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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George MannAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Ghosts of KarnakAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45

|summary=The superhero market is crowded and sometimes a little boring. Who cares ''Opening up new ways of thinking about what a God-like person can do when the rest shape of us are scrambling around trying things to avoid papercuts, never mind trying to repel a rogue asteroidcome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. The best heroes are those Well, I must confess that are just normal blokes or ladies dressed up there have been more than a few decades of technology in some fancy outfitmy lifetime. When it comes down I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it Batman or The Shadow are just men, but 's all getting away from me. Some of it is their vulnerability that makes them ace to read about- frankly - quite frightening. Add to this list George MannOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's m reading someone who knows what they'The Ghost', re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a World War One veteran who returns to New York no longer willing to watch the criminals taking over his home townway I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294167</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneSylvie Cathrall|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River SongA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35

|summary=''Hello, sweetie.'' And with those words we know where we There are – in the company of River Song, one of modern TV's more infuriating characters. Now she's likeable enough, it was just the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made her hard few greater joys than a book which lives up to live witha compelling premise. I would say And this was a return to her side, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it in our future, which is her past, and vice versa at the same, er, time? Either way, five tales here bring a selection one of her escapades to a YA audience. The results can be bordering on the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usualthem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alex Lamb1803816759|title= NemesisThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 3.54|genre= Science Fiction|summary= IIt'm not s 2038 and Joe is a great lover bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of back-cover blurbadventure 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, but every now and again it tells you everything you need riots start to know…if you read between the linesspread. ''Hugely promising'' said SFXFinally, Joe gets to do some real policing. ''Hits In the ground running'' said aftermath of the Guardianrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. I canJoe isn't disagree with either of those two statements. Unfortunately for this particular readerthe only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, it ran very quickly into a swamp of dense pseudo-scientific-explicatory-strangle-weedBritish superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And didnhow is Suki't live up to the promise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473206111</amazonuk>s kidnapping connected?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma GeenB0CP95J1CG|title=The Many Selves of Katherine NorthOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=34.5

|summary=As a Bristol-area Ronan'phenomenaut', nineteen-year-old Kit projects herself into s not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is piqued by the lab-grown bodies of all sorts of creaturesway it arrived. She's recently spent And it seems like a lot good opportunity to get out of time as a fox (appropriate given her nickname) his room and got particularly close with away from the online activities he makes a vixen named Tomoko. It's becoming much harder for her to leave the animal world behind living at the end of her 'jumps'. Even after BuckleySo he makes his way there, her neuroengineer, signals her to 'Come home' and she resumes her original body, she has trouble giving dodging the buses that make up animal tendencies like territorialism, toileting outdoors most of the traffic and raiding binswatching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip MartinK P O'Donnell|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating=43.5

|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' had access to VL-15, a time machineprototype robot, they would be able is desperate to temper all their responsesunderstand who she is. 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 violentUnfortunately, before she and her coterie had no idea could find any answers, the series would soon turn to a prison worldended, where soon-toconsumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-be victims of snuff movies are trapped in a reality-show styled existencecentury later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a world where machines and a hard-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executionshumans can live together in harmony, the morgues but internal frictions and worseexternal enemies might bring it all crashing down again. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had the benefit Craig Anderson, leader of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differently. They were quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a trade delegate who is halfprototype combat robot: none other than VL-man15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laughher determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and such an artificial premise. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langfordno errant machine, no savage human tribe and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric SawardEmily Tesh|title=Doctor Who: The VisitationSome Desperate Glory|rating=34.5

|summary=Have you ever given your ''While Earth's children a time machine? No? Are you sure? What about that thing in live, the corner upstairs called a dressing-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 theyenemy shall fear us''re now in  Following the middle ages? Well adults can get involved in that, too, destruction of course – the cast of this ''Doctor Who'' adventure had to put on 17th Century garbEarth, 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 amongst a giant android dressed as Deathrare number of survivors, but Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the whole it was one last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the more simple episodesworld that should have been hers. StillAll her life, who's she has been conditioned to say the novel isn't much more substantialfall in line, rich to fulfil her duty and varied?ensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940392</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terrance DicksM R Carey|title=Doctor Who and the Genesis of the DaleksInfinity Gate

