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|summary= It's been over 20 years since The Overflow came, flooding half 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of Europethings to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Around the same time Violet SaltWell, I must confess that there have been more than a new multi-functional mineral, appeared, its production now governed globally by few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the mysterious, feeling that it's allgetting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -powerful Consortiumquite frightening. Meanwhile back in Europe The ColonyOf course, a haven for those escaping floods I could research the possibilities and indeed justice, is ruled by Governor Bera the probabilities and six officials, the end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'Purple Starsm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. All seems to be well I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a despotic, lawless way until the six wake up to the realisation that the Governor has died mysteriously in the night. The Consortium needs answers so choose the greatest crossword compiler of the age, Phileas Book, to investigate, whether he wants to or notI could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025474</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan WellsSylvie Cathrall|title=FragmentsA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary=One morning our protagonist awakens to a world in which she appears to be the sole living human inhabitant. A mysterious transparent wall has been erected around There are few greater joys than a large area in the Austrian mountains where our narrator has been holidaying, a wall that is unbreakable and through book which she can see that the world outside has come lives up to a complete standstillcompelling premise. Our narrator And this is faced with living in total isolation and forced to learn how to surviveone of them. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373114</amazonuk>0356522776

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=R J Anderson1803816759|title=QuicksilverThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Before I say anything else, I It''must'' warn yous 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. ''Quicksilver'' is billed as Joe longs for a companion novel bit of adventure and to [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the implication AI system that you could read either firstnow runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. You can'tFinally, Joe gets to do some real policing. You mustn'tIn the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. So if you havenJoe isn't read ''Ultraviolet''the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, go no further. ''Quicksilver'' picks up where [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] left off. But this timea British superfan and tech nerd, synaesthete Alison is left behind and also on the case. What went wrong? Did the story system fail or was it hacked? And how is told from the point of view of Tori|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408316285</amazonuk>Suki's kidnapping connected?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian TregillisB0CP95J1CG|title=Necessary Evil: The Milkweed Triptych: Book ThreeOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane

|summary=Raybould Marsh has been sent back from the 1960s Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to the Second World War go to avert end of the world while saving party but his interest is piqued by the life of baby Agnesway it arrived. At least that's what he thinks he's doing And it for. He's armed with seems like a plan but, even if good opportunity to get out of his friend and warlock Sir William Beauclerk room and away from the online activities he makes a living at. So he makes his own younger self helpway there, there are unforeseen disadvantages in dabbling with time. And then dodging the buses that make up most of course there's the seer traffic and ex-Nazi experiment, Gretelwatching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=SJ GriffinK P O'Donnell|title=The Vanguard|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Sorcha Blades and her four closest friends do the best they can with what they have. Living Vital Link (A Spark in a post-apocalyptic world, they are from the wrong side of the tracks. Unable to live easy and glittering lives like the elite, they scam and forage and hack their way to some degree of comfort and still manage to avoid the - very unpleasant - state security apparatus for the most part. Not that there's much state left for the security apparatus to protect. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00904MC30</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janine Southard|title=Queen & Commander (A Hive Queen NovelAshes)

|summary=In Rhiannon's VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the worldended, your entire future depends on your final school test resultsconsumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Everyone Over half-a-century later, civilisation is classified according starting to personality type and entry rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to any career or university depends upon your personality type. Itcontinue her father's impossible to cheat the test... unless you're Rhiannon. Rhiannon should really be legacy, building a Perceiver. But world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all her life she has wanted her own hivecrashing down again. And to achieve thisCraig Anderson, she must test as leader of a Queen or Commander. And this she does. The only person to ever have manipulated group of salvagers called the testExhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. RhiannonEven after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn's future is set: leadership trainingt diminished in the slightest, followed by a choice of Devoted to serve herand no errant machine, followed by command of a prestigious space ship no savage human tribe and hive. not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BRM30SE</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisEmily Tesh|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)Some Desperate Glory|rating=4.5

|summary= England 1963: The war is over, Hitler defeated and the Russians (Britain's ally) retain most of mainland Europe. The Briton in the street believes that it was Dunkirk and the Battle 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 to be left alone but the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideas. For the Nazi experimental 'willpowerWhile Earth' s children are now adult and assembling in Englandlive, 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… ''thoseenemy shall fear us'' greater evils are back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Beyond Belief|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Joshua Richards isn't Following the most successful PI; clients aren't exactly lining up around destruction of the block but he lives in hope that one day his luck will change… and it does. Within Earth, amongst a couple rare number of weeks he survivors, Kyr has a sudden plethora been raised on Gaea Station – the home of enquirers; the bad news is that none last scraps of them seem humanity – and trained relentlessly to live long enough to pay him. Meanwhile elsewhere, the Engine powering avenge her people and the world (literally) is dyingthat should have been hers. All her life, although the populous is blissfully oblivious. Is there a connection? Joshua Richards doesn't knowshe has been conditioned to fall in line, but there seems to be a huge part of himself he's not acquainted with either… at least not yetfulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0987478605</amazonuk>0356521834

