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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amie Kaufman and Meagan SpoonerAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=This Shattered WorldAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary=In space, no one can hear you squirm and this is no bad thing if you happen to be Lt. Peter Cochrane, newly out ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the Navy Academy he is put straight on the front line and is prone shape of things to as many mistakes as he come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is heroicswhat happens after you're eighteen. Cochrane has no choiceWell, the son I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of an Admiral; he is deemed technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the best choice to seek out an ancient enemy feeling that has destroyed a starship full it's all getting away from me. Some of Navy Officersit is - frankly - quite frightening. When you are only one of a few Officers left standingOf course, you do 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 you can; even if this does involve blowing stuff up they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and falling who could deliver information in lovea way I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956412</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel SuarezSylvie Cathrall|title=InfluxA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary=We There are told to never judge few greater joys than a book by its cover and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn the front. Since his debut novel, all the Daniel Suarez books I have read had a quote suggesting that he was the legitimate heir which lives up to Michael Crichton. To compare your work with one of the best techno thriller writers of all time is never going to be easy and time after time, Suarez fell short. That is until Influx, a book that finally puts Suarez in the same illustrious company as Crichtoncompelling premise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jo Walton|title=What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading The Classics Of Science Fiction And Fantasy|rating=5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Jo Walton has published over ten books, several of 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 to do all that, but she also writes a regular column for Tor.com, on Science Fiction and Fantasy books, and it 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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gavin Deas M R Carey|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 (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 herself, thank you very much! While the Vril continue to seep into the consciousness of those they find usefulget right – and when it's bad, 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 often terrible. But the premise of cats? No? Give it Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a little while…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195598X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Deas |title=Empireshigh-stakes gamble: 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 groundif it was done well, it'd be fantastic. However, So this is where I will jam sum up that hat right back onto my head if said book forgoes the basic need to entertain in preference of being something 'Meaningful'premise. Gavin Deas, a combination of authors Gavin Smith and Stephen Deas, have tried to do something different, but does it work?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057512900X</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Book of Strange New ThingsMichael Grothaus|authortitle=Michel FaberBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=In ''Under the Skin'But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, Michel Faber fused ordinary, contemporary surroundings with an element of science fiction or we can take steps to spectacular successchange it. He's repeated ' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the trick in The Book question of Strange New Things which once again matches an unlikely sci-fi conceit with identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the crushingly familiar to impressive effectdevelopment of technology 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 futurewill be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, two schoolboys climb we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a hill near their small Scottish towncouple of confessions to make. They encounter some sort of craft, that emits I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a white light few stories and knocks then forget to return to the boys out for several hoursbook. There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's only later that one of human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the boysworld scape are purely incidental. So, Ryanwhat did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, realises he was abducted by AliensI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499420</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionFrontpage|author=Douglas AdamsMark Lingane|ratingtitle=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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=Spark|author=John Twelve Hawks

|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 common flumoon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect'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 and used to soak up the juices in landfillHe's outgoing, but when it is done rightcarefree, it can be excellent. When someone writes a book that is darkly funny, intelligent and a little ultraviolent, you may just have has gotten into many drunken scandals over the perfect mixpast few years. A perfect mix called ‘Koko Takes a Holiday’, by Kieran Shea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168601</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Theatre of the Gods|author=M Suddain|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=M Francisco Fabrigas – unfortunate Arsenal FC connection aside – So when an important political alliance is worthy of your attention. For not only has he proven to be arranged – 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 that is supposed to visit us prevent an interplanetary war – 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 no one expects him to make his way through various universes against galactic popes and worse, all in be chosen for 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 saviourrole. Both are needed to save the universe – or was it fewer Least 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 gratefulall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575647</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Forever