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|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth MayMark Lingane|title= Seven DevilsChimera|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris ''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 one of the foremost operatives of the Novantaerunning. 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 resistance movement fighting against way out. As she moves through the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined foreign area, memories begin to inherit in gel. Disaster had ploughed through her past life as Princess Discordialife—not just hers, whom everyone believed has been dead for yearseveryone’s. Clo'' 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 ace pilot for 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)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the Novantaeshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, has I must confess that there have been more than a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to gather me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - 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 vital in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the war effortLuminous 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. Although she|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's less than pleased 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to discover 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 the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her former friend Eris home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is her partner also on this missionthe case. What went wrong? Did the 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 party but his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. Things And it seems like a good opportunity to get more interesting as 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 mission commences; aboard local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.}}{{Frontpage|author=K P O'Donnell|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the ship are three defectors with Ashes)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=VL-15, a secret that prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could potentially cripple find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the Empirenations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. ErisDr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's brother Damocleslegacy, 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 runnerExhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-up heir to 15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the Empireslightest, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Tesh|title=Some Desperate Glory|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us'' 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 free alien speciesworld that should have been hers. ItAll her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to 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 science fiction. Not because it's a race against time as genre I dislike – nothing of the rebels move sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to put a stop Damoclesget right – and when it' planss bad, with millions it's often terrible. But the premise of lives hanging in the balance…Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|isbn=14732311400356518043

|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)Michael Grothaus|title=A Life Without EndBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, ''But fearing something and disappointedly realised having it come to pass are two different things. And I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one m willing to bet most of the major numberswhat we fear will never happen, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizonor we can take steps to change it. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's  ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the extent question of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happyidentity and acceptance. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said Of what it means to be living onehuman. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviewsOf what is real and what is artificial, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing whether the life development of his genes, and a motive to keep on goingtechnology is exciting or frightening. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670191458564X

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1739593901|title= 22 Ideas About The Doors of EdenFuture|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 4.5

|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, in every sense we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the wordbook. "Epic" is There's got to be a word thatvery compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there's thrown around a lot these days, but if a book ever earned the name science fiction: far too often it's this onethe technology which takes centre stage along with the world-building. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology and the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a doorstopper full book of big ideastwenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, and at times I loved it almost felt too big for my brain.|isbn=1509865888

|isbnauthor=B0867X8NW7Mark Lingane|title=Access Point|author=T R GabbayGalaxy

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having something of a professional success: using a device of her own invention she's helped a man Spark, who has been blind for decades to see is an image of elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through a hummingbirdbattle alive. She's thirtyHis co-six pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years old , he remembers little and her life is about in no physical shape to change radically as, cycling home, she's involved in an accident with a busresume his duties. It's two years before we meet her again But Earth is under threat and in he must. Returned by his superiors to the meantimespace station, she's spent 392 days in he finds himself amid a coma last ditch attempt to save humanity - and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that she should let out a spare bedroom to bring in some incomenot just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itself.|isbn=B09X3NZ76W

|author= M R CareyTade Thompson|title= The Book Far From the Light of KoliHeaven|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Michelle 'Shell'The Book Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of Koligoing 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' is the first in a posts AI almost non-apocalyptic trilogyresponsive, titled ''The Rampart Trilogy'she begins to realise that her first mission won', by M.R. Carey. The novel is set in a world where nature has turned against humans. Trees move t be going as fast smoothly as animals to crush their prey she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and then soak his android partner Salvo are sent up their bloodto discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtime. Humans have eked out a small existence in isolated villages. They are primitive except for their reverence Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of Shell'old tech'. This is technology from the old world that seems s father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to only work for certain chosen people. HoweverBloodroot, Kolihalf-alien daughter in tow, a young woodsmithto see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, uncovers a secret about this technology that will upend his life leaving behind the politicking and take him bureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. What the five of them discover on a perilous journey.the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=03164775320356514323

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumClaire North|title= TroofriendNotes from the Burning Age|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= Are you tired of your childAt its core ''Notes From the Burning Age''s classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with people? Introducing the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These stateand timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of-the-art machines are capable a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of emulating the full range modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of human emotions without lyingmass destruction, stealing or bullyingintensive farming). They're There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that Brotherhood, aims to master these androids are beginning processes no matter the cost to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?the Earth.|isbn=17880034700356514757

|author= N K JemisinAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= The City We BecameShards of Earth