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Foglio and Kaja FoglioM R Carey|title=Girl genius: Agatha H and the Clockwork PrincessInfinity Gate

|summary=Nobody said that life on the road with I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a travelling show would be easy, but Master Payne’s Circus genre I dislike – nothing of Adventure seems to face more hazards than most. Firstly, there are those giant battle clanks lurking in the forest, waiting to reduce unsuspecting travellers to cinderssort. There My standards are also prowling gangs of eerie Geisterdamen, or high precisely because it'spider riderss a hard genre to get right – and when it's bad, with their ghostly glowing eyes and long hairit's often terrible. Nearby towns could be inhabited by revenants; misshapen zombie humans infected by Slaver Wasps, hungrily on But the lookout for their next victimpremise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. But when A concept this intriguing felt like a mysterious girl called Agatha and her talking cat join the troupehigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, that’s when the real danger begins.it'd be fantastic.So this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166498</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreview|author=Christopher Brookmyre|title=Bedlam|rating=3''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Ross Baker is a wage slave at Neurosphere, writing computer code for a new brain scanning systemOf what it means to be human. His girlfriend, Carol, Of what is not happy about the hours he puts into his job, thinking he's being played for a fool by doing extra work for no recognition. Ross thinks they're about to break up, but soon discovers their relationship real and what is about to move to a level he was too busy to anticipate. After a rough morningartificial, he agrees to have his brain scanned in one and whether the development of the trial machinestechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502139</amazonuk>191458564X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio1739593901|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H 22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and the Airship CityStephen Oram (Editors)

|summary=Agatha Clay has had a bad day''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Waking up late was just the beginning Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma. She '' I've got mugged in a dark alley couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on her way short stories as I find it easy to university read a few stories and her precious locket was stolen. Things did not get any better when she arrived at then forget to return to the universitybook. When demonstrating her latest mechanical design, it malfunctioned and exploded in front of her instructor There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then, without warning, there's science fiction: far too often it's the faculty had an impromptu inspection by Baron Wulfenbach, technology which takes centre stage along with the ruthless dictator world-building. It's human beings who controls most of fascinate me: the technology and the continentworld scape are purely incidental. By the time the day was through So, the university had been reduced to what did I think of a pile of rubble and her beloved mentor killed. And then,book of course, she had ''those'' blinding headaches to deal with. twenty-two science fiction short stories? But if today was badWell, tomorrow is set to be even worseI loved it...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166471</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Iain M BanksMark Lingane|title=The Hydrogen SonataGalaxy

|summary=It's 25 Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years since Iain M Banks introduced us to the utopian ''Culture'' series of sci fi adventure books , he remembers little and ''The Hydrogen Sonata'' is the 13th in the seriesno physical shape to resume his duties. One thing Banks does particularly well But Earth is under threat and he must. Returned by his superiors to make his books completely accessible as stand alones, explaining the concept afresh each time without going over old ground for long time fans, of which there are many. In many waysspace station, this is he finds himself amid a good introduction for those who have yet last ditch attempt to discover save humanity - and not just from the joys of this excellent series because alien threats against it's far more linear than some. 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 herealso from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501507</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin J AndersonTade Thompson|title=The Martian WarFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=34.5

|summary=Suppose H G Wells was not simply 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 skilled writer with a spectacular imaginationbabysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, but was in fact centrally involved in a fantastical adventure which formed when she wakes up at the basis for several end of her trip to find dozens of his most successful novels. Kevin J Anderson has supposed exactly this in his latest novel her passengers butchered and the Ragtime'The Martian Wars AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Real historical figures such as Percival Lowell Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and T H Huxley share centre stage with famous Wellsian characters like Dr Moreau his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and Mr Cavor in a story that borrows elements from 'War friend of the WorldsShell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, 'The First Men half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Moon'Ragtime has gone quiet, 'The Island leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Doctor Moreau' and 'The Invisible Man'Space Station Lagos.What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781161720</amazonuk>0356514323

