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[[Category:New Reviews|Science Fiction]]==Science fiction==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

{{newreview|author=SJ Griffin|title=The Vanguard|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Sorcha Blades and her four closest friends do the best they can with I've heard it said that 'technology' is what they happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have. Living in been more than a post-apocalyptic world, they are from the wrong side few decades of the trackstechnology in my lifetime. Unable I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to live easy and glittering lives like me but I'm left with the elite, they scam and forage and hack their way to some degree feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of comfort and still manage to avoid the it is - very unpleasant frankly - state security apparatus for quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the most part. Not that thereprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's much state left for re talking about or the security apparatus to protectlatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00904MC30</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janine SouthardSylvie Cathrall|title=Queen & Commander (A Hive Queen Novel)Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5

|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 There are few greater joys than a Perceiver. But all her life she has wanted her own hive. And book which lives up to achieve this, she must test as a Queen or Commandercompelling premise. And this she does. The only person to ever have manipulated the test. Rhiannon's future is set: leadership training, followed by a choice one of Devoted to serve her, followed by command of a prestigious space ship and hivethem. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BRM30SE</amazonuk>0356522776

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Tregillis1803816759|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=54

|summary= England 1963: The war is over, Hitler defeated and the Russians (BritainIt's ally) retain most of mainland Europe. The Briton in 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the street believes that it was Dunkirk wealthy and the Battle peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of Britain that saved the nation but ex-naval intelligence officer Raybould 'Pip' Marsh adventure and his former friend Lord William Beauclerk know differentlyto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. The nation was saved by warlocks like Lord Will, But then something goes horribly wrong with the same warlocks AI system that are now being murdered. Howeverruns everything, fighting overmaking life easier for many, Pip and Will are both war-weary riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and want Joe is assigned to be left alone but the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideasbring her home. For Joe isn't the Nazi experimental 'willpower' children are now adult only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and assembling in Englandtech nerd, still equipped with is also on the super powers of their childhoodcase. This means Will and Pip have old scores to settle and greater evils waiting to be faced… Yes… What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki''those'' greater evils are back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>s kidnapping connected?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CP95J1CG|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises

|summary=Nobody said that life on Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the road with a travelling show would be easy, party but Master Payne’s Circus of Adventure his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like a good opportunity to face more hazards than mostget out of his room and away from the online activities he makes a living at. FirstlySo he makes his way there, there are those giant battle clanks lurking in dodging the forest, waiting to reduce unsuspecting travellers to cinders. There are also prowling gangs buses that make up most 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 traffic and her talking cat join watching the troupe, that’s when the real danger beginslocal energy storage indicator lights.Should be enough power.Hopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166498</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher BrookmyreK P O'Donnell|title=BedlamThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|summary=Ross Baker is VL-15, a wage slave at Neurosphereprototype robot, writing computer code for a new brain scanning systemis desperate to understand who she is. His girlfriendUnfortunately, Carolbefore she could find any answers, is not happy about the hours he puts into his jobworld ended, thinking he's being played for consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a fool by doing extra work for no recognition. Ross thinks they're about to break up-century later, but soon discovers their relationship civilisation is about starting to move rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a level he was too busy to anticipateworld where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. After Craig Anderson, leader of a rough morninggroup of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he agrees to have his brain scanned unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in one of the trial machines.slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502139</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Foglio and Kaja FoglioEmily Tesh|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H and the Airship CitySome Desperate Glory|rating=4.5

|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''While Earth's children live, 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 ''thoseenemy shall fear us'' 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=It's 25 years since Iain M Banks introduced us to Following the utopian ''Culture'' series destruction of sci fi adventure books and ''The Hydrogen Sonata'' is the 13th in Earth, amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the series. One thing Banks does particularly well is to make his books completely accessible as stand alones, explaining home of the concept afresh each time without going over old ground for long time fans, last scraps of which there are many. In many ways, this is a good introduction for those who have yet humanity – and trained relentlessly to discover avenge her people and the joys of this excellent series because it's far more linear than someworld that should have been hers. He sometimes leaves even hardened ''Culture'' addicts struggling All her life, she has been conditioned to work out what's going on with alternative realities before bringing them togetherfall in line, but there's little of to fulfil her duty and ensure that herehumanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501507</amazonuk>0356521834

