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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Forever WatchAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=David RamirezBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45

|summary=Great science fiction is made ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of many parts, but three things are vital for it to become a classic; world building, story and charactercome. If one of these three elements '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is slightly below the others, a great novel can be punishedwhat happens after you're eighteen. In ‘The Forever Watch’ by Daniel Ramirez we Well, I must confess that there have been more than a fantastic world 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 form feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of the spaceship Noahit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, a great character in I could research the form of Hana, but does possibilities and the story quite match probabilities and end up to down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the rest?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144478790X</amazonuk>latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nnedi OkoraforSylvie Cathrall|title=LagoonA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary=Three people walk along There are few greater joys than a Lagos beach as the world changes. Adaora is strolling to clear her head and try book which lives up to understand why her husband hit her earlier tonight. Rap artist Anthony (known to his parents as Edgar) is having a post-gig wandercompelling premise. The third, Agu, And this is covered in blood. The fact that he's on the beach is immaterial; he just needs help. Then it happens. A boom, a bat falls stunned from the sky and then nothing is the same again. The strangers' futures all become one and the creature arrives; the creature they call Ayodeleof them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444762753</amazonuk>0356522776

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Burning DarkUnravelling|author=Adam ChristopherWill Gibson

|summary=In space, no one can hear you scream It's 2038 and for Joe is a bored cop policing the skeleton crew of the U-Star Coast wealthy and peaceful New York City this is redundant anyway as no one cares if they do. Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland is about Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start early retirementto spread. Finally, but he is given one last job overseeing Joe gets to do some real policing. In the dismantling aftermath of this space station that orbits a forbidding the rioting global pop star that gives off an eerie radiationSuki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. With Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a couple of hundred people left British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the massive station, case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is pretty quiet. This makes it easier to hear the things going bump in the night – a night that continues 24 hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292016</amazonuk>Suki's kidnapping connected?

 {{newreview|title=Ex-Purgatory|author=Peter Clines|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=A book in the Science fiction genre can easily get wrapped up inside itself if it not careful e.g. a dream on top of a vision, set in a future alternative world. Juggling all these concepts and creating a novel that is entertaining and at least in some way believable is not easy. This is proven in Peter Clines’ ''Ex-Purgatory'', the fourth outing in the Ex series. Our heroes are used to being surrounded by the undead, but at the start of this novel they wake up in their old lives. What is a dream and what is a reality?Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00HE6AX3C</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewB0CP95J1CG|title=Libriomancer|author=Jim C Hines|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should be about emotions, inner journeys and despair. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as well, but they can also be fun, entertaining and laser pistols. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is a great example. It is a book that follows Isaac Vainio, a Libriomancer who has the power to draw magic from books. He must use this gift to good effect when one day, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguing, he is attacked by three vampires. Does that sound fun to you? If so, read on; if not, this may not be the book for you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The Explorers|author=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=All of humankind is living on a single train. Oh sorry, as this is the sequel, make that two trains. Launched on the same tracks as the original Snowpiercer, but clearly at a slight remove, was a second mile-long behemoth of a train, designed with the latest high tech to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly on the tracks encircling a frozen Earth, waiting for the time the world was inhabitable once more. But the high tech on board, complete with lemon farms, and differing qualities of virtual holidays depending on cost and class of customer, has not put paid to one aspect of society – and in fact the sole aspect of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|the first book]] – religion. Some people are fearing the end time, when the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpiercer. Some believe they're duped into the whole train idea, and are in fact on a spacecraft. Some people know something else – the rare few explorers who get to go outside the train into the world beyond, and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOf Ghosts & Broken Promises