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael CobleyClaire North|title=The Ascendant StarsNotes from the Burning Age

|summary=At its core ''Space Opera has never been in more capable handsNotes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is the Guardian quote that concludes the blurb for thisa spy thriller, 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]] as many double crosses, interrogations and continued through [[The Orphaned Worlds (Humanity's Fire) by Michael Cobley|The Orphaned Worlds]]night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. It's hard to disagreeHowever, as with the best novels, but it's also hard to get away – on this evidence – from the fact wears many masks and its most affecting one is that Space Opera might be closer to Soap than Classicalof a new and timely genre, cli-fi, when it comes to opera classificationor climate change fiction.|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 's novel tells of a near but post-Apocalyptic future. Those few world devastated by climate change where humans to survive a pandemic have been forced to be treated as carriers, start anew and/or armed live alongside nature without any of the modern and desperatecorrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, and so are particularly weapons of note to military-minded survivalist Bangleymass destruction, intensive farming). And climate and eco-problems have killed off many common species, something closer to narrator Hig's heart, as he's There is a more placid, huntin'growing unhappiness with this limiting world, shootin' and fishin' guy. These two solitary men are an unlikely partnershipone group, but both look out for each other in complementary ways. Bangley has his watch-towerthe Brotherhood, while Hig takes off in his Cessna aims to get away from it all, and his flights act as a first line of defense. But is it all life could be, for Hig and his dog and Bangley? What is Hig still master these processes no matter the cost to make of the last inviting contact he heard on his plane's radio - even if that was three years ago? Earth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755392590</amazonuk>0356514757

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam ThompsonAdrian Tchaikovsky|title=Communion TownShards of Earth|rating=54|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=Communion Town – one city but it may Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as well be many the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as each personworld after world falls to the architect's perception reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of it is coloured by their experiences within itthe war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Each chapter introduces us to a different storyIdris Telemmier, a different viewpoint man genetically engineered to try and thereforecommunicate with the Architects, practically a different citydoes not want to be remembered. Starting with But, when he and the crew of the ominoussalvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, creepy story of Nicolassuddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, through stories encapsulating such themes as recaptured friendshipchased by alien crime syndicates, murder human secret police and an enigmatic take on the life of a private investigatorrich slavers, we start he slowly begins to piece together realise that the nature of Communion Town... or do we?real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007454767</amazonuk>1529051886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon Denman|title=Connected|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Doug, a maths and computing undergraduate at Essex University, has just pulled the most amazing girl. So he's 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 it on, something has gone horribly wrong for Kal and Doug emerges from afternoon delight to the horrific discovery that his friend has committed suicide. Terry Miles away in the countryside, Peter is attending his brother's funeral. Martin was a musician but not a tortured artist and it seems inconceivable that he too would take his own life. But the trip, for Peter, is more than a family obligation - it's the chance of a break from a stale marriage and an opportunity to indulge in some guilty proximity to his newly-bereaved sister-in-law. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0089YQPI0</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ted Kosmatka|title=The GamesRabbits

|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 the near future 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 Olympics go on, but not without changesaverage person no obvious entry point. A new event has been added to those that we'd recognise: genetically engineered gladiatorial combatbit like the game of life then. This Yes, this is no holds barred competitionthe game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, with one rule: each country's gladiator must be devoid the hack from the darkest of any human DNAwebs. IndeedPeople like our hero, K, America is so good named like that their team 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 all the last three games' goldsgame are in the most peculiar places, thanks to geneticist Dr Silas Williams, but and are still very short. However this year is time it's different. This year he has nothing time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to do with sort out what 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 game is just one sentencedoing, just wordsif it's even being played, but words can and how his loved ones might be misunderstood kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and misunderstanding can be devastating for more than just genetically manufactured gladiatorsplaying it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781164142</amazonuk>1529016932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David BrinC J Carey|title=ExistenceWidowland

|summary=We are Prince Kiem is a few decades further into the 21st Century at the start of this sci-fi novelfamous political disappointment. The world is buckling under climate changeHe's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over-populationthe past few years. Those with enough funds are completely wired into a virtual world, but wherever they live out their existence things are going So when an important political alliance is to be changed, when a space-based labourer, clearing space junk from orbit, finds an alien artifact containing contact with various races in a sort of memory bank cum virtual reality. Where are the aliens arranged – one 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 supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be sure that this alleged First Contact was actually chosen for the first?role. Least of all him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501728</amazonuk>0356515885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim Stanley RobinsonRob Winters|title=2312His Name Was Wren

