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|author= Stephen BaxterMark Lingane|title= World Engines: DestroyerChimera|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Hundreds of years ''The survivor stumbles forward, her steps echoing in the future, on oppressive silence. Her heart pounds like a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from the early days of the 21st century is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accidentjackhammer. She doesn’t know where she’s heading. As he comes to terms with this new world, he begins to realise that their history does not match what he All she remembers - and that only he may be able to stop the coming catastrophe destined to destroy the planet. Until he meets a young woman who seems to have a drive of her own, and a planis running.Terror chasing.Everything lost.|isbn=1473223172}}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->''

<!-- Graves -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:194927201X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/194927201X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star''Broken and fragmented recollections tumble around her head.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Aaron Sheridan doesn't want to live anymoreFear courses through her body. His entire family is dead by his own hand, killed Her breaths come in a shuttle crash. Unable to deal with the guiltshallow, he signs up for the Fleet expecting a fatal deployment to the Rim War, but instead ends up ragged gasps as desperation claws at their most prestigious command school, Corinth Stationher throat. InitiallyDehydration consumes her, he's detached from the brutality of his instructors and the Machiavellian tactics of the other students there, but after he sticks up for his only friend he makes himself a target of the most feared cadet on the station, Caelus Erikraging thirst feels unquenchable. Unsure of whom to trust and worried that anything he does will make others on his flight team targets as well, Aaron retreats deeper and deeper inside himself. However, when he discovers that officer training is not the station's only purpose, it becomes increasingly clear that risking everything is the safest thing he can do. [[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]'

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===[[Sunlight 24 As our survivor struggles to orient herself, she's guided by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] If the game wasn’t fair beforea robot, it’s definitely not fair now. Or so thinks Dorian Waters, part of the everwhich looks human-expanding portion of humanity who can’t afford the nano-implant and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revision. And because he can’t afford Revisionmade, he can’t get into collegebut she can't be sure. He can’t get a jobIt says it is. And when he sees the brilliant and mesmerizing Lena for the first time, he knows he doesn’t have a chance with her, eitherIt says she must try not to injure herself. Feeling thoroughly lost and exasperated, Dorian robs a house Guided to an interview with his best friendan eerie, Ethan. Then they do it again. It’s thrilling and terrifying and deeply unsettling. But since they take so little each time that their targets don’t noticegroup of aliens, they’re able she desperately tries to keep at it until they have enough money saved up. Once they do their first Revision, their initial choices in selfmake sense of flashes of memory -enhancement start impacting their future choicesenvironmental degradation, which in turn impact their future Revision––on deals done and on in a downward spiral of selfthen betrayed, horrifying rituals covering desperate attempts to survive -destruction. Dorian desperately wants and to attempt to slow things down and figure out the kind of person he really wants explain how she came to behere, but with apparently the police one step behind them last human being alive.|isbn=B0DNVWMYP2}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and a contentious relationship with his brother, Jaden, threatening to unravel everything, it’s Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the expedient choices that he’s finding himself more and more compelled shape of things to makecome. [[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]''

<!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 - Peter F Hamilton -->quite frightening. 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. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|-title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"5|genre=Science Fiction[[image:1447281357|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.jpg|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|linkisbn=http://www1803816759|title=The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread.amazonFinally, Joe gets to do some real policing.coIn the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home.uk/dp/1447281357/ref=nosimJoe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?tag=thebookbag-21]] }}{{Frontpage |isbn=B0CP95J1CG| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=[[Salvation Lost Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is piqued by Peter F Hamilton]]the way it arrived. And it seems like a good opportunity to get out of his room and away from the online activities he makes a living at. So he makes his way there, dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.}}{{Frontpage|author=K P O'Donnell|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating=3.5 |genre=Science Fiction[[image|summary=VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot:4starnone other than VL-15 herself.jpgEven after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|linkisbn=Category:{B0CKRYFRZM}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Tesh|title=Some Desperate Glory|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:=4.5|genre=Science Fiction]]|summary=''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us''

In Following the twenty-third centurydestruction of the Earth, humanity is enjoying amongst a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to changerare number of survivors, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team Kyr has discovered been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the worst threat ever to face mankind last scraps of humanity – and we've almost no time trained relentlessly to fight backavenge her people and the world that should have been hers. The supposedly benign Olyix plan All her life, she has been conditioned to harvest humanityfall in line, in order to carry us fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres.|isbn=0356521834}}{{Frontpage|author=M R Carey|title=Infinity Gate|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to their god at the end science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the universesort. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to fleeget right – and when it's bad, to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in time's often terrible. But others refuse to break before the stormpremise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. As disaster loomsA concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, animosities must it'd be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping fantastic. So this enemy from the face of creationis where I sum up that premise. Even if |isbn=0356518043}}{{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ''But fearing something and having it means preparing for a future this generation come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never seehappen, or we can take steps to change it. [[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]]''

