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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel SuarezAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=InfluxAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary=We are told ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to never judge a book by its cover and come.'' I've heard it said that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn the front'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Since his debut novel Well, all the Daniel Suarez books I must confess that there have read had been more than a quote suggesting that he was the legitimate heir few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to Michael Crichton. To compare your work me but I'm left with one of the best techno thriller writers feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of all time it is never going to be easy - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and time after time, Suarez fell shortend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. That is until Influx, I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a book that finally puts Suarez in the same illustrious company as Crichtonway I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo WaltonSylvie Cathrall|title=What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading The Classics Of Science Fiction And FantasyA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=AnthologiesScience Fiction|summary=Jo Walton has published over ten books, several of There are few greater joys than a book which have been award winning. On top of that, she has a voracious appetite for books - both as a well respected writer of original fiction, but as a well respected reviewer too. Not only does she have time lives up to do all that, but she also writes a regular column for Torcompelling premise.com, on Science Fiction and Fantasy books, and it And this is these columns that a selection one of which are collected herethem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472111613</amazonuk>0356522776

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria Aveyard1803816759|title=Red QueenThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Mare It's 2038 and Joe is a Red - bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a race kept in lives bit of poverty adventure and servitude by to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the SilversAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them riots start to live lives of luxuryspread. Learning Finally, Joe gets to survive amongst do some real policing. In the slum like conditions that aftermath of the Reds inhabit, Mare rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is swiftly thrown into the world of assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the Silvers - only one that proves trying to be more dangerous than she had ever imaginedsave Suki - Dylan, with treacherya British superfan and tech nerd, plots and deadly games lurking round every corneris also on the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peyton Marshall B0CP95J1CG|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>}} {{newreviewOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H and the Voice of the CastleMark Lingane|rating=4.5

|summary=Ronan''Agatha H and the Voice of s not entirely sure why he decides to go to the Castle'' party but his interest is piqued by the third novel in the Girl Genius series, adapted from the award-winning steampunk-style webcomicway it arrived. Following the dramatic events And it seems like a good opportunity to get out of his room and away from 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 online activities he makes a devastating attack by “The Otherliving at.” Of courseSo he makes his way there, in dodging the world buses that make up most of Girl Genius, nothing is straightforward the traffic and Agatha's mission is complicated by several things: watching the castle is a sadistic sentient being with a fractured personality; Agatha has a copy of her evil mother locked away inside her brain that could reappear at any moment AND a huge pink airship has just appeared in Mechanicsburg heralding the arrival of a fake Heterodyne heiresslocal energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116651X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Greg KeyesK P O'Donnell|title=Interstellar: The Official Movie NovelizationVital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|summary=The Earth is dying – dust storms are ravaging the world and blight killing off all useful cropsVL-15, meaning farmers are vital to keep the few people to have survived recent wars feda prototype robot, even if they need is desperate to go further and use less arable lands to do sounderstand who she is. Cooper is one such manUnfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, despite a history consumed in a completely different career; he lives with an apocalyptic war between the father nations of his deceased wife Drexel and their two children in amongst the cornRenada. But when some mysterious happenings keep occurring in the bedroom that was his wife's as Over half-a young girl and -century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is now their daughterdetermined to continue her father'slegacy, building a most unlikely chain of events leads him to find clues that could revive his past – that world where machines and humans can live together in fact harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a highly trained astronautgroup of salvagers called the Exhumers, with the one last potential mission – that of has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a shortcut to the stars prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the trails of prior manned probes to detect new habitable planets for whatslightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's left of mankind…ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783293691</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen BaxterEmily Tesh|title=UltimaSome Desperate Glory|rating=34.5

|summary=In ''Proxima'While Earth's children live, 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 didnenemy shall fear us''t have previously , and one hatch led to a different earth, where the Roman Empire never died.

It is there that ''Ultima'' begins - Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on a world where Gaea Station – the home of the Roman Empire never fell, last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the technology world that should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and culture is markedly different as a resultensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575116870</amazonuk>0356521834

 {{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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin RichardsM R Carey|title=The Blood Red City (Never War 2)Infinity Gate

|summary=Unbeknown I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to most of the world who have their eyes on the unfolding events science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of World War II, the alien Vril continue their invasionsort. There My standards are those among the allies who know that the conflict has taken an other-worldly turn. For instance British Intelligencehigh precisely because it's Guy Pentecross continues a hard genre to do what he can along with Sarah Diamond who is now SOE trained so can handle herselfget right – and when it's bad, thank you very much! While the Vril continue to seep into it's often terrible. But the consciousness premise of those they find usefulInfinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, 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…d be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195598X</amazonuk>0356518043

