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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=ReplicaAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jack HeathBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=There is a tendency for adults ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to feel embarrassed about reading young adult fiction, but this book demonstrates that a focus on a younger character shouldn’t prevent a wider audience from enjoying a good storycome. ''Replica I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a strange and compelling combination few decades of action, mystery, thriller and science-fictiontechnology in my lifetime. Heath has even included a hint I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of a romanceit is - frankly - quite frightening. There is something for everyone Of course, I could research the possibilities and although the book raises some challenging probabilities and thought-provoking problems, end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the text is easy-to-read, immersive latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and unpretentiouswho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273766X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AfterpartySylvie Cathrall|authortitle=Daryl GregoryA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=People have been taking pills and seeing God for years, but in ''Afterparty'' Daryl Gregory There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this 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 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 the worst side effect of allthem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294582</amazonuk>0356522776
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Dark Between the StarsUnravelling|author=Kevin J AndersonWill Gibson|rating=34
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=From my experience Opera should be left to fans of It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the art form, or BBC4wealthy and peaceful New York City. However, there is one sort Joe longs for a bit of opera adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that I will take notice ofnow runs everything, the Space Opera – a term that encompasses science fiction on an epic scale e.g. Dune. Starting an all-new Space Opera is a daunting task making life easier for both reader many, and writerriots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In ‘The Dark Between the Stars’, Kevin J Anderson not only had to create new worlds full aftermath of interesting characters, but we the reader have rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to get our head around all the concepts at oncebring her home. Therefore, having Joe isn't the story told from the point of view of up only one trying to twenty different people save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is probably not also on the wisest thing to docase.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00K1HRZKK</amazonuk>What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CP95J1CG|title=Koko Takes a HolidayOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Kieran SheaMark Lingane|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Pulp science fiction is Ronan's not as easy a genre entirely sure why he decides 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 go to soak up the juices in landfill, party but when it his interest is done right, piqued by the way it can be excellentarrived. When someone writes And it seems like a book that is darkly funny, intelligent good opportunity to get out of his room and away from the online activities he makes a little ultraviolentliving at. So he makes his way there, you may just have dodging the buses that make up most of the perfect mixtraffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. A perfect mix called ‘Koko Takes a Holiday’, by Kieran SheaShould be enough power. Hopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168601</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Theatre of the GodsK P O'Donnell|authortitle=M SuddainThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)
|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 longerVL-lasting humans in this universe15, he has also been in other universes. And at the samea prototype robot, other universe's Fabrigas's have come is desperate to visit us – or understand who she is it . Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the other way round? Either wayworld ended, he has been engaged consumed in an epic adventure where he ends up on a moon full apocalyptic war between the nations of toxic plants, Drexel and inside dread behemothsRenada. Over half-a-century later, and fought civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to make his way through various universes against galactic popes and worsecontinue her father's legacy, all in the company of two unfortunate young people – building a vicious world where machines and caring deaf lad who is more or less a kung-fu-powered computer chiphumans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a caring but blind young female saviour. Both are needed to save the universe – or was it fewer group of them, but more universes? This book is salvagers called the much-sought-afterExhumers, long-lost, often-censored account of has his derringentire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-do15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, as close to being from her determination hasn't diminished in the horse's mouth as is possibleslightest, and with the sheer complexity of the circumstances no errant machine, no savage human tribe and contrivances not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on every page, we should be grateful.her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575647</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''
{{newreview|title=The Forever Watch|author=David Ramirez|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Great science fiction is made up Following the destruction of many partsthe Earth, but three things are vital for it to become amongst a classic; world buildingrare number of survivors, story and character. If one Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of these three elements is slightly below the others, a great novel can be punished. In ‘The Forever Watch’ by Daniel Ramirez we have a fantastic world in the form last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the spaceship Noahworld that should have been hers. All her life, a great character she has been conditioned to fall in the form of Hanaline, but does the story quite match up to the rest?fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144478790X</amazonuk>0356521834
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nnedi OkoraforM R Carey|title=LagoonInfinity Gate