|summary=People who do Ronan's not like the genre love entirely sure why he decides to go to lump all Science Fiction into the same pile – massive space ships and stuff. That party but his interest is just not piqued by the caseway it arrived. It can range And it seems like a good opportunity to get out of his room and away from subtle alternative versions of our own Earththe online activities he makes a living at. So he makes his way there, to Space Sagas set around dodging the orbit buses that make up most of a distant planetthe traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Where sci fi gets its bad reputation from is when complex ideas are not explained clearly Should be enough for the readerpower. 'God’s War: Bel Dame Apocrypha' by Kameron Hurley is one such book; a novel crammed with some great ideas, but also moments of strange confusionHopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091952786</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Channel BlueK P O'Donnell|authortitle=Jay MartelThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|summary=What if VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the planet you called home wasn’t just a random blob world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the universenations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, orbiting a far off starcivilisation is starting to rebuild. What if the things that happened on it weren’t entirely down Dr Amelia Wong is determined to chance or fate or whatever you want to call it. What ifcontinue her father's legacy, actuallybuilding a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, life on Earth was less random but internal frictions and more, well, scheduled than you external enemies might like to admitbring it all crashing down again. Someone up thereCraig Anderson, calling leader of a group of salvagers called the shotsExhumers, deciding has his entire life turned upside down when to send in ‘natural’ disasters, influencing how things work, people behave, countries are run. Not he unearths a God, mind, but something far crazierprototype combat robot: a television executivenone other than VL-15 herself. Earth is Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the reality show to end all reality showsslightest, and while its inhabitants have no clue every second of their lives is being watched errant machine, no savage human tribe and edited, that doesn’t not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop them behaving in a way that keeps the viewers highly entertained.her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855803</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreview|title=Plastic Jesus|author=Wayne Simmons|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Johnny Lyon is Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst a computer coding expert spiralling out rare number of control following survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the death home of his lover. Johnny’s colleague Sarah convinces their boss Garcon that he needs Johnny for a project that is perfect for him (creating a virtual reality Jesus) the last scraps of humanity – and just might help him trained relentlessly to concentrate on something other than his lossavenge her people and the world that should have been hers. They embark on a project with potentially monumental impact within a world of degradation All her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and violence in a city ruled over by organised crime king pin Paul McBride. Many storylines collide as the project effects more people than Johnny realisesensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907773630</amazonuk>0356521834

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 StoriesM R Carey|authortitle=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott and othersInfinity Gate

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed a lot since first being seen fifty years ago – and I don't mean the title character, but the nature of the programme. It has gone from black and white, and cheaply produced, and declared disposable, m annoyingly picky when it comes to being an essential part of the BBC, full-gloss digital, and accessed in all manner of waysscience fiction. So with the celebratory programme still ringing in our ears, and leaving people pressing Not because it's a red button to see a programme about three Doctors, er, pressing a red button, we turn to other aspects genre I dislike – nothing of the birthday bonanzasort. Such as this book, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespan, from being My standards are high precisely because it's a loose collection of eleven short e-book novellas written by the blazing lights of YA writing, hard genre to a huge get right – and brilliant paperback collecting everything within one set of covers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rags and Bones|author=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Some of todaywhen it's top authors have come together to retell classic tales - from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind of anthologybad, it's often terrible. But the premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a fairly hithigh-or-miss affairstakes gamble: if it was done well, but the hits here are so strong that theyit're well worth picking d be fantastic. So this is where I sum up the book forthat premise. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>0356518043

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Time Traveller's AlmanacMichael Grothaus|authortitle=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerBeautiful Shining People

|genre=AnthologiesLiterary Fiction|summary=From H.G Wells to ''Doctor Who'', there is But fearing something about a good time-travel story that has the power to ignite the imagination in a way unique and having it come to the genrepass are two different things. Perhaps it is due And I'm willing to the fact that when dealing with the subject bet most of time travelwhat we fear will never happen, literally or we can take steps to change it.''anything is possible''. Well, almost anything...apart from going back in time and killing your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy the universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Parasite|author=Mira Grant|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''ParasiteBeautiful Shining People'' is revolves around the first part question of the Parasitology series identity and if the quality of this book is anything to go by the next is going acceptance. Of what it means to be highly sought afterhuman. It puts us several years into the future, in a time where medicine has made massive leaps forward Of what is real and where humans no longer take medication, suffer from allergieswhat is artificial, or even catch the common cold. These medical advancements are all thanks to SymboGen and whether the invention development of their intestinal shield, which technology is a genetically engineered tapeworm designed to monitor your body’s functions and correct abnormalitiesexciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501922</amazonuk>191458564X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=Conquest22 Ideas About The Future|author=John Connolly Benjamin Greenaway and Jennifer RidyardStephen Oram (Editors)