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin J AndersonM R Carey|title=The Martian WarInfinity Gate|rating=3.5

|summary=Suppose H G Wells was not simply I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a skilled writer with genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a spectacular imaginationhard genre to get right – and when it's bad, but was in fact centrally involved in a fantastical adventure which formed it's often terrible. But the basis for several premise of his most successful novelsInfinity Gate had me hooked. Kevin J Anderson has supposed exactly A concept 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 intriguing felt like Dr Moreau and Mr Cavor in a story that borrows elements from 'War of the Worlds'high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it'The First Men in the Moon', 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' and 'The Invisible Man'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781161720</amazonuk>0356518043

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael CobleyGrothaus|title=The Ascendant StarsBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=''Space Opera has never been in more capable hands'' is the Guardian quote that concludes the blurb for this, Cobley's wrap up part of the ''Humanity's Fire'' trilogy that started with [[Seeds of Earth (Humanity's Fire) by Michael Cobley|Seeds of Earth]] But fearing something and continued through [[The Orphaned Worlds (Humanity's Fire) by Michael Cobley|The Orphaned Worlds]]having it come to pass are two different things. ItAnd I's hard m willing to disagreebet most of what we fear will never happen, but it's also hard to get away – on this evidence – from the fact that Space Opera might be closer or we can take steps to Soap than Classical, when change it comes to opera classification.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496367</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Peter Heller|title=The Dog Stars|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We are in North America in a near but post-Apocalyptic future. Those few humans to survive a pandemic have to be treated as carriers, and/or armed and desperate, and so are particularly of note to military-minded survivalist Bangley. And climate and eco-problems have killed off many common species, something closer to narrator Hig's heart, as he's a more placid, huntinBeautiful Shining People', shootin' revolves around the question of identity and fishin' guyacceptance. These two solitary men are an unlikely partnership, but both look out for each other in complementary waysOf what it means to be human. Bangley has his watch-tower, while Hig takes off in his Cessna to get away from it all, Of what is real and his flights act as a first line of defense. But what is it all life could beartificial, for Hig and his dog and Bangley? What whether the development of technology is Hig still to make of the last inviting contact he heard on his plane's radio - even if that was three years ago? exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755392590</amazonuk>191458564X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Thompson1739593901|title=Communion Town22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=Communion Town – one city but it may as well ''Our future will be many as each person's perception of it is coloured by their experiences within itmore complex than we expected. Each chapter introduces us to a different storyInstead of flying cars, a different viewpoint we got night-vision killer drones and therefore, practically a different city. Starting automated elderly care with 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 geolocation surveillance bracelets to piece together the nature of Communion Towntrack grandma... or do we?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007454767</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Simon Denman|title=Connected|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Doug, I've got a maths and computing undergraduate at Essex University, has just pulled the most amazing girlcouple of confessions to make. So he I's m not really that interested in the file of fractals research best friend Kal has just sent him. But while Doug and Cindy are busily getting keen on short stories as I find it on, something has gone horribly wrong for Kal easy to read a few stories and Doug emerges from afternoon delight then forget to return to the horrific discovery that his friend has committed suicidebook. Miles away in the countryside, Peter is attending his brother There's funeralgot to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Martin was a musician but not a tortured artist and Then there's science fiction: far too often it seems inconceivable that he too would take his own life. But 's the technology which takes centre stage along with the trip, for Peter, is more than a family obligation world- itbuilding. It's human beings who fascinate me: the chance technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a break from a stale marriage and an opportunity to indulge in some guilty proximity to his newlybook of twenty-bereaved sister-in-lawtwo science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0089YQPI0</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Ted Kosmatka|title=The Games|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|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 country's gladiator must be devoid of any human DNA. Indeed, America is so good that their team has won all the last three games' 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David BrinMark Lingane|title=ExistenceGalaxy

