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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kirsty LoganAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= The GracekeepersAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summaryauthor= In a future in which the sea has flooded the world, Callanish is a gracekeeper – administering shoreside burials and sending the dead to rest in the depths of the ocean. The solitary life of tending watery graves serving as penance for a long-ago mistake. Meanwhile, North is a circus performer – living with a flouting troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers and trainers, and with only a bear for a friend. An offshore storm leads to a chance meeting between North and Callanish – Benjamin Greenaway and a chance to change both of their lives. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846559162</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jon A Davidson|title=System: With his face in the sunStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=3.5

|summary=Wallace Blair, like everyone else, is used to ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the benefits shape of a life guided by The Systemthings to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. After allWell, The System knows bestI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. However he is somewhat dismayed when he wakes I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to a System message on his Commcuff informing him that his happy marriage is about to be dissolved and me but I'm left with the feeling thatit's not his only concernall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. After being sent to retrieve papers from his grandfather's houseOf course, Wallace reflects on how long itI could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's been since hem reading someone who knows what they's seen re talking about or the old manlatest conspiracy theorist. Wallace decides to drop I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in on him but what should be a trip to an elderly care facility takes him down an unexpected path.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1511491094</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melissa Landers|title=Alienated|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Two years ago, aliens made contact. Now, Cara Sweeney has been chosen to host Aelyx, a L'eihr exchange student. The first exchange student. Cara gets a free ride to any college she chooses out of the deal, some excellent material for her blog, and a chance to be a part of history, helping in her own way to form an alliance between the two racesI could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423185250</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersSylvie Cathrall|title=InvadedA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary=It is the nature of human beings to make life difficult for themselves. If, as a race, you There are fighting few greater joys than a war against book which lives up to a horde of Artificially Intelligent metal spiders, you don’t need the added grief of internal politicscompelling premise. In the world And this is one of ‘‘The Spider Wars’’, the political situation has just exploded after a series of high profile assassinationsthem. Where are the bug hunters when you need them? Too busy hunting hired killers instead!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292032</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daryl Gregory1803816759|title=Harrison SquaredThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=34

|summary=You should never judge It's 2038 and Joe is a book by its cover, or an author from their back cataloguebored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Whilst some writers will produce the same sort Joe longs for a bit of adventure over and over again, to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the same characters in AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the same world; others are more like a bag aftermath of literal allsortsthe rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. A novelist may produce Joe isn't the only one book that is trying to save Suki - Dylan, a satirical British superfan and adult; just don’t assume that the next will be tech nerd, is also on the samecase. In fact, this could be a book from What went wrong? Did the same publisher, with the same look and feel, but actually be a young adult novel in disguise…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297646</amazonuk>system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ursula K Le GuinB0CP95J1CG|title=The Word for World is ForestOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=34.5

|summary=There probably Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is an [[:Category:Ursula K Le Guin|Ursula K le Guin]] book for everyonepiqued by the way it arrived. For fans And it seems like a good opportunity to get out of consummate, ageless fantasy, there are his room and away from the first few Earthsea books, that I met as online activities he makes a child and still hold in high esteem. For the feminist reader, there are much more recent novels that I would even baulk living at putting on a genre shelf, so light are the sci-fi or fantastical trappings. But So he makes his way there are also classics of the former genre, too – hard sci-fi written at one of dodging the past peaks buses that make up most of the form, traffic and deemed timeless, as 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 watching the hard-core genre fanlocal energy storage indicator lights. The example of ''The Word for World is Forest'' is one such, with an obvious nod to the Vietnam situationShould be enough power. It's a shame then that for me, at the remove of 2015, it doesn't tick many more boxes, all toldHopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473205786</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George R R Martin and Lisa TuttleK P O'Donnell|title=WindhavenThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|summary=Otto Behr is VL-15, a German agentprototype robot, fighting his Russian counterparts across three millennia of historyis desperate to understand who she is. With only remnants of Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the two nations remainingof Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, Otto civilisation is forced starting to travel through time - changing brief moments rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in order to alter history foreverharmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. As Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the stakes grow ever higher Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL- what 15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will Otto be forced to do in order to end this war?stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956153</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark StayEmily Tesh|title=Robot OverlordsSome Desperate Glory|rating=24.5

