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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Holly JenningsAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= ArenaAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Kali Ling competes in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the RAGE tournaments – shape of 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 competition few decades of Virtual Gaming, where the worldtechnology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's best gamers compete in a fight advantageous to me but I'm left with the digital deathfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Every fights Some of it is broadcast to millions, and each player leads lives of fame- frankly - quite frightening. Although the weapons are digital Of course, I could research the players feel every blow… Kali Ling – the first female captain in tournament history, is famed for her prowess – but has her world shaken when her teammate possibilities and lover overdoses. Now, she must win the tournament probabilities and uncover the truth end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the tournament, for the Virtual Gaming League has dark secretslatest conspiracy theorist. And the only I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way to change the rules is to fight from the inside…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1101988762</amazonuk>I could understand.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael CobleySylvie Cathrall|title= Ancestral MachinesA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 35|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Having completed the Humanity's Fire trilogy with the Ascendant Stars, I expected There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to go off and do something completely differenta compelling premise. He didn't. In Ancestral Machines, we're back in the same universe. The Construct (an ancient AI on a mission) is still doing its best to protect sentient species, and the drone Rensik And this is still one of its key agentsthem. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501779</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jo Walton1803816759|title= The Philosopher KingsUnravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 3.54|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Twenty years have passed since It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the Goddess Athene founded the Just wealthy and peaceful New York City. The god Apollo is still living thereJoe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, albeit in human formand riots start to spread. Now marriedFinally, and Joe gets to do some real policing. In the father aftermath of several children, the man/god struggles rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to cope when tragedy befalls his familybring her home. Beset by grief Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and a need for revengetech nerd, Apollo sets sail to find is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the man who caused him such pain, but discovers something that may change everything…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150791</amazonuk>system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike BrooksB0CP95J1CG|title=Dark SkyOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane

|summary=Making money is Ronan's not easy, especially if you live life on entirely sure why he decides to go to the edges of known space scraping a living doing odd jobs with your crew; some legal, some not so legal. You may not have much money, a good ship or even adequate washing facilities, party but what you do have his interest is piqued by the friendship and comradery of your fellow crewmatesway it arrived. That is unless you have all just discovered that the captain used to be And it seems like a space pirate who once suffocated his entire crew so that he could escape. Welcome good opportunity to the jolly ship Keiko.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195665X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Samuel R Delany|title= Nova|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=In the 31st century the rare element Illyrion is a crucial energy source, and naturally enough a whole lot get out of politics his room and power are bound up with whoever controls away from the supplyonline activities he makes a living at. Lorq Von Ray, daring spaceship captain, has this mad idea that flying into an imploding star will – as long as So he can get out again – allow him to gather Illyrion in unimaginable quantities. Luckily makes his rag-bag crew don't know about this when they sign on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473211913</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emma Newman|title= Planetfall|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Ren believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond our oneway there, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal dodging the truth about our place in the cosmos, and untainted by overpopulation, pollution and war. Ren believed in buses that vision enough to give make up everything, and followed the pathfinder Suh-Mi into the unknown. Twenty two years later, the new colony still functions – based around a mysterious alien structure into which Suh-Mi has resided in isolation. Ren works hard alone, generating the tools needed for survival – and harbouring a secret that could destroy everything they have worked to build. When a stranger appears, bearing a strong resemblance to the hidden Suh-Mi, secrets can no longer be hidden – secrets that may just destroy the colony…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0425282392</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephen Hickman|title= The Art most of Stephen Hickman|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Stephen Hickman has been a well known artist in the Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds for a number of years now, having created covers for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, and Larry Niven. His paintings are vibrant, kinetic, sometimes scary, often sensual, traditional, and yet modern. ''The Art of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds of these paintings, traffic and watching the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic processlocal energy storage indicator lights. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298456</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ursula K Le Guin|title= The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=I'll start by saying that I think the SF Masterworks series are pretty much always and without fail a really interesting readShould be enough power. I've bought quite a few from this publisher now and I find they will always pick interesting titles from the science fiction genre, making them a great place to start if you are either just dipping your toe into science fiction for the first time or if you're looking to build up your collectionHopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320576X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jason M HoughK P O'Donnell|title=Zero WorldThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)

