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[[Category:New Reviews|Science Fiction]]{{adsense2}}__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|title=Phoenix|author=SF Said|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucky thinks he I've heard it said that 'technology' is a normal Human boywhat happens after you're eighteen. But one night Well, he dreams I must confess that the stars are singing to him and he can feel there have been more than a mysterious power rising within himfew decades of technology in my lifetime. When he wakes, his bedclothes are scorched. And when his mother finds out, Lucky I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's world all getting away from me. Some of it is turned upside down and he finds himself on an alien spaceship- frankly - quite frightening. Of course, on I could research the run, possibilities and in the middle of a warzone. Everything Lucky has been brought probabilities and end up to believe is being testeddown rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. The war between Human I needed people I knew I could trust and Axxa is raging, so why does Lucky's mother trust alien renegades more than she does humans? Where is his father? What are the secrets his mother has kept from him all his life? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561814X</amazonuk>who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen P KiernanSylvie Cathrall|title=The CuriosityA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45

|summary=Microbiologist Kate Philo is There are few greater joys than a member of an Arctic expedition sent book which lives up to locate life forms frozen in ice flows. Striking it lucky, she and the team find a human whom they reanimate once they get him back to their American labcompelling premise. However new life brings new challenges. The man died over a century earlier and much has changed. The press And this is now omnipotent, his 'resurrection' offends religious fundamentalists and scientific ethics never saw this problem coming. To Kate, though, he's not a problem. He's Jeremiah, afraid, bewildered and in need one of an allythem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848548753</amazonuk>0356522776

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=All Our YesterdaysThe Unravelling|author=Cristin TerrillWill Gibson

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Em It's 2038 and Finn are being held prisoner by Joe is a bored cop policing the Doctorwealthy and peaceful New York City. They never see each other but are able Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to communicate through the cell wallget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. This is a blessing but also a curse: they can each hear But then something goes horribly wrong with the interrogations AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and torture meted out riots start to the otherspread. Neither talks but how much can they take? And then Em finds a note hidden in her cellFinally, Joe gets to do some real policing. It's from her future self and it tells In the aftermath of fourteen escapes. And fourteen failed trips back to the past rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to try to put things rightbring her home. ThereJoe isn's t the only one way lefttrying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. Em must kill someone she loves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408835193</amazonuk>What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mitch BennB0CP95J1CG|title=TerraOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane

|summary=Terra Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is different from everyone else on Fnrr and not only because she has vowels in her namepiqued by the way it arrived. You see, Terra isn’t actually from Fnrr. Her adoptive father (Lbbp, And it seems like a Fnrrn scientist) rescued her good opportunity to get out of his room and away from her parents, the Bradshawsonline activities he makes a living at. So he makes his way there, on dodging the planet Rrth in a moment buses that make up most of unthinking philanthropythe traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully. If only he'd done a little more thinking and little less philanthropy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575132086</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie HarbonK P O'Donnell|title=Seven Point Eight: The First ChronicleVital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|summary=Following several main characters VL- scientist Paul15, businessman Maxa prototype robot, remote viewer Tahra and mystery woman Ava - across two time frames spanning the 1940s is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the present dayworld ended, ''Seven Point Eight'' blends science fiction and fantasy consumed in a sprawling, absorbing, diffuse novel that will attract fans an apocalyptic war between the nations of both genresDrexel and Renada.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yannis Panas (Translator)|title=What Lot's Wife Saw|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary= It's been over 20 years since The Overflow came, flooding Over half of Europe. Around the same time Violet Salt, -a new multi-functional mineralcentury later, appeared, its production now governed globally by the mysterious, all-powerful Consortiumcivilisation is starting to rebuild. Meanwhile back in Europe The ColonyDr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a haven for those escaping floods world where machines and indeed justicehumans can live together in harmony, is ruled by Governor Bera but internal frictions and six officialsexternal enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, the 'Purple Stars'. All seems to be well in leader of 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 group of salvagers called the ageExhumers, Phileas Book, to investigate, whether has his entire life turned upside down when he wants to or notunearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025474</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan Wells|title=Fragments|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I didnEven after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't have much hope for this book - diminished in the middle book in a series tends to be fillerslightest, and as [[Partials by Dan Wells|Partials]] was so brilliantno errant machine, I though it was going to be hard to top. I was very wrong. This book is mind-blowing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007465238</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marlen Haushofer|title=The Wall|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=One morning our protagonist awakens to a world in which she appears to be the sole living no savage human inhabitant. A mysterious transparent wall has been erected around a large area in the Austrian mountains where our narrator has been holidaying, a wall that is unbreakable tribe and through which she can see that the world outside has come to a complete standstill. Our narrator is faced with living in total isolation and forced to learn how to survive. not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373114</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

 {{newreview|author=R J Anderson|title=Quicksilver|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Before I say anything else, I ''must'' warn you. ''Quicksilver'' is billed as a companion novel to [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] with the implication that you could read either first. You can't. You mustn't. So if you haven't read ''Ultraviolet'', go no further. ''Quicksilver'' picks up where [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] left off. But this time, synaesthete Alison is left behind and the story is told from the point of view of Tori|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408316285</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisEmily Tesh|title=Necessary Evil: The Milkweed Triptych: Book ThreeSome Desperate Glory

|summary=Raybould Marsh has been sent back from the 1960s to the Second World War to avert end of the world while saving the life of baby Agnes. At least that's what he thinks he's doing it for. HeWhile Earth's armed with a plan butchildren live, 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? Weenemy shall fear us'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 what they have. Living 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 Novel)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=In Rhiannon's worldFollowing the destruction of the Earth, amongst a rare number of survivors, your entire future depends Kyr has been raised on your final school test results. Everyone is classified according Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to personality type avenge her people and entry to any career or university depends upon your personality type. It's impossible to cheat the test... unless you're Rhiannon. Rhiannon world that should really be a Perceiverhave been hers. But all All her life , she has wanted her own hive. And been conditioned to achieve thisfall in line, she must test as a Queen or Commander. And this she does. The only person to ever have manipulated the test. Rhiannon's future is set: leadership training, followed by a choice of Devoted to serve fulfil her, followed by command of a prestigious space ship duty and hiveensure that humanity perseveres. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BRM30SE</amazonuk>0356521834