|summary=In the not too distant future, an evil alien robot army has enslaved humanity (as evil robot armies so often do)''While Earth's children live, fitting each person with a tracking implant that will ensure that they remain confined to their homes for the next seven years. Gigantic sentries roam enemy shall fear us'' Following the streets in search destruction of lawbreakers and mankind is under constant surveillance. Confinement is making everyone stir-crazy and the brave few who try to outsmart their captors are incinerated on sight. The biggest mysteryEarth, howeveramongst a rare number of survivors, is why Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the robots are here and what they want with humankind. Will they really leave, as promised, once home of the seven years are up? After all, robots never lie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473204860</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=George Mann|title=Ghosts last scraps of War|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In 1920's Manhattan, a lone hero patrols the streets humanity – and the skies, using his immense wealth trained relentlessly to avenge her people and futuristic technology to keep evil at bay. However, at the start of ''Ghosts of War'', the Ghost is in mourning, following the tragic events world that concluded [[Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann|Ghosts of Manhattan]], the first book in the seriesshould have been hers. Thankfully for the Ghost (and for the reader) - Manhattan is under seigeAll her life, and he she has little time been conditioned to lick his wounds. Mechanical winged beasts roam the skies, an alcoholic ex-lover is back on the scenefall in line, to fulfil her duty and a British spy may have to be dealt with in order to prevent a cold war turning hot..ensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294140</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amie Kaufman and Meagan SpoonerM R Carey|title=This Shattered WorldInfinity Gate

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Stone-faced Captain Jubilee Chase is I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the best soldier on Avonsort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and when it's bad, a planet in it's often terrible. But the midst premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a rebellionhigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, where the terraforming won’t take, and the mysterious Fury infects soldiers and turns them into mindless killersit'd be fantastic. Only Lee So this is immune, and she doesn’t understand whywhere I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423171039</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave BaraMichael Grothaus|title=ImpulseBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=In space''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, no one or we can hear you squirm take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and this is no bad thing if you happen acceptance. Of what it means to be Lthuman. Peter Cochrane, newly out of the Navy Academy he Of what is put straight on the front line real and what is prone to as many mistakes as he is heroics. Cochrane has no choiceartificial, and whether the son development of an Admiral; he technology is deemed the best choice to seek out an ancient enemy 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 loveexciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956412</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Suarez1739593901|title=Influx22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary=We are told ''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 never judge track grandma.'' I've got a book by its cover and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn the frontcouple of confessions to make. Since his debut novel, all the Daniel Suarez books I'm not keen on short stories as I have find it easy to read had a quote suggesting that he was few stories and then forget to return to the legitimate heir book. There's got to Michael Crichtonbe a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. To compare your work Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with one of the best techno thriller writers of all time is never going to be easy world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and time after time, Suarez fell shortthe world scape are purely incidental. That is until Influx So, what did I think of a book that finally puts Suarez in the same illustrious company as Crichtonof twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo WaltonMark Lingane|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 CastleGalaxy

|summary=''Agatha H and the Voice of the Castle'' Spark, who is an elite pilot with the third novel in the Girl Genius seriesSpace Academy, adapted from the awardbarely makes it through a battle alive. His co-winning steampunk-style webcomicpilot was not so fortunate. Following the dramatic events of the previous two booksWaking from a coma that lasted years, this volume sees Agatha returning to her family home he remembers little and is in Mechanicsburg in order no physical shape to claim her place as 'The Heterodyne'resume his duties. She also needs to restore her war-damaged ancestral castle, which But Earth is in poor condition following a devastating attack under threat and he must. Returned by “The Other.” Of course, in his superiors to the world of Girl Geniusspace station, nothing is straightforward he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - 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 not just appeared in Mechanicsburg heralding from the arrival of a fake Heterodyne heiressalien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178116651X</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Greg KeyesTade Thompson|title=Interstellar: The Official Movie NovelizationFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=34.5

