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|summary=Raybould Marsh has been sent back from the 1960s to the Second World War to avert end ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the world while saving the life shape of baby Agnes. At least that's what he thinks he's doing it forthings to come. He's armed with a plan but, even if his friend and warlock Sir William Beauclerk and his own younger self help, there are unforeseen disadvantages in dabbling with time. And then of course there's the seer and ex-Nazi experiment, Gretel. Is she mad, bad or just has a funny way of showing her philanthropic side? We're all about to find out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650171X</amazonuk>}}

{{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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ted KosmatkaMark Lingane|title=The GamesGalaxy|rating=4.5

|summary=It's Spark, who is an elite pilot with the near future and the Olympics go onSpace Academy, but barely makes it through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not without changesso fortunate. A new event has been added Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to those that we'd recognise: genetically engineered gladiatorial combatresume his duties. This But Earth is no holds barred competition, with one rule: each country's gladiator under threat and he must be devoid of any human DNA. Indeed, America is so good that their team has won all Returned by his superiors to the last three games' goldsspace station, thanks to geneticist Dr Silas Williams, but this year is different. This year he has nothing to do with the design; someone sent finds himself amid a single design criterion last ditch attempt to an experimental intelligence computer. (You save humanity - and not just know that was a bad idea day don't you?) The design criteria is just one sentence, just wordsfrom the alien threats against it, but words can be misunderstood and misunderstanding can be devastating for more than just genetically manufactured gladiatorsalso from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781164142</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David BrinTade Thompson|title=ExistenceFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=4.5

|summary=We are Michelle '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, she will essentially be a few decades further into babysitter for the 21st Century ship's AI captain. However, when she wakes up at the start end of this sciher trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-fi novelresponsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. The world is buckling under climate changeDown on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and over-populationhis android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Those with enough funds are completely wired into Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a virtual world, but wherever they live out their existence things are going shuttle to be changedBloodroot, when a spacehalf-based laboureralien daughter in tow, clearing space junk from orbitto see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, finds an alien artifact containing contact with various races in a sort leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of memory bank cum virtual realitySpace Station Lagos. Where are What the aliens that had previously been so silent while we sought for five of them with our Search discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence? What is Bloodroot, but potentially the purpose and message behind this capsule? And who can be sure that this alleged First Contact was actually the first?entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501728</amazonuk>0356514323

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim Stanley RobinsonClaire North|title=2312Notes from the Burning Age

|summary=At its core 'Intellectually engaged…intensely humane… exuberantly speculative' was Iain M Banks' blurb for ''2312Notes 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. So who am I to disagree However, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of the current masters of the a new and timely genre? No, cli-one. Just an ordinary reader. And actuallyfi, the more I think about the less I do – actually – as such – disagreeor climate change fiction. BanksNorth' phrases are true s novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and accurate. They're just not live alongside nature without any of the whole storymodern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). Not for me anyway. For There is a readergrowing unhappiness with this limiting world, as opposed and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to another writer, master these processes no matter the book is much more difficult than that. ''Publishers Weekly'' called it ''challenging'' and that's much nearer cost to the markEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499978</amazonuk>0356514757

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth NixAdrian Tchaikovsky|title=A Confusion Shards of PrincesEarth|rating=4|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Meet KhemriEighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. One of Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the universearchitect's chosenreshaping. Then, he has been selected as a Princejust when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, giving him biological enhancementsheroes are forgotten, mental connection and humanity begins to priests to aid his psychic ability, fracture and so much morefight among themselves. It has also probably led Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the death of his parentsArchitects, does not want to be remembered. But, when he and meant the crew of the salvage ship he is alone except for a very close bodyguardcalls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, but - at least suddenly he is in thrust back into the running spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to become Emperorstar system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and thus almost godlike. But in a world where you can have everything - including more than one chance at living - it might still be wise rich slavers, he slowly begins to think more about what you wish for...realise that the real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007298358</amazonuk>1529051886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paolo BacigalupiTerry Miles|title=The Drowned CitiesRabbits|rating=4.5

|summary=Welcome to the world of The best thing about Paolo BacigalupiGame. 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 latest young adult novel 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 that you almost certainly wouldn't realise it was intended the game of life for a younger audience unless someone pointed it out 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 bezzies are trying to yoube 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 most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it'The Drowned Citiess ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it'' may lack the sexs even being played, swearing and amoral protagonists of how his award-winning adult novel '[[The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi|The Windup Girl]]loved ones might be kept safe, but it has all he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the needle-sharp descriptiongame, complex world-building and brilliant characters that have rapidly made playing it, is a name for Bacigalupi as very thin one of this centuries preeminent science-fiction writersindeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411119</amazonuk>1529016932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike LancasterC J Carey|title=1.4Widowland|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Peter Vincent lives 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 privileged life. His father is a world-renowned scientist bit, and fully expects his son watching over the sanctioned return to follow in the throne of Edward VIII with his footstepswife, Queen Wallis. But Peter has other ideas. He wants For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to study literature. Although he enjoys gaming and social networking, hethe World War Two that certainly didn's uncomfortable about spending too much time on The Linkt happen as we know it, and we are now a system which connects protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the minds of every individual Germanic peoples on ''the planetmainland''. So when he meets Strakerite Alpha But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, he is immediately attracted to her. Peter's father hates the Strakeritesand ideas of female purpose, who believe has put all of that human evolution depends on regular upgrades gender into a caste system, ranging from alien aggressors. So when Alpha contacts Peter high-brow office bigwigs to tell him that people are disappearingthe drudges, and beyond those, he is more than willing right on down to help. Togetherthe childless, they will uncover a conspiracy to hide the clock ticking down to husbandless and the next upgradewidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged.. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258187</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan Wells|title=Partials|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Since the Break And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, no baby has lived longer than three days. Scientists have studied every baby to try and find a cureRose Ransom, but is employed with no luck. The human race is on the verge task of extinction after the Partials (genetically engineered soldiers who were made bowdlerising classical literature to fight take all encouragement for humans) turned on their makers and released the deadly virus that has wiped female emancipation out most of it – after all, 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 populationparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. For those lucky That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to survivelight, they now spend with their time trying potential to cure the virus that kills every babyspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000746522X</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Johan HarstadEverina Maxwell|title=172 Hours On The Moon|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=ItWinter's 2018 and people at NASA want to go back to the moon. But no one's been there since the 70s, so with funding and public support limited, they need an angle. A draw. Something to get people all over the world buzzing. Their answer is a worldwide lottery to select three teens who can accompany the NASA team on their week long jaunt into space. The chance of a lifetime! An unforgettable, unrepeatable experience! An adventure that truly is out of this world!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411518</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Matt Kindt|title=RevolverOrbit