|summary=Memory VL-15, a prototype robot, is an important element of making us desperate to understand who we areshe is. Do we avoid certain courses of action knowing that Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the memory of it would haunt us for world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the rest nations of our lives? Most of us would not killDrexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, but what if you could forget that you just ended someonecivilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's life? Then you may be a sociopathlegacy, but building a useful sociopath that world where machines and humans can be trained to be an assassin who killslive together in harmony, forgets but internal frictions and kills external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. This type Craig Anderson, leader of person may even forget that they have visited new worlds.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295252</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Philip K Dick|title=Nick and the Glimmung|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Nick. He lives on a future Earth, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacher, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare to group of salvagers called the class that you are breaking the law. Nick, you seeExhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a pet cat, and in this massively overprototype combat robot: none other than VL-populated and under-resourced world15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, pets are illegal. Thereher determination hasn's a simple solution – wait for t diminished in the ''anti-pet man'' to turn up with his weaponry slightest, and armour no errant machine, no savage human tribe and dispose of it, but the family have decided to take the other way out – emigrate to an entirely different world. Hence they embark on the trip to be pioneer farmers on Plowmannot even Drexel's Planet, even when they're forewarned of a host of different and most unusual animals already resident there. That advice still doesn't really prepare them ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057513299X</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul McAuleyEmily Tesh|title= Confluence|rating= 5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Yama is a foundling orphan adopted as a baby by the Aedile (chief civil servant) of a small city downriver of the mighty, ancient city of Ys, capital of the man-made world of Confluence. Longing to become a soldier and take his late brother's place in the long-running war against the heretics, the restless seventeen year old is about to be taken as an apprentice clerk despite his young age, to keep him out of trouble. Destiny, however, has other plans for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057511942X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Walter M Miller Jr|title= Dark Benediction|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Walter M. Miller Jr is rightly placed among the science fiction giants H.G. Wells, Michael Moorcock, and Philip K. Dick in the ''Masterworks'' series, a large selection of genre-defining writers and works at the centre of what is now such a popular and diverse range of literatures, films, and television productions. Miller is considered one of the finest science fiction writers of the 1950s, and in ''Dark Benediction'', fourteen of this author's best short stories are brought together in one collection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473211948</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett|title=The Silent HistorySome Desperate Glory

|summary=Well''While Earth's children live, they kept this quiet – for reasons that will become obvious. A couple of years ago people in America were giving birth to problematic kids. They (the children) were soon found to be unnaturally quiet – perhaps crying with hunger or pain, but never even trying to enemy shall fear us'ooga-wooga' their way into their parents' hearts. They were later found to be completely unable to speak, they could not read and indeed they could not understand anything said to them, or shown them, as an instruction. They were physically unable to parse anything as language Following the destruction of the Earth, and were in amongst a silent world rare number of their own. But right about now they and we are combining worlds – schools are being set upsurvivors, and funds are being made available, and people are coming down Kyr has been raised on the endless divide as to whether they are just problematic, disabled Gaea Station – or even the blessed. In a couple home of years, however, the problems the virus that is causing these last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people to be born with will be shown to be a major problem – and the world that is before the kids themselves changeshould have been hers. For they will be able All her life, she has been conditioned to switch their mental abilities much like a blind man can hear more than the averagefall in line, and will be able to comprehend body fulfil her duty and facial language much more coherently than anyone elseensure that humanity perseveres. Throughout this timeline, however, people will be working hard to try and study the problem, and put it right – if indeed 'right' is the correct word…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959286X</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kieran SheaM R Carey|title=Koko the MightyInfinity Gate

|summary=Many people have dreamed of packing up their old jobs and opening a B&B or hotel with their partner somewhere in a picturesque holiday destination. You may just deserve this new life, but running a hotel is not easy, especially I'm annoyingly picky when it is on a pleasure island known for its indiscriminate violence and hedonismcomes to science fiction. Koko Martsteller had her last hotel/brothel blown up, but after Not because it's a series genre I dislike – nothing of extraordinary events she has the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a new hostelry hard genre to get right – and a new partner. Itwhen it's bad, it's often terrible. But the premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a shame then high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that nothing is ever easy for Kokopremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168628</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rob BoffardMichael Grothaus|title=TracerBeautiful Shining People|rating=34|genre=Science Literary Fiction |summary=Just because the Earth has been destroyed does not mean that humans ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are now extincttwo different things. As a bunchAnd I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, humans are resourceful, so rather than sit on a dying Earth or we all pack our bags and get a place on can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the orbiting station called New Earth. However, after a couple question of hundred years the old space station is starting to feel a little cramped identity and appears acceptance. Of what it means to be falling to pieceshuman. What Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the common link to both Earth and New Earth being destroyed? Perhaps it development of technology is time someone did something about these pesky humans who ruin everythingexciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356505138</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lev Rosen1739593901|title=Depth22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45

|summary=The private investigator genre is ''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 track grandma.'' I've got a great onecouple of confessions to make. Not because they all feel pretty similar so that picking one up is like slipping I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a pair of comfortable slippers, but because you can put a PI anywhere – even few stories and then forget to return to the futurebook. Writing about There's got to be a New York that is partially underwater could be done in many ways; action, cerebral, but why not use an investigator for hire? very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Mixing a solid crime story Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with an intriguing glance at the future is sure to be world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a winnerbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, but you better put on your best trench coat as you are going to get wetI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298634</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A L KennedyMark Lingane|title=Doctor Who: The Drosten's CurseGalaxy

