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 {{newreview|author=Victoria Aveyard|title=Red Queen|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mare is a Red - a race kept in lives of poverty and servitude by the Silvers, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them to live lives of luxury. Learning to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabit, Mare is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers - one that proves to be more dangerous than she had ever imagined, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every corner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peyton Marshall |title=Goodhouse|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=There have been times in history when governments have thought they knew who the criminal underclass was. This did not lead to anything good under the Nazis and the same can be said of the Goodhouse regime. If we knew that certain genetics led to an increased chance of criminality, wouldn’t educating these people when they were young be a good thing? Prevention is better than cure, but I am not sure if fascism is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085752190X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Foglio and Kaja FoglioAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H and the Voice of the Castle|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Agatha H and the Voice of the Castle'' is the third novel in the Girl Genius series, adapted from the award-winning steampunk-style webcomic. Following the dramatic events of the previous two books, this volume sees Agatha returning to her family home in Mechanicsburg in order to claim her place as 'The Heterodyne'. She also needs to restore her war-damaged ancestral castle, which is in poor condition following a devastating attack by “The Other.” Of course, in the world of Girl Genius, nothing is straightforward and AgathaAll Tomorrow's mission is complicated by several thingsFutures: the castle is a sadistic sentient being with a fractured personality; Agatha has a copy of her evil mother locked away inside her brain Fictions that could reappear at any moment AND a huge pink airship has just appeared in Mechanicsburg heralding the arrival of a fake Heterodyne heiress.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116651X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDisrupt|author=Greg Keyes|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 Benjamin Greenaway and their two children in amongst the corn. But when some mysterious happenings keep occurring in the bedroom that was his wife'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 – 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>}} {{newreview|author=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 ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the world who have their eyes on the unfolding events shape of World War II, the alien Vril continue their invasionthings to come. 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 of those they find useful, they seem to have turned their attention to some ancient archaeological artefacts. Will our heroes understand 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 've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my hat off lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to any author or authors who partake me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of experimental fiction; trying to do something a little differently to push new groundit is - frankly - quite frightening. HoweverOf course, I will jam that hat right back onto my head if said book forgoes could research the possibilities and the basic need to entertain in preference of being something probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'Meaningfulm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Gavin Deas, I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a combination of authors Gavin Smith and Stephen Deas, have tried to do something different, but does it work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057512900X</amazonuk>way I could understand.

 {{newreview|title=The Book of Strange New ThingsFrontpage|author=Michel FaberSylvie Cathrall|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summarytitle=In ''Under the Skin'', Michel Faber fused ordinary, contemporary surroundings with an element of science fiction A Letter to spectacular success. He's repeated the trick in The Book of Strange New Things which once again matches an unlikely sci-fi conceit with the crushingly familiar to impressive effect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782114068</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Descent|author=Ken MacLeodLuminous 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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The ExplorersC J Carey|authortitle=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc RochetteWidowland|rating=4.5|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 train. Oh sorrybit, as this is and watching over the sanctioned return to the sequelthrone of Edward VIII with his wife, make that two trainsQueen Wallis. Launched on For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the same tracks World War Two that certainly didn't happen as the original Snowpiercerwe know it, but clearly at and we are now a slight removeprotectorate – well, was a second mile-long behemoth we share enough of a train, designed with the latest high tech to be completely self-sustaining same blood as it travelled ceaselessly the Germanic peoples on ''the tracks encircling a frozen Earth, waiting for the time the world was inhabitable once moremainland''. But the high tech on boardthis is most certainly a different Britain, complete with lemon farmsfor Nazi-styled phrenology, and differing qualities of virtual holidays depending on cost and class ideas of customerfemale purpose, has not put paid all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to one aspect of society – the drudges, and in fact beyond those, right on down to the childless, the sole aspect of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob husbandless and Jean-Marc Rochette|the first book]] – religionwidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. Some people are fearing And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the end timetask of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, when not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpiercer. Some believe party line before they're duped into the whole train idea, and are in fact on a spacecraftstamped ready for reprint. Some people know something else – That is her job, at least, until the rare few explorers who get first emerging signs of female protest come to go outside the train into the world beyondlight, and see glimpses of what came before…with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeEverina Maxwell|title=Tesla 1Winter's Orbit|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|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 Prince Kiem 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 warriorsfamous political disappointment. WhatHe's worseoutgoing, despite fighting humans in general for thousands of yearscarefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the cyborgs now seem to have turned their attention and energy to killing Sebastian in particularpast few years. What's he done So when an important political alliance is to deserve be arranged – one that? More is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the point, whatever he's done, how can he survive?role. Least of all him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377951</amazonuk>0356515885

