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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Greg KeyesAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The Earth is dying – dust storms are ravaging the world and blight killing off all useful crops, meaning farmers are vital to keep the few people to have survived recent wars fed, even if they need to go further and use less arable lands to do so. Cooper is one such man, despite a history in a completely different career; he lives with the father of his deceased wife and their two children in amongst the corn. But when some mysterious happenings keep occurring in the bedroom that was his wifeAll Tomorrow's as a young girl and is now their daughter's, a most unlikely chain of events leads him to find clues that could revive his past – that in fact of a highly trained astronaut, with the one last potential mission – Futures: Fictions that of a shortcut to the stars in the trails of prior manned probes to detect new habitable planets for what's left of mankind…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783293691</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDisrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Baxter|title=Ultima|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=In ''Proxima'', alien hatches were discovered across the galaxy, hatches that when opened caused completely unimaginable events to occur - amongst many strange happenings, one character suddenly had a twin she didn't have previously , and one hatch led to a different earth, where the Roman Empire never died. It is there that ''Ultima'' begins - on a world where the Roman Empire never fell, and the technology and culture is markedly different as a result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575116870</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gavin Deas |title=Empires: Infiltration|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=When is a book, not a book? When it is an experiment of course! Empires: Infiltration is one part of a two book series that explores the same story from differing points of view. I started reading the other half, [[Empires: Extraction by Gavin Deas|Empires: Extraction]], first, but can now fill in some of the narrative gaps as I start again. This time we view an alien threat by the race known as The Pleasure, through the eyes of Corporal Noel Barnes. By book’s end, will I have an appreciation of this daring literary experiment, or will I conclude that narrative has been the same for hundreds of years for a reason?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057512928X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Justin Richards|title=The Blood Red City Oram (Never War 2Editors)

|summary=Unbeknown to most of the world who have their eyes on the unfolding events of World War II, the alien Vril continue their invasion. There are those among the allies who know that the conflict has taken an other-worldly turn. For instance British Intelligence's Guy Pentecross continues to do what he can along with Sarah Diamond who is now SOE trained so can handle herself, thank you very much! While the Vril continue to seep into the consciousness 'Opening up new ways of those they find useful, they seem to have turned their attention to some ancient archaeological artefacts. Will our heroes understand thinking about the significance before it's too late? Oh and are you afraid of cats? No? Give it a little while…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195598X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gavin Deas |title=Empires: Extraction|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=I will take my hat off to any author or authors who partake shape of experimental fiction; trying things to do something a little differently to push new groundcome. However, I will jam that hat right back onto my head if said book forgoes the basic need to entertain in preference of being something 'Meaningful'. Gavin Deas, a combination of authors Gavin Smith and Stephen Deas, have tried to do something different, but does it work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057512900X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Book of Strange New Things|author=Michel Faber|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=In I've heard it said that 'Under the Skintechnology'is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, Michel Faber fused ordinary, contemporary surroundings with an element I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of science fiction to spectacular successtechnology in my lifetime. He I've kept up reasonably well with what's repeated advantageous to me but I'm left with the trick in The Book feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of Strange New Things which once again matches an unlikely sciit is - frankly -fi conceit with quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the crushingly familiar to impressive effectlatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114068</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=DescentSylvie Cathrall|authortitle=Ken MacLeodA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary=In the relatively near future, two schoolboys climb There are few greater joys than a hill near their small Scottish town. They encounter some sort of craft, that emits book which lives up to a white light and knocks the boys out for several hourscompelling premise. It's only later that And this is one of the boys, Ryan, realises he was abducted by Aliensthem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499420</amazonuk>0356522776

