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<!-- Quine -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Quine Beasts|author=Mark Lingane|title=Chimera|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Science Fiction|linksummary=https://www''The survivor stumbles forward, her steps echoing in the oppressive silence.amazonHer heart pounds like a jackhammer.coShe doesn’t know where she’s heading.uk/gp/product/0992754941?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0992754941]]All she remembers is running. Terror chasing. Everything lost.''

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Meet Jaymi. HeAs our survivor struggles to orient herself, she's guided by a worldrobot, which looks human-class video games designermade, and fresh to a new mansion in the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent success. But he's seen the future and he doesnbut she can't like be sure. It says itis. It says she must try not to injure herself. His current employersGuided to an interview with an eerie, able terrifying group of aliens, she desperately tries to bring any amount make sense of flashes of classmemory - environmental degradation, skill deals done and culture to the world of gameplaythen betrayed, are beset on appealing horrifying rituals covering desperate attempts to the most lunkheaded survive - and lowest common denominators instead. Indeed, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will to attempt to explain how she came to be a massively disturbing environmenthere, where people progress through apparently the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone last human being alive.|isbn=B0DNVWMYP2}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and everyone else on the planet, whether theyStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''re playing along or not, and by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a user-accepted, algorithm-designed, status quo. With a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, and sets Opening up a way new ways of restoring thinking about the balance with a launch shape of his own, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the gamethings to come. He sees this as a way to improve society and get his own back – but the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded background, and become fully playable characters in reality… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine|Full Review]]<br>''

<!-- Doescher I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is -frankly ->*[[image:Doescher_Willquite frightening.jpg|left|link=https://www Of course, I could research the 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 latest conspiracy theorist.amazon I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title==[[William Shakespeare's A Letter to the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]==Luminous Deep|rating=5 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was summary= There are few greater joys than a man called William Shakespeare, who was able book which lives up to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdycompelling premise. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version And this is one of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurtsthem. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]]<br>isbn= 0356522776}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Brookmyre1803816759|title=Places in the DarknessThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|summary= Living in 2017 has me longing to live in some sort of futuristic Utopia, in It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a world bit of free thinking adventure and no major to get stuck into some really gritty crimedetection. Perhaps in a Space Station high above the Earth were But then something goes horribly wrong with the greatest minds have travelled so AI system that they can build a vessel that will send now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the next generations aftermath of humans the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to populate new planets. You know that as soon as you arrive it will be the same old problemsbring her home. You canJoe isn't really have the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a Utopia with people in British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it, can youhacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650624X</amazonuk>

<!-- Curtis -->*[[image:Curtis_Water.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0995465754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0995465754]] ===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful Following the destruction of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa CraneEarth, amongst a vetrare number of survivors, as she remembers recent events, looks after Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the animals and falls into a world home of intrigue. It is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the start but I will try last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avoid avenge her people and the main ones. [[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Philip K Dick|title= Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams|rating= 3|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Philip K Dick's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they are more present than pastworld that should have been hers. On the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dick-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screensAll her life, Channel 4 she has adapted the author's short stories for TV. Startlingly, Dick's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising and loss of privacy been conditioned to the increasing machination of society are all headline material fall in today's news. It is as if half a century after their inceptionline, Dick's electric dreams are becoming realityto fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473223288</amazonuk>0356521834

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George MannM R Carey|title=Ghosts of EmpireInfinity Gate|rating=45

|summary=Taking on I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a band of undead Mummies will take it out genre I dislike – nothing of the best of us and a holiday may be neededsort. If you My standards are from New York there are not many other cities worldwide that could impress you, but London is one of them. Surely, high precisely because it's a nice visit hard genre to Englandget right – and when it's bad, far from it's often terrible. But the hustle and bustle premise of the Big AppleInfinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, will help you to relaxit'd be fantastic. It So this is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the sleeping power of Albion from its slumberwhere I sum up that premise. Is it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294183</amazonuk>0356518043

<!-- Goss -->''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 development of technology is exciting or frightening.*[[image:Goss_600.jpg|leftisbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage|linkisbn=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie1739593901|title=UTF8&tag22 Ideas About The Future|author=thebookbag-21&linkCodeBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=as2&camp5|genre=1634&creativeScience Fiction|summary=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]''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.''

