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[[Category:New Reviews|Science Fiction]]__NOTOC__{{newreview|title=Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories|author=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott and others|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed a lot since first being seen fifty years ago – and I don't mean the title character, but the nature of the programme. It has gone from black and white, and cheaply produced, and declared disposable, to being an essential part of the BBC, full-gloss digital, and accessed in all manner of ways. So with the celebratory programme still ringing in our ears, and leaving people pressing a red button to see a programme about three Doctors, er, pressing a red button, we turn to other aspects of the birthday bonanza. Such as this book, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespan, from being a loose collection of eleven short e-book novellas written by the blazing lights of YA writing, to a huge and brilliant paperback collecting everything within one set of covers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>}}

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|title=Rags and Bones

|summary=We are a few decades further into the 21st Century at the start of this sci-fi novel. The world is buckling under climate change, and over-population. Those with enough funds are completely wired into a virtual world, but wherever they live out their existence things are going to be changed, when a space-based labourer, clearing space junk from orbit, finds an alien artifact containing contact with various races in a sort of memory bank cum virtual reality. Where are the aliens that had previously been so silent while we sought for them with our Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence? What is the purpose and message behind this capsule? And who can be sure that this alleged First Contact was actually the first?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501728</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Kim Stanley Robinson~~

~~|title=2312~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Science Fiction~~

~~|summary='Intellectually engaged…intensely humane… exuberantly speculative' was Iain M Banks' blurb for ''2312''. So who am I to disagree with one of the current masters of the genre?~~

No-one. Just an ordinary reader. And actually, the more I think about the less I do – actually – as such – disagree. Banks' phrases are true and accurate. They're just not the whole story. Not for me anyway.

~~For a reader, as opposed to another writer, the book is much more difficult than that. ''Publishers Weekly'' called it ''challenging'' and that's much nearer the mark.~~

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499978</amazonuk>~~

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