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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=AfterpartyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Daryl GregoryBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary=People have been taking pills and seeing God for years, but in ''Afterparty'' Daryl Gregory is taking the idea of smart drugs one step further. What happens if after a particularly bad trip you have an omnipresent God with you? Is this a sense Opening up new ways of wellbeing, or are you now just schizophrenic? In the near future people take drugs not only for their cures, but also their side effects and seeing deities may be thinking about the worst side effect shape of allthings to come.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294582</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=The Dark Between the Stars|author=Kevin J Anderson|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=From my experience Opera should be left to fans of the art form, or BBC4I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. HoweverWell, there is one sort of opera that I will take notice of, the Space Opera – a term must confess that encompasses science fiction on an epic scale e.g. Dune. Starting an all-new Space Opera is there have been more than a daunting task for both reader and writerfew decades of technology in my lifetime. In ‘The Dark Between the Stars’, Kevin J Anderson not only had I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to create new worlds full of interesting characters, me but we I'm left with the reader have to get our head around feeling that it's all the concepts at oncegetting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. ThereforeOf course, having I could research the story told from possibilities and the point of view of probabilities and end up to twenty different down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people is probably not the wisest thing to doI knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00K1HRZKK</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Koko Takes a HolidaySylvie Cathrall|authortitle=Kieran SheaA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary=Pulp science fiction is not as easy There are few greater joys than a genre book which lives up to carry off as you may think; it takes more than just a voluptuous catsuit-wearing alien firing off laser cannons (but that can only help). Pulp is often just that; pulp. It should be shredded and used to soak up the juices in landfill, but when it is done right, it can be excellentcompelling premise. When someone writes a book that And this is darkly funny, intelligent and a little ultraviolent, you may just have the perfect mix. A perfect mix called ‘Koko Takes a Holiday’, by Kieran Sheaone of them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168601</amazonuk>0356522776

 {{newreview|title=Theatre of the Gods|author=M SuddainFrontpage|ratingisbn=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 up on a moon full of toxic plants, and inside dread behemoths, and fought to make his way through various universes against galactic popes and worse, all in the company 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 saviour. 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>}} {{newreview1803816759|title=The Forever WatchUnravelling|author=David RamirezWill Gibson

|summary=Great science fiction It's 2038 and Joe is made up a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of many partsadventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, but three things are vital making life easier for it to become a classic; world buildingmany, story and characterriots start to spread. If one of these three elements is slightly below the othersFinally, a great novel can be punishedJoe gets to do some real policing. In ‘The Forever Watch’ by Daniel Ramirez we have a fantastic world in the form aftermath of the spaceship Noahrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a great character in the form of HanaBritish superfan and tech nerd, but does is also on the story quite match up to case. What went wrong? Did the restsystem fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144478790X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nnedi OkoraforB0CP95J1CG|title=Lagoon|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Three people walk along a Lagos beach as the world changes. Adaora is strolling to clear her head and try to understand why her husband hit her earlier tonight. Rap artist Anthony (known to his parents as Edgar) is having a post-gig wander. The third, Agu, 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 Ayodele.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444762753</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Burning DarkOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Adam ChristopherMark Lingane|rating=4.5

|summary=In space, no one can hear you scream and for the skeleton crew of Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the U-Star Coast City this is redundant anyway as no one cares if they do. Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland is about to start early retirement, party but he his interest is given one last job overseeing piqued by the dismantling of this space station that orbits a forbidding star that gives off an eerie radiationway it arrived. With only And it seems like a couple good opportunity to get out of hundred people left on his room and away from the massive station, it is pretty quietonline activities he makes a living at. This So he makes it easier to hear his way there, dodging the buses that make up most of the things going bump in traffic and watching the night – a night that continues 24 hourslocal energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292016</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ex-PurgatoryK P O'Donnell|authortitle=Peter ClinesThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|summary=A book VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the Science fiction genre can easily get wrapped up inside itself if it not careful enations of Drexel and Renada.gOver half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. a dream on top of a visionDr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, set in building a future alternative world. Juggling all these concepts where machines and creating a novel that is entertaining humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and at least in some way believable is not easyexternal enemies might bring it all crashing down again. This is proven in Peter Clines’ ''Ex-Purgatory''Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the fourth outing in the Ex seriesExhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Our heroes are used to Even after being surrounded by buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the undeadslightest, and no errant machine, but at the start of this novel they wake up in their old lives. What is a dream no savage human tribe and what is a reality?not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00HE6AX3C</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LibriomancerEmily Tesh|authortitle=Jim C HinesSome Desperate Glory

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should be about emotions''While Earth's children live, 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>}}enemy shall fear us''

