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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam ChristopherAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Machine AwakesAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=35

|summary=It is ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the nature shape of human beings things to make life difficult for themselvescome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. If, as a raceWell, you are fighting a war against I must confess that there have been more than a horde few decades of Artificially Intelligent metal spiders, you don’t need technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the added grief feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of internal politicsit is - frankly - quite frightening. In Of course, I could research the possibilities and the world of ‘‘The Spider Wars’’, probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the political situation has just exploded after latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a series of high profile assassinationsway I could understand. Where are the bug hunters when you need them? Too busy hunting hired killers instead!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292032</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daryl GregorySylvie Cathrall|title=Harrison Squared|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=You should never judge a book by its cover, or an author from their back catalogue. Whilst some writers will produce the same sort of adventure over and over again, with the same characters in the same world; others are more like a bag of literal allsorts. A novelist may produce one book that is a satirical and adult; just don’t assume that the next will be the same. In fact, this could be a book from the same publisher, with Letter to the same look and feel, but actually be a young adult novel in disguise…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297646</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ursula K Le Guin|title=The Word for World is ForestLuminous Deep|rating=35

|summary=There probably is an [[:Category:Ursula K Le Guin|Ursula K le Guin]] book for everyone. For fans of consummate, ageless fantasy, there are the first few Earthsea books, that I met as greater joys than a child and still hold in high esteem. For the feminist reader, there are much more recent novels that I would even baulk at putting on book which lives up to a genre shelf, so light are the sci-fi or fantastical trappingscompelling premise. But there are also classics of the former genre, too – hard sci-fi written at one of the past peaks of the form, and deemed timeless, as And this current reprint suggests. These are sci-fi works that mean something – that shine a light on then-current thinking, or then-recent history or actions, but that are still designed to appeal to the hard-core genre fan. The example of ''The Word for World is Forest'' is one such, with an obvious nod to the Vietnam situation. It's a shame then that for me, at the remove of 2015, it doesn't tick many more boxes, all told.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473205786</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=George R R Martin and Lisa Tuttle|title=Windhaven|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=As a huge fan of ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', I love George RR Martin’s writing style and the vivid world and characters he created, and was interested to see what his other work might be like. Conversely, not being at all familiar with Lisa Tuttle, I was even more intrigued to read this bookthem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473208947</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Wingrove1803816759|title=The Empire of TimeUnravelling|author=Will Gibson

|summary=Otto Behr It's 2038 and Joe is a German agent, fighting his Russian counterparts across three millennia bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of historyadventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. With only remnants of But then something goes horribly wrong with the two nations remainingAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, Otto is forced and riots start to travel through time - changing brief moments in order spread. Finally, Joe gets to alter history foreverdo some real policing. As In the aftermath of the stakes grow ever higher - what will Otto be forced rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to do in order bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to end this warsave Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956153</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark StayB0CP95J1CG|title=Robot OverlordsOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=24.5

|summary=In the Ronan's not too distant future, an evil alien robot army has enslaved humanity (as evil robot armies so often do), fitting each person with a tracking implant that will ensure that they remain confined entirely sure why he decides to go to their homes for the next seven yearsparty but his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. Gigantic sentries roam the streets in search And it seems like a good opportunity to get out of lawbreakers and mankind is under constant surveillance. Confinement is making everyone stir-crazy his room and away from the brave few who try to outsmart their captors are incinerated on sightonline activities he makes a living at. The biggest mysterySo he makes his way there, however, is why dodging the buses that make up most of the robots are here traffic and what they want with humankindwatching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Will they really leave, as promised, once the seven years are up? After all, robots never lieHopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473204860</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George MannK P O'Donnell|title=Ghosts of WarThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=In 1920's ManhattanVL-15, a lone hero patrols the streets and the skiesprototype robot, using his immense wealth and futuristic technology is desperate to keep evil at bayunderstand who she is. HoweverUnfortunately, before she could find any answers, at the start world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father''Ghosts of War''s legacy, the Ghost is building a world where machines and humans can live together in mourningharmony, following the tragic events that concluded [[Ghosts but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of Manhattan by George Mann|Ghosts a group of Manhattan]], the first book in salvagers called the series. Thankfully for the Ghost (and for the reader) - Manhattan is under seigeExhumers, and he has little time to lick his woundsentire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Mechanical winged beasts roam Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the skiesslightest, an alcoholic ex-lover is back on the sceneand no errant machine, no savage human tribe and a British spy may have to be dealt with in order to prevent a cold war turning hot...not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294140</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amie Kaufman and Meagan SpoonerEmily Tesh|title=This Shattered WorldSome Desperate Glory|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Stone-faced Captain Jubilee Chase is the best soldier on Avon, a planet in the midst of a rebellion, where the terraforming won’t take, and the mysterious Fury infects soldiers and turns them into mindless killers. Only Lee is immune, and she doesn’t understand why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423171039</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dave Bara|title=Impulse|rating=4