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisM R Carey|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)Infinity Gate

|summary= England 1963: The war is over, Hitler defeated and the Russians (BritainI'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's ally) retain most a genre I dislike – nothing of mainland Europethe sort. The Briton in the street believes that My standards are high precisely because it was Dunkirk 's a hard genre to get right – and the Battle of Britain that saved the nation but ex-naval intelligence officer Raybould when it'Pips bad, it' Marsh and his former friend Lord William Beauclerk know differentlys often terrible. The nation was saved by warlocks like Lord Will, But the same warlocks that are now being murderedpremise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. HoweverA concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, fighting over, Pip and Will are both war-weary and want to it'd be left alone but the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideasfantastic. For the Nazi experimental 'willpower' children are now adult and assembling in England, still equipped with the super powers of their childhood. This means Will and Pip have old scores to settle and greater evils waiting to be faced… Yes… ''those'' greater evils are backSo this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Beyond Belief|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Joshua Richards isn't the most successful PI; clients aren't exactly lining up Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the block but he lives in hope that one day his luck will change… question of identity and acceptance. Of what it doesmeans to be human. Within a couple of weeks he has a sudden plethora of enquirers; the bad news Of what is that none of them seem to live long enough to pay him. Meanwhile elsewhere, the Engine powering the world (literally) real and what is dyingartificial, although and whether the populous development of technology is blissfully oblivious. Is there a connection? Joshua Richards doesn't know, but there seems to be a huge part of himself he's not acquainted with either… at least not yetexciting or frightening. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0987478605</amazonuk>191458564X

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

|summary=Nobody said that life on the road with a travelling show would ''Our future will be easy, but Master Payne’s Circus of Adventure seems to face more hazards complex than mostwe expected. Firstly Instead of flying cars, there are those giant battle clanks lurking in the forest, waiting to reduce unsuspecting travellers we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to cinderstrack grandma. There are also prowling gangs of eerie Geisterdamen, or 'spider riders', with their ghostly glowing eyes and long hair. Nearby towns could be inhabited by revenants; misshapen zombie humans infected by Slaver Wasps, hungrily on the lookout for their next victim. But when a mysterious girl called Agatha and her talking cat join the troupe, that’s when the real danger begins...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166498</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Christopher Brookmyre|title=Bedlam|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Ross Baker is I've got a wage slave at Neurosphere, writing computer code for a new brain scanning systemcouple of confessions to make. His girlfriend, Carol, is I'm not happy about keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the hours he puts into his job, thinking hebook. There's being played for got to be a fool by doing extra work for no recognitionvery compelling hook to keep me engaged. Ross thinks theyThen there're about to break up, but soon discovers their relationship is about to move to a level he was s science fiction: far too busy to anticipateoften it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. After So, what did I think of a rough morningbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, he agrees to have his brain scanned in one of the trial machinesI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356502139</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H and the Airship City|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Agatha Clay has had a bad day. Waking up late was just the beginning. She got mugged in a dark alley on her way to university and her precious locket was stolen. Things did not get any better when she arrived at the university. When demonstrating her latest mechanical design, it malfunctioned and exploded in front of her instructor. Then, without warning, the faculty had an impromptu inspection by Baron Wulfenbach, the ruthless dictator who controls most of the continent. By the time the day was through, the university had been reduced to a pile of rubble and her beloved mentor killed. And then,of course, she had ''those'' blinding headaches to deal with. But if today was bad, tomorrow is set to be even worse...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781166471</amazonuk>}} {{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 WellsFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=PartialsA Life Without End|rating=54|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Since I looked at the Breakcalendar the other week, no baby has lived longer than three days. Scientists and disappointedly realised I have studied every baby to try and find a curebirthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, but with no luck. The human race is the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the verge horizon. And then a few of extinction after the Partials big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (genetically engineered soldiers who were made to fight Which of course stands for humansOver Bloody Eighty.) turned on their makers and released Now if that's the deadly virus that has wiped out most extent of the population. For those lucky to survivemy mid-life crisis, they now spend their time trying I guess I have to cure the virus that kills every babybe happy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000746522X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview| Our author=Johan Harstad|title=172 Hours On The Moon|rating=4here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's 2018 and people at NASA want Determined to find out how to go back prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the moon. But no one's been there since assistant to the 70sfirst geneticist he interviews, so and they end up with funding and public support limiteda child, they need an angle. A draw. Something to get people all over which is at least a way of continuing the world buzzing. Their answer is life of his genes, and a worldwide lottery motive to select three teens who keep on going. But how can accompany he get to not flick the NASA team on their week long jaunt into space. The chance of a lifetime! An unforgettable'final way out' switch, unrepeatable experience! An adventure that truly is out of this world!especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411518</amazonuk>1642860670

{{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 Move 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>}}[[Newest Short Story Reviews]]