{{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 Following 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 destruction 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 amongst a rare number of customersurvivors, Kyr has not put paid to one aspect of society been raised on Gaea Station – and in fact the sole aspect home of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|the first book]] last scraps of humanity – religion. Some and trained relentlessly to avenge her people are fearing and the end time, when the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpiercerworld that should have been hers. Some believe they're duped into the whole train ideaAll her life, and are she has been conditioned to fall in fact on a spacecraft. Some people know something else – the rare few explorers who get line, to go outside the train into the world beyond, fulfil her duty and see glimpses of what came before…ensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>0356521834

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeM R Carey|title=Tesla 1Infinity Gate|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Sebastian has lost both his parentsI'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. His father died Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of a mysterious wasting disease whereas his mother is just... well... lost. The only thing he has he has to remember his mother by is a note telling him to go to the mysterious Steam Academysort. However, first he has to find his way there in a futuristic Australia without widespread technology but with dangerous cyborg warriors. WhatMy standards are high precisely because it's worse, despite fighting humans in general for thousands of years, the cyborgs now seem a hard genre to have turned their attention get right – and energy to killing Sebastian in particular. Whatwhen it's he done to deserve that? More to the pointbad, whatever heit's often terrible. But the premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was donewell, how can he survive?it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377951</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance.1 - The Escape|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=All of humankind is living on a single trainOf what it means to be human. I know British commuters feel that way at times, but this Of what is a much different circumstance – it real and what is a train miles long, running non-stop as a self-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earth, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time in the distant futureartificial, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze it. It's certainly been going on long enough for it to have a culture – a hierarchical society from the rich and leisured classes near whether the front, through the orgiasts, past the useful carriages set aside for producing food, to the underclass at the end. It's all set in its routine, set in motion. But there are two fishes out development of water – a man from the rear who escaped, and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaignerstechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>191458564X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=God's War22 Ideas About The Future|author=Kameron HurleyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=35

|summary=People who do not like the genre love to lump all Science Fiction into the same pile – massive space ships and stuff''Our future will be more complex than we expected. That is just not the case. It can range from subtle alternative versions Instead of our own Earthflying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to Space Sagas set around the orbit of a distant planettrack grandma. Where sci fi gets its bad reputation from is when complex ideas are not explained clearly enough for the reader. '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 confusion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091952786</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Channel Blue|author=Jay Martel|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What if the planet you called home wasn’t just I've got a random blob in the universe, orbiting a far off starcouple of confessions to make. What if the things that happened I'm not keen on short stories as I find it weren’t entirely down easy to read a few stories and then forget to chance or fate or whatever you want return to call itthe book. What if, actually, life on Earth was less random and more, well, scheduled than you might like There's got to be a very compelling hook to admitkeep me engaged. Someone up Then there, calling 's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the shots, deciding when to send in ‘natural’ disasters, influencing how things work, people behave, countries world scape are runpurely incidental. Not a God So, mind, but something far crazier: what did I think of a television executive. Earth is the reality show to end all reality shows, and while its inhabitants have no clue every second book of their lives is being watched and editedtwenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, that doesn’t stop them behaving in a way that keeps the viewers highly entertainedI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781855803</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Plastic JesusMark Lingane|authortitle=Wayne SimmonsGalaxy|rating=34

|summary=Johnny Lyon Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a computer coding expert spiralling out of control following the death of his loverbattle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Johnny’s colleague Sarah convinces their boss Garcon Waking from a coma that lasted years, he needs Johnny for a project that remembers little and is perfect for him (creating a virtual reality Jesus) and just might help him in no physical shape to concentrate on something other than resume his lossduties. They embark on a project with potentially monumental impact within a world of degradation But Earth is under threat and violence in a city ruled over he must. Returned by organised crime king pin Paul McBride. Many storylines collide as his superiors to the project effects more people than Johnny realises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773630</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Doctor Who: 11 Doctorsspace station, 11 Stories|author=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott and others|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed he finds himself amid 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, last ditch attempt to being an essential part of the BBC, fullsave humanity -gloss digital, and accessed in all manner of ways. So with not just from the celebratory programme still ringing in our earsalien threats against it, and leaving people pressing a red button to see a programme about three Doctors, er, pressing a red button, we turn to other aspects of the birthday bonanza. Such as this book, which has but also mutated in from its much shorter lifespan, from being a loose collection of eleven short e-book novellas written by the blazing lights of YA writing, to a huge and brilliant paperback collecting everything within one set of coversown sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rags and BonesTade Thompson|authortitle=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)Far From the Light of Heaven

|genre=AnthologiesScience Fiction|summary=Some Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of todaygoing to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's top authors have come together AI captain. However, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to retell classic tales find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non- from fairy stories responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to Victorian-era fictiondiscover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. As usual with this kind Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of anthology, itShell's father Lawrence Biz takes a fairly hitshuttle to Bloodroot, half-or-miss affairalien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, but leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up five of them discover on the book Ragtime has ramifications not just for. Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>0356514323