|summary=Rachel's world Prince Kiem is in a state of decayfamous political disappointment. Her house is falling apartHe's outgoing, carefree, her boyfriend has left her and civilization has crumbled in gotten into many drunken scandals over the wake of plague and extreme climate changepast few years. Her only friend, Stephanie, So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that is separated from Rachel by the now insurmountable barrier of the Atlantic Ocean, their communication dependent on supposed to prevent an increasingly unreliable satellite connecting their phones. At Stephanie's prompting Rachel gives her number interplanetary war – no one expects him to local trader Noah, who promises to callbe chosen for the role. 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 Least of her lifeall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908434120</amazonuk>0356515885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken MacLeodRob Winters|title=IntrusionHis Name Was Wren|rating=54|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Pregnant Hope doesn't want to take In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the Fixvillage of Hurstwick. It came down hard, taking the spire of the village church with it, destroying a genetic cure-all pill that corrects stone shack, and leaving a wide trail through the DNA wood, but no trace of an unborn child and protects what it from all sorts of diseasesactually was. Hope's husband Hugh doesn't really understand her objections to German secret weapon was the Fix - in factlocal gossip, Hope never really articulates them at all - but supports her right to choosethere should have been an explosion and a crater, and there were neither of those things. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499390</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David KowalskiMark Lingane|title=The Company of the DeadNote to Self: An Education

|summary=A man stands on In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a ship checking cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that an iceberg has been missedradiation 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 seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} The year {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is 1912helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the ship is moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the Titanic entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the man Extenuating Circumstances is a time-traveller hoping attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to change historythe 61 Cygnus star system. History She is in fact changed as revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a result rag-tag bunch of his meddlingmisfits, but not in and the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a good waymythical 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've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857686666</amazonuk>1529046505

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=SD CrockettLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=After the SnowSeven Devils|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=On Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a near future Earthresistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, Willo lives with his family in an isolated community without technology. His parents remember a time when there were machines but all this whom everyone believed has changedbeen dead for years. Now there's only enough petrol Clo, an ace pilot for the sinister government trucks. One day Willo finds himself totally aloneNovantae, his parents missing, presumed takenhas a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Armed with his fatherAlthough she's cryptic sayings and his only 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 dog's skull that speaks through his imagination) Willo leaves all secret thatcould potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's familiar in order brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to find his loved ones. The unknown the Empire, is a ruthless place filled with Stealers plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and starvation but therethe last of the free alien species. It's escape from what he needs a race against time as the rebels move to do.put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230759351</amazonuk>1473231140

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter Jon WilliamsFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=The Fourth WallA Life Without End

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Sean Makin was I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a cutebirthday this year – I know, much demanded child actoryet another one. Then he grew up and It won't be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the cute became creepy same number as Heinz varieties looms on the baby face that had made him famous remained (due to a physical condition) but was unsuited to an adult's bodyhorizon. So And then a few of the demand dried up big 0-numbers, and Sean tries to come to terms with his change of fortunes by writing a if all goes well, I'how to act' blog, intoxicating substances and appearances on a reality celebrity martial arts fight showll be an OBE. One day, whilst being beaten up (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the cameras in a wrestling ring full extent of cottage cheesemy mid-life crisis, he realises the depths I guess I have to which he's sunkbe happy. Something has to change! Luckily change soon arrives in the form of Our author here doesn'Alternate Reality' magnatet use that exact phrase, Dagmar Shaw.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498254</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Palmer|title=Artemis|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=With every novel, Philip Palmer is going from strength but he might be said to strengthbe living one. I've not always enjoyed his writing styleDetermined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, but his eye for and they end up with a story child, which is wonderful and his imagination is seemingly endless. Every time I open one at least a way of his novels, I wonder when he will find continuing the limits life of his inventiveness genes, and it's never that timea motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out'Artemis'' is no exception to that rule.switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499455</amazonuk>1642860670

{{newreview|author=Marissa Meyer|title=The Lunar Chronicles: Cinder|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This Cinderella does not have Move on to sweep the grate and clean the dishes - she has to mend maglev vehicle tracks. This Cinders does not leave her shoe behind when invited to the ball, she has her entire foot fall off. This Cinder does not live in a realm of fairy queens and pumpkin carriages, but New Beijing, a massive city of just two and a half million, due to the Fourth World War. She's a cyborg - hence the foot, but she's still owned by a crotchety bigot of a step-mother, with two step-sisters. And this is a very different world, where a global plague is going to be brought too close to home...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141340134</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Short Story Reviews]]