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[[Category:New Reviews|Science Fiction]]__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=ParasiteAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Mira GrantBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45
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|summary=''Parasite'' is the first part Opening up new ways of thinking about the Parasitology series and if the quality shape of this book is anything things to go by the next come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is going to be highly sought what happens afteryou're eighteen. It puts us several years into the future Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in a time where medicine has made massive leaps forward and where humans no longer take medication, suffer 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 allergiesme. 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 even catch the common coldlatest conspiracy theorist. These medical advancements are all thanks to SymboGen I needed people I knew I could trust and the invention of their intestinal shield, which is who could deliver information in a genetically engineered tapeworm designed to monitor your body’s functions and correct abnormalitiesway I could understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501922</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ConquestSylvie Cathrall|authortitle=John Connolly and Jennifer RidyardA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|summary=The Earth has been invaded by the Illyri, a vaguely humanoid race far in advance of humankind, who were able to conquer the planet gently by proving how futile it would be to resist. They There are keen to ensure the human race remains compliant, but are mostly keen to avoid bloodshed. Humankind, however, is not a race to take conquest lying down. There is a very active resistance, particularly in Scotland, where the Scots come out of the Highlands to strike on the Illyri garrisons and power bases in cities like Edinburgh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147220963X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)|author=Catherine Fisher|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Let's catch you up. Jake's father is still lost in time. Venn's wife is still dead. Summer, the Queen of the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that he's trying to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Familiar|author=J Robert Lennon|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Is there a few greater change in the life of a middle-aged woman joys than the death of her teenage son? Elisa might have thought not, having been forced to bury fifteen year old Silas, and try and move on with her husband Derek and the year-older son, Sam. But a greater change occurs on the way back from her annual, solo pilgrimage book which lives up to his grave – something very weird happens to the universe. She pops from one car to another, from under a cloudless sky to a slightly greyer one – and from her self as Elisa to a world where people call her Lisa, where she is plumper, in a different job, stiil married to Derek in the same home – but still the mother of two young men…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689473</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Phoenix|author=SF Said|rating=4compelling premise.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucky thinks he And this is a normal Human boy. But one night, he dreams that the stars are singing to him and he can feel a mysterious power rising within him. When he wakes, his bedclothes are scorched. And when his mother finds out, Lucky's world is turned upside down and he finds himself on an alien spaceship, on the run, and in the middle of a warzonethem. Everything Lucky has been brought up to believe is being tested. The war between Human and Axxa is raging, so why does Lucky's mother trust alien renegades more than she does humans? Where is his father? What are the secrets his mother has kept from him all his life? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>038561814X</amazonuk>0356522776
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen P Kiernan1803816759|title=The CuriosityUnravelling|author=Will Gibson
|rating=4
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|summary=Microbiologist Kate Philo It's 2038 and Joe is a member bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of an Arctic expedition sent adventure and to locate get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life forms frozen in ice flows. Striking it luckyeasier for many, she and the team find a human whom they reanimate once they get him back riots start to their American labspread. However new life brings new challengesFinally, Joe gets to do some real policing. The man died over a century earlier In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and much has changedJoe is assigned to bring her home. The press is now omnipotentJoe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, his 'resurrection' offends religious fundamentalists a British superfan and scientific ethics never saw this problem coming. To Katetech nerd, though, he's not a problemis also on the case. HeWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's Jeremiah, afraid, bewildered and in need of an ally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548753</amazonuk>kidnapping connected?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=All Our YesterdaysB0CP95J1CG|authortitle=Cristin Terrill|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Em and Finn are being held prisoner by the Doctor. They never see each other but are able to communicate through the cell wall. This is a blessing but also a curse: they can each hear the interrogations and torture meted out to the other. Neither talks but how much can they take? And then Em finds a note hidden in her cell. It's from her future self and it tells of fourteen escapes. And fourteen failed trips back to the past to try to put things right. There's only one way left. Em must kill someone she loves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408835193</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOf Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mitch Benn|title=TerraMark Lingane
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|summary=Terra Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is different from everyone else on Fnrr and not only because she has vowels in her namepiqued by the way it arrived. You see, Terra isn’t actually from Fnrr. Her adoptive father (Lbbp, And it seems like a Fnrrn scientist) rescued her good opportunity to get out of his room and away from her parents, the Bradshawsonline activities he makes a living at. So he makes his way there, on dodging the planet Rrth in a moment buses that make up most of unthinking philanthropythe traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully. If only he'd done a little more thinking and little less philanthropy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575132086</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie HarbonK P O'Donnell|title=Seven Point Eight: The First ChronicleVital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Following several main characters VL- scientist Paul15, businessman Maxa prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, remote viewer Tahra before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and mystery woman Ava Renada. Over half-a- across two time frames spanning the 1940s 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 present dayExhumers, 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 determination hasn''Seven Point Eight'' blends science fiction and fantasy t diminished in a sprawlingthe slightest, absorbingand no errant machine, diffuse novel that no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will attract fans of both genres.stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM
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{{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''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan WellsM R Carey|title=FragmentsInfinity Gate
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=One morning our protagonist awakens I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a world in which she appears genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to be get right – and when it's bad, it's often terrible. But the sole living human inhabitantpremise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A mysterious transparent wall has been erected around concept this intriguing felt like a large area in the Austrian mountains where our narrator has been holidayinghigh-stakes gamble: if it was done well, a wall that it'd be fantastic. So this is unbreakable and through which she can see where I sum up that the world outside has come to a complete standstill. Our narrator is faced with living in total isolation and forced to learn how to survivepremise. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0704373114</amazonuk>0356518043
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=R J AndersonMichael Grothaus|title=QuicksilverBeautiful Shining People
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|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Before I say anything else, I ''must'' warn youBut fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I''Quicksilver'' is billed as a companion novel m willing to [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] with the implication that you could read either first. You bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can'ttake steps to change it. You mustn't. So if you haven't read ''Ultraviolet'', go no further.
