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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip MartinAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Doctor WhoAll Tomorrow's Futures: Vengeance on VarosFictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45

|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor WhoOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology'is what happens after you' had access to a time machine, they would be able to temper all their responsesre eighteen. When Mary Whitehouse found the likes of [[Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of the Daleks]] to be too violentWell, she and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to I must confess that there have been more than a prison world, where soon-to-be victims few decades of snuff movies are trapped technology in a reality-show styled existence, and a hard-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executions, the morgues and worsemy lifetime. If those watching I've kept up reasonably well with what'Doctor Whos advantageous to me but I'' had m left with the benefit of foresight they might have responded to feeling that it''Vengeance on Varos'' differentlys all getting away from me. They were quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being a trade delegate who Some of it is half-manfrankly - quite frightening. Of course, half-slug I could research the possibilities and wholly stupid evil laugh, the probabilities and such an artificial premiseend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Little did they know the series would soon lumber I needed people with Bonnie Langford, I knew I could trust and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric SawardSylvie Cathrall|title=Doctor Who: The VisitationA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35

|summary=Have you ever given your children There are few greater joys than a time machine? No? Are you sure? What about that thing in the corner upstairs called a dressing-book which lives up box – have they never been transported bodily to the 1970s by some orange cords and wide-collared shirts or whatnot? Have they never been in a museum and put on a mediaeval smock and told they're now in the middle ages? Well adults can get involved in that, too, of course – the cast of compelling premise. And this ''Doctor Who'' adventure had to put on 17th Century garb, and that was pretty much it as far as looks go. Yes, there is an evil-seeming alien, yes there are some control bands he makes us poor humans wear, and yes there is a giant android dressed as Death, but on the whole it was one of the more simple episodesthem. Still, who's to say the novel isn't much more substantial, rich and varied?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940392</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terrance Dicks1803816759|title=Doctor Who and the Genesis of the DaleksThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=54

|summary=If you were to randomly travel in time It's 2038 and space, where would you end up? Well, if our own battle-torn history was anything to go by, you'd like as not end up in Joe is a time bored cop policing the wealthy and place peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of waradventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. The thing is, however, But then something goes horribly wrong with the Doctor is notAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for oncemany, and riots start to spread. Finally, travelling randomly – he's been charged with carrying out errands for the Time LordsJoe gets to do some real policing. And In the most tricky aftermath of those the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to go bring her home. Joe isn't the planet Skaroonly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, deeply enmeshed in a thousand year warBritish superfan and tech nerd, and put paid to one of is also on the most heinous plans that could risk case. What went wrong? Did the universe – that of Davros to create his Dalek race.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940384</amazonuk>system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malcolm HulkeB0CP95J1CG|title=Doctor Who and the Dinosaur InvasionOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane

|summary=What effect do you think youRonan'd have if you were s not entirely sure why he decides to time travel? I dare say it depends who or what you were go 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 – party but as they're giant rampaging dinosaurs and they suddenly appear in his interest is piqued by the middle of modern-day Central London they do kind of get noticedway it arrived. As And it seems like a result the entire place has been evacuated, all ten million people shipped good opportunity to get out, of his room and away from the Government resettled in that hotbed of politics, Harrogateonline activities he makes a living at. As a resultSo he makes his way there, when dodging the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn buses that make up they immediately get accused most of being looters – the traffic and UNIT are just a touch too much out of contactwatching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully. What is causing time to leave the dinosaurs moving around London, and what is a mediaeval man, complaining of witchcraft under King John, doing there too?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940376</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terrance DicksK P O'Donnell|title=Doctor Who and The Vital Link (A Spark in the Web of FearAshes)|rating=43.5

|summary=What do you look like if you time travel? Perhaps like VL-15, a lunk-headed Austrianprototype robot, naked and with fizzy blue stuff all over youis desperate to understand who she is. Or perhapsUnfortunately, before she could find any answers, to the confusion of Professor Traversworld ended, you look exactly as you did when he met you consumed in Tibet forty years agoan apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. That escapade has had Over half-a -century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, as he has brought back building a deactivated robot Yeti – world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and has mistakenly managed to reactivate external enemies might bring itall crashing down again. Or perhapsCraig Anderson, you look very much like yourself if you're leader of a time travellergroup of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for just by reading this book you won65 years, her determination hasn't change your appearancediminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, but youno savage human tribe and not even Drexel'll be sent back to 1968, by way of 1975, when this book-of-the-series was first published.s ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940368</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bill StruttonEmily Tesh|title=Doctor Who and the ZarbiSome Desperate Glory|rating=34.5

