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|author=Andy BriggsMark Lingane|title=Ctrl+SChimera|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''The survivor stumbles forward, her steps echoing in the oppressive silence. Her heart pounds like a jackhammer. She doesn’t know where she’s heading. All she remembers is running. Terror chasing. Everything lost.'' ''Broken and fragmented recollections tumble around her head. Fear courses through her body. Her breaths come in shallow, ragged gasps as desperation claws at her throat. Dehydration consumes her, and a raging thirst feels unquenchable.'' ''There must be a way out. As she moves through the foreign area, memories begin to gel. Disaster had ploughed through her life—not just hers, everyone’s.'' As our survivor struggles to orient herself, she's guided by a robot, which looks human-made, but she can't be sure. It says it is. It says she must try not to injure herself. Guided to an interview with an eerie, terrifying group of aliens, she desperately tries to make sense of flashes of memory - environmental degradation, deals done and then betrayed, horrifying rituals covering desperate attempts to survive - and to attempt to explain how she came to be here, apparently the last human being alive.|isbn=B0DNVWMYP2}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary= Life in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the near futureshape of things to come.''s not all bad. We I've reversed global warming and fixed the collapsing bee populationheard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. We even created SPACE Well, I must confess that there have been more than a virtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson can do almost anything they desirefew decades of technology in my lifetime. But almost anything isn I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it't enough for somes all getting away from me. Every daySome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, normal people are being taken, their emotions harvested - I could research the possibilities and lives traded - to create death-defying thrills for the rich probabilities and twisted. Now Theo’s mother has disappeared. And as he follows her breadcrumb trail of clues, heend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'll come up against re talking about or the most dangerous SPACE has to offer: vPolice, AI Bots latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and anarchists - as well as who could deliver information in a criminal empire that will kill to stop him finding her . . way I could understand.|isbn=1409184641

|author= Stephen BaxterSylvie Cathrall|title= World Engines: DestroyerA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Hundreds 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. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of years in the futurerioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, on a stagnating British superfan and almost empty Earthtech nerd, a space shuttle pilot from is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the early days of system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CP95J1CG|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the 21st century party but his interest is awoken piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like a good opportunity to get out of his room and away from the cryogenic sleep online activities he entered after makes a devastating accidentliving at. As So he comes to terms with this new worldmakes his way there, he begins to realise dodging the buses that their history does not match what he remembers - make up most of the traffic and that only he may watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be able enough power. Hopefully.}}{{Frontpage|author=K P O'Donnell|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to stop understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the coming catastrophe destined to destroy world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the planetnations of Drexel and Renada. Until he meets Over half-a young woman who seems -century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to have 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 drive group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her owndetermination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and a plan...no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=1473223172B0CKRYFRZM

{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->Emily Tesh|title=Some Desperate Glory|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us''

<!-- Graves -->Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres.|-isbn=0356521834}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|M R Carey[[image:194927201X.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/194927201X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Infinity Gate| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|5===[[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Aaron Sheridan doesnsummary= I't want m annoyingly picky when it comes to live anymorescience fiction. His entire family is dead by his own hand, killed in Not because it's a shuttle crashgenre I dislike – nothing of the sort. Unable to deal with the guilt, he signs up for the Fleet expecting My standards are high precisely because it's a fatal deployment hard genre to the Rim Warget right – and when it's bad, but instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, Corinth Station. Initially, heit's detached from often terrible. But the brutality premise of his instructors and the Machiavellian tactics of the other students there, but after he sticks up for his only friend he makes himself Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a target of the most feared cadet on the stationhigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, Caelus Erikit'd be fantastic. Unsure of whom to trust and worried So this is where I sum up that anything he does will make others on his flight team targets as well, Aaron retreats deeper premise.|isbn=0356518043}}{{Frontpage|author= Michael Grothaus|title=Beautiful Shining People|rating=4|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= ''But fearing something and deeper inside himselfhaving it come to pass are two different things. However, when he discovers that officer training is not the stationAnd I's only purposem willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it becomes increasingly clear that risking everything is the safest thing he can do. [[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]''

<!--Merritt Graves -->''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|title=22 Ideas About The Future[[image:1949272028.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1949272028/refBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=nosim?tag5|genre=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary="vertical''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-align: top; text-align: left;"|vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''