|summary=We are Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a few decades further into the 21st Century at the start of this scibattle alive. His co-fi novelpilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. The world But Earth is buckling under climate change, threat and over-populationhe must. Those with enough funds are completely wired into a virtual world, but wherever they live out their existence things are going Returned by his superiors to be changedthe space station, when he finds himself amid a spacelast ditch attempt to save humanity -based labourerand not just from the alien threats against it, clearing space junk but also from orbit, finds an alien artifact containing contact with various races in a sort of memory bank cum virtual realityits own sins against itself. 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 and message behind this capsule? And who can be sure that this alleged First Contact was actually the first?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501728</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim Stanley RobinsonTade Thompson|title=2312Far From the Light of Heaven|rating=4.5

|summary=Michelle 'Intellectually engaged…intensely humane… exuberantly speculativeShell' was Iain M Banks' blurb Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship''2312''s AI captain. So who am I However, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to disagree with one find dozens of her passengers butchered and the current masters of the genre? NoRagtime's AI almost non-oneresponsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Just an ordinary reader. And actuallyDown on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the more I think about the less I do – actually – as such – disagreeRagtime. Banks' phrases are true Meanwhile, former astronaut and accurate. Theyfriend of Shell're just not the whole story. Not for me anyway. For s father Lawrence Biz takes a readershuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, as opposed to another writersee why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the book is much more difficult than thatpoliticking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. ''Publishers Weekly'' called it ''challenging'' and that's much nearer What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the mark.entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499978</amazonuk>0356514323

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth NixClaire North|title=A Confusion of PrincesNotes from the Burning Age

|summary=The best thing about Paolo BacigalupiAt its core ''Notes From the Burning Age''s latest young adult novel by Claire North is that you almost certainly wouldn't realise it was intended for a younger audience unless someone pointed it out to youspy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. ''The Drowned Cities'' may lack However, as with the sexbest novels, swearing it wears many masks and amoral protagonists its most affecting one is that of his awarda new and timely genre, cli-winning adult fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel '[[The Windup Girl tells of a world devastated by Paolo Bacigalupi|The Windup Girl]]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, but it has all the needle-sharp descriptionweapons of mass destruction, complex intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world-building , and brilliant characters that have rapidly made a name for Bacigalupi as one of this centuries preeminent science-fiction writersgroup, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411119</amazonuk>0356514757

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike LancasterAdrian Tchaikovsky|title=1.4Shards of Earth|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Peter Vincent lives a privileged lifeEighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. His father Humanity is a scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world-renowned scientist and fully expects his son falls to follow in his footsteps. But Peter has other ideas. He wants to study literature. Although he enjoys gaming and social networking, hethe architect's uncomfortable about spending too much time on The Linkreshaping. Then, a system which connects just when they had the minds of every individual human race on the planetrun, the Architects vanished. So when he meets Strakerite AlphaAnd so, he is immediately attracted to her. Peter's father hates the Strakeritesmemories of the war fades, who believe that human evolution depends on regular upgrades from alien aggressors. So when Alpha contacts Peter to tell him that people heroes are disappearingforgotten, he is more than willing and humanity begins to helpfracture and fight among themselves. TogetherIdris Telemmier, they will uncover a conspiracy man genetically engineered to hide try and communicate with the clock ticking down Architects, does not want to the next upgradebe remembered... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258187</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan Wells|title=Partials|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Since the BreakBut, no baby has lived longer than three days. Scientists have studied every baby to try when he and find a cure, but with no luck. The human race is on the verge crew of extinction after the Partials (genetically engineered soldiers who were made salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to fight for humans) turned on their makers and released be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the deadly virus that has wiped out most of the populationspotlight. For those lucky As he and his allies bounce from star system to survivestar system, chased by alien crime syndicates, they now spend their time trying human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to cure realise that the virus that kills every baby.real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000746522X</amazonuk>1529051886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Johan HarstadTerry Miles|title=172 Hours On The MoonRabbits