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive Edition1803816759|author=Douglas Adams|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summarytitle=There are few series that have garnered such a cult following as 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'. Whether the fans have come from the radio series, the (impossibly hard) computer game, or the (well intentioned but not particularly good) film, they are everywhere. Ask a room of people what the meaning of life is, and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with '42' as the answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=SparkUnravelling|author=John Twelve HawksWill Gibson

|summary=Jacob Underwood It's 2038 and Joe is deada bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. At least, he thinks he isJoe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Suffering But then something goes horribly wrong with the after effects of a traumatic accidentAI system that now runs everything, Jacob believes he is deadmaking life easier for many, just a spark existing inside a bodyand riots start to spread. Finally, but unable Joe gets to fully interact with anything around himdo some real policing. Emotionally detached In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and living in a shadowy, silent world, Jacob Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the ideal assassin. When a new hit is assigned only one trying to himsave Suki - Dylan, Jacob must prepare himself - a British superfan and his journey will change both his selftech nerd, and how he sees is also on the world around himcase.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073312</amazonuk>What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0CP95J1CG|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Alert: if you havenRonan't read s not entirely sure why he decides to go to the first two Tesla books, this contains spoilersparty but his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. So if you'd And it seems like a good opportunity to come back once you've read them?Sebastian and his friends finally get out of his room and away from the Hive but did online activities he makes a living at. So he do it in the right makes his way or has he caused a chain reaction that will destroy there, dodging the world? Seb and Melanie don't have too much time to reason buses that out though as they travel across Australia to continue make up most of the war against the cyborgs traffic and watching the mysterious Irislocal energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully. Perhaps if Seb realised they were taking one of the most dangerous foes with him, they'd reconsider the passenger list?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992593514</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Hive ConstructK P O'Donnell|authortitle=Alexander MaskillThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|summary=New Cairo VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is a city on lockdown. A strange new virus has appearedUnfortunately, before she could find any answers, seemingly from nowherethe world ended, affecting a large percentage consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of the population and indiscriminately shutting down their ''bio augs'';artificial limbs Drexel and organsRenada. Until the virus can be containedOver half-a-century later, no one civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is allowed determined to leave the citycontinue her father's legacy, building a decision that does not go world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down well with those as yet unaffected and keen to remain that wayagain. Despite the quarantineCraig Anderson, someone is actually trying to break INTO the city; leader of a gifted hacker group of salvagers called Zala Ulora who plans to destroy the virus Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the hope that the resulting gratitude of the authorities will clear her criminal record. The city is a dangerous place to beslightest, howeverand no errant machine, as a rising mass of rebels seek to break free from quarantine no savage human tribe and the source of the spreading virus seems untraceable.not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522213</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Lock InEmily Tesh|authortitle=John ScalziSome Desperate Glory

|summary=The Hayden disease started off looking like the common flu''While Earth's children live, 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 new culture has developed; one of coma patients being able to control androids or other people. So when a murder happens is it the body, or the mind that inhabits the body that is at fault? It is up to FBI agents Chris Shane and Leslie Vann to discover.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00LCRWCGU</amazonuk>}}enemy shall fear us''

{{newreview|title=Replica|author=Jack Heath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=There is a tendency for adults to feel embarrassed about reading young adult fictionFollowing the destruction of the Earth, but this book demonstrates that a focus on a younger character shouldn’t prevent a wider audience from enjoying a good story. ''Replica'' is amongst a strange and compelling combination rare number of action, mysterysurvivors, thriller and science-fiction. Heath Kyr has even included a hint been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of a romance. There is something for everyone humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and although the book raises some challenging and thought-provoking problemsworld that should have been hers. All her life, the text is easy-she has been conditioned to-readfall in line, immersive to fulfil her duty and unpretentiousensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273766X</amazonuk>0356521834