|summary=If you were I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to randomly travel in time and space, where would you end up? Well, if our own battle-torn history was anything to go by, youscience fiction. Not because it'd like as not end up in s a time and place genre I dislike – nothing of warthe sort. The thing isMy standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and when it's bad, however, the Doctor is not, for once, travelling randomly – heit's been charged with carrying out errands for the Time Lordsoften terrible. And But the most tricky premise of those is to go the planet Skaro, deeply enmeshed in Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a thousand year warhigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, and put paid to one of the most heinous plans it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that could risk the universe – that of Davros to create his Dalek racepremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940384</amazonuk>0356518043

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm HulkeMichael Grothaus|title=Doctor Who Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the Dinosaur Invasiondevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5

|summary=What effect do you think you'd have if you were '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 couple of confessions to time travel? make. I dare say 'm not keen on short stories as I find it depends who or what you were easy to begin with, read a few stories and when you went and what you didthen forget to return to the book. The creatures in this story only seem There's got to be a very compelling hook to stay in keep me engaged. Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the same place, and do just what comes natural – but as they're giant rampaging dinosaurs and they suddenly appear in technology which takes centre stage along with the middle of modernworld-day Central London they do kind of get noticedbuilding. As a result It's human beings who fascinate me: the entire place has been evacuated, all ten million people shipped out, technology and the Government resettled in that hotbed of politics, Harrogateworld scape are purely incidental. As a resultSo, when the Doctor and Sarah Jane turn up they immediately get accused what did I think of being looters – and UNIT are just a touch too much out book of contact. twenty-two science fiction short stories? What is causing time to leave the dinosaurs moving around LondonWell, and what is a mediaeval man, complaining of witchcraft under King John, doing there too?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940376</amazonuk>I loved it.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terrance DicksMark Lingane|title=Doctor Who and the Web of FearGalaxy

|summary=What do you look like if you time travel? Perhaps like a lunk-headed AustrianSpark, naked and who is an elite pilot with fizzy blue stuff all over you. Or perhaps, to the confusion of Professor TraversSpace Academy, you look exactly as you did when he met you in Tibet forty years agobarely makes it through a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. That escapade has had Waking from a legacycoma that lasted years, as he has brought back a deactivated robot Yeti – remembers little and has mistakenly managed is in no physical shape to reactivate itresume his duties. But Earth is under threat and he must. Or perhapsReturned by his superiors to the space station, you look very much like yourself if you're he finds himself amid a time traveller, for last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just by reading this book you won't change your appearancefrom the alien threats against it, but you'll be sent back to 1968, by way of 1975, when this book-of-the-series was first publishedalso from its own sins against itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940368</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bill StruttonTade Thompson|title=Doctor Who and Far From the ZarbiLight of Heaven|rating=34.5

|summary=Consider the time machineMichelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. You probably know of it as looking like either some fancy Edwardian sit-upon machine that As first officer aboard the Morlocks nicksleeper ship Ragtime, or perhaps a battered old English police call box. I would suggest it can also look like a small paperback book – pretty much like bound for the subject at hand. This reprint world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship''Doctor Who'' novels AI captain. However, first presented in 1973 from when she wakes up at the series shown in 1965, certainly has the ability end of her trip to take you back. I grew up with the series on TV find dozens of her passengers butchered and the books in a Target imprintRagtime's AI almost non-responsive, but this predates she begins to realise that – her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it waswould. Down on Bloodroot, apparently, the second ever Who book-of-disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the-seriesRagtime. In itMeanwhile, the good Doctor former astronaut and his three companions arrive on friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a certain quarryshuttle to Bloodroot, half-like planet. One stays alien daughter in tow, to see why the TARDISRagtime has gone quiet, only to find it leaving behind the politicking and her nicked by aliens; another needs rescuing from alien mind control by a different species bureaucracy of aliens; and Space Station Lagos. What the third with our irascible hero work out what actually took control five of their ship and stranded them there in discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the first place…entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178594035X</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David WingroveClaire North|title= The Ocean of TimeNotes from the Burning Age|rating= 3.54|genre= Science Fiction|summary= The War for Time continues. At its core ''Notes From the frozen tundra of 13th Century Russia to Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the battle best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of Paltava in 1709 a new and beyondtimely genre, Otto Behr has waged an unquestioningcli-fi, unending war across time for his peopleor climate change fiction. But now North's novel tells of a third unidentified power has joined world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the game across the ocean modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of timemass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and everything Otto holds dear could be unmade…one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195617X</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Holly JenningsAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= ArenaShards of Earth|rating= 3.54