===[[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves]]===I've got a couple of confessions to make. [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]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. If the game wasn’t fair before, it’s definitely not fair nowThere's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Or so thinks Dorian Waters, part of Then there's science fiction: far too often it's the evertechnology which takes centre stage along with the world-expanding portion of humanity building. It's human beings who can’t afford fascinate me: the nano-implant technology and genetic augmentation regimen known as Revisionthe world scape are purely incidental. And because he can’t afford Revision So, he can’t get into collegewhat did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, I loved it. He can’t get a job. And when he sees the brilliant and mesmerizing Lena for }}{{Frontpage|author=Mark Lingane|title=Galaxy|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Spark, who is an elite pilot with the first timeSpace Academy, he knows he doesn’t have barely makes it through a chance with her, eitherbattle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Feeling thoroughly lost and exasperated, Dorian robs Waking from a house with his best friendcoma that lasted years, Ethan. Then they do it againhe remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. It’s thrilling But Earth is under threat and terrifying and deeply unsettlinghe must. But since they take so little each time that their targets don’t noticeReturned by his superiors to the space station, they’re able he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to keep at save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it until they have enough money saved up, but also from its own sins against itself. Once they do their first Revision, their initial choices in self-enhancement start impacting their future choices, which in turn impact their future Revision––on and on in a downward spiral |isbn=B09X3NZ76W}}{{Frontpage|author=Tade Thompson|title=Far From the Light of self-destructionHeaven|rating=4. Dorian desperately wants 5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to slow things down and figure out space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the kind world of person he really wants to beBloodroot, but with she will essentially be a babysitter for the police one step behind them and a contentious relationship with his brothership's AI captain. However, Jaden, threatening to unravel everything, it’s when she wakes up at the expedient choices that he’s finding himself more end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and more compelled the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to makerealise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. [[Sunlight 24 by Merritt Graves|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-- Peter F Hamilton -->alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|-isbn=0356514323}}{{Frontpage| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|author=Claire North[[image:1447281357.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447281357/refNotes from the Burning Age|rating=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Science Fiction|summary===[[Salvation Lost At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Peter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4starClaire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]] In the twenty-third centuryHowever, as with the best novels, humanity it wears many masks and its most affecting one is enjoying that of a comparative utopianew and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. Yet life on Earth is about to change, forever. Feriton KaneNorth's investigative team has discovered novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the worst threat ever to face mankind – modern and we've almost no time to fight backcorrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanityThere is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, in order aims to carry us master these processes no matter the cost to their god at the end of the universeEarth. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee|isbn=0356514757}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of Earth|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, to live in hiding amongst warped into an unrecognisable shape by the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in timemoon-sized aliens known as the Architects. But others refuse Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to break before the stormarchitect's reshaping. As disaster loomsThen, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the face memories of creationthe war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Even if it means preparing for Idris Telemmier, a future this generation will never seeman genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. [[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]] <!-- Megan E O'Keefe -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…[[image:0356512223.jpg|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512223/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]1529051886 }} {{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Terry Miles|title=Rabbits|rating===[[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe]]=== 4.5[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]] The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship exploding|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. She expected Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be recovered by salvage-medics and capitalised to awaken in friendly handshigh heaven, patched-up and ready to rejoin the fightit never leaves lower case throughout this book. Instead she wakes up 230 years laterIt's also called Rabbits, on although only as a deserted enemy starship called The Light of Berossus - or, slangy term for it – as he prefers to call himself, 'Bero'. Bero tells Sanda far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the war is lostaverage person no obvious entry point. That A bit like the entire star system is deadgame of life then. But Yes, this is that the full story? After all, in game of life for a certain tribe of people – the vastness fan of spacethe conspiracy, anything is possible the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be 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. [[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O'Keefe|Full Review]] <!-- Vaughn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0751568228.jpg|link=http://wwwHowever this time it's different.amazonThis time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise.co.uk/dp/0751568228/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Across Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the Void by S K Vaughn]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fictiongame is doing, if it's 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...|Science Fiction]]isbn=1529016932}}{{FrontpageSea epics? So 20th century. Try a space epic. [[Across the Void by S K Vaughn|Full Review]]author=C J Carey|title=Widowland<!-- Chiang -->|rating=4|-genre=General Fiction| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; textIt's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-align: center;"|[[image:1529014484.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529014484/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagup to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-21]]  | style="verticalstyled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang]]=== [[image:5starbrow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over is employed with the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short storiestask of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of hefty tweak towards the work by Ted Chiang. If you havenparty line before they't than take this opportunity 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 do so nowspoil Hitler's visit. