==Science fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Palmer
|title=Hell Ship
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Some time ago, I read Philip Palmer's debut novel [[Debatable Space by Philip Palmer|Debatable Space]]. Whilst there were aspects of that novel I didn't feel entirely worked, it was a well paced read for the most part and I marked Palmer as a writer to watch. His subsequent novels, [[Red Claw by Philip Palmer|Red Claw]] and [[Version 43 by Philip Palmer|Version 43]], have been well received here at The Bookbag and his fourth, ''Hell Ship'', isn't bad either.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499447</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ira Levin
|summary=It's hard to believe that ''The Left Hand of Darkness'' dates back to 1969: forty years on, it reads as well, or even better, then when it was originally written, and - deservedly - enjoys a classic status in the science-fiction canon, as well as being perhaps the best known sci-fi novel by Ursula LeGuin.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496065</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Eoin Colfer
|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Of all the big books announced for this year, this one must have raised more eyebrows than many. Why try and write a new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, when way before the end, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such a task? And why approach an Irishman, Eoin Colfer, when the originals - tempered with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing a sci-fi Terry Pratchett, and with their cups of tea and dressing gowns, could only be described as very English? Well the answer is most evident - Colfer is a world-beater when it comes to knocking up a story.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Simon Law
|title=Bringing Forth the End of Days
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Imagine the hell of a dying world, less than a generation from now. World War Three has been and gone - ended with conventional bombs galore but started by a plague on all plant-life, that removed all the oxygen from the planet's atmosphere. As a result, the few survivors must live in air-tight houses with special oxygenating equipment - the ultimate in air conditioning - or, they must have got in early with a special biomechanical adaptation that allows them mobility and independence, but at a freakish cost. Worse, religion has mutated - the Jehovah's Witnesses are now the most violent gang, rushing to nudge what's left of humanity towards its final judgment. Worse still - even worse than all of that - you're living in Crawley.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1608602036</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter Salisbury
|title=Passengers to Sentience
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Human beings are spread across the galaxy. The technology that allowed this to happen? Not faster than light travel, suspended animation or matter transfer but cloning. Want to start a new life elsewhere? Your mind and personality can be mapped as information. Unmanned ships are sent to inhabitable planets across the furthest reaches of space and upon arrival, the automated cloning vats begin re-creating your body and entering your stored mind and personality data.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755211596</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Palmer
|title=Red Claw
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=New Amazon, home to some of the most violent and deadly alien life imaginable, is due to be razed to the ground in order to make way for human habitation. A team of scientists, led by the charismatic Richard Helms, have been stationed on this planet under military protection, in order to study and catalogue the flora and fauna. However, the computer super brain handling all the technology has inconceivably turned on her human charges, forcing soldier and scientist alike to abandon base head quarters. As if the planet's hostile environment (including bouts of acid rain) were not enough of a threat, the characters are also pursued by legions of killer robots. Life expectancy does not look good.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496243</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=K S Turner
|title=Before the Gods (Chronicles of Fate and Choice)
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=''Before The Gods'' is presented as an enigma, wrapped in a puzzle and shrouded in mystery. The front is adorned by a beguiling image created by the author. A glance at the back cover serves only to tantalise rather than reveal what might be in store.
''This is where it all began. Everything. Love, hate, good, evil, us and them. This is before they were gods.''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956224202</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Issui Ogawa
|title=The Lords of the Sands of Time
|rating=3
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=We're in the third century, Japan. A queen and her young retainer are wandering to the edge of their territory, when a baddy appears - an alien seeming to be some local creature. Handily enough a saviour, warrior hero appears too, from way in the future, complete with talking sword, and saves the day. This incident is bad news for the queen to take back to court and discuss, but it's even worse for the messenger - sent on a one-way ticket from his own life, to advise of timelines that need saved - and the people that might just save Earth from this cosmic battle.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1421527626</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Hiroshi Sakurazaka
|title=All You Need Is Kill
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=In a global war between humans and invading aliens, called Mimics, Keiji is a trooper at the beginning of his short career in the army. Despite his high-tech body armour, he's not destined to last long - he's quickly dead. But then he's quickly alive again, as somehow his life is rewound a day. It only makes for prolonged horror for the rookie, but it happens again and again. Each time he gets a better intelligence of what his destiny might have been - can he learn enough each time round to make a difference, and possibly break the loop?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1421527618</amazonuk>
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[[Category:Science Fiction]]
{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Luna and Joshua Luna
|title=Girls Volume 1: Conception
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Ethan, we see with a great, broad comic stroke or six, is not the best when it comes to girls. Letting his mouth run away with him too often, he is not very successful at relationships. But let us look at what happens when he drives away from an altercation at the local bar, and sees a gorgeous - and very naked - young woman standing in the middle of the road.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1582405298</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Charles Stross
|title=Wireless
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=In his introduction, Stross explains that one of the reasons he likes writing shorts stories is because they are the ideal format in which to focus on a particular concept of the future and play around with it. It doesn't matter so much if the idea doesn't ultimately work because neither the reader nor the author has invested in it the way they would in a novel. ''Wireless'' then, is something of an experiment. Stross employs many different styles, tackles many different subjects and is very skilful at creating mood. His stories are a strange blend of the technical and the archaic.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497711</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Buettner
|title=Orphan's Triumph (Jason Wander)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=One of the major problems with science fiction series is that the titles aren't always terribly imaginative. At first glance, the cover of ''Orphan's Triumph'' gives away exactly how the story is going to turn out. It's great credit to Robert Buettner that what I expected wasn't what happened.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497622</amazonuk>
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