|summary=Consider ''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us'' Following the time machine. You probably know destruction of it as looking like either some fancy Edwardian sit-upon machine that the Morlocks nickEarth, or perhaps amongst a battered old English police call box. I would suggest it can also look like a small paperback book rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – pretty much like the subject at hand. This reprint home of a ''Doctor Who'' novel, first presented in 1973 from the series shown in 1965, certainly has the ability last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to take you back. I grew up with the series on TV avenge her people and the books in a Target imprint, but this predates world that – it was, apparently, the second ever Who book-of-the-seriesshould have been hers. In itAll her life, the good Doctor and his three companions arrive on a certain quarry-like planet. One stays she has been conditioned to fall in the TARDISline, only to find it and fulfil her nicked by aliens; another needs rescuing from alien mind control by a different species of aliens; duty and the third with our irascible hero work out what actually took control of their ship and stranded them there in the first place…ensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178594035X</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David WingroveM R Carey|title= The Ocean of TimeInfinity Gate|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= The War for Time continuesI'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. From Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the frozen tundra of 13th Century Russia sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to the battle of Paltava in 1709 get right – and beyondwhen it's bad, Otto Behr has waged an unquestioning, unending war across time for his peopleit's often terrible. But now a third unidentified power has joined the game across the ocean premise of timeInfinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, and everything Otto holds dear could it'd be unmade…fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195617X</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Holly JenningsMichael Grothaus|title= ArenaBeautiful Shining People|rating= 3.54|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary= Kali Ling competes in the RAGE tournaments – a competition ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of Virtual Gamingwhat we fear will never happen, where the worldor we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People''s best gamers compete in a fight to revolves around the digital deathquestion of identity and acceptance. Every fights is broadcast Of what it means to millions, and each player leads lives of famebe human. Although the weapons are digital, the players feel every blow… Kali Ling – the first female captain in tournament history, Of what is famed for her prowess – but has her world shaken when her teammate real and lover overdoses. Nowwhat is artificial, she must win the tournament and uncover whether the truth about the tournament, for the Virtual Gaming League has dark secretsdevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening. And the only way to change the rules is to fight from the inside…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101988762</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Cobley1739593901|title= Ancestral Machines22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 35|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Having completed the Humanity's Fire trilogy 'Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with the Ascendant Stars, geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I expected find it easy to go off read a few stories and do something completely differentthen forget to return to the book. He didnThere'ts got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. In Ancestral Machines, we Then there's science fiction: far too often it're back in s the technology which takes centre stage along with the same universeworld-building. The Construct (an ancient AI on a mission) is still doing its best to protect sentient species, It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the drone Rensik is still one world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of its key agentsa book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501779</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo WaltonMark Lingane|title= The Philosopher KingsGalaxy|rating= 3.54|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Twenty years have passed since Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Goddess Athene founded the Just CitySpace Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive. The god Apollo is still living there, albeit in human formHis co-pilot was not so fortunate. Now marriedWaking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little and the father of several children, the man/god struggles is in no physical shape to cope when tragedy befalls resume his familyduties. But Earth is under threat and he must. Beset Returned by grief and his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a need for revenge, Apollo sets sail last ditch attempt to find save humanity - and not just from the man who caused him such painalien threats against it, but discovers something that may change everything…also from its own sins against itself. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150791</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike BrooksTade Thompson|title=Dark SkyFar From the Light of Heaven

