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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terrance DicksAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Doctor Who All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and the Genesis of the DaleksStephen Oram (Editors)

|summary=If you were ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to randomly travel in time and space, where would come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you end up? 're eighteen. Well, if our own battle-torn history was anything to go by, you'd like as not end up in I must confess that there have been more than a time and place few decades of wartechnology in my lifetime. The thing is, however, the Doctor is not, for once, travelling randomly – heI've kept up reasonably well with what's been charged advantageous to me but I'm left with carrying out errands for the Time Lordsfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. And Of course, I could research the most tricky of those is to go possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the planet Skaro, deeply enmeshed latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a thousand year war, and put paid to one of the most heinous plans that way I could risk the universe – that of Davros to create his Dalek raceunderstand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940384</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm HulkeSylvie Cathrall|title=Doctor Who and A Letter to the Dinosaur InvasionLuminous Deep|rating=4.5

|summary=What effect do you think you'd have if you were to time travel? I dare say it depends who or what you were to begin with, and when you went and what you did. The creatures in this story only seem to stay in the same place, and do just what comes natural – but as they're giant rampaging dinosaurs and they suddenly appear in the middle of modern-day Central London they do kind of get noticed. As There are few greater joys than a result the entire place has been evacuated, all ten million people shipped out, and the Government resettled in that hotbed of politics, Harrogate. As a result, when the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn book which lives up they immediately get accused of being looters – and UNIT are just to a touch too much out of contactcompelling premise. What And this is causing time to leave the dinosaurs moving around London, and what is a mediaeval man, complaining one of witchcraft under King John, doing there too?them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940376</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terrance Dicks1803816759|title=Doctor Who and the Web of FearThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|summary=What do you look like if you time travel? Perhaps like It's 2038 and Joe is a lunk-headed Austrian, naked and with fizzy blue stuff all over you. Or perhaps, to bored cop policing the confusion of Professor Travers, you look exactly as you did when he met you in Tibet forty years ago. That escapade has had a legacy, as he has brought back a deactivated robot Yeti – wealthy and has mistakenly managed to reactivate itpeaceful New York City. Or perhaps, you look very much like yourself if you're Joe longs for a time traveller, for just by reading this book you won't change your appearance, but you'll be sent back to 1968, by way of 1975, when this book-bit of-the-series was first published.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940368</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bill Strutton|title=Doctor Who adventure and the Zarbi|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Consider the time machine. You probably know of it as looking like either to get stuck into some fancy Edwardian sit-upon machine that the Morlocks nick, or perhaps a battered old English police call boxreally gritty crime detection. I would suggest it can also look like a small paperback book – pretty much like the subject at hand. This reprint of a ''Doctor Who'' novel, first presented in 1973 from the series shown in 1965, certainly has the ability to take you back. I grew up But then something goes horribly wrong with the series on TV and the books in a Target imprint, but this predates AI system that – it wasnow runs everything, apparently, the second ever Who book-of-the-series. In itmaking life easier for many, the good Doctor and his three companions arrive on a certain quarry-like planetriots start to spread. One stays in the TARDISFinally, only Joe gets to find it and her nicked by aliens; another needs rescuing from alien mind control by a different species of aliens; and the third with our irascible hero work out what actually took control of their ship and stranded them there in the first place…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178594035X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= David Wingrove|title= The Ocean of Time|rating= 3do some real policing.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= The War for Time continues. From In the frozen tundra aftermath of 13th Century Russia to the battle of Paltava in 1709 rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and beyond, Otto Behr has waged an unquestioning, unending war across time for his people. But now a third unidentified power has joined the game across the ocean of time, and everything Otto holds dear could be unmade…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195617X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Holly Jennings|title= Arena|rating= 3Joe is assigned to bring her home.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Kali Ling competes in the RAGE tournaments – a competition of Virtual Gaming, where the worldJoe isn's best gamers compete in a fight to t the digital death. Every fights is broadcast only one trying to millionssave Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and each player leads lives of fame. Although the weapons are digitaltech nerd, is also on 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 and lover overdosescase. Now, she must win What went wrong? Did the tournament and uncover the truth about the tournament, for the Virtual Gaming League has dark secrets. system fail or was it hacked? And the only way to change the rules how is to fight from the inside…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1101988762</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Cobley|title= Ancestral Machines|rating= 3|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Having completed the HumanitySuki's Fire trilogy with the Ascendant Stars, I expected to go off and do something completely different. 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 is still one of its key agents. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501779</amazonuk>kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jo WaltonB0CP95J1CG|title= The Philosopher Kings|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Twenty years have passed since the Goddess Athene founded the Just City. The god Apollo is still living there, albeit in human form. Now married, and the father of several children, the man/god struggles to cope when tragedy befalls his family. Beset by grief and a need for revenge, Apollo sets sail to find the man who caused him such pain, but discovers something that may change everything…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150791</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mike Brooks|title=Dark SkyMark 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 is an important element of making us who we are. Do we avoid certain courses of action knowing that the memory of it would haunt us for the rest of our lives? Most of us would not killVL-15, but what if you could forget that you just ended someone's life? Then you may be a sociopathprototype robot, but a useful sociopath that can be trained is desperate to be an assassin understand who kills, forgets and kills again. This type of person may even forget that they have visited new worldsshe is.|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 EarthUnfortunately, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacherbefore she could find any answers, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare to the class that you are breaking the law. Nick, you see, has a pet catworld ended, and consumed in this massively over-populated an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and underRenada. Over half-resourced world, pets are illegal. There's a simple solution – wait for the ''anti-pet man'' to turn up with his weaponry and armour and dispose of itcentury later, but the family have decided to take the other way out – emigrate civilisation is starting to an entirely different worldrebuild. Hence they embark on the trip Dr Amelia Wong is determined to be pioneer farmers on Plowmancontinue her father's Planetlegacy, even when they're forewarned of building a host of different world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and most unusual animals already resident thereexternal enemies might bring it all crashing down again. That advice still doesn't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057513299X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul McAuley|title= Confluence|rating= 5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Yama is a foundling orphan adopted as a baby by the Aedile (chief civil servant) Craig Anderson, leader of a small city downriver group of salvagers called the mightyExhumers, ancient city of Ys, capital of the man-made world of Confluence. Longing to become has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a soldier and take his late brother's place in the longprototype combat robot: none other than VL-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 trouble15 herself. Destiny, however, has other plans Even after being buried 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. Wells65 years, Michael Moorcock, and Philip K. Dick her determination hasn't diminished 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, filmsslightest, and television productions. Miller is considered one of the finest science fiction writers of the 1950sno errant machine, no savage human tribe and in ''Dark Benediction'', fourteen of this authornot even Drexel's best short stories are brought together in one collection.ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211948</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin MoffettEmily Tesh|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