|summary=In space''While Earth's children live, no one can hear you squirm and this is no bad thing if you happen to be Lt. Peter Cochranethe enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of the Earth, newly out amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the Navy Academy he is put straight on home of the front line last scraps of humanity – and is prone trained relentlessly to as many mistakes as he is heroicsavenge her people and the world that should have been hers. Cochrane All her life, she has no choicebeen conditioned to fall in line, the son of an Admiral; he is deemed the best choice to seek out an ancient enemy fulfil her duty and ensure that has destroyed a starship full of Navy Officers. When you are only one of a few Officers left standing, you do what you can; even if this does involve blowing stuff up and falling in lovehumanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956412</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel SuarezM R Carey|title=InfluxInfinity Gate

|summary=We are told I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to never judge science fiction. Not because it's a book by its cover and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn genre I dislike – nothing of the frontsort. Since his debut novelMy standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and when it's bad, all it's often terrible. But the Daniel Suarez books I have read premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a quote suggesting that he high-stakes gamble: if it was the legitimate heir to Michael Crichton. To compare your work with one of the best techno thriller writers of all time is never going to done well, it'd be easy and time after time, Suarez fell shortfantastic. That So this is until Influx, a book where I sum up that finally puts Suarez in the same illustrious company as Crichtonpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo WaltonMichael Grothaus|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 is these columns that a selection of which are collected here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472111613</amazonuk>}}{{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>}}{{newreview|author=Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H and the Voice of the CastleBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=''Agatha H But fearing something 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 having it come 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 Agatha's mission is complicated by several things: 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 heiress.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178116651X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Greg Keyes|title=Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The Earth is dying – dust storms pass 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 two different career; he lives with the father of his deceased wife and their two children in amongst the cornthings. But when some mysterious happenings keep occurring in the bedroom that was his wifeAnd I's as a young girl and is now their daughter's, a m willing to bet most unlikely chain of events leads him to find clues that could revive his past – that in fact of a highly trained astronautwhat we fear will never happen, with the one last potential mission – that of a shortcut to the stars in the trails of prior manned probes or we can take steps to detect new habitable planets for what's left of mankind…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783293691</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Baxter|title=Ultima|rating=3change it.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 ''UltimaBeautiful Shining People'' begins - on a world where revolves around the Roman Empire never fellquestion of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology and culture is markedly different as a resultexciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575116870</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Deas 1739593901|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 22 Ideas About 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>}}{{newreviewFuture|author=Justin Richards|title=The Blood Red City Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Never War 2Editors)

|summary=Unbeknown ''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to most track grandma.'' I've got a couple of the world who have their eyes confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the unfolding events of World War II, the alien Vril continue their invasionbook. There are those among the allies who know that the conflict has taken an other-worldly turn's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. For instance British IntelligenceThen there's science fiction: far too often it's Guy Pentecross continues to do what he can the technology which takes centre stage 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 artefactsworld-building. Will our heroes understand the significance before itIt's too late? Oh human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are you afraid purely incidental. So, what did I think of catsa book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? No? Give Well, I loved it a little while…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195598X</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gavin Deas Mark Lingane|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 FaberGalaxy

|summary=In ''Under Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Skin''Space Academy, Michel Faber fused ordinarybarely makes it through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, contemporary surroundings with an element of science fiction he remembers little and is in no physical shape to spectacular successresume his duties. But Earth is under threat and he must. He's repeated Returned by his superiors to the trick in The Book of Strange New Things which once again matches an unlikely scispace station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity -fi conceit with and not just from the crushingly familiar to impressive effectalien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782114068</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=DescentTade Thompson|authortitle=Ken MacLeodFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=4.5