|summary= Kali Ling competes in Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the RAGE tournaments – a competition of Virtual GamingArchitects. Humanity is scattered, where constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the worldarchitect's best gamers compete in a fight to reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the digital deathArchitects vanished. Every fights is broadcast to millionsAnd so, and each player leads lives the memories of fame. Although the weapons war fades, heroes are digitalforgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the players feel every blow… Kali Ling – the first female captain in tournament historyArchitects, is famed for her prowess – but has her world shaken when her teammate and lover overdosesdoes not want to be remembered. NowBut, she must win the tournament when he and uncover the truth about crew of the tournamentsalvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, for suddenly he is thrust back into the Virtual Gaming League has dark secretsspotlight. And the only way 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 change realise that the rules real war is to fight from the inside…only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101988762</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael CobleyTerry Miles|title= Ancestral Machines|rating= 3|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Having completed the Humanity'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>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|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>}}{{newreview|author=Mike Brooks|title=Dark SkyRabbits

|summary=Making money is not easy, especially if you live life on Welcome to the edges world of known space scraping The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a living doing odd jobs with your crew; some legalslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, some not so legaland to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. You may not have much moneyYes, this is the game of life for a good ship or even adequate washing facilitiescertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, but what you do have is the friendship and comradery hack from the darkest of your fellow crewmateswebs. That is unless you have all just discovered People like our hero, K, named like that in the captain used least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be a space pirate historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who once suffocated has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This 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 being played, and how his entire crew so that loved ones might be kept safe, he could escape. Welcome is only to find out that the jolly ship Keikoline between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009195665X</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Samuel R DelanyC J Carey|title= NovaWidowland|rating= 54|genre= Science General Fiction|summary=In It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the 31st century the rare element Illyrion is state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a crucial energy sourcebit, and naturally enough a whole lot watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of politics Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and power we are bound up with whoever controls now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the supplymainland''. Lorq Von Ray But this is most certainly a different Britain, daring spaceship captainfor Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has this mad idea put all of that flying gender into an imploding star will a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – as long as he after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get out again – allow him a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to gather Illyrion in unimaginable quantities. Luckily his rag-bag crew donspoil Hitler't know about this when they sign ons visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211913</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma NewmanEverina Maxwell|title= Planetfall|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Ren believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond our one, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, and untainted by overpopulation, pollution and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give 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 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, and the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic process. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298456</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ursula K Le Guin|title= The WindWinter'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 read. 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 collection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320576X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jason M Hough|title=Zero WorldOrbit|rating=3.5

|summary=Memory Prince Kiem is an important element of making us who we area famous political disappointment. 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 kill, but what if you could forget that you just ended someoneHe's life? Then you may outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years. So when an important political alliance is to be a sociopath, but a useful sociopath arranged – one that can be trained is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be an assassin who kills, forgets and kills againchosen for the role. This type Least of person may even forget that they have visited new worldsall him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295252</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip K DickRob Winters|title=Nick and the GlimmungHis Name Was Wren