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary='Intellectually engaged…intensely humane… exuberantly speculative' was Iain M Banks' blurb for ''2312''. So who am I to disagree with one of In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the current masters village of the genre? No-one. Just an ordinary readerHurstwick. And actuallyIt came down hard, taking the more I think about spire of the less I do – actually – as such – disagree. village church with it, destroying a stone shack, Banks' phrases are true and accurateleaving a wide trail through the wood, but no trace of what it actually was. They're just not German secret weapon was the whole story. Not for me anyway. For local gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a readercrater, as opposed to another writer, the book is much more difficult than that. ''Publishers Weekly'' called it ''challenging'' and that's much nearer the markthere were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499978</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth NixMark Lingane|title=A Confusion of PrincesNote to Self: An Education

|summary=The best thing about Paolo BacigalupiIn Kry's latest young adult novel is world, the discovery that you almost certainly wouldnhuman cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it't realise s found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it was intended for '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}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a younger audience unless someone pointed it out distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to youhuman life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon''The Drowned Cities'' may lack s surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the sexresearch station, swearing 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 amoral protagonists of his award-winning adult novel '[[The Windup Girl destroyed by Paolo Bacigalupi|The Windup Girl]]an alien ship, but it and she has all to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the needlefreighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-sharp descriptiontag bunch of misfits, complex worldand the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-building occupied space, and brilliant characters that have rapidly made only a name for Bacigalupi mythical weapon known as one the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this centuries preeminent science-fiction writers.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>1907411119</amazonuk>1529046505

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike LancasterLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=1.4Seven Devils|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Peter Vincent lives a privileged life. His father Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a world-renowned scientist and fully expects his son resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to follow inherit in his footstepsher past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. But Peter Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has other ideas. He wants a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to study literaturethe war effort. Although he enjoys gaming and social networking, heshe's uncomfortable about spending too much time less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on The Link, this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a system which connects the minds of every individual on secret that could potentially cripple the planetEmpire. So when he meets Strakerite Alpha, he is immediately attracted to her. PeterEris's father hates brother Damocles, the Strakerites, who believe that human evolution depends on regular upgrades from alien aggressors. So when Alpha contacts Peter runner-up heir to tell him that people are disappearingthe Empire, he is more than willing plotting to helpdisrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. Together, they will uncover It's a conspiracy to hide race against time as the clock ticking down rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the next upgrade... balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405258187</amazonuk>1473231140

 {{newreviewFrontpage|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 Frederic Beigbeder and find a cure, but with no luck. The human race is on the verge of extinction after the Partials Frank Wynne (genetically engineered soldiers who were made to fight for humanstranslator) 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 baby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000746522X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Johan Harstad|title=172 Hours On The Moon|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's 2018 and people at NASA want to go back to the moon. But no one's been there since the 70s, so with funding 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=Revolver|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Sam. He has a rather dull life, with a materialistic girlfriend, and a job in the arse-end of celebrity journalism and a boss he can't stand. All of which is preferential to waking up and finding his home city under attack - munitions going off, skyscrapers burning and people falling from them. He ends up fleeing with said editor, only to wake the next day back in this world. He will indeed fall to being snatched from each reality in turn, at set times of day, forced to suffer consumerism in one, looting in another, basic pay raises here, producing Samizdat bare-bones journalism for survivors there. But always with enough time to ask the important questions - how, and why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1401222412</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martine McDonagh|title=I Have Waited, and You Have Come|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Rachel's world is in a state of decay. Her house is falling apart, her boyfriend has left her and civilization has crumbled in the wake of plague and extreme climate change. Her only friend, Stephanie, is separated from Rachel by the now insurmountable barrier of the Atlantic Ocean, their communication dependent on an increasingly unreliable satellite connecting their phones. At Stephanie's prompting Rachel gives her number to local trader Noah, who promises to 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 life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908434120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ken MacLeod|title=Intrusion|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Pregnant Hope doesn't want to take the Fix, a genetic cure-all pill that corrects the DNA of an unborn child and protects it from all sorts of diseases. Hope's husband Hugh doesn't really understand her objections to the Fix - in fact, Hope never really articulates them at all - but supports her right to choose. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499390</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Kowalski|title=The Company of the DeadLife Without End

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=A man stands on I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a ship checking that an iceberg has been missedbirthday this year – I know, yet another one. The year is 1912It won't be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the ship is horizon. And then a few of the Titanic big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the man is a timeextent of my mid-traveller hoping life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to change historybe living one. History Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is in fact changed as at least a result way of continuing the life of his meddlinggenes, but and a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not in a good flick the 'final way.out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857686666</amazonuk>1642860670

{{newreview|author=SD Crockett|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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Short Story Reviews]]