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AfterpartyM R Carey|authortitle=Daryl GregoryInfinity Gate

|summary=People have been taking pills and seeing God for years, but in I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it'Afterpartys a genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and when it' Daryl Gregory is taking s bad, it's often terrible. But the idea premise of smart drugs one step furtherInfinity Gate had me hooked. What happens if after a particularly bad trip you have an omnipresent God with you? Is A concept this intriguing felt like a sense of wellbeinghigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, 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 it'd be the worst side effect of allfantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294582</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreview|title=The Dark Between ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the Stars|author=Kevin J Anderson|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=From my experience Opera should be left to fans question of the art form, or BBC4identity and acceptance. However, there is one sort of opera that I will take notice of, the Space Opera – a term that encompasses science fiction on an epic scale eOf what it means to be human.g. Dune. Starting an all-new Space Opera Of what is a daunting task for both reader real and writer. In ‘The Dark Between the Stars’what is artificial, Kevin J Anderson not only had to create new worlds full of interesting characters, but we and whether the reader have to get our head around all the concepts at once. Therefore, having the story told from the point development of view of up to twenty different people technology is probably not the wisest thing to doexciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00K1HRZKK</amazonuk>191458564X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=Koko Takes a Holiday22 Ideas About The Future|author=Kieran SheaBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary=Pulp science fiction is not as easy a genre to carry off as you may think; it takes ''Our future will be more complex than just a voluptuous catsuit-wearing alien firing off laser cannons (but that can only help)we expected. Pulp is often just that; pulp. It should be shredded Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and used automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to soak up the juices in landfill, but when it is done right, it can be excellent. When someone writes a book that 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 Sheatrack grandma.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168601</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=Theatre I've got a couple of the Gods|author=M Suddain|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=M Francisco Fabrigas – unfortunate Arsenal FC connection aside – is worthy of your attentionconfessions to make. For I'm not only has he proven keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to be one of the longer-lasting humans in this universe, he has also been in other universesbook. And at the same, other universeThere's Fabrigasgot to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's have come to visit us – or is science fiction: far too often it 's the other way round? technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. 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, It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology 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 saviourworld scape are purely incidental. Both are needed to save the universe – or was it fewer So, what did I think of them, but more universes? This a book is the much-sought-after, long-lost, often-censored account of his derringtwenty-dotwo science fiction short stories? Well, 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 gratefulI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575647</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Forever WatchMark Lingane|authortitle=David RamirezGalaxy

|summary=Great science fiction Spark, who is made up of many partsan elite pilot with the Space Academy, but three things are vital for barely makes it to become through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a classic; world buildingcoma that lasted years, story he remembers little and characteris in no physical shape to resume his duties. If one of these three elements But Earth is slightly below the others, a great novel can be punishedunder threat and he must. In ‘The Forever Watch’ Returned by Daniel Ramirez we have a fantastic world in his superiors to the form of the spaceship Noahspace station, he finds himself amid a great character in last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from the form of Hanaalien threats against it, but does the story quite match up to the rest?also from its own sins against itself. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144478790X</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nnedi OkoraforTade Thompson|title=LagoonFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=4.5

|summary=Three people walk along Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a Lagos beach as babysitter for the world changesship's AI captain. Adaora is strolling However, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to clear find dozens of her head passengers butchered and try the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to understand why realise that her husband hit her earlier tonightfirst mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Rap artist Anthony (known Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to his parents as Edgar) is having a post-gig wanderdiscover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. The thirdMeanwhile, Aguformer astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, is covered half-alien daughter in blood. The fact that he's on tow, to see why the beach is immaterial; he just needs help. Then it happens. A boomRagtime has gone quiet, a bat falls stunned from leaving behind the sky politicking and then nothing is bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the same again. The strangers' futures all become one and five of them discover on the creature arrives; Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the creature they call Ayodele.entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444762753</amazonuk>0356514323

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Burning DarkClaire North|authortitle=Adam ChristopherNotes from the Burning Age

|summary=In spaceAt its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, no one can hear you scream interrogations and for night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the skeleton crew best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of the Ua new and timely genre, cli-Star Coast City this is redundant anyway as no one cares if they dofi, or climate change fiction. Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland is about North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start early retirementanew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, but he is given one last job overseeing the dismantling weapons of this space station that orbits a forbidding star that gives off an eerie radiationmass destruction, intensive farming). With only There is a couple of hundred people left on growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the massive stationBrotherhood, it is pretty quiet. This makes it easier aims to hear master these processes no matter the things going bump in cost to the night – a night that continues 24 hoursEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292016</amazonuk>0356514757