|summary=The Earth has been invaded by the Illyri, a vaguely humanoid race far in advance of humankind, who were able to conquer the planet gently by proving how futile it would ''Our future will be to resistmore complex than we expected. They are keen to ensure the human race remains compliantInstead of flying cars, but are mostly keen to avoid bloodshed. Humankind, however, is not a race to take conquest lying down. There is a very active resistance, particularly in Scotland, where the Scots come out of the Highlands we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to strike on the Illyri garrisons and power bases in cities like Edinburghtrack grandma.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147220963X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=The Box I've got a couple of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)|author=Catherine Fisher|rating=4confessions to make.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. Let There's catch you upgot to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Jake Then there's father is still lost in time. Vennscience fiction: far too often it's wife is still dead. Summer, the Queen of technology which takes centre stage along with the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husbandworld-building. Sarah still hasn It't prevented s human beings who fascinate me: the destruction of technology and the future by Janusworld scape are purely incidental. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that he's trying to do. The Chronoptika So, what did I think of a mirror made book of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the resttwenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, but they all want different things from I loved it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FamiliarMark Lingane|authortitle=J Robert LennonGalaxy|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Is there a greater change in Spark, who is an elite pilot with the life of Space Academy, barely makes it through a middlebattle alive. His co-aged woman than the death of her teenage son? Elisa might have thought pilot was notso fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, having been forced he remembers little and is in no physical shape to bury fifteen year old Silas, resume his duties. But Earth is under threat and try and move on with her husband Derek and the year-older son, Samhe must. But a greater change occurs on the way back from her annual, solo pilgrimage to Returned by his grave – something very weird happens superiors to the universe. She pops from one car to anotherspace station, from under he finds himself amid a cloudless sky last ditch attempt to a slightly greyer one – save humanity - and not just from her self as Elisa to a world where people call her Lisa, where she is plumperthe alien threats against it, in a different job, stiil married to Derek in the same home – but still the mother of two young men…also from its own sins against itself. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689473</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PhoenixTade Thompson|authortitle=SF SaidFar From the Light of Heaven

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Lucky thinks he 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 normal Human boybabysitter for the ship's AI captain. But one nightHowever, he dreams that when she wakes up at the stars are singing end of her trip to him find dozens of her passengers butchered and he can feel a mysterious power rising within himthe Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. When he wakesDown on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his bedclothes android partner Salvo are scorchedsent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. And when his mother finds outMeanwhile, Luckyformer astronaut and friend of Shell's world is turned upside down and he finds himself on an father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien spaceshipdaughter in tow, on to see why the runRagtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and in bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the middle five of a warzone. Everything Lucky them discover on the Ragtime has been brought up to believe is being tested. The war between Human and Axxa is ragingramifications not just for Bloodroot, so why does Lucky's mother trust alien renegades more than she does humans? Where is his father? What are but potentially the secrets his mother has kept from him all his life? entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>038561814X</amazonuk>0356514323

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen P KiernanClaire North|title=The CuriosityNotes from the Burning Age

|summary=Microbiologist Kate Philo At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a member of an Arctic expedition sent to locate life forms frozen in ice flows. Striking it luckyspy thriller, with as many double crosses, she interrogations and the team find a human whom they reanimate once they get him back to their American labnight time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However new life brings new challenges. The man died over a century earlier , as with the best novels, it wears many masks and much has changed. The press its most affecting one is now omnipotent, his 'resurrection' offends religious fundamentalists that of a new and scientific ethics never saw this problem coming. To Katetimely genre, thoughcli-fi, heor climate change fiction. North's not novel tells of a problemworld devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). He's JeremiahThere is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, afraidthe Brotherhood, bewildered and in need of an allyaims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848548753</amazonuk>0356514757