===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection I've got a couple of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4confessions to make.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children I's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have m not keen on short stories as I find it easy to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need read a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends stories and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS then forget to stock up in advance, so my advice return to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based the book emporium and get himself ready. And if you There're working on s got to be a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the samevery compelling hook to keep me engaged. [[Doctor Who Then there's science fiction: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Andy Weir|title= Artemis|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to Artemis, the first city on the moon. A powerhouse for the rich and a once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and also a place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, far too often it's the only place shetechnology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishing. In fact, human beings who fascinate me: the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is a waste of talent. Jazz lives in technology and the low end of town, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porterworld scape are purely incidental. However So, Jazz dreams above all else what did I think of being rich and to this end, she has set up a side business book of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazz's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome rewardtwenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it is just too tempting to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956943</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Wes StuartMark Lingane|title= My Name is SamGalaxy|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Who Spark, who is an elite pilot with the real enemy? This is the question which confronts SamSpace Academy, the champion of the Sereia in their cosmosbarely makes it through a battle alive. His co-spanning war with the Gibbuspilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little and the main character is in this storyno physical shape to resume his duties. Sam But Earth is an unimposing boy who has no past under threat and no memory of who he ismust. Returned by his superiors to the space station, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earth's finds himself amid a last hope for salvation from the Gibbus who, in seven days, will destroy the planet ditch attempt to save humanity - and everyone on it. This is not his choice however: that is the decision of just from the alien Sereiathreats against it, his mentors and guides, as he is forced to confront this hazardous task. They have their but also from its own reasons for wanting Earth to be saved, but are too weak to challenge the Gibbus themselvessins against itself. In their search for a human champion they find the unlikely and ill-prepared young boy, Sam – but this child is not quite as he appears…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1540504506</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= C Robert CargillTade Thompson|title= Sea Far From the Light of RustHeaven|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Have you ever watched the Michelle 'Shell'TerminatorCampion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime' movies or some similar 'Robos AI almost non-geddonresponsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won' franchise t be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and wondered his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what would have happened if went wrong on the robots had actually ''won?'' Well wonder no moreRagtime. Meanwhile, because ''Sea former astronaut and friend of RustShell'' hinges on that exact premise; s father Lawrence Biz takes a world where shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of organic matter anywhereRagtime has gone quiet, since the robot uprising that devastated leaving behind the planet. Now two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS politicking and VIRGILbureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. They capture robots and turn What the five of them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousness. The few remaining bots are called 'freebotsdiscover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot,' and inhabit a desert called but potentially the Sea entirety of Rust, where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts.human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473212782</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul McAuleyClaire North|title= AustralNotes from the Burning Age|rating= 3.54|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Austral has no doubts about who she At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is. Her birth wasa spy thriller, with as she puts itmany double crosses, ''a political actinterrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an egg. I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She wasHowever, as with the jargon of her world has best novels, it ''edited''. She wears many masks and its most affecting one isthat of a new and timely genre, as a resultcli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a Husky. A human modified world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to withstand start anew and live alongside nature without any of the cold temperatures modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of the Antarctic continent. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive inmass destruction, but maybe not for much longerintensive farming). This There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world in which , and one group, the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the ice has retreated and continues cost to retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments is being opened up for exploitationEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473217318</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geoffrey ArnoldAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= HuntedShards of Earth

|summary=Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into a Bushman family and an unrecognisable shape by the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst moon-sized aliens known as the young men and women, a mixture of awe, desire, fear and hateArchitects. Living a very different lifeHumanity is scattered, Qwelby, Tulliaconstantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's twinreshaping. Then, is deeply shocked by just when they had the violence human race on Earththe run, the Architects vanished. As he is rescued by his four best friends from And so, the Pit memories of Despairthe war fades, he experiences his first feelings for Taminaheroes are forgotten, a girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries and humanity begins to help during a violent attack from his own world as he fracture and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic linkfight among themselves. Forming Idris Telemmier, a connection man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the twins during the attackArchitects, the girldoes not want to be remembered. But, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – when he and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on crew of the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build salvage ship he calls home discover what they hope will appears to be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a short test runrecent Architect activity, the village where suddenly he is staying is discoveredthrust back into the spotlight. When Quelby finds out As he is being watchedand his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he flees from slowly begins to realise that the village...real war is only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785891855</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel SuarezTerry Miles|title=Change AgentRabbits|rating=34.5

