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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jo WaltonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= The Just CityAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 3.5|genre= Dystopian Science Fiction|summary=Urged on by her brother Apollo, goddess Pallas Athene founds ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the Just City shape of Atlantis – things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a city based on Plato’s republicfew decades of technology in my lifetime. Filling I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it with an assortments of adults collected 's all getting away from throughout time, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one me. Some of whom it is a disguised Apollo)- frankly - quite frightening. Whilst Of course, I could research the possibilities and the city flourishes, probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the arrival of Socrates may prove to be latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a fly in the ointment…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>way I could understand.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike BrooksSylvie Cathrall|title=Dark RunA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Science Fiction |summary=For any sane person Space is not There are few greater joys than a place you would want book which lives up to goa compelling premise. Yes, there is the great unknown, planets to visit and the potential to meet alien life, but all that sits between you and the endless void And this is a few inches of metal – no thank you. To make things even worse, the future one of space travel also appears to have pirates, terrorism and petty bureaucracy. I think I will stick to getting my astronaut-based thrills vicariously through the medium of the novelthem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956641</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Scott K Andrews1803816759|title= TimebombThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|summary=Meet Bill. HeIt's a simple farmer – well, he ''2038 and Joe is'' taking a correspondence course in being bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a Technical Fertiliser Operator – but fate has bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something else in store. And so does goes horribly wrong with the mechanisedAI system that now runs everything, technologicalmaking life easier for many, industrial military, which needs several billion grunts and riots start to fight the Chingers, in mankind's first inter-galactic warspread. StillFinally, at least he Joe gets medals just for signing upto do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. After that itJoe isn's all downhillt the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the likes of Petty Chief Officer Deathwish Drang can only make that a straight line downcase. Really, what hope What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is thereSuki's kidnapping connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320531X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris BeckettB0CP95J1CG|title=Mother of EdenOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=4.5

|summary=Chris Beckett writes page-turning science fiction with deep theological implications. I almost never read sci-fi, but in 2012 I devoured ''Dark Eden'', admiring it so much that I chose it as Greenbelt FestivalRonan's Big Read that year. Anyone approaching this sequel without knowledge of not entirely sure why he decides to go to the first book will inevitably be a mite confused, so a synopsis of the first book may come in handy. 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 up within the group, determined to free party but his people from their limited worldview interest is piqued 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 narrativeway it arrived.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00V2JSTW4</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=William C Dietz|title=Deadeye|rating=2.5|genre=Science Fiction |summary=In the world of urban fantasy And it seems easy to come up with like a great concept and then find yourself with no story good opportunity to fill it. How about this for an idea? The future America is almost destroyed when a virus wipes get out half the population, of those that survive half have remained human, his room and away from the other half have become mutants. Someone needs to police this new status quo, so detectives are still on the beat, catching killers and kidnappers. Sounds like online activities he makes a great idea, just don’t forget the storyliving at.|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 worldSo he makes his way there, Callanish is a gracekeeper – administering shoreside burials and sending dodging 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 – and a chance to change both buses that make up most of their lives. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846559162</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 traffic and sending watching the dead to rest in the depths of the oceanlocal energy storage indicator lights. 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 friendShould be enough power. An offshore storm leads to a chance meeting between North and Callanish – and a chance to change both of their livesHopefully. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846559162</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon A DavidsonK P O'Donnell|title=System: With his face The Vital Link (A Spark in the sunAshes)

|summary=Wallace BlairVL-15, like everyone elsea prototype robot, is used desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the benefits world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a life guided by The System. After all-century later, The System knows best. However he civilisation is somewhat dismayed when he wakes starting to a System message on his Commcuff informing him that his happy marriage rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is about determined to be dissolved and thatcontinue her father's not legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his only concernentire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. After Even after being sent to retrieve papers from his grandfatherburied for 65 years, her determination hasn's houset diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, Wallace reflects on how long itno savage human tribe and not even Drexel's been since he's seen the old man. Wallace decides to drop in ravaged ecosystem will stop her on him but what should be a trip to an elderly care facility takes him down an unexpected path.her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1511491094</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersEmily Tesh|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 races.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423185250</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melissa Landers|title=Invaded|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= To save the alliance between Humans and the L'eihr, and save the planet from the deadly algae blooms that threaten to destroy all life, Cara and Aeylx have to persuade the L'eihr that Humans and L'eihr can peacefully co-exist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423169492</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Doescher|title=William Shakespeare's The Phantom of MenaceSome Desperate Glory

