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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Theatre of the GodsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=M SuddainBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=M Francisco Fabrigas – unfortunate Arsenal FC connection aside – is worthy of your attention. For not only has he proven to be one of the longer-lasting humans in this universe, he has also been in other universes. And at the same, other universe's Fabrigas's have come to visit us – or is it the other way round? Either way, he has been engaged in an epic adventure where he ends Opening up on a moon full new ways of toxic plants, and inside dread behemoths, and fought to make his way through various universes against galactic popes and worse, all in thinking about the company shape of two unfortunate young people – a vicious and caring deaf lad who is more or less a kung-fu-powered computer chip, and a caring but blind young female saviourthings to come. Both are needed to save the universe – or was it fewer of them, but more universes? This book is the much-sought-after, long-lost, often-censored account of his derring-do, as close to being from the horse's mouth as is possible, and with the sheer complexity of the circumstances and contrivances on every page, we should be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575647</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nnedi OkoraforSylvie Cathrall|title=LagoonA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Burning DarkUnravelling|author=Adam ChristopherWill Gibson
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|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 to start early retirement, but he is given one last job overseeing the dismantling of this space station that orbits a forbidding star that gives off an eerie radiation. With only Joe longs for a couple bit of hundred people left on the massive station, it is pretty quiet. This makes it easier adventure and to hear the things going bump in the night – a night that continues 24 hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292016</amazonuk>}} {{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 stuck into some way believable is not easyreally gritty crime detection. 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 But then something goes horribly wrong with the start of this novel they wake up in their old lives. What is a dream and what is a reality?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00HE6AX3C</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Libriomancer|author=Jim C Hines|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe AI system that novels should be about emotionsnow runs everything, inner journeys and despair. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as wellmaking life easier for many, but they can also be fun, entertaining and laser pistolsriots start to spread. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is a great example. It is a book that follows Isaac VainioFinally, a Libriomancer who has the power Joe gets to draw magic from booksdo some real policing. 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 In 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 aftermath of humankind the rioting global pop star Suki is living on a single train. Oh sorry, as this kidnapped and Joe is the sequel, make that two trainsassigned to bring her home. Launched on Joe isn't the same tracks as the original Snowpiercer, but clearly at a slight remove, was a second mileonly one trying to save Suki -long behemoth of a trainDylan, 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 British superfan and tech on boardnerd, complete with lemon farms, and differing qualities of virtual holidays depending is also 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 Volcase.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|What went wrong? Did the first book]] – religion. Some people are fearing the end time, when the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpiercer. Some believe theysystem fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki'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>s kidnapping connected?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CP95J1CG|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises
|author=Mark Lingane
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Channel BlueK P O'Donnell|authortitle=Jay MartelThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|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
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{{Frontpage
|author=Emily Tesh
|title=Some Desperate Glory
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 StoriesM R Carey|authortitle=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott and othersInfinity Gate
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=ItI'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed a lot since first being seen fifty years ago genre I dislike – and I don't mean the title character, but the nature nothing of the programmesort. It has gone from black My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and whitewhen it's bad, and cheaply produced, and declared disposable, to being an essential part of the BBC, full-gloss digital, and accessed in all manner of waysit's often terrible. So with But the celebratory programme still ringing in our ears, and leaving people pressing a red button to see a programme about three Doctors, er, pressing a red button, we turn to other aspects premise of the birthday bonanzaInfinity Gate had me hooked. Such as A concept this book, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespan, from being intriguing felt like a loose collection of eleven short ehigh-book novellas written by the blazing lights of YA writingstakes gamble: if it was done well, to a huge and brilliant paperback collecting everything within one set of coversit'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>0356518043
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{{newreview|title=Rags and BonesFrontpage|author=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Some of today's top authors have come together to retell classic tales - from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind of anthology, it's a fairly hit-or-miss affair, but the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up the book for. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMichael Grothaus|title=The Time Traveller's Almanac|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerBeautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|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>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=Conquest22 Ideas About The Future|author=John Connolly Benjamin Greenaway and Jennifer RidyardStephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|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>}}''
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PhoenixTade Thompson|authortitle=SF SaidFar From the Light of Heaven
|rating=4.5
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen P KiernanClaire North|title=The CuriosityNotes from the Burning Age
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|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
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mitch BennTerry Miles|title=TerraRabbits
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|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. You see, Terra isn’t actually from FnrrA bit like the game of life then. Her adoptive father (LbbpYes, this is the game of life for a Fnrrn scientist) rescued her from her parentscertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the Bradshawscomputer game, on the planet Rrth hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in a moment the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of unthinking philanthropy. If only he'd done a little more thinking the game, and little less philanthropy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575132086</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marie Harbon|title=Seven Point Eight: The First Chronicle|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Following several main characters - scientist Paulhave studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, businessman Maxfor the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, remote viewer Tahra and mystery woman Ava - across two are still very short. However this time it's different. This time frames spanning the 1940s to game seems the present daymost dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it''Seven Point Eight'' blends science fiction s ever been – morally and fantasy otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in a sprawlingtrying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, absorbingand how his loved ones might be kept safe, diffuse novel he is only to find out that will attract fans of both genresthe line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>1529016932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yannis Panas (Translator)C J Carey|title=What Lot's Wife SawWidowland
|rating=4
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan WellsEverina Maxwell|title=FragmentsWinter's Orbit
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=R J AndersonRob Winters|title=QuicksilverHis Name Was Wren
|rating=4
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisMark Lingane|title=Necessary Evil: The Milkweed TriptychNote to Self: Book ThreeAn Education|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|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
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{{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
|rating=4
|genre=Dystopian Literary Fiction|summary=Sorcha Blades I looked at the calendar the other week, and her four closest friends do disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the best they can with what they major numbers, but the time when I havethe same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. Living in And then a postfew of the big 0-apocalyptic worldnumbers, and if all goes well, they are from I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the wrong side extent of the tracksmy mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Unable Determined to live easy and glittering lives 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 eliteassistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they scam and forage and hack their end up with a child, which is at least a way to some degree of comfort continuing the life of his genes, and still manage a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to avoid not flick the - very unpleasant - state security apparatus for the most part. Not that there's much state left for the security apparatus to protect. final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00904MC30</amazonuk>1642860670
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