|summary=In Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the relatively near futuresleeper ship Ragtime, two schoolboys climb bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a hill near their small Scottish townbabysitter for the ship's AI captain. They encounter some sort However, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of crafther passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that emits a white light her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and knocks his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the boys out for several hoursRagtime. ItMeanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's only later that one father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the five of them discover on the boysRagtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, Ryan, realises he was abducted by Aliens.but potentially the entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499420</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreview|title=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionFrontpage|author=Douglas AdamsClaire North|rating=5|genretitle=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 Notes 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 HawksBurning Age

|summary=Jacob Underwood At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is deada spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. At leastHowever, as with the best novels, he thinks he it wears many masks and its most affecting one is. Suffering the after effects that of a traumatic accidentnew and timely genre, Jacob believes he is deadcli-fi, just or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a spark existing inside a body, but unable world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to fully interact with anything around him. Emotionally detached start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and living in a shadowycorrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, silent worldweapons of mass destruction, Jacob intensive farming). There is the ideal assassin. When a new hit is assigned to himgrowing unhappiness with this limiting world, Jacob must prepare himself - and his journey will change both his selfone group, the Brotherhood, and how he sees aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the world around himEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593073312</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeAdrian Tchaikovsky|title=Faraday: 3 (Tesla Evolution)Shards of Earth|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Alert: if you haven't read Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the first two Tesla booksArchitects. Humanity is scattered, this contains spoilers. So if you'd like constantly fleeing as world after world falls to come back once youthe architect've read them?Sebastian and his friends finally get out of s reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Hive but did he do it in Architects vanished. And so, the right way or has he caused a chain reaction that will destroy memories of the world? Seb war fades, heroes are forgotten, and Melanie don't have too much time humanity begins to reason that out though as they travel across Australia fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to continue try and communicate with the war against the cyborgs Architects, does not want to be remembered. But, when he and the mysterious Iris. Perhaps if Seb realised they were taking one crew of the most dangerous foes with himsalvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, they'd reconsider he slowly begins to realise that the passenger list?real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992593514</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreview|title=The Hive ConstructFrontpage|author=Alexander Maskill|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=New Cairo is a city on lockdown. A strange new virus has appeared, seemingly from nowhere, affecting a large percentage of the population and indiscriminately shutting down their ''bio augs'';artificial limbs and organs. Until the virus can be contained, no one is allowed to leave the city, a decision that does not go down well with those as yet unaffected and keen to remain that way. Despite the quarantine, someone is actually trying to break INTO the city; a gifted hacker called Zala Ulora who plans to destroy the virus in the hope that the resulting gratitude of the authorities will clear her criminal record. The city is a dangerous place to be, however, as a rising mass of rebels seek to break free from quarantine and the source of the spreading virus seems untraceable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522213</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTerry Miles|title=Lock In|author=John ScalziRabbits

|summary=Welcome to the world of The Hayden disease started off looking like Game. Or should that be the common flugame, but when people fell into comas and did not come out again we realised for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this was something very differentbook. Twenty years later It'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 society has moved onfast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, with millions this is the game of Americans locked into their bodies life for a new culture has developed; one certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of coma patients being able webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to control androids or other peoplebe historians of the game, 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 most peculiar places, and are still very short. So when a murder happens is However this time it 's different. This time the bodygame seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, or the mind that inhabits most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the body that game is at fault? It doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is up only to FBI agents Chris Shane find out that the line between observing and Leslie Vann to discoverlearning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00LCRWCGU</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ReplicaC J Carey|authortitle=Jack HeathWidowland|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=There is It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a tendency for adults bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to feel embarrassed about reading young adult fictionthe throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, but this book demonstrates Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a focus protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on a younger character shouldn’t prevent a wider audience from enjoying a good story. ''Replicathe mainland'' . But this is most certainly a strange different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and compelling combination ideas of actionfemale purpose, mysteryhas put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, thriller the husbandless and science-fictionthe widows. Heath has even included a hint of a romanceFemale literacy is actively discouraged. There And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is something employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for everyone and although the female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book raises some challenging can be banned, and thought-provoking problemsnot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the text party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is easy-her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to-readlight, immersive and unpretentiouswith their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273766X</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AfterpartyEverina Maxwell|authortitle=Daryl GregoryWinter's Orbit