{{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 of experimental fiction; trying to do something a little differently to push new ground. 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 Beautiful Shining People''Under revolves around the Skin'', Michel Faber fused ordinary, contemporary surroundings with an element question of science fiction identity and acceptance. Of what it means to spectacular successbe human. He's repeated Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the trick in The Book development of Strange New Things which once again matches an unlikely sci-fi conceit with the crushingly familiar to impressive effecttechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782114068</amazonuk>191458564X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=Descent22 Ideas About The Future|author=Ken MacLeodBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary=In the relatively near ''Our future, two schoolboys climb a hill near their small Scottish townwill be more complex than we expected. They encounter some sort Instead of craftflying cars, that emits a white light we got night-vision killer drones and knocks the boys out for several hoursautomated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma. It's only later that one of the boys, Ryan, realises he was abducted by Aliens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499420</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive Edition|author=Douglas Adams|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=There are few series that have garnered such I've got a cult following couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as 'The Hitchhikers Guide I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the Galaxybook. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Whether Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the fans have come from technology which takes centre stage along with the radio series, world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the (impossibly hard) computer game, or technology and the (well intentioned but not particularly good) film, they world scape are everywherepurely incidental. Ask So, what did I think of a room book of people what the meaning of life istwenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with '42' as the answerI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SparkMark Lingane|authortitle=John Twelve HawksGalaxy

|summary=Jacob Underwood Spark, who is deadan elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive. At least, he thinks he isHis co-pilot was not so fortunate. Suffering the after effects of Waking from a traumatic accidentcoma that lasted years, Jacob believes he remembers little and is dead, just a spark existing inside a body, but unable in no physical shape to fully interact with anything around himresume his duties. Emotionally detached But Earth is under threat and living in a shadowy, silent world, Jacob is the ideal assassinhe must. When a new hit is assigned Returned by his superiors to himthe space station, Jacob must prepare he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and his journey will change both his selfnot just from the alien threats against it, and how he sees the world around himbut also from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593073312</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeTade Thompson|title=Faraday: 3 (Tesla Evolution)Far From the Light of Heaven

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Alert: if you havenMichelle 't read Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the first two Tesla booksworld of Bloodroot, this contains spoilersshe will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. So if youHowever, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime'd like s AI almost non-responsive, she begins to come back once yourealise that her first mission won've read them?Sebastian t be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his friends finally get out of android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Hive but did he do it in the right way or has he caused a chain reaction that will destroy the world? Seb Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and Melanie donfriend of Shell't have too much time s father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to reason that out though as they travel across Australia Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to continue see why the war against Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the cyborgs politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the mysterious Iris. Perhaps if Seb realised they were taking one five of them discover on the most dangerous foes with himRagtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, they'd reconsider but potentially the passenger list?entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992593514</amazonuk>0356514323

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Hive ConstructClaire North|authortitle=Alexander MaskillNotes from the Burning Age|rating=3.54

|summary=New Cairo At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a city on lockdown. A strange new virus has appearedspy thriller, seemingly from nowherewith as many double crosses, affecting a large percentage of the population interrogations and indiscriminately shutting down their ''bio augs'';artificial limbs and organsnight time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. Until However, as with the virus can be containedbest novels, no it wears many masks and its most affecting one is allowed to leave the city, that of a decision that does not go down well with those as yet unaffected new and keen to remain that waytimely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. Despite the quarantine, someone is actually trying to break INTO the city; North's novel tells of a gifted hacker called Zala Ulora who plans world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to destroy start anew and live alongside nature without any of the virus in the hope that the resulting gratitude modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of the authorities will clear her criminal recordmass destruction, intensive farming). The city There is a dangerous place to begrowing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, howeverthe Brotherhood, as a rising mass of rebels seek aims to break free from quarantine and master these processes no matter the source of cost to the spreading virus seems untraceableEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522213</amazonuk>0356514757

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Lock InAdrian Tchaikovsky|authortitle=John ScalziShards of Earth|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The Hayden disease started off looking like Eighty years ago, 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 common fluarchitect's reshaping. Then, but just when people fell into comas and did not come out again we realised this was something very differentthey had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. Twenty years later and society has moved onAnd so, with millions the memories of Americans locked into their bodies a new culture has developed; one of coma patients being able the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to control androids or other peoplefracture and fight among themselves. So when Idris Telemmier, a murder happens is it man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the bodyArchitects, or does not want to be remembered. But, when he and the mind that inhabits crew of the body that salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is at fault? It is up thrust back into the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to FBI agents Chris Shane star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and Leslie Vann rich slavers, he slowly begins to discover.realise that the real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00LCRWCGU</amazonuk>1529051886