|summary=I wish I was Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a little bit tallerslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, I wish I had blue eyesit has no official title, I wishno official source, I wishno hard and fast structure, I wishand to the average person no obvious entry point. In A bit like the genetic lottery that game of life then. Yes, this is our lives we are given the game of life for a selection certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our mother hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and our father his bezzies are trying to work withbe historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. Howeverthis time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, although they may be over six footnay lethal, you could still end up being shorterthe most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. You can't currently choose Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what coding you getthe game is doing, but what if you could cherry pick the best aspects of your family traits? It would it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be a great way kept safe, he is only to save people from hereditary diseasefind out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, but would we end up with is a world full of identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashions? In the future someone would need to be in charge of stopping science going too farvery thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>110198466X</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen Baxter C J Carey|title= Xeelee: Vengeance Widowland|rating= 24|genre= Science General Fiction|summary=Michael PooleIt's April 1953, Earthand Adolf Hitler's greatest living engineerschedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, changed parading around a bit, and watching over the galaxy when he opened a worm hole sanctioned return to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar systemthrone of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. However For yes, such Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a thing was created with protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a degree of naivety different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and a lack ideas of foresight because out female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes beforedrudges, it is unstoppable and unfathomable. Bent beyond those, right on an unknown pathdown to the childless, the vessel is unresponsive to husbandless and the human life around itwidows. It ignores hails and even direct attacks Female literacy is actively discouraged. Nothing affects 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– after all, not even every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the surface of the sunparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. All it seems to want That is energyher job, and Earth has plenty at least, until the first emerging signs of that female protest come to light, with their potential to be absorbedspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473217172</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel GodfreyEverina Maxwell|title=Empire of Time (New Pompeii)Winter's Orbit

|summary=Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the beginningpast few years.The experiment So when an important political alliance is to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time be arranged – one that is supposed to a new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old prevent an interplanetary war – no one sounded great in theory. The practice has been going on expects him to be chosen for years now, but the modern and old worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the experiment out of curiosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamtrole. Since he arrived, he's watched the Romans kill the inventors Least of the machine that saved them. Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give all him his Roman name, is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and that's not a safe position or location in which to live.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785653156</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cixin LiuRob Winters|title=The Wandering EarthHis Name Was Wren|rating= 54|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= If anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the pages village of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think againHurstwick. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager It came down hard, taking the spire of the short form is Sci-fi. village church with it, destroying a stone shack, So when you pick up and leaving a collection wide trail through the wood, but no trace of Sci-fi shorts, you know that what it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novelactually was. Add to that German secret weapon was the intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of the rest of the planet…and add to that local gossip, but there should have been an author who is not only explosion and a best-seller in his home country but has the distinction crater, and there were neither of having produced the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be good!those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784978493</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jack CampbellMark Lingane|title= The Genesis FleetNote to Self: VanguardAn 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

|summary=The On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the stars it takes moon's surface leaves her bonded with it both a strange alien entity. After the best entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the worst examples staff of itselfthe research station, the 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 attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. The isolation She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and edginess of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Scirag-Fi in this tale tag bunch of far-flung colonies misfits, and bullying neighboursthe news is grim. We follow our protagonists, each failures in their own careers (crisis management, The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space navy, politics and marines) only a mythical weapon known as they become heroesthe Staff of Blue can stop them.As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650408</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anne CorlettLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= The Space Between The StarsSeven Devils

|summary= Jamie Allenby wakesEris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, alonea resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, and realises her fever whom everyone believed has broken. But could everyone she knows be been dead? Months earlier, Jamie had left her partner Daniel, mourning the miscarriage of their babyfor years. She'd just had to get awayClo, so took a job on a distant planet. Then an ace pilot for the virus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our far-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate and isolatedNovantae, until she receives has a garbled message from Earth. If someone from her past is still alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find mission: hijack a way Tholosian spacecraft to return. She meets others seeking Earth, and their ill-matched group will travel across space gather information vital to achieve their dreamthe war effort. But they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanity's past mistakes, threatening their precious fresh start. Jamie will also get a second chance at happiness. But can Although she escape her troubled past, to embrace a hopeful future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509833528</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elizabeth Moon|title= Cold Welcome: Vatta's Peace|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=''I'm convinced we can survive anything'' After saving the empire, Admiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less than pleased to return to discover that her former friend Eris is her home planetpartner on this mission. But after her cousin's request, Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret thatcould potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's exactly where Ky finds herselfbrother Damocles, enroute to tie the runner-up some family business. Promised a hero's welcome, Ky plans heir to stay as little time as possible back in the place filled with such horrible memories. But as soon as she arrivesEmpire, Ky finds herself in perilous danger, caught in is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the middle last of an assassination attempt. Now stranded at sea and without communication links with the outside world, Ky must use every ounce of skill she possesses to battle for survivalfree alien species. But with an unfamiliar crew who donIt't trust her, sabotaged equipment and s a traitor in race against time as the midstrebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, the odds aren't with millions of lives hanging in her favour. While the survivors hunt for land, Ky's family members are doing everything possible to ensure her rescue. Old friends are called in and new alliances are made, but will it be enough? Will they get to Ky before it's too late?balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506282</amazonuk>1473231140