|summary=IfSpark, for some unearthly reasonwho is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, you should follow the world of golf and hear of barely makes it through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a bunker coma that's 'lethal' or 'a killer trap'lasted years, point the speaker he remembers little and is in the direction of a sand pit on the 13th at the Fetch Brothers Golf Spa Hotelno physical shape to resume his duties. For it really But Earth is lethal – something under it will suck you down, handspan by handspan, anaesthetising you threat and making you incapable of crying outhe must. David Agnew knows thisReturned by his superiors to the space station, and uses it as he finds himself amid a handy way last ditch attempt to get rid of people he doesn't like. Elsewhere at Fetch there is a completely inept character – I needn't specify, as he's inept at everything – who's heartily smitten by Bryony, save humanity - and not just from the hard-done-by receptionist. There is a grandma who alien threats against it would appear is losing all memory, beyond for her beloved octopuses, two young children who are very wrong indeed, in lots of ways, and there's but also a strangely metallic taste about the air in the placefrom its own sins against itself. A perfect site for the Fourth Doctor to pop up in, then – until a psychic attack leaves him with little opportunity to put the ageless problems to rights…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849908265</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robert BrockwayTade Thompson|title= The UnnoticeablesFar From the Light of Heaven|rating= 34.5|genre= ParanormalScience Fiction|summary= Carey Michelle 'Shell' Campion is a punk living in New York Cityfulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, 1977. Sick bound for the world of watching his friends Bloodroot, she will essentially be abducted and killeda babysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, he doesn’t care about when she wakes up at the rumours end of strange monsters and supernatural happenings – all he wants her trip to do is drink beer find dozens of her passengers butchered and kick ass. In the present dayRagtime's AI almost non-responsive, Kaitlyn is in Hollywoodshe begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. A stuntwomanDown on Bloodroot, she has a missing best friend, has just escaped an attempt disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on her lifethe Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and an angel is waiting outside her door. The survival friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the human race lies in Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the hands of Carey politicking and Kaitlyn. We are, all bureaucracy of us, well and truly screwed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= The Just City|rating= 3Space Station Lagos.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Urged on by her brother Apollo, goddess Pallas Athene founds What the Just City five of Atlantis – a city based them discover on Plato’s republic. Filling it with an assortments of adults collected from throughout time, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one of whom is a disguised Apollo). Whilst the city flourishesRagtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the arrival entirety of Socrates may prove to be a fly in the ointment…human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike BrooksClaire North|title=Dark RunNotes from the Burning Age

|genre=Science Fiction |summary=For any sane person Space At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is not a place you would want to gospy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. YesHowever, as with the best novels, there it wears many masks and its most affecting one is the great unknownthat of a new and timely genre, cli-fi, planets or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to visit start anew and live alongside nature without any of the potential to meet alien lifemodern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, but all that sits between you and the endless void intensive farming). There is a few inches of metal – no thank you. To make things even worsegrowing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the future of space travel also appears to have piratesBrotherhood, terrorism and petty bureaucracy. I think I will stick aims to getting my astronaut-based thrills vicariously through master these processes no matter the medium of cost to the novelEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091956641</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Scott K AndrewsAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= TimebombShards of Earth|rating=4

|summary= In 2141Eighty years ago, Yojana Patel throws herself off a skyscraperEarth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. She never hits Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the groundarchitect's reshaping. In 1640Then, Dora Predennick discovers a badly burnt woman. When she reaches out to comfort herjust when they had the human race on the run, she’s flung through timethe Architects vanished. And on a rainy day in our timeso, Kaz Cecka sneaks into the ruins of Sweetclover hall in search memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a dry spot man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to sleepbe remembered. Instead But, when he finds a frightened housemaid from and the time crew of Charles Ithe salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he and an angry girl his allies bounce from the future. Thrown into a war that spans millenniastar system to star system, the three must harness powers in order to escape deadly villainschased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and stay one step ahead of a fanatical army…rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444752081</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harry HarrisonTerry Miles|title=Bill, the Galactic HeroRabbits|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet BillWelcome to the world of The Game. HeOr 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 simple farmer slangy term for it – wellas 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, he ''this is'' taking the game of life for a correspondence course in being a Technical Fertiliser Operator certain tribe of people – but fate has something else in store. And so does the mechanisedfan of the conspiracy, the computer game, technologicalthe hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, industrial militaryK, which needs several billion grunts named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to fight be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the Chingersmost unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in mankindthe most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's first inter-galactic wardifferent. StillThis time the game seems the most dangerous, at least he gets medals just nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for signing up. After that K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's all downhilleven being played, and the likes of Petty Chief Officer Deathwish Drang can how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only make to find out that a straight the line down. Reallybetween observing and learning about the game, and playing it, what hope is there?a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147320531X</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris BeckettC J Carey|title=Mother of EdenWidowland