<!-- Megan E O'Keefe -->'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.|-isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1739593901[[image:0356512223.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512223/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 22 Ideas About The Future| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|===[[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe]]==rating=5 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]]|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship exploding. She expected to be recovered by salvage-medics and to awaken in friendly handsInstead of flying cars, patchedwe got night-up vision killer drones and ready automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to rejoin the fighttrack grandma. Instead she wakes up 230 years later, on a deserted enemy starship called The Light of Berossus - or, as he prefers to call himself, 'Bero'. Bero tells Sanda the war is lost. That the entire star system is dead. But is that the full story? After all, in the vastness of space, anything is possible . . . [[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe|Full Review]]

<!-- Vaughn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751568228I've got a couple of confessions to make.jpg|link=http://www I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book.amazon.co There's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged.uk/dp/0751568228/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align Then there's science fiction: top; textfar too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-alignbuilding. It's human beings who fascinate me: left;"|===[[Across the Void by S K Vaughn]]===technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. }}{{Frontpage[[image:4star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{Mark Lingane|title=Galaxy|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction=4|genre=Science Fiction]] Sea epics? So 20th century. Try |summary=Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a space epicbattle alive. [[Across the Void by S K Vaughn|Full Review]] <!His co-- Chiang -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1529014484pilot was not so fortunate.jpg|link=http://www.amazonWaking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties.coBut Earth is under threat and he must.uk/dp/1529014484/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagReturned by his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity -21]]and not just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Tade Thompson|title=Far From the Light of Heaven|rating===[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang]]===4.5 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over bound for the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short storiesworld of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the work by Ted Chiang. If you havenRagtime't than take this opportunity s AI almost non-responsive, she begins to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will realise that her first mission won't be gratefulgoing as smoothly as she hoped it would. [[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|Full Review]] <!-Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half- Doescher -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:168369094Xalien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos.jpg|linkWhat the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/168369094X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]0356514323}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''Claire North|title=Notes from the Burning Age|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=[[William ShakespeareAt its core ''s Get Thee Back to Notes From the Future! Burning Age'' by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]However, as with the best novels, [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the story wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentametera new and timely genre, cli-fi, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suitedor climate change fiction. It was then duly repeated for all the other films in the main Star Wars cycle, North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the title live alongside nature without any of which became public knowledge the day before I writemodern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). In the hiatusThere is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, howeverand one group, the effort has been made Brotherhood, aims to see if master these processes no matter the same shtick works with other texts, and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambscost to the Earth. And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the Future, with its tales of time travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other? [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|isbn=0356514757}}{{Frontpage|Full Review]] <!-- Martine -->author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|-title= Shards of Earth| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4[[image:1529001579.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529001579/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary="verticalEighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]=== [[image:4sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's reshaping.5starThen, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] The problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes And so, the memories of the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to be too clever fracture and she wants her fictional languages fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to be complex try and rich and errs on communicate with the side of making them unpronounceable by most readersArchitects, does not want to be remembered. I can see why she does bothBut, but it's a disappointment because they're when he and the blocks against which crew of the brilliance of salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the book stumblesspotlight. [[A Memory Called Empire As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by Arkady Martine|Full Review]] <!-- Lingane -->alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886}}{{Frontpage|-author=Terry Miles| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Rabbits[[image:B07NV8NY4Y.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NV8NY4Y/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Welcome to the world of The Rose, Game. Or should that be the Nightgame, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]=== [[image:4starfor while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]  Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student statusIt'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. They feel that A bit like the maths PHD candidate should start earning some moneygame of life then. To that endYes, they have managed to find him this is the game of life for a job tutoring certain tribe of people – the children fan of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strangethe conspiracy, austere mansion with little in the way of expectation. Victorcomputer game, the politician is not at homehack from the darkest of webs. But EsisPeople like our hero, his wifeK, isnamed like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. A beautiful but isolated womanK and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, Esis shows little interest in her children and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his roomhave studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the library lists of who has successfully won the game are in which he will teach the childrenmost peculiar places, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with foodare still very short. However this time it's different. [[The RoseThis time the game seems the most dangerous, the Nightnay lethal, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane|Full Review]]  <!