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Three people walk along I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a Lagos beach as genre I dislike – nothing of the world changessort. Adaora is strolling My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to clear her head get right – 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 thirdwhen it's bad, Agu, is covered in blood. The fact that heit's on often terrible. But the beach is immaterial; he just needs helppremise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. Then A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it happens'd be fantastic. A boom, a bat falls stunned from the sky and then nothing So this is the same again. The strangers' futures all become one and the creature arrives; the creature they call Ayodelewhere I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444762753</amazonuk>0356518043
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{{Frontpage
|author= Michael Grothaus
|title=Beautiful Shining People
|rating=4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''
{{newreview|title=The Burning Dark|author=Adam Christopher|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=In space, no one can hear you scream and for ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the skeleton crew question of the U-Star Coast City this identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is redundant anyway as no one cares if they do. Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland real and what is about to start early retirementartificial, but he is given one last job overseeing and whether the dismantling development of this space station that orbits a forbidding star that gives off an eerie radiation. With only a couple of hundred people left on the massive station, it technology is pretty quiet. This makes it easier to hear the things going bump in the night – a night that continues 24 hoursexciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292016</amazonuk>191458564X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=Ex-Purgatory22 Ideas About The Future|author=Peter ClinesBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|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''Our future will be more complex than we expected.g. a dream on top Instead of a flying cars, we got night-vision, set in a future alternative world. Juggling all these concepts killer drones and creating a novel that is entertaining and at least in some way believable is not easyautomated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma. 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00HE6AX3C</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Libriomancer|author=Jim C Hines|rating=4I've got a couple of confessions to make.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should be about emotions, inner journeys I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and despairthen forget to return to the book. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as well, but they can also There's got to be fun, entertaining and laser pistolsa very compelling hook to keep me engaged. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is a great exampleThen there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It is a book that follows Isaac Vainio, a Libriomancer 's human beings who has fascinate me: the technology and the power to draw magic from booksworld scape are purely incidental. He must use this gift to good effect when one daySo, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguing, he is attacked by three vampires. Does that sound fun to youwhat did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? If so, read on; if notWell, this may not be the book for youI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>
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 {{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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage
|author=Mark Lingane
|title=Tesla 1|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sebastian has lost both his parents. His father died 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 Academy. However, first he has to find his way there in a futuristic Australia without widespread technology but with dangerous cyborg warriors. What's worse, despite fighting humans in general for thousands of years, the cyborgs now seem to have turned their attention and energy to killing Sebastian in particular. What's he done to deserve that? More to the point, whatever he's done, how can he survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377951</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc RochetteGalaxy
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=All of humankind is living on a single train. I know British commuters feel that way at times, but this is a much different circumstance – it 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 future, 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 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 of water – a man from the rear who escaped, and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaigners.
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{{newreview
|title=God's War
|author=Kameron Hurley
|rating=3
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=People Spark, who do not like is an elite pilot with the genre love to lump all Science Fiction into the same pile – massive space ships and stuffSpace Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive. That is just His co-pilot was not the caseso fortunate. It can range Waking from subtle alternative versions of our own Eartha coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to Space Sagas set around the orbit of a distant planetresume his duties. Where sci fi gets its bad reputation from But Earth is when complex ideas are not explained clearly enough for the readerunder threat and he must. 'God’s War: Bel Dame Apocrypha' Returned by Kameron Hurley is one such book; his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a novel crammed with some great ideaslast ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it, but also moments of strange confusionfrom its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091952786</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Channel BlueTade Thompson|authortitle=Jay MartelFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=34.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=What if Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the planet you called home wasn’t just a random blob in sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the universeworld of Bloodroot, orbiting she will essentially be a far off starbabysitter for the ship's AI captain. What if However, when she wakes up at the things that happened on it weren’t entirely down end of her trip to chance or fate or whatever you want find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to call realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped itwould. What ifDown on Bloodroot, actually, life on Earth was less random disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and more, well, scheduled than you might like his android partner Salvo are sent up to admitdiscover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Someone up thereMeanwhile, calling the shotsformer astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, deciding when to send half-alien daughter in ‘natural’ disasterstow, influencing how things workto see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, people behave, countries are runleaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. Not a God, mindWhat the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but something far crazier: a television executive. Earth is potentially the reality show to end all reality shows, and while its inhabitants have no clue every second entirety of their lives is being watched and edited, that doesn’t stop them behaving in a way that keeps the viewers highly entertained.human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855803</amazonuk>0356514323