|summary=Making money Michelle 'Shell' Campion is not easyfulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, especially if you live life on bound for the edges world of known space scraping a living doing odd jobs with your crew; some legal, some not so legal. You may not have much moneyBloodroot, she will essentially be a good babysitter for the ship or even adequate washing facilities's AI captain. However, but what you do have is when she wakes up at the friendship end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and comradery of your fellow crewmates. That is unless you have all just discovered that the captain used Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be a space pirate who once suffocated going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his entire crew so that he could escapeandroid partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Welcome Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the jolly ship Keikopoliticking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos.What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195665X</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Samuel R DelanyClaire North|title= NovaNotes from the Burning Age|rating= 54|genre= Science Fiction|summary=In At its core ''Notes From the 31st century the rare element Illyrion Burning Age'' by Claire North is a crucial energy sourcespy thriller, and naturally enough a whole lot of politics and power are bound up with whoever controls the supply. Lorq Von Rayas many double crosses, daring spaceship captain, has this mad idea that flying into an imploding star will – interrogations and night time escapes as long as he can get out again – allow him to gather Illyrion in unimaginable quantitiesLe Carre or Fleming. Luckily 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 oneHowever, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal as with the truth about our place in the cosmosbest novels, it wears many masks and untainted by overpopulation, pollution its most affecting one is that of a new and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everythingtimely genre, and followed the pathfinder Suhcli-Mi into the unknown. Twenty two years laterfi, the new colony still functions – based around a mysterious alien structure into which Suh-Mi has resided in isolationor climate change fiction. Ren works hard alone, generating the tools needed for survival – and harbouring North's novel tells of a secret that could destroy everything they world devastated by climate change where humans have worked been forced 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 start anew and live alongside nature without any of Stephen Hickman|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Stephen Hickman has been a well known artist in the Fantasy modern and Science Fiction worlds for a number corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of years nowmass destruction, having created covers for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffreyintensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and Larry Niven. His paintings are vibrantone group, kineticthe Brotherhood, sometimes scary, often sensual, traditional, and yet modern. ''The Art of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds of aims to master these paintings, and processes no matter the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into cost to the artistic processEarth. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298456</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ursula K Le GuinAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass RoseShards of Earth

|summary=IEighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect'll start by saying that I think s reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the SF Masterworks series war fades, heroes are pretty much always forgotten, and without fail a really interesting readhumanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. I've bought quite Idris Telemmier, a few from this publisher now man genetically engineered to try and I find they will always pick interesting titles from communicate with the science fiction genreArchitects, does not want to be remembered. But, making them a great place when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to start if you are either just dipping your toe be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into science fiction for the first time or if you're looking spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to build up your collection.realise that the real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147320576X</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jason M HoughTerry Miles|title=Zero WorldRabbits|rating=34.5

|summary=Memory is an important element Welcome to the world of making us who we areThe Game. Do we avoid certain courses of action knowing Or should that be the memory of game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it would haunt us 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 rest game of our lives? Most life then. Yes, this is the game of us would not kill, but what if you could forget that you just ended someone's life? Then you may be for a sociopathcertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, but a useful sociopath named like that can be trained in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be an assassin historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who killshas successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, forgets and kills againare still very short. However this time it's different. This type of person may time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even forget being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that they have visited new worldsthe line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295252</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip K DickC J Carey|title=Nick and the GlimmungWidowland

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Nick. He lives on a future EarthIt's April 1953, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacher, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the class that you are breaking the law. Nick, you seestate funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, has parading around a pet catbit, and in this massively watching over-populated and under-resourced worldthe sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, pets are illegalQueen Wallis. There's a simple solution – wait for For yes, Britain caved in the ''antilead-pet manup to the World War Two that certainly didn'' to turn up with his weaponry t happen as we know it, and armour and dispose we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of it, but the family have decided to take same blood as the other way out – emigrate to an entirely different world. Hence they embark Germanic peoples on ''the trip to be pioneer farmers on Plowmanmainland'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 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 But this is most certainly a foundling orphan adopted as a baby by the Aedile (chief civil servant) different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of a small city downriver of the mightyfemale purpose, ancient city has put all of Ysthat gender into a caste system, capital of the manranging from high-made world of Confluence. Longing brow office bigwigs to become a soldier the drudges, and take his late brother's place in beyond those, right on down to the long-running war against childless, the heretics, husbandless and the restless seventeen year old widows. Female literacy is about to be taken as an apprentice clerk despite his young ageactively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, to keep him out of trouble. Destinyour heroine, howeverRose Ransom, 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 employed with the science fiction giants H.G. Wellstask of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, Michael Moorcocknot every book can be banned, and Philip K. Dick in the ''Masterworks'' seriesnot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a large selection of genre-defining writers and works at hefty tweak towards the centre of what party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is now such a popular and diverse range of literaturesher job, filmsat least, and television productions. Miller is considered one of until the finest science fiction writers first emerging signs of the 1950sfemale protest come to light, and in ''Dark Benediction'', fourteen of this authorwith their potential to spoil Hitler's best short stories are brought together in one collectionvisit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211948</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin MoffettEverina Maxwell|title=The Silent History|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Well, 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 '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, and were in a silent world of their own. But right about now they and we are combining worlds – schools are being set up, and funds are being made available, and people are coming down on the endless divide as to whether they are just problematic, disabled – or even the blessed. In a couple of years, however, the problems the virus that is causing these people to be born with will be shown to be a major problem – and that is before the kids themselves change. For they will be able to switch their mental abilities much like a blind man can hear more than the average, and will be able to comprehend body and facial language much more coherently than anyone else. Throughout this timeline, however, people will be working hard to try and study the problem, and put it right – if indeed 'rightWinter' is the correct word…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959286X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kieran Shea|title=Koko the Mightys Orbit

