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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Lock InAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=John ScalziBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=The Hayden disease started off looking like the common flu, but when people fell into comas and did not come out again we realised this was something very different. Twenty years later and society has moved on, with millions of Americans locked into their bodies a ''Opening up new culture has developed; one ways of coma patients being able to control androids or other people. So when a murder happens is it thinking about the body, or the mind that inhabits the body that is at fault? It is up shape of things to FBI agents Chris Shane and Leslie Vann to discovercome.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00LCRWCGU</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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|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|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.''
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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.g. a dream on top of a vision, set in a future alternative world. Juggling all these concepts and creating a novel that is entertaining and at least in some way believable is not easy. This is proven in Peter Clines’ ''Ex-Purgatory'', the fourth outing in the Ex series. Our heroes are used to being surrounded by the undead, but at the start of this novel they wake up in their old lives. What is a dream and what is a reality?|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 that novels should future will be about emotions, inner journeys and despairmore complex than we expected. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as wellInstead of flying cars, but they can also be fun, entertaining we got night-vision killer drones 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 automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to draw magic from bookstrack grandma. 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>}}''
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{{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=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 today's top authors have come together The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to retell classic tales - from fairy stories be capitalised to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind of anthologyhigh heaven, itnever leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a fairly hit-or-miss affairslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, but no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the book forgame of life then. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Time Traveller's Almanac|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer|rating=4|genre=Anthologies|summary=From H.G Wells to ''Doctor Who''Yes, there this is something about the game of life for a good time-travel story certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that has in the power least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to ignite be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the imagination most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in a way unique to the genremost peculiar places, and are still very short. Perhaps However this time it is due to 's different. This time the fact that when dealing with game seems the subject of time travelmost dangerous, nay lethal, literally the most broken it''anything s ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is possibledoing, if it''. Wells even being played, almost anything...apart from going back in time and killing your Grandfatherhow his loved ones might be kept safe, which we know would cause an almighty paradox he is only to find out that the line between observing and probably destroy learning about the universegame, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>1529016932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ParasiteC J Carey|authortitle=Mira GrantWidowland
|rating=4
|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler'Parasite'' is s schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the first part throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the Parasitology series World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and if we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the quality of same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this book is anything most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to go by the next is going drudges, and beyond those, right on down to be highly sought after. It puts us several years into the futurechildless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in a time where medicine has made massive leaps forward and where humans no longer this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take medicationall encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, suffer not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from allergiesBritish civilisation, or even catch and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the common coldparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. These medical advancements are all thanks to SymboGen and That is her job, at least, until the invention first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their intestinal shield, which is a genetically engineered tapeworm designed potential to monitor your body’s functions and correct abnormalitiesspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501922</amazonuk>152941198X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ConquestEverina Maxwell|authortitle=John Connolly and Jennifer RidyardWinter's 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 Curiosity|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Microbiologist Kate Philo is a member of an Arctic expedition sent Note to locate life forms frozen in ice flows. Striking it lucky, she and the team find a human whom they reanimate once they get him back to their American 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 problem. He's Jeremiah, afraid, bewildered and in need of an ally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548753</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=All Our Yesterdays|author=Cristin TerrillSelf: An Education
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Terra In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is different from everyone else on Fnrr using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and not only because she has vowels youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in her name. You seea Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Terra isn’t actually from FnrrXenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. Her adoptive father (LbbpHowever, a Fnrrn scientist) rescued discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her from bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her parentsloses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the BradshawsUnited Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, on and she has to flee to the planet Rrth in 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a moment rag-tag bunch of unthinking philanthropymisfits, and the news is grim. If The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only he'd done a little mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and more thinking and little less philanthropy…players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132086</amazonuk>1529046505
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie HarbonLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=Seven Point Eight: The First ChronicleDevils|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Following several main characters - scientist PaulEris 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, businessman Maxwhom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, remote viewer Tahra and mystery woman Ava - across two time frames spanning an ace pilot for the 1940s Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the present day, 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'Seven Point Eights 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' blends science fiction and fantasy in a sprawling, absorbingplans, diffuse novel that will attract fans with millions of both genres.lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>1473231140
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ioanna Bourazopoulou Frederic Beigbeder and Yannis Panas Frank Wynne (Translatortranslator)|title=What Lot's Wife SawA Life Without End
|rating=4
|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. Itwon's been over 20 years since The Overflow camet be one of the major numbers, flooding half of Europe. Around but the time when I have the same time Violet Salt, a new multi-functional mineral, appeared, its production now governed globally by number as Heinz varieties looms on the mysterious, all-powerful Consortiumhorizon. Meanwhile back in Europe The Colony, And then a haven for those escaping floods and indeed justicefew of the big 0-numbers, is ruled by Governor Bera and six officialsif all goes well, the 'Purple StarsI'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) All seems Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be well in a despotichappy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, lawless way until the six wake up but he might be said to the realisation that the Governor has died mysteriously in the nightbe living one. The Consortium needs answers so choose 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 greatest crossword compiler first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the age, Phileas Booklife of his genes, and a motive to investigate, whether keep on going. But how can he wants get to or not.flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845025474</amazonuk>1642860670
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