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Plastic JesusClaire North|authortitle=Wayne SimmonsNotes from the Burning Age|rating=34
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Johnny Lyon At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a computer coding expert spiralling out of control following spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the death best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of his lovera new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. Johnny’s colleague Sarah convinces their boss Garcon that he needs Johnny for North's novel tells of a project that is perfect for him world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (creating a virtual reality Jesusread: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming) and just might help him to concentrate on something other than his loss. They embark on There is a project growing unhappiness with potentially monumental impact within a this limiting world of degradation , and violence in a city ruled over by organised crime king pin Paul McBride. Many storylines collide as one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the project effects more people than Johnny realisesEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907773630</amazonuk>0356514757
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 StoriesAdrian Tchaikovsky|authortitle=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott and othersShards of Earth|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed a lot since first being seen fifty Eighty years ago – and I don, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect't mean s reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the title characterArchitects vanished. And so, but the nature memories of the programme. It has gone from black and whitewar fades, heroes are forgotten, and cheaply produced, humanity begins to fracture and declared disposablefight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to being an essential part of try and communicate with the BBCArchitects, full-gloss digitaldoes not want to be remembered. But, when he and accessed in all manner the crew of ways. So with the celebratory programme still ringing in our earssalvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he and leaving people pressing a red button his allies bounce from star system to see a programme about three Doctorsstar system, erchased by alien crime syndicates, pressing a red buttonhuman secret police and rich slavers, we turn he slowly begins to other aspects of the birthday bonanza. Such as this book, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespan, from being a loose collection of eleven short e-book novellas written by realise that the blazing lights of YA writing, to a huge and brilliant paperback collecting everything within one set of covers.real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>1529051886
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rags and BonesTerry Miles|authortitle=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)Rabbits
|rating=4.5
|genre=AnthologiesScience Fiction|summary=Some Welcome to the world of todayThe 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 top authors have come together also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to retell classic tales - the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from fairy stories the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to Victorian-era fictionbe historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. As usual with However this kind of anthologytime it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's a fairly hit-or-miss affairever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, but in trying to sort out what the hits here are so strong game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that they're well worth picking up the book forline between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>1529016932
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Time Traveller's AlmanacC J Carey|authortitle=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerWidowland
|rating=4
|genre=AnthologiesGeneral Fiction|summary=From H.G Wells to ''Doctor WhoIt's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, there is something about parading around a good time-travel story that has bit, and watching over the power sanctioned return to ignite the imagination throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in a way unique the lead-up to the genre. Perhaps World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it is due to , and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the fact that when dealing with same blood as the subject of time travel, literally Germanic peoples on ''anything is possiblethe mainland''. Well But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, almost anythingand ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged..apart from going back And in time this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and killing your Grandfathernot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy so they just get a hefty tweak towards the universeparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>152941198X
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 {{newreview|title=ParasiteFrontpage|author=Mira GrantEverina Maxwell|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summarytitle=Winter''Parasite'' is the first part of the Parasitology series and if the quality of this book is anything to go by the next is going to be highly sought after. It puts us several years into the future, in a time where medicine has made massive leaps forward and where humans no longer take medication, suffer from allergies, or even catch the common cold. These medical advancements are all thanks to SymboGen and the invention of their intestinal shield, which is a genetically engineered tapeworm designed to monitor your body’s functions and correct abnormalities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501922</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Conquest|author=John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyards Orbit
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=The Earth Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has been invaded by gotten into many drunken scandals over the Illyri, a vaguely humanoid race far in advance of humankind, who were able past few years. So when an important political alliance is to conquer the planet gently by proving how futile it would be arranged – one that is supposed to resist. They are keen prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to ensure be chosen for the human race remains compliant, but are mostly keen to avoid bloodshed. Humankind, however, is not a race to take conquest lying downrole. There is a very active resistance, particularly in Scotland, where the Scots come out Least of the Highlands to strike on the Illyri garrisons and power bases in cities like Edinburghall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147220963X</amazonuk>0356515885