 {{newreview|title=The Time Traveller's AlmanacFrontpage|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerClaire North|rating=4|genretitle=Anthologies|summary=From H.G Wells to ''Doctor Who'', there is something about a good time-travel story that has the power to ignite the imagination in a way unique to the genre. Perhaps it is due to the fact that when dealing with the subject of time travel, literally ''anything is possible''. Well, almost anything...apart Notes 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 GrantBurning Age

|summary=At its core ''ParasiteNotes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is the first part of the Parasitology series a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and if the quality of this book is anything to go by the next is going to be highly sought afternight time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. It puts us several years into However, as with the futurebest novels, in it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a time where medicine has made massive leaps forward new and where humans no longer take medicationtimely genre, suffer from allergiescli-fi, or even catch the common coldclimate change fiction. These medical advancements are all thanks North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to SymboGen start anew and live alongside nature without any of the invention modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of their intestinal shieldmass destruction, which intensive farming). There is a genetically engineered tapeworm designed growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to monitor your body’s functions and correct abnormalitiesthe Earth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501922</amazonuk>0356514757

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ConquestAdrian Tchaikovsky|authortitle=John Connolly and Jennifer RidyardShards of Earth|rating=54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The Eighty years ago, Earth has been invaded was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the Illyri, a vaguely humanoid race far in advance of humankindmoon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, who were able constantly fleeing as world after world falls to conquer the planet gently by proving how futile it would be to resistarchitect's reshaping. They are keen to ensure Then, just when they had the human race remains complianton the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, but heroes are mostly keen forgotten, and humanity begins to avoid bloodshedfracture and fight among themselves. HumankindIdris Telemmier, howevera man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, is does not a race want to take conquest lying downbe remembered. There is a very active resistanceBut, particularly in Scotland, where when he and the Scots come out crew of the Highlands salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to strike on be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the Illyri garrisons spotlight. As he and power bases in cities like Edinburgh.his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147220963X</amazonuk>1529051886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Terry Miles|authortitle=Catherine FisherRabbits

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=OkWelcome 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. LetIt's catch you upalso called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. Jake's father is still lost in timeA bit like the game of life then. Venn's wife Yes, this is still deadthe game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. SummerPeople like our hero, K, named like that in the Queen least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the Sheegame, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented for the destruction lists of who has successfully won the future by Janus. And game are in the Scarred Man most peculiar places, and are still hasnvery short. However this time it't dones different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, wellnay lethal, whatever the most broken it is that he's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to do. The Chronoptikasort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel devicehow his loved ones might be kept safe, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the restgame, but they all want different things from and playing it, is a very thin one indeed.. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>1529016932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FamiliarC J Carey|authortitle=J Robert LennonWidowland|rating=4.5

|summary=Is there a greater change in It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the life state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a middle-aged woman than bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the death throne of her teenage son? Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. Elisa might have thought notFor yes, having been forced Britain caved in the lead-up to bury fifteen year old Silasthe World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and try and move we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on with her husband Derek and ''the year-older son, Sammainland''. 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 greater change occurs caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the way back from her annualchildless, solo pilgrimage to his grave – something very weird happens to the universehusbandless and the widows. She pops from one car to anotherFemale literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, from under a cloudless sky is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to a slightly greyer one take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from her self as Elisa to British civilisation, and so they just get a world where people call hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her Lisajob, where she is plumperat least, in a different jobuntil the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, stiil married with their potential to Derek in the same home – but still the mother of two young men…spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846689473</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreview|title=PhoenixFrontpage|author=SF SaidEverina Maxwell|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucky thinks he is a normal Human boy. But one night, he dreams that the stars are singing to him and he can feel a mysterious power rising within him. When he wakes, his bedclothes are scorched. And when his mother finds out, Lucky's world is turned upside down and he finds himself on an alien spaceship, on the run, and in the middle of a warzone. Everything Lucky has been brought up to believe is being tested. The war between Human and Axxa is raging, so why does LuckyWinter'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>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen P Kiernan|title=The CuriosityOrbit|rating=45

|summary=Microbiologist Kate Philo Prince Kiem is a member of an Arctic expedition sent to locate life forms frozen in ice flowsfamous political disappointment. Striking it luckyHe's outgoing, carefree, she and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the team find a human whom they reanimate once they get past few years. So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him back to their American lab. However new life brings new challenges. The man died over a century earlier and much has changed. The press is now omnipotent, his 'resurrection' offends religious fundamentalists and scientific ethics never saw this problem coming. To Kate, though, he's not a problembe chosen for the role. He's Jeremiah, afraid, bewildered and in need Least of an allyall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848548753</amazonuk>0356515885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All Our YesterdaysRob Winters|authortitle=Cristin TerrillHis Name Was Wren