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All Our YesterdaysAdrian Tchaikovsky|authortitle=Cristin TerrillShards of Earth|rating=4|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Em and Finn are being held prisoner Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the Doctormoon-sized aliens known as the Architects. They never see each other but are able Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to communicate through the cell wallarchitect's reshaping. This is a blessing but also a curse: Then, just when they can each hear had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the interrogations war fades, heroes are forgotten, and torture meted out humanity begins to the otherfracture and fight among themselves. Neither talks but how much can they take? And then Em finds Idris Telemmier, a note hidden in her cellman genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. It's from her future self But, when he and it tells the crew of fourteen escapes. And fourteen failed trips the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back to into the past spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to try star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to put things right. There's realise that the real war is only one way left. Em must kill someone she loves. just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835193</amazonuk>1529051886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mitch BennTerry Miles|title=TerraRabbits

|summary=Terra is different from everyone else on Fnrr and not 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 also called Rabbits, although only because she as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has vowels in her nameno 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. You seeYes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, Terra isn’t actually the computer game, the hack from Fnrrthe darkest of webs. Her adoptive father (LbbpPeople like our hero, K, a Fnrrn scientist) rescued her from her parentsnamed like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the Bradshawsmost unique of high score boards, on for the lists of who has successfully won the planet Rrth game are in a moment of unthinking philanthropythe 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's ever been – morally and otherwise. If Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only he'd done to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a little more thinking and little less philanthropy…very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132086</amazonuk>1529016932

 {{newreview|author=Marie Harbon|title=Seven Point Eight: The First Chronicle|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Following several main characters - scientist Paul, businessman Max, remote viewer Tahra and mystery woman Ava - across two time frames spanning the 1940s to the present day, ''Seven Point Eight'' blends science fiction and fantasy in a sprawling, absorbing, diffuse novel that will attract fans of both genres.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yannis Panas (Translator)C J Carey|title=What Lot's Wife SawWidowland

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary= It's been over 20 years since The Overflow cameApril 1953, flooding half and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Europe. Around the same time Violet SaltJoseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a new multi-functional mineralbit, appeared, its production now governed globally by and watching over the sanctioned return to the mysteriousthrone of Edward VIII with his wife, all-powerful ConsortiumQueen Wallis. Meanwhile back For yes, Britain caved in Europe The Colonythe lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a haven for those escaping floods and indeed justice, is ruled by Governor Bera and six officialsprotectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland'Purple Stars'. All seems to be well in But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a despoticcaste system, lawless way until ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the six wake up drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the realisation that childless, the Governor has died mysteriously in husbandless and the nightwidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. The Consortium needs answers so choose And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the greatest crossword compiler task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out 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 ageparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, Phileas Bookat least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to investigatelight, whether he wants with their potential to or notspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845025474</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan WellsEverina Maxwell|title=FragmentsWinter's Orbit

|summary=One morning our protagonist awakens to Prince Kiem is a world in which she appears to be the sole living human inhabitantfamous political disappointment. A mysterious transparent wall He's outgoing, carefree, and has been erected around a large area in gotten into many drunken scandals over the Austrian mountains where our narrator has been holidaying, a wall that past few years. So when an important political alliance is unbreakable and through which she can see to be arranged – one that the world outside has come to a complete standstill. Our narrator is faced with living in total isolation and forced supposed to learn how prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to survivebe chosen for the role. Least of all him. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373114</amazonuk>0356515885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=R J AndersonRob Winters|title=QuicksilverHis Name Was Wren