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's 2018 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, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people at NASA want to go back – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of 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 moonmost peculiar places, and are still very short. But no oneHowever this time it's been there since different. This time the game seems the 70smost dangerous, nay lethal, so with funding the most broken it's ever been – morally and public support limitedotherwise. Unfortunately for K, they need an angle. A draw. Something in trying to get people all over sort out what the world buzzing. Their answer game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is a worldwide lottery only to select three teens who can accompany find out that the line between observing and learning about the NASA team on their week long jaunt into space. The chance of a lifetime! An unforgettablegame, and playing it, unrepeatable experience! An adventure that truly is out of this world!a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411518</amazonuk>1529016932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt KindtC J Carey|title=RevolverWidowland|rating=54|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Sam. He has 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 rather dull lifebit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with a materialistic girlfriendhis wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, and a job Britain caved in the arselead-end of celebrity journalism up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a boss he canprotectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''t stand. All of which But this is preferential to waking up most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and finding his home city under attack ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high- munitions going offbrow office bigwigs to the drudges, skyscrapers burning and people falling from them. He ends up fleeing with said editorbeyond those, only right on down to wake the next day back in this worldchildless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. He will indeed fall to being snatched from each reality And in turn, at set times of day, forced to suffer consumerism in onethis puritanical existence, looting in anotherour heroine, basic pay raises hereRose Ransom, producing Samizdat bare-bones journalism for survivors there. But always is employed with enough time the task of bowdlerising classical literature to ask the important questions - howtake all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401222412</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martine McDonagh|title=I Have Waitednot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and You Have Come|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Rachelso they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they's world is in a state of decayre stamped ready for reprint. Her house That is falling apart, her boyfriend has left her and civilization has crumbled in the wake of plague and extreme climate change. Her only friendjob, Stephanieat least, is separated from Rachel by until the now insurmountable barrier first emerging signs of the Atlantic Oceanfemale protest come to light, with their communication dependent on an increasingly unreliable satellite connecting their phones. At Stephaniepotential to spoil Hitler's prompting Rachel gives her number to local trader Noah, who promises to call. Instead the number falls into the hands of the mysterious and sinister Jez White, initiating a disturbing game of cat and mouse, where the line between stalker and victim becomes blurred as Rachel finally decides to take control of her lifevisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434120</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken MacLeodEverina Maxwell|title=IntrusionWinter's Orbit

|summary=Pregnant Hope doesnPrince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He't want s outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years. So when an important political alliance is to take the Fix, a genetic cure-all pill be arranged – one that corrects the DNA of is supposed to prevent an unborn child and protects it from all sorts of diseases. Hope's husband Hugh doesn't really understand her objections interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the Fix - in fact, Hope never really articulates them at role. Least of all - but supports her right to choosehim. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499390</amazonuk>0356515885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David KowalskiRob Winters|title=The Company of the DeadHis Name Was Wren

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=A man stands on a ship checking that an iceberg has been missedIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. The year is 1912It came down hard, taking the ship is spire of the Titanic village church with it, destroying a stone shack, and leaving a wide trail through the man is a time-traveller hoping to change historywood, but no trace of what it actually was. History is in fact changed as a result of his meddlingGerman secret weapon was the local gossip, but not in there should have been an explosion and a good waycrater, and there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857686666</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=SD CrockettMark Lingane|title=After the Snow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=On a near future Earth, Willo lives with his family in an isolated community without technology. His parents remember a time when there were machines but all this has changed. Now there's only enough petrol for the sinister government trucks. One day Willo finds himself totally alone, his parents missing, presumed taken. Armed with his father's cryptic sayings and his only friend, (a dog's skull that speaks through his imagination) Willo leaves all that's familiar in order Note to find his loved ones. The unknown is a ruthless place filled with Stealers and starvation but there's escape from what he needs to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230759351</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Walter Jon Williams|title=The Fourth WallSelf: An Education

