects However, a discovery of that novel I didnan ancient alien bunker under the moon't feel entirely workeds 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, it was a well paced read the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the most part Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and I marked Palmer as a writer she has to flee to watchthe 61 Cygnus star system. His subsequent novelsShe is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, [[Red Claw crewed by Philip Palmer|Red Claw]] Captain Falconi and [[Version 43 by Philip Palmer|Version 43]]a rag-tag bunch of misfits, have been well received here at and the news is grim. The Bookbag same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and his fourthonly a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could''Hell Ship'', isn't bad either.ve possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499447</amazonuk>1529046505
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ira LevinLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=The Stepford WivesSeven Devils|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary='It can't be Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a coincidence that Stepford women are all resistance movement fighting against the way they are' says Bobbieruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, Joanna Eberhart's only friend in Stepfordwhom everyone believed has been dead for years. Joanna Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has recently come a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to live in the idyllic suburban town of Stepford with war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her husband and two children. She former friend Eris is an independent woman with her own part-time career partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a photographersecret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is intelligent, liberated plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and has the last of the free alien species. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a keen interest stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in feminism. the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849015899</amazonuk>1473231140
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James S A CoreyFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Leviathan WakesA Life Without End
|rating=4
|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Humanity has managed to venture into I looked at the calendar the solar system other week, and colonise Marsdisappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, various moons and some asteroids and stations in the if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (asteroidWhich of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Those inhabiting Now if that's the Belt extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have evolved to be significantly thinner and elongated compared happy. Our author here doesn't 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 assistant to Earthers the first geneticist he interviews, and Martiansthey end up with a child, due the low gravity in which they live; their difference in appearance and is at least a difference in attitude form way of continuing the basis for a lot life of the tension his genes, and uneasy relationships in a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the novel.'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499889</amazonuk>1642860670
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