|summary=People have been taking pills Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and seeing God for has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years, but in ''Afterparty'' Daryl Gregory . So when an important political alliance is taking the idea of smart drugs to be arranged – one step further. What happens if after a particularly bad trip you have that is supposed to prevent an omnipresent God with you? Is this a sense of wellbeing, or are you now just schizophrenic? In the near future people take drugs not only interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for their cures, but also their side effects and seeing deities may be the worst side effect role. Least of allhim.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294582</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dark Between the StarsRob Winters|authortitle=Kevin J AndersonHis Name Was Wren|rating=34|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=From my experience Opera should be left to fans In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of the art form, or BBC4Hurstwick. HoweverIt came down hard, there is one sort of opera that I will take notice taking the spire ofthe village church with it, the Space Opera – destroying a term that encompasses science fiction on an epic scale e.g. Dune. stone shack, Starting an all-new Space Opera is and leaving a daunting task for both reader and writerwide trail through the wood, but no trace of what it actually was. In ‘The Dark Between German secret weapon was the Stars’, Kevin J Anderson not only had to create new worlds full of interesting characterslocal gossip, but we the reader there should have to get our head around all the concepts at once. Thereforebeen an explosion and a crater, having the story told from the point and there were neither of view of up to twenty different people is probably not the wisest thing to dothose things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00K1HRZKK</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Koko Takes a HolidayMark Lingane|authortitle=Kieran SheaNote to Self: An Education|rating=54

|summary=Pulp science fiction is not as easy In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a genre cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to carry off as you may think; their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it takes more than just a voluptuous catsuit's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-wearing alien firing off laser cannons (but that can only help)age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} Pulp {{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 often just that; pulphelping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. It should be shredded After the entity bonded to her loses control and used kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to soak up the juices take Kira in landfill, but for examination. Things go from bad to worse when it the Extenuating Circumstances is done rightattacked and destroyed by an alien ship, it can be excellentand she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. When someone writes She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a book rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. The same aliens that is darkly funnydestroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, intelligent and only a little ultraviolentmythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, you Kira slowly begins to realise that she may just have had a greater hand in the perfect mix. A perfect mix called ‘Koko Takes a Holiday’, by Kieran Shea.conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168601</amazonuk>1529046505

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Theatre of the GodsLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|authortitle=M SuddainSeven Devils|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=M Francisco Fabrigas – unfortunate Arsenal FC connection aside – Eris is worthy one of your attention. For not only has he proven to be one the foremost operatives of the longer-lasting humans Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in this universeher past life as Princess Discordia, he whom everyone believed has also been in other universesdead for years. And at Clo, an ace pilot for the sameNovantae, other universehas a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's Fabrigas's have come less than pleased to visit us – or discover that her former friend Eris is it her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the other way round? Either way, he has been engaged in an epic adventure where he ends up on mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a moon full of toxic plants, and inside dread behemothssecret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, 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 kungrunner-fu-powered computer chip, and a caring but blind young female saviour. Both are needed up heir to save the universe – or was it fewer of themEmpire, but more universes? This book is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the much-sought-after, long-lost, often-censored account last of his derring-do, as close to being from the horsefree alien species. It's mouth a race against time as is possiblethe rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, and with the sheer complexity millions of lives hanging in the circumstances and contrivances on every page, we should be grateful.balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099575647</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Forever WatchFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|authortitle=David RamirezA Life Without End

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Great science fiction is made up of many partsI looked at the calendar the other week, but three things are vital for it to become and disappointedly realised I have a classic; world buildingbirthday this year – I know, story and characteryet another one. If It won't be one of these three elements is slightly below the others, a great novel can be punished. In ‘The Forever Watch’ by Daniel Ramirez we have a fantastic world in the form of the spaceship Noah, a great character in the form of Hanamajor numbers, but does the story quite match up to time when I have the rest?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144478790X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nnedi Okorafor|title=Lagoon|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Three people walk along a Lagos beach same number as Heinz varieties looms on the world changeshorizon. Adaora is strolling to clear her head And then a few of the big 0-numbers, and try to understand why her husband hit her earlier tonightif all goes well, I'll be an OBE. Rap artist Anthony (known to his parents as EdgarWhich of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) is having a post Now if that's the extent of my mid-gig wanderlife crisis, I guess I have to be happy. The thirdOur author here doesn't use that exact phrase, Agu, is covered in bloodbut he might be said to be living one. The fact that Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he's on hops right into bed with the assistant to the beach is immaterial; first geneticist he just needs help. Then it happens. A boominterviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a bat falls stunned from way of continuing the sky life of his genes, and then nothing is the same againa motive to keep on going. The strangersBut how can he get to not flick the ' futures all become one and the creature arrives; the creature they call Ayodele.final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444762753</amazonuk>1642860670