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ReplicaTerry Miles|authortitle=Jack HeathRabbits

|summary=People have been taking pills and seeing God Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for yearswhile it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, but in it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It''Afterparty'' Daryl Gregory s also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is taking the idea game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of smart drugs one step furtherwebs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. What happens if after a particularly bad trip you K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have an omnipresent God with you? Is this a sense studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of wellbeingwho has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, or and are you now just schizophrenic? In still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the near future people take drugs not only most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for their curesK, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, but also their side effects and seeing deities may how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the worst side effect of allline between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294582</amazonuk>1529016932

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dark Between the StarsC J Carey|authortitle=Kevin J AndersonWidowland|rating=34|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=From my experience Opera should be left It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to fans 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 art formthrone of Edward VIII with his wife, or BBC4Queen Wallis. HoweverFor yes, there is one sort of opera Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that I will take notice certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of, the Space Opera – a term that encompasses science fiction same blood as the Germanic peoples on an epic scale e.g. Dune''the mainland''. Starting an all-new Space Opera But this is most certainly a daunting task different Britain, for both reader Nazi-styled phrenology, and writer. In ‘The Dark Between ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the Stars’drudges, and beyond those, Kevin J Anderson not only had right on down to create new worlds full of interesting charactersthe childless, but we the reader have to get our head around all husbandless and the concepts at oncewidows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. ThereforeAnd in this puritanical existence, having our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story told excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the point first emerging signs of view of up female protest come to twenty different people is probably not the wisest thing light, with their potential to dospoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00K1HRZKK</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Koko Takes a HolidayEverina Maxwell|authortitle=Kieran SheaWinter's Orbit

|summary=Pulp science fiction Prince Kiem is not as easy a genre 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)famous political disappointment. Pulp is often just that; pulp. It should be shredded He's outgoing, carefree, and used to soak up has gotten into many drunken scandals over the juices in landfill, but past few years. So when it an important political alliance is done right, it can to be excellent. When someone writes a book arranged – one that is darkly funny, intelligent and a little ultraviolent, you may just have supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the perfect mixrole. A perfect mix called ‘Koko Takes a Holiday’, by Kieran SheaLeast of all him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168601</amazonuk>0356515885

 {{newreview|title=Theatre of the GodsFrontpage|author=M Suddain|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 longer-lasting humans in this universe, he has also been in other universes. And at the same, other universe's Fabrigas's have come to visit us – or is it the other way round? Either way, he has been engaged in an epic adventure where he ends up on a moon full of toxic plants, and inside dread behemoths, and fought to make his way through various universes against galactic popes and worse, all in the company of two unfortunate young people – a vicious and caring deaf lad who is more or less a kung-fu-powered computer chip, and a caring but blind young female saviour. Both are needed to save the universe – or was it fewer of them, but more universes? This book is the much-sought-after, long-lost, often-censored account of his derring-do, as close to being from the horse's mouth as is possible, and with the sheer complexity of the circumstances and contrivances on every page, we should be grateful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575647</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRob Winters|title=The Forever Watch|author=David RamirezHis Name Was Wren

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Great science fiction is made up In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of many parts, but three things are vital for it to become a classic; world building, story and characterHurstwick. If one It came down hard, taking the spire of these three elements is slightly below the othersvillage church with it, destroying a great novel can be punished. stone shack, In ‘The Forever Watch’ by Daniel Ramirez we have and leaving a fantastic world in wide trail through the form wood, but no trace of what it actually was. German secret weapon was the spaceship Noahlocal gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a great character in the form crater, and there were neither of Hana, but does the story quite match up to the rest?those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144478790X</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nnedi OkoraforMark Lingane|title=Lagoon|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Three people walk along a Lagos beach as the world changes. Adaora is strolling Note to clear her head and try to understand why her husband hit her earlier tonight. Rap artist Anthony (known to his parents as Edgar) is having a post-gig wander. The third, Agu, is covered in blood. The fact that he's on the beach is immaterial; he just needs help. Then it happens. A boom, a bat falls stunned from the sky and then nothing is the same again. The strangers' futures all become one and the creature arrives; the creature they call Ayodele.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444762753</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Burning Dark|author=Adam ChristopherSelf: An Education