''QuicksilverBeautiful Shining People'' picks up where [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] left offrevolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. But this time, synaesthete Alison Of what is left behind real and the story what is told from artificial, and whether the point development of view of Toritechnology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408316285</amazonuk>191458564X
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1739593901
|title=22 Ideas About The Future
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=SJ GriffinMark Lingane|title=The VanguardGalaxy
|rating=4
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|summary=In Rhiannon's worldSpark, your entire future depends on your final school test results. Everyone who is classified according to personality type and entry to any career or university depends upon your personality type. It's impossible to cheat an elite pilot with the testSpace Academy, barely makes it through a battle alive.His co-pilot was not so fortunate.. unless you're Rhiannon. Rhiannon should really be Waking from a Perceivercoma that lasted years, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. But all her life she has wanted her own hive. And to achieve this, she Earth is under threat and he must test as a Queen or Commander. And this she does. The only person Returned by his superiors to ever have manipulated the test. Rhiannon's future is set: leadership trainingspace station, followed by he finds himself amid a choice of Devoted last ditch attempt to serve hersave humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it, followed by command of a prestigious space ship and hivebut also from its own sins against itself. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BRM30SE</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian TregillisTade Thompson|title=The Coldest War (Milkweed Triptych)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= England 1963: The war is over, Hitler defeated and Far From the Russians (Britain's ally) retain most Light of mainland Europe. The Briton in the street believes that it was Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain that saved the nation but ex-naval intelligence officer Raybould 'Pip' Marsh and his former friend Lord William Beauclerk know differently. The nation was saved by warlocks like Lord Will, the same warlocks that are now being murdered. However, fighting over, Pip and Will are both war-weary and want to be left alone but the Secret Intelligence Service has other ideas. For the Nazi experimental 'willpower' children are now adult and assembling in England, still equipped with the super powers of their childhood. This means Will and Pip have old scores to settle and greater evils waiting to be faced… Yes… ''those'' greater evils are back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501701</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Beyond BeliefHeaven
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|summary=Nobody said that life on Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the road with world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a travelling show would be easybabysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, but Master Payne’s Circus when she wakes up at the end of Adventure seems her trip to face more hazards than mostfind dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. FirstlyDown on Bloodroot, there disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are those giant battle clanks lurking in sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the forestRagtime. Meanwhile, waiting former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to reduce unsuspecting travellers Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to cinders. There are also prowling gangs of eerie Geisterdamensee why the Ragtime has gone quiet, or 'spider riders', with their ghostly glowing eyes leaving behind the politicking and long hairbureaucracy of Space Station Lagos. Nearby towns could be inhabited by revenants; misshapen zombie humans infected by Slaver Wasps, hungrily What the five of them discover on the lookout Ragtime has ramifications not just for their next victim. But when a mysterious girl called Agatha and her talking cat join the troupeBloodroot, that’s when but potentially the real danger begins...entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166498</amazonuk>0356514323
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher BrookmyreClaire North|title=BedlamNotes from the Burning Age|rating=3.54
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|summary=Ross Baker At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a wage slave at Neurospherespy thriller, writing computer code for a new brain scanning systemwith as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. His girlfriendHowever, Carolas with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is not happy about the hours he puts into his jobthat of a new and timely genre, cli-fi, thinking heor climate change fiction. North's being played for novel tells of a fool world devastated by doing extra work for no recognition. Ross thinks they're about climate change where humans have been forced to break upstart anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, but soon discovers their relationship intensive farming). There is about to move to a level he was too busy growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to anticipate. After a rough morning, he agrees master these processes no matter the cost to have his brain scanned in one of the trial machinesEarth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356502139</amazonuk>0356514757
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Foglio and Kaja FoglioAdrian Tchaikovsky|title=Girl Genius: Agatha H and the Airship CityShards of Earth|rating=54|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Agatha Clay has had a bad day. Waking up late Eighty years ago, Earth was just destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the beginningArchitects. She got mugged in a dark alley on her way Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to university and her precious locket was stolen. Things did not get any better when she arrived at the university. When demonstrating her latest mechanical design, it malfunctioned and exploded in front of her instructorarchitect's reshaping. Then, without warningjust when they had the human race on the run, the faculty had an impromptu inspection by Baron WulfenbachArchitects vanished. And so, the ruthless dictator who controls most memories of the continent. By the time the day was throughwar fades, heroes are forgotten, the university had been reduced and humanity begins to a pile of rubble fracture and her beloved mentor killedfight among themselves. And thenIdris Telemmier,of coursea man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, she had ''those'' blinding headaches does not want to deal withbe remembered. But if today was bad, tomorrow is set when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be even worse..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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781166471</amazonuk>1529051886