|summary= New York is being bornEighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the city has reached critical mass and has matured into a living almostmoon-breathing entity and sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is ready scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to make itthe architect's way out into reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the worldArchitects vanished. Before it can be establishedAnd so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, an ancient evil appears and humanity begins to attempt fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to destroy it just as it destroyed Atlantis try and other forgotten places. The city is not alone through communicate with the birthing processArchitects, people who embody the values are selected does not want to become be remembered. But, when he and the living embodiment crew of the citysalvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, some cities have one, some have twelve and New York has sixsuddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. Together these human-embodiments must defeat the woman in white As he and save New York his allies bounce from very real destruction. But these are five different boroughs which don't always see eye star system to eyestar system, it's a personality clash on an epic scale chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and unity rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is both critical and not remotely guaranteed.only just getting started…|isbn=03565126651529051886

|author=Cixin LiuTerry Miles|title=Death's EndRabbits|rating=4.5

|summary= If I'd been paying more attention when I picked 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 up. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, I would have put it back on has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the shelfgame of life then. Not because I didn't want to read itYes, but because I'd have figured out that it was this is the final part game of life for a trilogycertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. Coming People like our hero, K, named like that in part way through a saga is never the easiest thing least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to do 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. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's particularly true ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in science fiction because without knowing trying to sort out what the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when game is doing, if it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that you wonthe line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932}}{{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It't understand. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Lius April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's work – 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 range is phenomenalwife, Queen Wallis. George R R MartinFor yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, who knows and we are now a thing or two about world-creationprotectorate – well, described it we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a unique blend caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of scientific it – after all, not every book can be banned, and philosophical speculationnot every story excised immediately from British civilisation, conspiracy theory and cosmology'so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. All That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of that and morefemale protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=1784971650152941198X

|author=Andy BriggsEverina Maxwell|title=Ctrl+SWinter's Orbit

|summary= In the near future, lifePrince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's pretty good. Climate change has been brought under controloutgoing, the bee population has been brought back from near-extinctioncarefree, and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker than ever beforegotten into many drunken scandals over the past few years. But the biggest triumph has got So when an important political alliance is to be SPACE, a simulated world arranged – one that has is supposed to prevent an interplanetary war – no one expects him to be chosen for the ability to mimic emotions as well as imagesrole. Least of all him. But|isbn=0356515885}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Winters|title=His Name Was Wren|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, as with every technologynear the village of Hurstwick. It came down hard, there is taking the spire of the potential for village church with it to be abused. Every day, people are being kidnappeddestroying a stone shack, plugged into SPACE and have their emotions and feelings harvested for leaving a wide trail through the richest and sickest members wood, but no trace of societywhat it actually was. And now Theo's mum has gone missing. As he follows German secret weapon was the trail left by herlocal gossip, he uncovers but there should have been an explosion and a vast conspiracy that would use any means necessary to stop him from finding out where his mum has gone..crater, and there were neither of those things.|isbn=1409184641B08KGVNVNB

|author= Stephen BaxterMark Lingane|title= World EnginesNote to Self: DestroyerAn 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|rating= 5

|summary= The last thing Colonel Reid Malenfant remembers is his Space Shuttle crashing - until he wakes up in On the mid-24th Centurymoon of a distant gas giant, on an Earth massively depopulated and patiently waiting for Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the coming apocalypse. Suffering from severe culture shock, he tries efforts to adjust make the planet habitable to this new worldhuman life. But all However, a discovery of this is changed when he receives an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a message from his wife Emmastrange alien entity...who died on a mission After the entity bonded to Phobos all her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the way back system to take Kira in 2004for examination. As it slowly dawns on him that their timelines don't match upThings go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, he resolves and she has to find a way flee to Phobosthe 61 Cygnus star system. ButShe is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, this new society doesn't believe in space travel crewed by Captain Falconi and noa rag-one tag bunch of misfits, and the news is willing to help himgrim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, until he meets and only a driven young woman who desperately wants to explore mythical weapon known as much as he does..the 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…|isbn=14732231721529046505

|isbnauthor=168369094XLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title=William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Ian DoescherSeven Devils|rating=4.5|genre=HumourScience Fiction|summary=A long time agoEris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to rewrite the story of Star Wars inherit in Shakespearean pentameterher past life as Princess Discordia, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suitedwhom everyone believed has been dead for years. It was then duly repeated Clo, an ace pilot for all the other films in Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someonewar effort. Although she's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the title of which became public knowledge ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the day before I writeEmpire. In the hiatus, howeverEris's brother Damocles, the effort has been made runner-up heir to see if the same shtick works with other textsEmpire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambsthe last of the free alien species. And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back It's a race against time as the rebels move to the Futureput a stop Damocles' plans, with its tales millions of time travel, bullying, and parent/child strife like no other?lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140