-- Arnold -->|-| style='most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it'width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1789016525s even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789016525/ref=nosim?tag|isbn=thebookbag-21]]1529016932}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre==[[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnold]]===General Fiction[[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler'Ripped Apart'', he continues s schedule includes going to Moscow to tell attend the story state funeral of the Quantum twins. Born on Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a parallel worldbit, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time watching over the sanctioned return to our earth the throne of 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 we are now a series protectorate – well, we share enough of adventures ensued in the following books. When we rejoin them in same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''Betrayedthe mainland'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in the bush . But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi- adopted by a Bushman family styled phrenology, and made part ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a tribe. Twin Qwelby howevercaste system, is not doing so well ranging from high- shocked by brow office bigwigs to the violence drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the earthhusbandless and the widows. Rescued by an old friend Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, he then tries is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a wedge between hefty tweak towards the twins as party line before they try '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 reconnectspoil Hitler's visit... [[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]isbn=152941198X}}<!-- Marrs -->{{Frontpage|-author=Everina Maxwell| styletitle=Winter''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''s Orbit|rating=5[[image:1785038885.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785038885/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary=Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Passengers by John Marrs]]=== [[image:4s outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years.5star.jpg|link=Category:So when an important political alliance is to be arranged – one that is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the role. Least of all him.|isbn=0356515885}}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionFrontpage|author=Rob Winters|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillerstitle=His Name Was Wren|Thrillers]]rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In the September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near future, self-drive cars are the norm - a convenient and easy way village of transportHurstwick. However It came down hard, when someone hacks into taking the systems spire of eight self-drive carsthe village church with it, their passengers are set on destroying a fatal collision course. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeysstone shack, and leaving a wide trail through the public have to judge who should survivewood, but no trace of what it actually was. But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by German secret weapon was the public - will they turn out to be what they seem? [[The Passengers by John Marrslocal gossip, but there should have been an explosion and a crater, and there were neither of those things.|Full Review]]isbn=B08KGVNVNB}}<!-- Beckett -->{{Frontpage|-author=Mark Lingane| styletitle="widthNote to Self: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"An Education|rating=4[[image:1786491559.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786491559/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styleScience Fiction|summary=In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Beneath the Worldin 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, A Sea by Chris Beckett]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg2045 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?|linkisbn=Category:{{{ratingB08LY8J4KS}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] {{Frontpage|author= Christopher PaoliniSouth America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives |title= To Sleep in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on peopledistant gas giant, unleashing Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by efforts to make the Duendesplanet habitable to human life. However, but a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the closer he gets, moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the more he begins entity bonded to unravel, with terrifying results... [[Beneath her loses control and kills half the Worldstaff of the research station, A Sea 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 Chris Beckett|Full Review]] <!-an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag- Hill tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789090016occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them.jpgAs 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…|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789090016/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]1529046505}}{{Frontpage|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Seven Devils|rating= 4|genre===[[Zero Bomb by M T Hill]]===Science Fiction[[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Meet Remi. He's a fan of running, and indeed has been Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – from the wife and an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. Now working in London as a courierPrincess Discordia, he's taking a routine piece of samizdat literature across town when he's seemingly attacked by a driverless carwhom everyone believed has been dead for years. Struggling to keep to his scheduleClo, he takes to an ace pilot for the TubeNovantae, where mysterious people sit with him – and regale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead childhas a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Slowly, woozily, heAlthough she's drawn into a completely surreal scenario, as he tries less than pleased to find out what is wanted of him, and by whom – and indeed, who he himself even discover that her former friend Eris isher partner on this mission. [[Zero Bomb by M T Hill|Full Review]] <!Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-- Jason Boggs -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:154564134Xup heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/154564134X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Dragon's Harvest by Jason F Boggs]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'. As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and self-discovery, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's Dragon'', Nelson is on an expedition to uncover the mystery of the sungates, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhile, the humans and the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to glory. As Nelson and his friends race against the clock in order to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[The Dragon's Harvest by Jason F Boggs|Full Review]] <!-- Anders -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785653199.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785653199/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] January is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders|Full Review]] <!-- Hamilton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1447281322.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447281322/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Salvation by Peter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Apparently the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as a pejorative. It was borrowed not from the high-brow musical art form, but from the common or garden 'soap opera'. It related to a particular kind of science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn". It would be fifty years later before the term started to be re-appropriated to cover – if still the same themes of distant futures, military conflict, heroism and a simplistic set of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as compliment. [[Salvation by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]] <!-- Chadwick -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:0349700249.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349700249/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[XX by Angela Chadwick]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in It's a race against time as the first ever clinical trial that would allow them rebels move to have put a child of their own without the need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, and the general publicstop Damocles' plans, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to millions of lives hanging in the demise of men. [[XX by Angela Chadwickbalance…|Full Review]]isbn=1473231140 <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}}