|summary=It is ''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us'' Following the nature destruction of human beings to make life difficult for themselves. Ifthe Earth, as amongst a racerare number of survivors, you are fighting a war against a horde Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of Artificially Intelligent metal spiders, you don’t need the added grief last scraps of internal politics. In humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world of ‘‘The Spider Wars’’that should have been hers. All her life, the political situation she has just exploded after a series of high profile assassinationsbeen conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres. Where are the bug hunters when you need them? Too busy hunting hired killers instead!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292032</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daryl GregoryM R Carey|title=Harrison SquaredInfinity Gate|rating=35

|summary=You should never judge I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a book by its cover, or an author from their back catalogue. Whilst some writers will produce genre I dislike – nothing of the same sort of adventure over . My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and over againwhen it's bad, with the same characters in it's often terrible. But the same world; others are more like a bag premise of literal allsortsInfinity Gate had me hooked. A novelist may produce one book that is concept this intriguing felt like a satirical and adult; just don’t assume that the next will high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it'd be the samefantastic. In fact, So this could be a book from the same publisher, with the same look and feel, but actually be a young adult novel in disguise…is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297646</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula K Le GuinMichael Grothaus|title=The Word for World is Forest|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|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 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 a genre shelf, so light are the sci-fi or fantastical trappings. 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 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 book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473208947</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Wingrove|title=The Empire of TimeBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Otto Behr is a German agent, fighting his Russian counterparts across three millennia of history''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. With only remnants And I'm willing to bet most of the two nations remainingwhat we fear will never happen, Otto is forced or we can take steps to travel through time - changing brief moments in order to alter history foreverchange it. As '' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the stakes grow ever higher - question of identity and acceptance. Of what will Otto it means to be forced to do in order to end this war?human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956153</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Stay1739593901|title=Robot Overlords22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=25

|summary=In the not too distant ''Our 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 to their homes for the next seven yearsbe more complex than we expected. Gigantic sentries roam the streets in search Instead of lawbreakers flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and mankind is under constant automated elderly care with geolocation surveillancebracelets to track grandma. Confinement is making everyone stir-crazy and the brave few who try '' I've got a couple of confessions to outsmart their captors are incinerated on sightmake. The biggest mystery, however, is why the robots are here I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and what they want with humankind. Will they really leave, as promised, once then forget to return to the seven years are up? After all, robots never liebook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473204860</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=George Mann|title=Ghosts of War|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In 1920 There's Manhattan, got to be a lone hero patrols the streets and the skies, using his immense wealth and futuristic technology very compelling hook to keep evil at bayme engaged. However, at the start of Then there's science fiction: far too often it'Ghosts of War'', s the Ghost is in mourning, following technology which takes centre stage along with the tragic events that concluded [[Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann|Ghosts of Manhattan]], the first book in the seriesworld-building. Thankfully for It's human beings who fascinate me: the Ghost (technology and for the reader) - world scape are purely incidental. Manhattan is under seigeSo, 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 what did I think of 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 World|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Stonebook of twenty-faced Captain Jubilee Chase is the best soldier on Avontwo science fiction short stories? Well, 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 killersI loved it. Only Lee is immune, and she doesn’t understand why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423171039</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave BaraMark Lingane|title=ImpulseGalaxy