|summary=Many people have dreamed of packing up their old jobs and opening Prince Kiem is a B&B or hotel with their partner somewhere in a picturesque holiday destinationfamous political disappointment. You may just deserve this new lifeHe's outgoing, but running a hotel is not easycarefree, especially when it is on a pleasure island known for its indiscriminate violence and hedonism. Koko Martsteller had her last hotel/brothel blown up, but after a series of extraordinary events she has a new hostelry and a new partnergotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years. It's a shame then So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that nothing is ever easy supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for Kokothe role. Least of all him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781168628</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rob BoffardWinters|title=Tracer|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction |summary=Just because the Earth has been destroyed does not mean that humans are now extinct. As a bunch, humans are resourceful, so rather than sit on a dying Earth we all pack our bags and get a place on the orbiting station called New Earth. However, after a couple of hundred years the old space station is starting to feel a little cramped and appears to be falling to pieces. What is the common link to both Earth and New Earth being destroyed? Perhaps it is time someone did something about these pesky humans who ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356505138</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lev Rosen|title=DepthHis Name Was Wren

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=The private investigator genre is a great oneIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. Not because they all feel pretty similar so that picking one up is like slipping on It came down hard, taking the spire of the village church with it, destroying a pair of comfortable slippersstone shack, but because you can put and leaving a PI anywhere – even wide trail through the futurewood, but no trace of what it actually was. Writing about a New York that is partially underwater could be done in many ways; action, cerebralGerman secret weapon was the local gossip, but why not use there should have been an investigator for hire? Mixing explosion and a solid crime story with an intriguing glance at the future is sure to be a winnercrater, but you better put on your best trench coat as you are going to get wetand there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783298634</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A L KennedyMark Lingane|title=Doctor WhoNote to Self: The Drosten's CurseAn Education

|summary=IfIn Kry's world, for some unearthly reasonthe 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, you should follow in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the world side effect of erasing seven years of golf 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 hear youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker thatunder the moon's 'lethal' or 'surface leaves her bonded with a killer trap', point strange alien entity. After the speaker in entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the direction staff of a sand pit on the 13th at research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the Fetch Brothers Golf Spa Hotelsystem to take Kira in for examination. For it really Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is lethal – something under it will suck you down, handspan attacked and destroyed by handspanan alien ship, anaesthetising you and making you incapable of crying outshe has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. David Agnew knows thisShe is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and uses it as a handy way to get rid rag-tag bunch 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 Bryonymisfits, and the hard-done-by receptionistnews is grim. There is a grandma who it would appear is losing The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all memory, beyond for her beloved octopuses, two young children who are very wrong indeed, in lots of wayshuman-occupied space, and there's also only a strangely metallic taste about mythical weapon known as the air in the placeStaff of Blue can stop them. A perfect site for As the Fourth Doctor death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to pop up realise that she may have had a greater hand in, then – until a psychic attack leaves him with little opportunity to put the ageless problems to rights…conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849908265</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robert Brockway|title= The Unnoticeables|rating= 3.5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Carey is a punk living in New York City, 1977. Sick of watching his friends be abducted and killed, he doesn’t care about the rumours of strange monsters and supernatural happenings – all he wants to do is drink beer and kick ass. In the present day, Kaitlyn is in Hollywood. A stuntwoman, she has a missing best friend, has just escaped an attempt on her life, and an angel is waiting outside her door. The survival of the human race lies in the hands of Carey and Kaitlyn. We are, all of us, well and truly screwed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= The Just City|rating= 3.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Urged on by her brother Apollo, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – a city based 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 flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove to be a fly in the ointment…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mike Brooks|title=Dark Run|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction |summary=For any sane person Space is not a place you would want to go. 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 is a few inches of metal – no thank you. To make things even worse, the future of space travel also appears to have pirates, terrorism Laura Lam and petty bureaucracy. I think I will stick to getting my astronaut-based thrills vicariously through the medium of the novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956641</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Scott K AndrewsElizabeth May|title= TimebombSeven Devils|rating=4