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The EscapeRob Winters|authortitle=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc RochetteHis Name Was Wren

|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=All In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of humankind is living on a single trainHurstwick. I know British commuters feel that way at timesIt came down hard, but this is a much different circumstance – taking the spire of the village church with it is a train miles long, running non-stop as a self-contained unit across tracks circling destroying a desolately frozen Earth, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time in the distant futurestone shack, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze it. It's certainly been going on long enough for it to have a culture – and leaving a hierarchical society from the rich and leisured classes near the front, wide trail through the orgiastswood, past the useful carriages set aside for producing food, to the underclass at the endbut no trace of what it actually was. It's all set in its routineGerman secret weapon was the local gossip, set in motion. But but there are two fishes out of water – should have been an explosion and a man from the rear who escapedcrater, and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaignersthere were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=God's WarMark Lingane|authortitle=Kameron HurleyNote to Self: An Education|rating=34

|summary=People who do not like In Kry's world, the genre love 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 lump all Science Fiction into cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same pile – massive space ships technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and stuff. youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} That {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is just not helping with the caseefforts to make the planet habitable to human life. It can range from subtle alternative versions However, a discovery of our own Earth, an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to Space Sagas set around her loses control and kills half the orbit staff of a distant planetthe research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Where sci fi gets its Things go from bad reputation from to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is when complex ideas are not explained clearly enough for attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the reader61 Cygnus star system. 'God’s War: Bel Dame Apocrypha' She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Kameron Hurley Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is one such book; grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a novel crammed with some great ideas, but also moments mythical weapon known as the Staff of strange confusionBlue can stop them.As the death toll climbs and more 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>0091952786</amazonuk>1529046505

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Channel BlueLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|authortitle=Jay MartelSeven Devils|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What if Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the planet you called home wasn’t just Novantae, a random blob resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the universeNovantae, orbiting has a far off star. What if the things that happened on it weren’t entirely down mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to chance or fate or whatever you want gather information vital to call itthe war effort. What if, actually, life on Earth was Although she's less random and more, well, scheduled than you might like pleased to admitdiscover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Someone Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up there, calling heir to the shotsEmpire, deciding when is plotting to send in ‘natural’ disasters, influencing how things work, people behave, countries are rundisrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. Not a God, mind, but something far crazier: It's a television executive. Earth is race against time as the reality show rebels move to end all reality showsput a stop Damocles' plans, and while its inhabitants have no clue every second with millions of their lives is being watched and edited, that doesn’t stop them behaving hanging in a way that keeps the viewers highly entertained.balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855803</amazonuk>1473231140

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Plastic JesusFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|authortitle=Wayne SimmonsA Life Without End|rating=34|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Johnny Lyon is a computer coding expert spiralling out of control following I looked at the calendar the death of his lover. Johnny’s colleague Sarah convinces their boss Garcon that he needs Johnny for a project that is perfect for him (creating a virtual reality Jesus) and just might help him to concentrate on something other than his loss. They embark on a project with potentially monumental impact within a world of degradation 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773630</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Doctor Who: 11 Doctorsweek, 11 Stories|author=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott and others|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed disappointedly realised I have a lot since first being seen fifty years ago birthday this year – and I donknow, yet another one. It won't mean be one of the title charactermajor numbers, but the nature of time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the programmehorizon. It has gone from black and white, and cheaply produced, and declared disposable, to being an essential part And then a few of the BBC, fullbig 0-gloss digitalnumbers, and accessed in if all manner goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of wayscourse stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) So with Now if that's the celebratory programme still ringing in our earsextent of my mid-life crisis, and leaving people pressing a red button I guess I have to see a programme about three Doctorsbe happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, er, pressing a red button, we turn but he might be said to other aspects of the birthday bonanzabe living one. Such Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as this bookhe wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespan, from being is at least a loose collection way of eleven short e-book novellas written by continuing the blazing lights life of YA writinghis genes, and a motive to a huge and brilliant paperback collecting everything within one set of coverskeep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>1642860670

{{newreview|title=Rags and Bones|author=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Some of today's top authors have come together Move on to retell classic tales - from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind of anthology, it's a fairly hit-or-miss affair, but the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up the book for. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Short Story Reviews]]