|summary=Meet NickIn September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwick. He lives on a future Earth, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacherIt came down hard, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare to taking the class that you are breaking spire of the law. Nick, you seevillage church with it, has destroying a pet catstone shack, and in this massively over-populated and under-resourced worldleaving a wide trail through the wood, pets are illegalbut no trace of what it actually was. There's a simple solution – wait for German secret weapon was the ''anti-pet man'' to turn up with his weaponry and armour and dispose of itlocal gossip, but the family there should have decided to take the other way out – emigrate to been an entirely different world. Hence they embark on the trip to be pioneer farmers on Plowman's Planetexplosion and a crater, even when they're forewarned of a host of different and most unusual animals already resident therewere neither of those things. That advice still doesn't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057513299X</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul McAuleyMark Lingane|title= ConfluenceNote 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= Dystopian Science Fiction|summary=Yama is a foundling orphan adopted as a baby by On the Aedile (chief civil servant) moon of a small city downriver of distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the mightyplanet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient city of Ys, capital of alien bunker under the man-made world of Confluencemoon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. Longing After the entity bonded to become a soldier her loses control and take his late brother's place in kills half the long-running war against staff of the hereticsresearch station, the restless seventeen year old United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is about to be taken as attacked and destroyed by an apprentice clerk despite his young agealien ship, and she has to keep him out flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of troublemisfits, and the news is grim. DestinyThe same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, howeverand only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, has other plans for him.Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057511942X</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Walter M Miller JrLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Dark BenedictionSeven Devils|rating= 54

|summary= Walter M. Miller Jr Eris is rightly placed among one of the foremost operatives of the science fiction giants H.G. WellsNovantae, Michael Moorcocka resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, and Philip Kwhom everyone believed has been dead for years. Dick in Clo, an ace pilot for the ''Masterworks'' seriesNovantae, has a mission: hijack a large selection of genre-defining writers and works at Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the centre of what war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is now such her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a popular and diverse range of literaturessecret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, filmsthe runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and television productions. Miller is considered one of the finest science fiction writers last of the 1950s, and in ''Dark Benedictionfree alien species. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles'plans, fourteen with millions of this author's best short stories are brought together lives hanging in one collection.the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473211948</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby Frederic Beigbeder and Kevin Moffett|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 Frank Wynne (the childrentranslator) 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 'right' is the correct word…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959286X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kieran Shea|title=Koko the Mighty|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|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 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 partner. It's a shame then that nothing is ever easy for Koko.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781168628</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Boffard|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=Depth|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The private investigator genre is a great one. Not because they all feel pretty similar so that picking one up is like slipping on a pair of comfortable slippers, but because you can put a PI anywhere – even the future. Writing about a New York that is partially underwater could be done in many ways; action, cerebral, but why not use an investigator for hire? Mixing a solid crime story with an intriguing glance at the future is sure to be a winner, but you better put on your best trench coat as you are going to get wet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298634</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A L Kennedy|title=Doctor Who: The Drosten's CurseLife Without End

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=IfI looked at the calendar the other week, for some unearthly reason, you should follow the world of golf and hear of disappointedly realised I have a bunker that's 'lethal' or 'a killer trapbirthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, point but the speaker in time when I have the direction of a sand pit same number as Heinz varieties looms on the 13th at the Fetch Brothers Golf Spa Hotelhorizon. For it really is lethal – something under it will suck you downAnd then a few of the big 0-numbers, handspan by handspanand if all goes well, anaesthetising you and making you incapable I'll be an OBE. (Which of crying outcourse stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) David Agnew knows thisNow if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, and uses it as a handy way I guess I have to get rid of people he be happy. Our author here doesn't likeuse that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Elsewhere at Fetch there is a completely inept character Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – I needn't specify, as he's inept at everything would like to see 400 – who's heartily smitten by Bryonyhe hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, the hard-done-by receptionist. There which is at least a grandma who it would appear is losing all memory, beyond for her beloved octopuses, two young children who are very wrong indeed, in lots way of continuing the life of wayshis genes, and there's also a strangely metallic taste about the air in the placemotive to keep on going. A perfect site for But how can he get to not flick the Fourth Doctor to pop up in'final way out' switch, then – until a psychic attack leaves him with little opportunity to put the ageless problems to rights…especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849908265</amazonuk>1642860670