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ex-PurgatoryAdrian Tchaikovsky|authortitle=Peter ClinesShards of Earth|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=A book in Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the Science fiction genre can easily get wrapped up inside itself if it not careful emoon-sized aliens known as the Architects.gHumanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's reshaping. a dream Then, just when they had the human race on top the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of a visionthe war fades, heroes are forgotten, set in a future alternative worldand humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Juggling all these concepts and creating Idris Telemmier, a novel that is entertaining man genetically engineered to try and at least in some way believable is communicate with the Architects, does not easywant to be remembered. This is proven in Peter Clines’ ''Ex-Purgatory''But, when he and the fourth outing in crew of the Ex seriessalvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. Our heroes are used As he and his allies bounce from star system to being surrounded star system, chased by the undeadalien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, but at he slowly begins to realise that the start of this novel they wake up in their old lives. What real war is a dream and what is a reality?only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00HE6AX3C</amazonuk>1529051886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LibriomancerTerry Miles|authortitle=Jim C HinesRabbits

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=Pulp fantasy may Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should the game, for while it ought to be about emotionscapitalised to high heaven, inner journeys and despairit never leaves lower case throughout this book. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as wellanyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, but they can also be funno hard and fast structure, entertaining and laser pistolsto the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines Yes, this is the game of life for a great examplecertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. It is a book People like our hero, K, named like that follows Isaac Vainioin the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, a Libriomancer 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 power to draw magic from booksmost peculiar places, and are still very short. He must use However this gift to good effect when one daytime it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguingnay lethal, he is attacked by three vampiresthe most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Does that sound fun Unfortunately for K, in trying to you? If sosort out what the game is doing, read on; if notit's even being played, this may not and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the book for youline between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>1529016932

 {{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>}} {{newreviewC J Carey|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc RochetteWidowland

|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary=All It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of humankind is living on Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a single trainbit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. I For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know British commuters feel that way at timesit, but this is and we are now a much different circumstance protectorate – it is a train miles longwell, running non-stop we share enough of the same blood as a self-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earth, moving the Germanic peoples on endlessly until, perhaps some time in ''the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze itmainland''. It's But this is most certainly been going on long enough a different Britain, for it to have Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a culture – a hierarchical society caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the rich drudges, and leisured classes near the frontbeyond those, through right on down to the orgiastschildless, past the useful carriages set aside for producing food, to husbandless and the underclass at the endwidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. It's all set And in its routinethis puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, set in motion. But there are two fishes is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of water it – a man after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from the rear who escapedBritish civilisation, and so they just get a middle-class woman working hefty tweak towards the party 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 civil rights campaignerstheir potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Everina Maxwell|title=GodWinter's War|author=Kameron HurleyOrbit|rating=35

|summary=People who do not like the genre love to lump all Science Fiction Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the same pile – massive space ships and stuffpast few years. That So when an important political alliance is just not the case. It can range from subtle alternative versions of our own Earth, to Space Sagas set around the orbit of a distant planet. Where sci fi gets its bad reputation from be arranged – one that is when complex ideas are not explained clearly enough supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the readerrole. 'God’s War: Bel Dame Apocrypha' by Kameron Hurley is one such book; a novel crammed with some great ideas, but also moments Least of strange confusionall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091952786</amazonuk>0356515885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Channel BlueRob Winters|authortitle=Jay MartelHis Name Was Wren|rating=3.54|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=What if the planet you called home wasn’t just a random blob In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the universevillage of Hurstwick. It came down hard, orbiting a far off star. What if taking the spire of the things that happened on it weren’t entirely down to chance or fate or whatever you want to call village church with it. What if, actuallydestroying a stone shack, life on Earth was less random and moreleaving a wide trail through the wood, well, scheduled than you might like to admitbut no trace of what it actually was. Someone up there, calling German secret weapon was the shots, deciding when to send in ‘natural’ disasters, influencing how things work, people behave, countries are run. Not a God, mindlocal gossip, but something far crazier: there should have been an explosion and a television executive. Earth is the reality show to end all reality showscrater, and while its inhabitants have no clue every second there were neither of their lives is being watched and edited, that doesn’t stop them behaving in a way that keeps the viewers highly entertainedthose things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855803</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Plastic JesusMark Lingane|authortitle=Wayne SimmonsNote to Self: An Education|rating=34