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|Full Review]]|isbn=152941198X}}<!-- Doescher -->{{Frontpage|-author=Everina Maxwell| styletitle=Winter''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''s Orbit|[[image:168369094X.jpgrating=5|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/168369094X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Science Fiction| stylesummary=Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to s outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the Future! by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4past few years.5star.jpgSo 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.|linkisbn=Category:{0356515885}}{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HumourFrontpage|author=Rob Winters|Humour]], [[:Category:Science Fictiontitle=His Name Was Wren|Science Fiction]]rating=4|genre=Confident ReadersA long time ago, |summary=In September 1944 something came down in a publishing house far awayOban Woods, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite near the story village of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suitedHurstwick. It was then duly repeated for all came down hard, taking the other films in spire of the main Star Wars cyclevillage church with it, destroying a stone shack, and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nineleaving a wide trail through the wood, the title but no trace of which became public knowledge the day before I writewhat it actually was. In German secret weapon was the hiatuslocal gossip, however, the effort has but there should have been made to see if the same shtick works with other textsan explosion and a crater, and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambsthere were neither of those things. 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|Full Review]]|isbn=B08KGVNVNB}}{{Frontpage<!-- Martine -->|author=Mark Lingane|-title=Note to Self: An Education| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4|genre=Science Fiction[[image:1529001579.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529001579/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | stylesummary=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;"|===[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]=== [[image:4in 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.5star.jpg|link=Category:In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionFrontpage|Science Fiction]]author= Christopher Paolini The problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors |title= To Sleep in SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and errs on a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the side moon of making them unpronounceable by most readers. I can see why she does botha distant gas giant, but itXenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a disappointment because they're strange alien entity. After the blocks against which entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the brilliance staff of the book stumblesresearch station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. [[A Memory Called Empire Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by Arkady Martine|Full Review]] <!-- Lingane 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-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:B07NV8NY4Yoccupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them.jpg|linkAs 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…|isbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NV8NY4Y/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-211529046505}}]]{{Frontpage|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Seven Devils| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"4| genre=Science Fiction|summary==[[The Rose, Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the NightNovantae, and a resistance movement fighting against the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]=== [[image:4starruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years.jpg|link=CategoryClo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]  Julianhijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status. They feel less than pleased to discover that the maths PHD candidate should start earning some moneyher former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. To Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that endcould potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, they have managed the runner-up heir to find him a job tutoring the children Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. It's a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strangerace against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, austere mansion with little millions of lives hanging in the way of expectation. Victor, the politician is not at home. But Esis, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in her children and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his room, the library in which he will teach the children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with food. [[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane|Full Review]]  <!-- Arnold -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1789016525.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789016525/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnold]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart'', he continues to tell the story of the Quantum twins. Born on a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time to our earth - and a series of adventures ensued in the following books. When we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in the bush - adopted by a Bushman family and made part of a tribe. Twin Qwelby however, is not doing so well - shocked by the violence on the earth. Rescued by an old friend, he then tries to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive a wedge between the twins as they try to reconnect... [[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnold|Full Review]] <!-- Marrs -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1785038885.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785038885/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Passengers by John Marrs]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] In the near future, self-drive cars are the norm - a convenient and easy way of transport. However, when someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a fatal collision course. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, the public have to judge who should survive. But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by the public - will they turn out to be what they seem? [[The Passengers by John Marrs|Full Review]] <!-- Beckett -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786491559.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786491559/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, with terrifying results... [[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett|Full Review]] <!-- Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789090016.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789090016/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Zero Bomb by M T Hill]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Meet Remi. He's a fan of running, and indeed has been – from the wife and life he abandoned when they buried their seven year old daughter. Now working in London as a courier, he's taking a routine piece of samizdat literature across town when he's seemingly attacked by a driverless car. Struggling to keep to his schedule, he takes to the Tube, where mysterious people sit with him – and regale him with cryptic clues that mention his dead child. Slowly, woozily, he's drawn into a completely surreal scenario, as he tries to find out what is wanted of him, and by whom – and indeed, who he himself even is. [[Zero Bomb by M T Hill|Full Review]] <!-- Jason Boggs -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:154564134X.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]]balance…|isbn=1473231140 <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}}