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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris BeckettAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Mother of EdenAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45

|summary=Chris Beckett writes page-turning science fiction with deep theological implications''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. '' I almost never read sci-fi, but in 2012 I devoured 've heard it said that 'Dark Edentechnology'is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, admiring it so much that I chose it as Greenbelt Festival's Big Read must confess that year. Anyone approaching this sequel without knowledge of the first book will inevitably be there have been more than a mite confused, so a synopsis few decades of the first book may come technology in handymy lifetime. Six generations ago a pair of astronauts, Angela (Gela) and Tommy, landed on the planet Eden and became matriarch and patriarch of a new race of primitive humans. A young leader, John Redlantern, rose I've kept up within reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the group, determined to free his people feeling that it's all getting away from their limited worldview by demythologizing their foundational story. Through events that mirror those in Genesis and Exodus, Beckett presents an intriguing counterpoint to the ways Jews and Christians relate to the biblical narrative.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00V2JSTW4</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=William C Dietz|title=Deadeye|rating=2me.5|genre=Science Fiction |summary=In the world Some of urban fantasy it seems easy to come up with a great concept and then find yourself with no story to fill it. How about this for an idea? The future America is almost destroyed when a virus wipes out half the population, of those that survive half have remained human, the other half have become mutants- frankly - quite frightening. Someone needs to police this new status quoOf course, so detectives are still on I could research the beat, catching killers possibilities and kidnappers. Sounds like a great idea, just don’t forget the story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329874X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kirsty Logan|title= The Gracekeepers|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= In a future in which the sea has flooded the world, Callanish is a gracekeeper – administering shoreside burials probabilities and sending the dead to rest in the depths of end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the oceanlatest conspiracy theorist. 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, I needed people I knew I could trust and with only a bear for a friend. An offshore storm leads to a chance meeting between North and Callanish – and a chance to change both of their lives. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846559162</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kirsty Logan|title= The Gracekeepers|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= In a future who could deliver information 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 mistakeway I could understand. 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 – and a chance to change both of their lives. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846559162</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon A DavidsonSylvie Cathrall|title=System: With his face in the sun|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Wallace Blair, like everyone else, is used to the benefits of a life guided by The System. After all, The System knows best. However he is somewhat dismayed when he wakes to a System message on his Commcuff informing him that his happy marriage is about A Letter to be dissolved and that's not his only concern. After being sent to retrieve papers from his grandfather's house, Wallace reflects on how long it's been since he's seen the old man. Wallace decides to drop 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=AlienatedLuminous 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 ''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of the not too distant futureEarth, an evil alien robot army amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has enslaved humanity (as evil robot armies so often do), fitting each person with a tracking implant that will ensure that they remain confined to their homes for been raised on Gaea Station – the next seven years. Gigantic sentries roam home of the streets in search last scraps of lawbreakers humanity – and mankind is under constant surveillance. Confinement is making everyone stir-crazy trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the brave few who try to outsmart their captors are incinerated on sightworld that should have been hers. The biggest mysteryAll her life, howevershe has been conditioned to fall in line, is why the robots are here to fulfil her duty and what they want with humankind. Will they really leave, as promised, once the seven years are up? After all, robots never lieensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473204860</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George MannM R Carey|title=Ghosts of War|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In 1920's Manhattan, a lone hero patrols the streets and the skies, using his immense wealth 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 that concluded [[Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann|Ghosts of Manhattan]], the first book in the series. Thankfully for the Ghost (and for the reader) - Manhattan is under seige, and he has little time to lick his wounds. Mechanical winged beasts roam the skies, an alcoholic ex-lover is back on the scene, and a British spy may have to be dealt with in order to prevent a cold war turning hot...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294140</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner|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 expects him to be chosen for the role. Least of the boys, Ryan, realises he was abducted by Aliensall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499420</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionRob Winters|authortitle=Douglas AdamsHis Name Was Wren|rating=54|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=There are few series that have garnered such a cult following as 'The Hitchhikers Guide to In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the Galaxy'village of Hurstwick. Whether It came down hard, taking the fans have come from spire of the radio seriesvillage church with it, destroying a stone shack, and leaving a wide trail through the (impossibly hard) computer gamewood, or the (well intentioned but not particularly good) film, they are everywhereno trace of what it actually was. Ask a room of people what German secret weapon was the meaning of life islocal gossip, but there should have been an explosion and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with '42' as the answercrater, and there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SparkMark Lingane|authortitle=John Twelve HawksNote to Self: An Education

|summary=Jacob Underwood In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is deadusing the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. At leastIn a society obsessed with image and youth, he thinks he is.who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} Suffering {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the after effects moon of a traumatic accidentdistant gas giant, Jacob believes he Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is deadhelping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, just a spark existing inside discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a bodystrange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, but unable the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to fully interact with anything around himtake Kira in for examination. Emotionally detached Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and living in a shadowydestroyed by an alien ship, silent world, Jacob is and she has to flee to the ideal assassin61 Cygnus star system. When a new hit She is assigned to himrevived aboard the freighter Wallfish, Jacob must prepare himself crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag- tag bunch of misfits, and his journey will change both his selfthe news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and how he sees only a mythical weapon known as the world around himStaff 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>0593073312</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=Faraday: 3 (Tesla Evolution)Seven Devils|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=AlertEris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: if you haven't read hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the first two Tesla books, this contains spoilerswar effort. So if youAlthough she'd like s less than pleased to come back once you've read them?Sebastian and his friends finally discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get out of more interesting as the Hive but did he do it in mission commences; aboard the right way or has he caused ship are three defectors with a chain reaction secret that will destroy could potentially cripple the world? Seb and Melanie donEmpire. Eris't have too much time s brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to reason that out though as they travel across Australia the Empire, is plotting to continue disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the war against last of the cyborgs and the mysterious Irisfree alien species. Perhaps if Seb realised they were taking one of It's a race against time as the most dangerous foes rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with him, they'd reconsider millions of lives hanging in the passenger list?balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992593514</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Hive ConstructFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|authortitle=Alexander MaskillA Life Without End|rating=3.54|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=New Cairo is I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a city birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on lockdownthe horizon. A strange new virus has appeared, seemingly from nowhere, affecting And then a large percentage few of the population big 0-numbers, and indiscriminately shutting down their if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that'bio augs'';artificial limbs and organs. Until s the virus can extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be containedhappy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, no but he might be said to be living one is allowed . 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 leave the cityfirst geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a decision that does not go down well with those as yet unaffected and keen to remain that way. Despite the quarantinechild, someone which is actually trying to break INTO the city; at least a gifted hacker called Zala Ulora who plans to destroy way of continuing the virus in the hope that the resulting gratitude life of the authorities will clear her criminal record. The city is his genes, and a dangerous place motive to be, however, as a rising mass of rebels seek keep on going. But how can he get to break free from quarantine and not flick the source of the spreading virus seems untraceable.'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857522213</amazonuk>1642860670