|summary=In spaceKry's world, no one can hear you scream and for the skeleton crew discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of the U-Star Coast City this is redundant anyway as no one cares if they do. Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland is about medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to start early retirementtheir regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but he is given one last job overseeing with the dismantling side effect of this space station that orbits a forbidding star that gives off an eerie radiation. With only a couple erasing seven years of hundred people left on memory, by 2045 the massive station, it cosmetics industry is pretty quietusing the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. This makes it easier to hear the things going bump in the night – In a night that continues 24 hours.society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292016</amazonuk>B08LY8J4KS}} {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ex-PurgatoryChristopher Paolini|authortitle=Peter ClinesTo Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=A book in On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the Science fiction genre can easily get wrapped up inside itself if it not careful e.gplanet habitable to human life. However, a dream on top discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a visionstrange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, set the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in a future alternative worldthe system to take Kira in for examination. Juggling all these concepts Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and creating a novel that is entertaining destroyed by an alien ship, and at least in some way believable is not easyshe has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. This She is proven in Peter Clines’ ''Exrevived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-Purgatory''tag bunch of misfits, and the fourth outing in news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Ex series. Our heroes Extenuating Circumstances are used to being surrounded by the undeadnow wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, but at and only a mythical weapon known as the start Staff of this novel they wake up in their old livesBlue can stop them. What is a dream As the death toll climbs and what is more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a reality?greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00HE6AX3C</amazonuk>1529046505

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LibriomancerLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|authortitle=Jim C HinesSeven Devils|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should be about emotionsEris 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, inner journeys and despairwhom everyone believed has been dead for years. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as wellClo, but they can also be funan ace pilot for the Novantae, entertaining and laser pistolshas a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is a great exampleher partner on this mission. It is Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a book secret that follows Isaac Vainiocould potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, a Libriomancer who has the power runner-up heir to draw magic from books. He must use this gift to good effect when one daythe Empire, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguing, he is attacked by three vampiresplotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. Does that sound fun It's a race against time as the rebels move to you? If so, read on; if notput a stop Damocles' plans, this may not be with millions of lives hanging in the book for you.balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>1473231140

 {{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 Frederic Beigbeder 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>}} {{newreviewFrank Wynne (translator)|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc RochetteA Life Without End

|genre=Graphic NovelsLiterary Fiction|summary=All of humankind is living on a single train. I know British commuters feel that way looked at timesthe calendar the other week, but and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this is a much different circumstance year – it is a train miles longI know, running non-stop as a self-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earth, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time in the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze ityet another one. Itwon's certainly been going on long enough for it to have a culture – a hierarchical society from t be one of the rich and leisured classes near the frontmajor numbers, through but the orgiasts, past time when I have the useful carriages set aside for producing food, to the underclass at same number as Heinz varieties looms on the endhorizon. It's And then a few of the big 0-numbers, and if all set in its routinegoes well, set in motionI'll be an OBE. But there are two fishes out (Which of water – a man from the rear who escaped, and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaignerscourse stands for Over Bloody Eighty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=God) Now if that's War|author=Kameron Hurley|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=People who do not like the genre love to lump all Science Fiction into the same pile – massive space ships and stuff. That is just not the case. It can range from subtle alternative versions extent of our own Earthmy mid-life crisis, I guess I have to Space Sagas set around the orbit of a distant planet. Where sci fi gets its bad reputation from is when complex ideas are not explained clearly enough for the readerbe happy. Our author here doesn'God’s War: Bel Dame Apocrypha' by Kameron Hurley is one such book; a novel crammed with some great ideast use that exact phrase, but also moments of strange confusionhe might be said to be living one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091952786</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Channel Blue|author=Jay Martel|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=What if the planet you called home wasn’t just a random blob in the universe, orbiting a far off star. What if the things that happened on it weren’t entirely down Determined to chance or fate or whatever you want find out how to call it. What if, actually, prolong life on Earth was less random and more, well, scheduled than you might for as long as he wants – he would like to admit. Someone up there, calling see 400 – he hops right into bed with the shots, deciding when assistant to send in ‘natural’ disastersthe first geneticist he interviews, influencing how things work, people behave, countries are run. Not and they end up with a Godchild, mind, but something far crazier: which is at least a television executive. Earth is way of continuing the reality show to end all reality showslife of his genes, and while its inhabitants have no clue every second of their lives is being watched and edited, that doesn’t stop them behaving in a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way that keeps the viewers highly entertained.out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781855803</amazonuk>1642860670

{{newreview|title=Plastic Jesus|author=Wayne Simmons|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Johnny Lyon is a computer coding expert spiralling out of control following 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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Short Story Reviews]]