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Before I say anything elseIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, I ''must'' warn younear the village of Hurstwick. ''Quicksilver'' is billed as It came down hard, taking the spire of the village church with it, destroying a companion novel to [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] with stone shack, and leaving a wide trail through the implication that you could read either first. You can't. You mustn't. So if you haven't read ''Ultraviolet''wood, go but no furthertrace of what it actually was. ''Quicksilver'' picks up where [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] left off. But this time German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a crater, synaesthete Alison is left behind and the story is told from the point there were neither of view of Torithose things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408316285</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisMark Lingane|title=Necessary Evil: The Milkweed TriptychNote to Self: Book ThreeAn Education|rating=4.5

|summary=Raybould Marsh has been sent back from the 1960s to the Second World War to avert end of the In Kry's world while saving , the life discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of baby Agnes. At least thatmedical "advances": in 2030 it's what he thinks he's doing found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it for. He's armed 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 plan but, even if his friend society obsessed with image and warlock Sir William Beauclerk and his own younger self helpyouth, there are unforeseen disadvantages who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in dabbling a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with timethe efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. And then However, a discovery of course therean ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the seer entity bonded to her loses control and ex-Nazi experimentkills half the staff of the research station, Gretelthe United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Is Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she madhas to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, bad or just has crewed by Captain Falconi and a funny way rag-tag bunch of showing her philanthropic side? We're misfits, and the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all about of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to find out…realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650171X</amazonuk>1529046505

{{Frontpage|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Seven Devils|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=SJ GriffinFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=The VanguardA Life Without End

|genre=Dystopian Literary Fiction|summary=Sorcha Blades I looked at the calendar the other week, and her four closest friends do the best they can with what they disappointedly realised I havea birthday this year – I know, yet another one. Living in a post-apocalyptic world It won't be one of the major numbers, they are from but the time when I have the wrong side of same number as Heinz varieties looms on the trackshorizon. Unable to live easy and glittering lives like And then a few of the elitebig 0-numbers, they scam and forage and hack their way to some degree if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of comfort and still manage to avoid the - very unpleasant - state security apparatus course stands for the most partOver Bloody Eighty. Not ) Now if that there's much state left for the security apparatus extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to protectbe happy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00904MC30</amazonuk>}} {{newreview| Our author=Janine Southard|title=Queen & Commander (A Hive Queen Novel)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=In Rhiannonhere doesn's worldt use that exact phrase, your entire future depends on your final school test resultsbut he might be said to be living one. Everyone is classified according Determined to personality type and entry find out how to any career or university depends upon your personality type. It's impossible prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to cheat see 400 – he hops right into bed with the test... unless you're Rhiannon. Rhiannon should really be a Perceiver. But all her life she has wanted her own hive. And to achieve this, she must test as a Queen or Commander. And this she does. The only person assistant to ever have manipulated the test. Rhiannon's future is set: leadership trainingfirst geneticist he interviews, followed by and they end up with a choice of Devoted to serve herchild, followed by command of which is at least a prestigious space ship and hive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BRM30SE</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Tregillis|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= England 1963: The war is over, Hitler defeated and the Russians (Britain's ally) retain most way of mainland Europe. The Briton in continuing the street believes that it was Dunkirk and the Battle life 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 Willgenes, the same warlocks that are now being murdered. However, fighting over, Pip and Will are both war-weary and want a motive to be left alone but the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideaskeep on going. For But how can he get to not flick the Nazi experimental 'willpowerfinal way out' children are now adult and assembling in Englandswitch, still equipped with the super powers of their childhood. This means Will and Pip have old scores to settle and greater evils waiting to be faced… Yes… ''those'' greater evils are back.especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>1642860670

{{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 around the block but he lives in hope that one day his luck will change… and it does. Within a couple of weeks he has a sudden plethora of enquirers; the bad news is that none of them seem Move on to live long enough to pay him. Meanwhile elsewhere, the Engine powering the world (literally) is dying, although the populous 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 yet. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0987478605</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Short Story Reviews]]