|summary=Sean Makin was a cuteIn Kry's world, much demanded child actor. Then he grew up and the cute became creepy as the baby face discovery that had made him famous remained (due to human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a physical condition) but was unsuited cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to an adulttheir regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's body. So the demand dried up and Sean tries possible to come to terms cure cancerous tumours but with his change the side effect of erasing seven years of fortunes memory, by writing a 'how to act' blog, intoxicating substances and appearances on a reality celebrity martial arts fight show. One day, whilst being beaten up for 2045 the cameras in a wrestling ring full of cottage cheese, he realises cosmetics industry is using the depths same technique to which he's sunk"de-age" their customers by seven years. Something has to change! Luckily change soon arrives in the form of 'Alternate Reality' magnateIn a society obsessed with image and youth, Dagmar Shaw.who needs memories?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498254</amazonuk>B08LY8J4KS}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip PalmerChristopher Paolini|title=ArtemisTo Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=With every novelOn the moon of a distant gas giant, Philip Palmer Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is going from strength helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to strengthhuman life. IHowever, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon've not always enjoyed his writing styles 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, but his eye 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 Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a story is wonderful rag-tag bunch of misfits, and his imagination the news is seemingly endlessgrim. Every time I open one The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of his novelshuman-occupied space, I wonder when he will find and only a mythical weapon known as the limits Staff of his inventiveness Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and it's never more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that time. she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could''Artemis'' is no exception to that rule.ve possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499455</amazonuk>1529046505

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marissa MeyerLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=The Lunar Chronicles: CinderSeven Devils|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=This Cinderella does not have to sweep Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the grate and clean Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the dishes - ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she has was destined to mend maglev vehicle tracks. This Cinders does not leave inherit in her shoe behind when invited to the ballpast life as Princess Discordia, she whom everyone believed has her entire foot fall offbeen dead for years. This Cinder does not live in a realm of fairy queens and pumpkin carriagesClo, but New Beijingan ace pilot for the Novantae, has a massive city of just two and mission: hijack a half million, due Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the Fourth World Warwar effort. SheAlthough 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 cyborg secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner- hence up heir to the footEmpire, but sheis plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. It's still owned by a crotchety bigot of race against time as the rebels move to put a step-motherstop Damocles' plans, with two step-sisters. And this is a very different world, where a global plague is going to be brought too close to home...millions of lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141340134</amazonuk>1473231140

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip PalmerFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Hell ShipA Life Without End

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Some time agoI looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I read Philip Palmer's debut novel [[Debatable Space by Philip Palmer|Debatable Space]]have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. Whilst there were aspects of that novel I didnIt won't feel entirely workedbe one of the major numbers, it was a well paced read for but the most part and time when I marked Palmer have the same number as a writer to watchHeinz varieties looms on the horizon. His subsequent novelsAnd then a few of the big 0-numbers, [[Red Claw by Philip Palmer|Red Claw]] and [[Version 43 by Philip Palmer|Version 43]], have been if all goes well received here at The Bookbag and his fourth, I''Hell Ship'', isn't bad eitherll be an OBE.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499447</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ira Levin|title=The Stepford Wives|rating=4 (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.5|genre=General Fiction|summary='It can't be a coincidence ) Now if that Stepford women are all the way they are' says Bobbie, Joanna Eberhart's only friend in Stepford. Joanna has recently come to live in the idyllic suburban town extent of Stepford with her husband and two children. She is an independent woman with her own partmy mid-time career as a photographerlife crisis, is intelligent, liberated and has a keen interest in feminism. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015899</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James S A Corey|title=Leviathan Wakes|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Humanity has managed to venture into the solar system and colonise Mars, various moons and some asteroids and stations in the (asteroid) Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Those inhabiting the Belt I guess I have evolved to be significantly thinner and elongated compared to Earthers and Martians, due the low gravity in which they live; their difference in appearance and a difference in attitude form the basis for a lot of the tension and uneasy relationships in the novelhappy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499889</amazonuk>}} {{newreview| Our author=Jeff Somers|title=The Final Evolution|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Donhere doesn't assume too much when starting this bookuse that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Certainly, do not assume you can jump straight Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into this series at this, part five - start much nearer [[The Electric Church by Jeff Somers|bed with the beginning]], as I did. Don't assume assistant to the first person narrative means the narrator survivesgeneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, for this which is at least a world way of cyborgs, and psychic human intelligences stored in robot hardware, and more. Don't assume continuing the lulling opening chapters herald a simple revenge actioner, as Avery Cates lives in a tangled web life of vengeful villainshis genes, and nothing is very straightforwarda motive to keep on going. And don't assume the unremarkable opening is from an author low on ideas, for when Cates is proven But how can he get to be not flick 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 savingfinal 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]]