|summary=In spaceSpark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, no one can hear you squirm he remembers little and this is in no bad thing if you happen physical shape to be Ltresume his duties. Peter Cochrane, newly out of the Navy Academy he But Earth is put straight on the front line under threat and is prone to as many mistakes as he is heroicsmust. Cochrane has no choiceReturned by his superiors to the space station, the son of an Admiral; he is deemed finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from 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 standingalien threats against it, you do what you can; even if this does involve blowing stuff up and falling in lovebut also from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956412</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel SuarezTade Thompson|title=InfluxFar From the Light of Heaven|rating=4.5

|summary=We are told Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to never judge a book by its cover and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn space. As first officer aboard the front. Since his debut novelsleeper ship Ragtime, all bound for the Daniel Suarez books I have read had world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a quote suggesting that he was babysitter for the legitimate heir to Michael Crichtonship's AI captain. To compare your work with one of However, when she wakes up at the best techno thriller writers end of all time is never going her trip to be easy find dozens of her passengers butchered and time after time, Suarez fell short. That is until Influx, a book that finally puts Suarez in the same illustrious company as Crichton.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jo Walton|title=What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading The Classics Of Science Fiction And Fantasy|rating=5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Jo Walton has published over ten books, several of which have been award winning. On top of that, she has a voracious appetite for books Ragtime's AI almost non- both as a well respected writer of original fictionresponsive, but as a well respected reviewer too. Not only does she have time begins to do all realise that, but her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she also writes a regular column for Torhoped it would.comDown on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on Science Fiction and Fantasy booksthe Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and it is these columns that a selection friend of which are collected here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472111613</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Victoria Aveyard|title=Red Queen|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mare is Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a Red shuttle to Bloodroot, half- a race kept alien daughter in lives of poverty and servitude by the Silverstow, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them to live lives of luxury. Learning to survive amongst see why the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabitRagtime has gone quiet, Mare is swiftly thrown into leaving behind the world politicking and bureaucracy of the Silvers - one that proves to be more dangerous than she had ever imagined, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every cornerSpace Station Lagos.|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 What the criminal underclass was. This did not lead to anything good under the Nazis and the same can be said five of them discover on 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 cureRagtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but I am not sure if fascism is.potentially the entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085752190X</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Foglio and Kaja FoglioClaire North|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H and Notes from the Voice of the CastleBurning Age

|summary=At its core ''Agatha H and Notes From the Voice of the CastleBurning Age'' by Claire North is the third novel in the Girl Genius seriesa spy thriller, with as many double crosses, adapted from the award-winning steampunk-style webcomicinterrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. Following the dramatic events of the previous two booksHowever, this volume sees Agatha returning to her family home in Mechanicsburg in order to claim her place as 'The Heterodyne'. She also needs to restore her war-damaged ancestral castlewith the best novels, which it wears many masks and its most affecting one is in poor condition following that of a devastating attack by “The Other.” Of coursenew and timely genre, in the world of Girl Geniuscli-fi, nothing is straightforward and Agathaor climate change fiction. North's mission is complicated novel tells of a world devastated by several thingsclimate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: the castle fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a sadistic sentient being growing unhappiness 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 this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the arrival of a fake Heterodyne heiressEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178116651X</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Greg KeyesAdrian Tchaikovsky|title=Interstellar: The Official Movie NovelizationShards of Earth|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is dying – dust storms are ravaging the scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world and blight killing off all useful crops, meaning farmers are vital falls to keep the few people to have survived recent wars fedarchitect's reshaping. Then, even if just when they need had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to go further fracture and use less arable lands to do sofight among themselves. Cooper is one such manIdris Telemmier, despite a history in a completely different career; he lives man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the father of his deceased wife and their two children in amongst the cornArchitects, does not want to be remembered. But , when some mysterious happenings keep occurring in he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the bedroom that was spotlight. As he and his wife's as a young girl allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and is now their daughter'srich slavers, a most unlikely chain of events leads him he slowly begins to find clues realise that could revive his past – that in fact of a highly trained astronaut, with the one last potential mission – that of a shortcut to the stars in the trails of prior manned probes to detect new habitable planets for what's left of mankind…real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783293691</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen BaxterTerry Miles|title=UltimaRabbits|rating=34.5