|summary=The Earth Michelle 'Shell' Campion is dying – dust storms are ravaging fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world and blight killing off all useful cropsof Bloodroot, meaning farmers are vital to keep she will essentially be a babysitter for the few people to have survived recent wars fedship's AI captain. However, even if they need when she wakes up at the end of her trip to go further find dozens of her passengers butchered and use less arable lands the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to do sorealise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Cooper is one such manDown on Bloodroot, despite a history in a completely different career; he lives with the father of disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his deceased wife and their two children in amongst android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the cornRagtime. But when some mysterious happenings keep occurring in the bedroom that was his wifeMeanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's as father Lawrence Biz takes a young girl and is now their shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter'sin tow, a most unlikely chain of events leads him to find clues that could revive his past – that in fact of a highly trained astronautsee why the Ragtime has gone quiet, with leaving behind the one last potential mission – that politicking and bureaucracy of a shortcut to Space Station Lagos. What the stars in five of them discover on the trails of prior manned probes to detect new habitable planets Ragtime has ramifications not just for what's left Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of mankind…human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783293691</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen BaxterClaire North|title=UltimaNotes from the Burning Age|rating=3.54

|summary=In At its core ''ProximaNotes From the Burning Age''by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, alien hatches were discovered across as with the galaxybest novels, hatches that when opened caused completely unimaginable events to occur - amongst it wears many strange happenings, masks and its most affecting one character suddenly had is that of a twin she didn't have previously new and timely genre, and one hatch led to a different earthcli-fi, where the Roman Empire never diedor climate change fiction. It is there that ''Ultima'North' begins - on s novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where the Roman Empire never fell, humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the technology modern and culture corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is markedly different as a resultgrowing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575116870</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gavin Deas Adrian Tchaikovsky|title=Empires: InfiltrationShards of Earth|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=When is a bookEighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, not a book? When it is warped into an experiment of course! Empires: Infiltration unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is one part of a two book series that explores scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the same story from differing points of viewarchitect's reshaping. I started reading Then, just when they had the human race on the other halfrun, [[Empires: Extraction by Gavin Deas|Empires: Extraction]]the Architects vanished. And so, first, but can now fill in some the memories of the narrative gaps as I start againwar fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. This time we view an alien threat by Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the race known as The PleasureArchitects, does not want to be remembered. But, through when he and the eyes crew of Corporal Noel Barnesthe salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. By book’s endAs he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, will I have an appreciation of this daring literary experimentchased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, or will I conclude he slowly begins to realise that narrative has been the same for hundreds of years for a reason?real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057512928X</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin RichardsTerry Miles|title=The Blood Red City (Never War 2)Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Unbeknown to most of the world who have their eyes on the unfolding events of World War II, the alien Vril continue their invasion. There are those among the allies who know that the conflict has taken an other-worldly turn. For instance British Intelligence's Guy Pentecross continues to do what he can along with Sarah Diamond who is now SOE trained so can handle herself, thank you very much! While the Vril continue to seep into the consciousness of those they find useful, they seem to have turned their attention to some ancient archaeological artefacts. Will our heroes understand the significance before it's too late? Oh and are you afraid of cats? No? Give it a little while…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195598X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Deas |title=Empires: Extraction|rating=3

|summary=I will take my hat off Welcome to any author or authors who partake the world of experimental fiction; trying The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to do something high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a little differently slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to push new groundthe average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. HoweverPeople like our hero, K, I will jam named like that hat right back onto my head if said book forgoes in the basic need least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to entertain be 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 preference of being something the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it'Meaningfuls different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Gavin DeasUnfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, a combination of authors Gavin Smith and Stephen Deashow his loved ones might be kept safe, have tried he is only to do something differentfind out that the line between observing and learning about the game, but does and playing it work?, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057512900X</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Book of Strange New ThingsC J Carey|authortitle=Michel FaberWidowland

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=In 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 bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, 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 protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''Under the Skinmainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, Michel Faber fused ordinaryfor Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, contemporary surroundings has 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, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with an element the task of science fiction bowdlerising classical literature to spectacular successtake all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. He's repeated That is her job, at least, until the trick in The Book first emerging signs of Strange New Things which once again matches an unlikely sci-fi conceit female protest come to light, with the crushingly familiar their potential to impressive effectspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782114068</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=DescentEverina Maxwell|authortitle=Ken MacLeodWinter's Orbit

|summary=In the relatively near future, two schoolboys climb Prince Kiem is a hill near their small Scottish townfamous political disappointment. They encounter some sort of craftHe's outgoing, carefree, that emits a white light and knocks has gotten into many drunken scandals over the boys out for several hourspast few years. It's only later So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no 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 a cult following as 'The Hitchhikers Guide expects him to be chosen for the Galaxy'role. 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 Least of life is, and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with '42' as the answerall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SparkRob Winters|authortitle=John Twelve HawksHis Name Was Wren