|summary=Johnny Lyon is In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a computer coding expert spiralling out cascade of control following 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 death side effect of erasing seven years of his lover. Johnny’s colleague Sarah convinces their boss Garcon that he needs Johnny for a project that memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is perfect for him (creating a virtual reality Jesus) and just might help him using the same technique to concentrate on something other than his loss"de-age" their customers by seven years. They embark on In a project society obsessed with potentially monumental impact within a world of degradation image and violence in a city ruled over by organised crime king pin Paul McBride. Many storylines collide as the project effects more people than Johnny realises.youth, who needs memories?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907773630</amazonuk>B08LY8J4KS}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 StoriesChristopher Paolini|authortitle=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott and othersTo Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating=5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=ItOn the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed surface leaves her bonded with a lot since first being seen fifty years ago – strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and I don't mean kills half the staff of the title characterresearch station, but the nature of United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the programmesystem to take Kira in for examination. It has gone Things go from black bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and whitedestroyed by an alien ship, and cheaply produced, and declared disposable, she has to flee to being an essential part of the BBC61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, fullcrewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-gloss digitaltag bunch of misfits, and accessed in the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all manner of ways. So with the celebratory programme still ringing in our earshuman-occupied space, and leaving people pressing only a red button to see a programme about three Doctors, er, pressing a red button, we turn to other aspects mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the birthday bonanza. Such as death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this bookwar, which has also mutated Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in 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 covers.conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>1529046505

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rags Laura Lam and BonesElizabeth May|authortitle=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)Seven Devils|rating=4.5|genre=AnthologiesScience Fiction|summary=Some Eris is one of today's top authors have come together to retell classic tales - from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind the foremost operatives of anthologythe Novantae, it's a fairly hit-or-miss affairresistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, but an ace pilot for the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the book forwar effort. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Time TravellerAlthough she's Almanac|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer|rating=4|genre=Anthologies|summary=From H.G Wells less than pleased to ''Doctor Who'', there discover that her former friend Eris is something about her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a good time-travel story secret that has could potentially cripple the power to ignite Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the imagination in a way unique runner-up heir to the genre. Perhaps it Empire, is due plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the fact that when dealing with last of the subject of free alien species. It's a race against time travel, literally ''anything is possible'as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles'. Wellplans, almost anything...apart from going back with millions of lives hanging in time and killing your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy the universe.balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>1473231140

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ParasiteFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|authortitle=Mira GrantA Life Without End

|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. It won''Parasite'' is t be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the first part horizon. And then a few of the Parasitology series big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the quality extent of this book is anything my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to go by the next is going be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be highly sought afterliving one. It puts us several years 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 futureassistant to the first geneticist he interviews, in and they end up with a time where medicine has made massive leaps forward and where humans no longer take medicationchild, suffer from allergies, or even catch which is at least a way of continuing the common cold. These medical advancements are all thanks to SymboGen and the invention life of their intestinal shieldhis genes, which is and a genetically engineered tapeworm designed motive to monitor your body’s functions and correct abnormalitieskeep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501922</amazonuk>1642860670

{{newreview|title=Conquest|author=John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The Earth has been invaded by the Illyri, a vaguely humanoid race far in advance of humankind, who were able to conquer the planet gently by proving how futile it would be to resist. They are keen Move on to ensure the human race remains compliant, but are mostly keen to avoid bloodshed. Humankind, however, is not a race to take conquest lying down. There is a very active resistance, particularly in Scotland, where the Scots come out of the Highlands to strike on the Illyri garrisons and power bases in cities like Edinburgh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147220963X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Short Story Reviews]]