WatchRob Winters|authortitle=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 to clear her head and try Note 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 Science fiction genre can easily get wrapped up inside itself if it not careful e.g. a dream on top moon of a visiondistant gas giant, set in a future alternative world. Juggling all these concepts and creating a novel that Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is entertaining and at least in some way believable is not easyhelping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. This is proven in Peter Clines’ ''Ex-Purgatory''However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the fourth outing in moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the Ex series. Our heroes are used entity bonded to being surrounded by her loses control and kills half the staff of the undeadresearch station, but at the start of this novel they wake up United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in their old livesfor examination. What Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is a dream attacked and what is a reality?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00HE6AX3C</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Libriomancer|author=Jim C Hines|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon destroyed by some who believe that novels should be about emotionsan alien ship, inner journeys and despair. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as well, but they can also be fun, entertaining and laser pistols. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is a great example. It is a book that follows Isaac Vainio, a Libriomancer who she has the power to draw magic from books. He must use this gift flee to good effect when one day, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguing, he is attacked by three vampires. Does that sound fun to you? If so, read on; if not, this may not be the book for you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol61 Cygnus star system.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 She is revived aboard the sequelfreighter Wallfish, make that two trains. Launched on the same tracks as the original Snowpiercer, but clearly at a slight remove, was crewed by Captain Falconi and a second milerag-long behemoth tag bunch of a trainmisfits, designed with and 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 morenews is grim. But The same aliens that destroyed the high tech on board, complete with lemon farms, and differing qualities Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of virtual holidays depending on cost and class of customerhuman-occupied space, has not put paid to one aspect of society – and in fact only a mythical weapon known as the sole aspect Staff of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer VolBlue can stop them.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob As the death toll climbs and Jean-Marc Rochette|the first book]] – religion. Some people more players are fearing the end time, when the Icebreaker crashes introduced into the original Snowpiercer. Some believe they're duped into the whole train ideathis war, and are Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand 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…conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=Tesla 1Seven Devils|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Sebastian has lost both his parents. His father died Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a mysterious wasting disease whereas his mother is justresistance 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... well... lost. The only thing he Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has he has to remember his mother by is a note telling him mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to go gather information vital to the mysterious Steam Academywar effort. However, first he has Although she's less than pleased to find his way there in discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a futuristic Australia without widespread technology but with dangerous cyborg warriorssecret that could potentially cripple the Empire. WhatEris's worsebrother Damocles, despite fighting humans in general for thousands of yearsthe runner-up heir to the Empire, the cyborgs now seem is plotting to have turned their attention disrupt peace talks between Tholos and energy to killing Sebastian in particularthe last of the free alien species. WhatIt's he done a race against time as the rebels move to deserve that? More to the point, whatever heput a stop Damocles's doneplans, how can he survive?with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377951</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The EscapeFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|authortitle=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 Earthyet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some but the time in when I have the distant future, the planet can recover from same number as Heinz varieties looms on the cataclysm that froze ithorizon. It's certainly been going on long enough for it to have And then a culture – a hierarchical society from few of the rich big 0-numbers, and leisured classes near the frontif all goes well, through I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the orgiasts, past the useful carriages set aside for producing foodextent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to the underclass at the endbe happy. ItOur author here doesn's all set in its routinet use that exact phrase, set in motionbut he might be said to be living one. But there are two fishes Determined to find out of water how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – a man from the rear who escaped, and a middle-class woman working he hops right into bed with civil rights campaigners.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=God's War|author=Kameron Hurley|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=People who do not like the genre love assistant to lump all Science Fiction into the same pile – massive space ships first geneticist he interviews, and stuff. That they end up with a child, which is just not at least a way of continuing the case. It can range from subtle alternative versions life of our own Earthhis genes, and a motive to Space Sagas set around the orbit of a distant planetkeep on going. Where sci fi gets its bad reputation from is when complex ideas are But how can he get to not explained clearly enough for flick the reader. 'God’s War: Bel Dame Apocryphafinal way out' by Kameron Hurley is one such book; a novel crammed with some great ideasswitch, but also moments of strange confusion.especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091952786</amazonuk>1642860670