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 {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Frontpage|author=Catherine Fisher|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Let's catch you up. Jake's father is still lost in time. Venn's wife is still dead. Summer, the Queen of the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that he's trying to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRob Winters|title=Familiar|author=J Robert Lennon|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Is there a greater change in the life of a middle-aged woman than the death of her teenage son? Elisa might have thought not, having been forced to bury fifteen year old Silas, and try and move on with her husband Derek and the year-older son, Sam. But a greater change occurs on the way back from her annual, solo pilgrimage to his grave – something very weird happens to the universe. She pops from one car to another, from under a cloudless sky to a slightly greyer one – and from her self as Elisa to a world where people call her Lisa, where she is plumper, in a different job, stiil married to Derek in the same home – but still the mother of two young men…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689473</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Phoenix|author=SF SaidHis Name Was Wren|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lucky thinks he is a normal Human boy. But one nightIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, he dreams that near the stars are singing to him and he can feel a mysterious power rising within himvillage of Hurstwick. When he wakes, his bedclothes are scorched. And when his mother finds out, Lucky's world is turned upside It came down and he finds himself on an alien spaceshiphard, on taking the runspire of the village church with it, destroying a stone shack, and in leaving a wide trail through the middle wood, but no trace of a warzonewhat it actually was. Everything Lucky has German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have been brought up to believe is being tested. The war between Human an explosion and Axxa is raginga crater, so why does Lucky's mother trust alien renegades more than she does humans? Where is his father? What are the secrets his mother has kept from him all his life? and there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>038561814X</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen P KiernanMark Lingane|title=The CuriosityNote to Self: An Education
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Microbiologist Kate Philo is In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a member cascade of an Arctic expedition sent medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to locate life forms frozen their regeneration state seven years before, in ice flows. Striking 2035 it lucky's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, she and by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the team find a human whom they reanimate once they get him back same technique to "de-age" their American lab. However new life brings new challengescustomers by seven years. The man died over In a century earlier and much has changed. The press is now omnipotent, his 'resurrection' offends religious fundamentalists society obsessed with image and scientific ethics never saw this problem coming. To Kateyouth, though, he's not a problem. He's Jeremiah, afraid, bewildered and in need of an ally.who needs memories?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848548753</amazonuk>B08LY8J4KS}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All Our YesterdaysChristopher Paolini|authortitle=Cristin TerrillTo Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating=45|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Em and Finn are being held prisoner by On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the Doctor. They never see each other but are able efforts to communicate through make the cell wallplanet habitable to human life. This is However, a blessing but also discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a curse: they can each hear strange alien entity. After the interrogations entity bonded to her loses control and torture meted out kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to the other. Neither talks but how much can they take? And then Em finds a note hidden Kira in her cellfor examination. It's Things go from her future self and it tells of fourteen escapes. And fourteen failed trips back bad to worse when the past Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to try flee to put things rightthe 61 Cygnus star system. There's She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only one way lefta mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. Em must kill someone As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she loves. may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835193</amazonuk>1529046505
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mitch BennLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=TerraSeven Devils|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Terra Eris is different from everyone else on Fnrr and not only because one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she has vowels was destined to inherit in her namepast life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. You seeClo, Terra isn’t actually from Fnrr. Her adoptive father (Lbbpan ace pilot for the Novantae, has a Fnrrn scientist) rescued mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her from former friend Eris is her parentspartner 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 Bradshawsrunner-up heir to the Empire, on is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the planet Rrth in a moment last of unthinking philanthropythe free alien species. If only heIt'd done s a little more thinking and little less philanthropy…race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132086</amazonuk>1473231140
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 {{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 Frederic Beigbeder and Yannis Panas Frank Wynne (Translatortranslator)|title=What Lot's Wife SawA Life Without End
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{{newreview|author=R J Anderson|title=Quicksilver|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Before I say anything else, I ''must'' warn you. ''Quicksilver'' is billed as a companion novel Move on to [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|UltravioletNewest Short Story Reviews]] with the implication that you could read either first. You can't. You mustn't. So if you haven't read ''Ultraviolet'', go no further. ''Quicksilver'' picks up where [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] left off. But this time, synaesthete Alison is left behind and the story is told from the point of view of Tori|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408316285</amazonuk>}}

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