|summary= In 2141Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, Yojana Patel throws herself off a skyscraper. She never hits resistance movement fighting against the ground. In 1640, Dora Predennick discovers a badly burnt woman. When ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she reaches out was destined to comfort inherit in herpast life as Princess Discordia, she’s flung through timewhom everyone believed has been dead for years. And on a rainy day in our timeClo, Kaz Cecka sneaks into an ace pilot for the ruins of Sweetclover hall in search of Novantae, has a mission: hijack a dry spot Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to sleepthe war effort. Instead he finds a frightened housemaid from Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the time of Charles I, and an angry girl from mission commences; aboard the future. Thrown into ship are three defectors with a war secret that spans millenniacould potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the three must harness powers in order runner-up heir to escape deadly villainsthe Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and stay one step ahead the last of a fanatical army…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444752081</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Harry Harrison|title=Bill, the Galactic Hero|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Meet Billfree alien species. HeIt's a simple farmer – well, he ''is'' taking a correspondence course in being a Technical Fertiliser Operator – but fate has something else in store. And so does race against time as the mechanised, technological, industrial military, which needs several billion grunts rebels move to fight the Chingersput a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in mankind's first inter-galactic war. Still, at least he gets medals just for signing up. After that it's all downhill, and the likes of Petty Chief Officer Deathwish Drang can only make that a straight line down. Really, what hope is there?balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147320531X</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris BeckettFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Mother of EdenA Life Without End

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Chris Beckett writes page-turning science fiction with deep theological implications. I almost never read sci-filooked at the calendar the other week, but in 2012 and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I devoured ''Dark Eden''know, admiring it so much that I chose it as Greenbelt Festivalyet another one. It won's Big Read that year. Anyone approaching this sequel without knowledge t be one of the first book will inevitably be a mite confusedmajor numbers, so a synopsis of but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the first book may come in handyhorizon. Six generations ago And then a pair few of astronautsthe big 0-numbers, Angela (Gela) and Tommyif all goes well, landed on the planet Eden and became matriarch and patriarch I'll be an OBE. (Which of a new race of primitive humanscourse stands for Over Bloody Eighty. A young leader, John Redlantern, rose up within ) Now if that's the groupextent of my mid-life crisis, determined I guess I have to free his people from their limited worldview by demythologizing their foundational storybe happy. Through events Our author here doesn't use that mirror those in Genesis and Exodusexact phrase, Beckett presents an intriguing counterpoint but he might be said to the ways Jews and Christians relate to the biblical narrativebe living one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00V2JSTW4</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=William C Dietz|title=Deadeye|rating=2.5|genre=Science Fiction |summary=In the world of urban fantasy it seems easy Determined to come up with a great concept and then find yourself with no story out how to fill it. How about this prolong life for an idea? The future America is almost destroyed when a virus wipes out half as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the population, of those that survive half have remained human, the other half have become mutants. Someone needs assistant to police this new status quo, so detectives are still on the beatfirst geneticist he interviews, catching killers and kidnappers. Sounds like they end up with a great ideachild, 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 at least a gracekeeper – administering shoreside burials and sending the dead to rest in the depths way of continuing 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 trainershis genes, and with only a bear for a friendmotive to keep on going. An offshore storm leads But how can he get to a chance meeting between North and Callanish – and a chance to change both of their lives. not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846559162</amazonuk>1642860670