|summary=In ''Proxima'Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. 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 fast structure, and to the 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, alien hatches were discovered across the galaxyhack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, hatches named like that when opened caused completely unimaginable events in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to occur - be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many strange happeningsthings the most unique of high score boards, one character suddenly had a twin she didn't have previously for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and one hatch led to a are still very short. However this time it's different earth. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, where the Roman Empire never diedmost broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. It Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is there only to find out that ''Ultima'' begins - on a world where the Roman Empire never fell, line between observing and learning about the technology game, and culture playing it, is markedly different as a resultvery thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575116870</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gavin Deas C J Carey|title=Empires: InfiltrationWidowland|rating=3.54|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=When 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 bookbit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, not a book? Queen Wallis. When For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it is an experiment , and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of course! the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. Empires: Infiltration But this is one part most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a two book series that explores the same story caste system, ranging from differing points of view. I started reading high-brow office bigwigs to the other halfdrudges, [[Empires: Extraction by Gavin Deas|Empires: Extraction]]and beyond those, firstright on down to the childless, but can now fill in some of the narrative gaps as I start againhusbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. This time we view an alien threat by And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the race known as The Pleasuretask of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, through and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the eyes of Corporal Noel Barnesparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. By book’s endThat is her job, will I have an appreciation of this daring literary experimentat least, or will I conclude that narrative has been until the same for hundreds first emerging signs of years for a reason?female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057512928X</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin RichardsEverina Maxwell|title=The Blood Red City (Never War 2)Winter's Orbit

|summary=Unbeknown to most of the world who have their eyes on the unfolding events of World War IIPrince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the alien Vril continue their invasionpast few years. There are those among the allies who know that the conflict has taken So when an other-worldly turn. For instance British Intelligence's Guy Pentecross continues important political alliance is to do what he can along with Sarah Diamond who be arranged – one that is now SOE trained so can handle herself, thank you very much! While the Vril continue supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to seep into be chosen for the consciousness role. Least of those they find useful, they seem to have turned their attention to some ancient archaeological artefactsall him. Will our heroes understand the significance before it's too late? Oh and are you afraid of cats? No? Give it a little while…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195598X</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gavin Deas Rob Winters|title=Empires: ExtractionHis Name Was Wren|rating=34|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=I will take my hat off to any author or authors who partake In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of experimental fiction; trying to do something a little differently to push new groundHurstwick. HoweverIt came down hard, I will jam that hat right back onto my head if said book forgoes taking the basic need to entertain in preference spire of being something 'Meaningful'. the village church with it, destroying a stone shack, Gavin Deasand leaving a wide trail through the wood, a combination but no trace of authors Gavin Smith and Stephen Deaswhat it actually was. German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have tried to do something differentbeen an explosion and a crater, but does it work?and there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057512900X</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Book of Strange New ThingsMark Lingane|authortitle=Michel FaberNote to Self: An Education

|summary=In Kry''Under s world, the Skindiscovery 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 using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, Michel Faber fused ordinarywho needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{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, contemporary surroundings Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with an element of science fiction the efforts to make the planet habitable to spectacular successhuman life. HeHowever, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's repeated surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the trick system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. The Book 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 Staff 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…|isbn=1529046505}}{{Frontpage|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Seven Devils|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris is one of Strange New 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: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things which once again matches an unlikely sciget more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-fi conceit with up heir to the crushingly familiar Empire, is plotting to impressive effectdisrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species.It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782114068</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=DescentFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|authortitle=Ken MacLeodA Life Without End|rating=54|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=In I looked at the calendar the relatively near futureother week, two schoolboys climb and disappointedly realised I have a hill near their small Scottish townbirthday this year – I know, yet another one. They encounter some sort It won't be one of craftthe major numbers, that emits but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a white light few of the big 0-numbers, and knocks the boys out if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for several hoursOver Bloody Eighty. It) Now if that's only later the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one . 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 child, which is at least a way of continuing the boyslife of his genes, Ryanand a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, realises he was abducted by Aliens.especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499420</amazonuk>1642860670