|summary=Chris Beckett writes page-turning science fiction with deep theological implicationsPrince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. I almost never read sci-fi, but in 2012 I devoured ''Dark Eden'', admiring it so much that I chose it as Greenbelt FestivalHe's Big Read that year. Anyone approaching this sequel without knowledge of the first book will inevitably be a mite confusedoutgoing, so a synopsis of the first book may come in handy. Six generations ago a pair of astronautscarefree, Angela (Gela) and Tommy, landed on has gotten into many drunken scandals over the planet Eden and became matriarch and patriarch of a new race of primitive humanspast few years. A young leader, John Redlantern, rose up within the group, determined So when an important political alliance is to free his people from their limited worldview by demythologizing their foundational story. Through events be arranged – one that mirror those in Genesis and Exodus, Beckett presents is supposed to prevent an intriguing counterpoint interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the ways Jews and Christians relate to the biblical narrativerole. Least of all him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00V2JSTW4</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William C DietzRob Winters|title=DeadeyeHis Name Was Wren|rating=2.54|genre=Science Fiction Confident Readers|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the world village of urban fantasy Hurstwick. It came down hard, taking the spire of the village church with it seems easy to come up with , destroying a great concept stone shack, and then find yourself with no story to fill it. How about this for an idea? The future America is almost destroyed when leaving a virus wipes out half wide trail through the populationwood, but no trace of those that survive half have remained human, the other half have become mutantswhat it actually was. Someone needs to police this new status quo, so detectives are still on German secret weapon was the beatlocal gossip, catching killers but there should have been an explosion and kidnappers. Sounds like a great ideacrater, just don’t forget the storyand there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178329874X</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kirsty LoganMark Lingane|title= The GracekeepersNote to Self: An Education|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary= 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 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 Stars

|genre= General Science Fiction|summary= In On the moon of a future in which distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the sea has flooded efforts to make the worldplanet habitable to human life. However, Callanish is a gracekeeper – administering shoreside burials and sending discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the dead entity bonded to rest in her loses control and kills half the depths staff of the ocean. The solitary life of tending watery graves serving as penance research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for a long-ago mistakeexamination. MeanwhileThings go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, North and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a circus performer – living with a flouting troupe rag-tag bunch of acrobatsmisfits, clowns, dancers and trainersthe news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and with only a bear for a friendmythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. An offshore storm leads As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a chance meeting between North and Callanish – and a chance to change both of their lives. greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846559162</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon A DavidsonLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=System: With his face in the sunSeven Devils|rating=3.54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Wallace Blair, like everyone else, Eris is used to one of the benefits 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 guided by The Systemas Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. After allClo, The System knows bestan ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. However he is somewhat dismayed when he wakes Although she's less than pleased to a System message on his Commcuff informing him discover that his happy marriage her former friend Eris is about to be dissolved and her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret thatcould potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's not his only concern. After being sent brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to retrieve papers from his grandfather's housethe Empire, Wallace reflects on how long itis plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. It's been since he's seen a race against time as the old man. Wallace decides rebels move to drop put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in on him but what should be a trip to an elderly care facility takes him down an unexpected path.the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1511491094</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=AlienatedA Life Without End|rating=54|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Two years agoI looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, aliens made contactbut the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Nowif that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, Cara Sweeney has been chosen I guess I have to host Aelyxbe happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, a L'eihr exchange studentbut he might be said to be living one. The first exchange student. Cara gets a free ride Determined to any college she chooses find out of 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 deal, some excellent material for her blogfirst geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a chance to be child, which is at least a part way of historycontinuing the life of his genes, helping in her own way and a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to form an alliance between not flick the two races.'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423185250</amazonuk>1642860670