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Em and Finn are being held prisoner by In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the Doctorvillage of Hurstwick. They never see each other but are able to communicate through It came down hard, taking the spire of the cell wall. This is village church with it, destroying a blessing but also stone shack, and leaving a curse: they can each hear wide trail through the interrogations and torture meted out to wood, but no trace of what it actually was. German secret weapon was the other. Neither talks local gossip, but how much can they take? And then Em finds there should have been an explosion and a note hidden in her cell. It's from her future self crater, and it tells there were neither of fourteen escapes. And fourteen failed trips back to the past to try to put those things right. There's only one way left. Em must kill someone she loves. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835193</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mitch BennMark Lingane|title=Terra|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Terra is different from everyone else on Fnrr and not only because she has vowels in her name. You see, Terra isn’t actually from Fnrr. Her adoptive father (Lbbp, a Fnrrn scientist) rescued her from her parents, the Bradshaws, on the planet Rrth in a moment of unthinking philanthropy. If only he'd done a little more thinking and little less philanthropy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575132086</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marie Harbon|title=Seven Point EightNote to Self: 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>}} {{newreview|author=Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yannis Panas (Translator)|title=What Lot's Wife SawAn Education

|summary= ItIn Kry's been over 20 years since The Overflow cameworld, flooding half of Europe. Around the same time Violet Salt, discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a new multi-functional mineralcascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, appearedin 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, its production now governed globally by 2045 the mysterious, allcosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-powerful Consortiumage" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} Meanwhile back {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in Europe The Colony, a haven for those escaping floods and indeed justiceSea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is ruled by Governor Bera and six officialshelping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon'Purple Stars's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. All seems After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to be well take Kira in a despoticfor examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, lawless way until the six wake up and she has to flee to the realisation that 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the Governor has died mysteriously in freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the nightnews is grim. The Consortium needs answers so choose same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the greatest crossword compiler Staff of Blue can stop them. As the age, Phileas Bookdeath toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to investigate, whether he wants to or not.realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845025474</amazonuk>1529046505

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan WellsLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=FragmentsSeven Devils|rating=54|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=I didn't have much hope for this book - Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the middle book in Novantae, a series tends resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to be fillerinherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, and as [[Partials by Dan Wells|Partials]] was so brilliantan ace pilot for the Novantae, I though it was going has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to be hard gather information vital to topthe war effort. I was very wrong. This book Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is mind-blowingher partner on this mission.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007465238</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marlen Haushofer|title=The Wall|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=One morning our protagonist awakens to Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a world in which she appears to be secret that could potentially cripple the sole living human inhabitantEmpire. A mysterious transparent wall has been erected around a large area in Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Austrian mountains where our narrator has been holidayingEmpire, a wall that is unbreakable plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and through which she can see that the world outside has come last of the free alien species. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a complete standstill. Our narrator is faced stop Damocles' plans, with living millions of lives hanging in total isolation and forced to learn how to survive. the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373114</amazonuk>1473231140

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=R J AndersonFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=QuicksilverA Life Without End

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Before I say anything elselooked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I ''must'' warn youhave a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won''Quicksilver'' is billed t be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a companion novel to [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] with few of the implication that you could read either first. You canbig 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'tll be an OBE. You mustn't (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. So ) Now if you haven't read ''Ultraviolet'that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, go no furtherI guess I have to be happy.  Our author here doesn''Quicksilver'' picks up where [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] left offt use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. But this time Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, synaesthete Alison is left behind and the story they end up with a child, which is told from at least a way of continuing the point life of view of Torihis genes, and a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408316285</amazonuk>1642860670

{{newreview|author=Ian Tregillis|title=Necessary Evil: The Milkweed Triptych: Book Three|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Raybould Marsh has been sent back from the 1960s Move on 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. He's armed with a plan but, even if his friend and warlock Sir William Beauclerk and his own younger self help, there are unforeseen disadvantages in dabbling with time. And then of course there's the seer and ex-Nazi experiment, Gretel. Is she mad, bad or just has a funny way of showing her philanthropic side? We're all about to find out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650171X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Short Story Reviews]]