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Chris Beckett writes page-turning science fiction 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 deep theological implicationshis wife, Queen Wallis. I almost never read sci-fi For yes, but Britain caved in 2012 I devoured 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 'Dark Eden'the mainland', admiring it so much that I chose it as Greenbelt Festival's Big Read that year. Anyone approaching But this sequel without knowledge is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of the first book will inevitably be that gender into a mite confusedcaste system, so a synopsis of ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the first book may come in handy. Six generations ago a pair of astronautsdrudges, Angela (Gela) and Tommybeyond those, landed right on down to the childless, the planet Eden husbandless and became matriarch and patriarch of a new race of primitive humansthe widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. A young leader And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, John RedlanternRose Ransom, rose up within is employed with the grouptask of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, determined to free his people and not every story excised immediately from their limited worldview by demythologizing their foundational storyBritish civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. Through events that mirror those in Genesis and Exodus That is her job, at least, Beckett presents an intriguing counterpoint until the first emerging signs of female protest come to the ways Jews and Christians relate light, with their potential to the biblical narrativespoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00V2JSTW4</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William C DietzEverina Maxwell|title=DeadeyeWinter's Orbit|rating=2.5|genre=Science Fiction |summary=In the world 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. Someone needs to police this new status quo, so detectives are still on the beat, catching killers 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 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 – 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 sun|rating=3.5

|summary=Wallace Blair, like everyone else, Prince Kiem is used to the benefits of a life guided by The Systemfamous political disappointment. After allHe's outgoing, carefree, The System knows bestand has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years. However he So when an important political alliance is somewhat dismayed when he wakes to a System message on his Commcuff informing him be arranged – one that his happy marriage is about supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him 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 chosen for the old manrole. Wallace decides to drop in on him but what should be a trip to an elderly care facility takes Least of all him down an unexpected path.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1511491094</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersRob Winters|title=AlienatedHis Name Was Wren|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Two years agoIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, aliens made contactnear the village of Hurstwick. Now It came down hard, Cara Sweeney has been chosen to host Aelyxtaking the spire of the village church with it, destroying a L'eihr exchange student. The first exchange student. Cara gets stone shack, and leaving a free ride to any college she chooses out wide trail through the wood, but no trace of what it actually was. German secret weapon was the deallocal gossip, some excellent material for her blogbut there should have been an explosion and a crater, and a chance to be a part there were neither of history, helping in her own way to form an alliance between the two racesthose things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423185250</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersMark Lingane|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 Note 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 MenaceSelf: An Education|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary= Join us, good gentles, for a merry reimagining of `Star Wars Episode 1' as only Shakespeare could have written it. 'Tis a true Shakespearean drama, filled with sword fights, soliloquies and doomed romance…all in glorious iambic pentameter and coupled with gorgeous illustrations. Hold on to your midichlorians: The plays the thing, wherein you'll catch the rise of Anakin!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748063</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adam Christopher|title=The Machine Awakes|rating=3

|summary=It 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 using the nature same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of human beings Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life difficult . However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's 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 system to take Kira in for themselvesexamination. IfThings go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, as a raceand she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, you are fighting crewed by Captain Falconi and a war against a horde rag-tag bunch of Artificially Intelligent metal spidersmisfits, you don’t need and the added grief of internal politicsnews is grim. In The same aliens that destroyed the world Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of ‘‘The Spider Wars’’human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the political situation has just exploded after a series Staff of high profile assassinationsBlue can stop them. Where 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 bug hunters when you need them? Too busy hunting hired killers instead!conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783292032</amazonuk>1529046505

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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula K Le GuinFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=The Word for World is ForestA Life Without End|rating=34|genre=Science Literary 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 I looked at the calendar the first few Earthsea booksother week, that and disappointedly realised I met as have a child and still hold in high esteembirthday this year – I know, yet another one. For It won't be one of the feminist readermajor numbers, there are much more recent novels that but the time when I would even baulk at putting have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on a genre shelf, so light are the sci-fi or fantastical trappingshorizon. But there are also classics And then a few of the former genre, too – hard scibig 0-fi written at one of the past peaks of the formnumbers, and deemed timelessif all goes well, as this current reprint suggestsI'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) These are sci-fi works Now if that mean something – that shine a light on then's the extent of my mid-current thinkinglife crisis, or then-recent history or actionsI guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but that are still designed he might be said to appeal to the hard-core genre fanbe living one. The example of ''The Word Determined to find out how to prolong life for World is Forest'' is one such, as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with an obvious nod the assistant to the Vietnam situation. It's first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a shame then that for mechild, which is at least a way of continuing the remove life of 2015his genes, it doesnand a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out't tick many more boxesswitch, all told.especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473205786</amazonuk>1642860670