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Jacob Underwood is dead. At leastIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, he thinks he isnear the village of Hurstwick. Suffering It came down hard, taking the after effects spire of the village church with it, destroying a traumatic accidentstone shack, Jacob believes he is dead, just and leaving a spark existing inside a bodywide trail through the wood, but unable to fully interact with anything around himno trace of what it actually was. Emotionally detached and living in a shadowy, silent world, Jacob is German secret weapon was the ideal assassin. When a new hit is assigned to himlocal gossip, Jacob must prepare himself - but there should have been an explosion and his journey will change both his selfa crater, and how he sees the world around himthere were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593073312</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage

|title=FaradayNote to Self: 3 (Tesla Evolution)An Education|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alert: if you haven't read the first two Tesla books, this contains spoilers. So if you'd like to come back once you've read them?Sebastian and his friends finally get out of the Hive but did he do it in the right way or has he caused a chain reaction that will destroy the world? Seb and Melanie don't have too much time to reason that out though as they travel across Australia to continue the war against the cyborgs and the mysterious Iris. Perhaps if Seb realised they were taking one of the most dangerous foes with him, they'd reconsider the passenger list?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992593514</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Hive Construct|author=Alexander Maskill|rating=3.5

|summary=New Cairo is a city on lockdown. A strange new virus has appearedIn Kry's world, seemingly from nowhere, affecting the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a large percentage cascade of the population and indiscriminately shutting down medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it''bio augs'';artificial limbs and organs. Until s possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the virus can be containedside effect of erasing seven years of memory, no one by 2045 the cosmetics industry is allowed using the same technique to leave the city, "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a decision that does not go down well society obsessed with those as yet unaffected image and keen to remain that way. Despite youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the quarantinemoon of a distant gas giant, someone Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is actually trying helping with the efforts to break INTO make the city; planet habitable to human life. However, a gifted hacker called Zala Ulora who plans discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to destroy her loses control and kills half the virus staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the hope that system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the resulting gratitude of Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the authorities will clear her criminal record61 Cygnus star system. The city She is a dangerous place to berevived aboard the freighter Wallfish, however, as crewed by Captain Falconi and a rising mass rag-tag bunch of rebels seek to break free from quarantine misfits, and the source news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the spreading virus seems untraceableStaff of Blue can stop them.As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522213</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Lock InLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|authortitle=John ScalziSeven Devils|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The Hayden disease started off looking like Eris is one of the common fluforemost operatives of the Novantae, but when people fell into comas and did not come out again we realised this a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was something very differentdestined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Twenty years later and society Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has moved on, with millions of Americans locked into their bodies a new culture has developed; one of coma patients being able mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased to control androids or other peoplediscover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. So when Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a murder happens is it secret that could potentially cripple the bodyEmpire. Eris's brother Damocles, or the mind that inhabits runner-up heir to the body that is at fault? It Empire, is up plotting to FBI agents Chris Shane disrupt peace talks between Tholos and Leslie Vann the last of the free alien species. It's a race against time as the rebels move to discover.put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00LCRWCGU</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ReplicaFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|authortitle=Jack HeathA Life Without End|rating=4.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=There is I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a tendency for adults to feel embarrassed about reading young adult fictionbirthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, but this book demonstrates that a focus the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on a younger character shouldn’t prevent a wider audience from enjoying a good storythe horizon. ''Replica'' is And then a strange and compelling combination few of actionthe big 0-numbers, mysteryand if all goes well, thriller and science-fictionI'll be an OBE. Heath has even included a hint (Which of a romancecourse stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) There is something for everyone and although Now if that's the book raises some challenging and thoughtextent of my mid-provoking problemslife crisis, the text is easy-I guess I have to-read, immersive and unpretentiousbe happy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273766X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Afterparty| Our author=Daryl Gregory|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=People have been taking pills and seeing God for yearshere doesn't use that exact phrase, but in ''Afterparty'' Daryl Gregory is taking the idea of smart drugs he might be said to be living one step further. What happens if after Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a particularly bad trip you have an omnipresent God with you? Is this child, which is at least a sense way of continuing the life of wellbeinghis genes, or are you now just schizophrenic? and a motive to keep on going. In But how can he get to not flick the near future people take drugs not only for their cures'final way out' switch, but also their side effects and seeing deities may be the worst side effect of all.especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294582</amazonuk>1642860670