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Iain M BanksTerry Miles|title=The Hydrogen SonataRabbits|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's 25 years since Iain M Banks introduced us to the utopian ''Culture'' series of sci fi adventure books and ''The Hydrogen Sonata'' is the 13th in the series. One thing Banks does particularly well is to make his books completely accessible as stand alones, explaining the concept afresh each time without going over old ground for long time fans, of which there are many. In many ways, this is a good introduction for those who have yet to discover the joys of this excellent series because it's far more linear than some. He sometimes leaves even hardened ''Culture'' addicts struggling to work out what's going on with alternative realities before bringing them together, but there's little of that here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501507</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin J Anderson|title=The Martian War|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Suppose H G Wells was not simply 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. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a skilled writer with 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. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a spectacular imaginationcertain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, but was the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in fact centrally involved in a fantastical adventure which formed the basis 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 several the lists of his who has successfully won the game are in the most successful novelspeculiar places, and are still very short. Kevin J Anderson has supposed exactly However this in his latest novel time it'The Martian Wars different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Real historical figures such as Percival Lowell and T H Huxley share centre stage with famous Wellsian characters like Dr Moreau and Mr Cavor Unfortunately for K, in a story that borrows elements from 'War of trying to sort out what the Worldsgame is doing, if it's even being played, 'The First Men in and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the Moon'game, 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' and 'The Invisible Man'playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781161720</amazonuk>1529016932
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael CobleyC J Carey|title=The Ascendant StarsWidowland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We are in North America in a near but post-Apocalyptic future. Those few humans It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to survive a pandemic have attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to be treated as carriersLondon, and/or armed and desperateparading around a bit, and so are particularly watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of note to military-minded survivalist BangleyEdward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. And climate and eco For yes, Britain caved in the lead-problems have killed off many common species, something closer up to narrator Higthe World War Two that certainly didn's heartt happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as hethe Germanic peoples on 's a more placid, huntin', shootinthe mainland' and fishin' guy. These two solitary men are an unlikely partnership But this is most certainly a different Britain, but both look out for each other in complementary ways. Bangley Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has his watchput all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-towerbrow office bigwigs to the drudges, while Hig takes off in his Cessna and beyond those, right on down to get away from it allthe childless, the husbandless and his flights act as a first line of defensethe widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. But 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 it – after all life could , not every book can bebanned, for Hig and his dog not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and Bangley? What so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is Hig still her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to make of the last inviting contact he heard on his planelight, with their potential to spoil Hitler's radio - even if that was three years ago? visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755392590</amazonuk>152941198X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam ThompsonEverina Maxwell|title=Communion TownWinter's Orbit
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=ItPrince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's the near future outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the Olympics go on, but not without changespast few years. A new event has been added So when an important political alliance is to those that we'd recognise: genetically engineered gladiatorial combat. This is no holds barred competition, with be arranged – one rule: each country's gladiator must be devoid of any human DNA. Indeed, America is so good that their team has won all the last three games' golds, thanks to geneticist Dr Silas Williams, but this year is different. This year he has nothing to do with the design; someone sent a single design criterion supposed to prevent an experimental intelligence computer. (You just know that was a bad idea day don't you?) The design criteria is just interplanetary war – no one sentence, just words, but words can expects him to be misunderstood and misunderstanding can be devastating chosen for more than just genetically manufactured gladiatorsthe role. Least of all him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781164142</amazonuk>0356515885
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David BrinRob Winters|title=ExistenceHis Name Was Wren
|rating=4
|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=We are a few decades further into the 21st Century at In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the start village of this sci-fi novelHurstwick. The world is buckling under climate changeIt came down hard, and over-population. Those taking the spire of the village church with enough funds are completely wired into it, destroying a virtual worldstone shack, but wherever they live out their existence things are going to be changed, when and leaving a space-based labourerwide trail through the wood, clearing space junk from orbit, finds an alien artifact containing contact with various races in a sort but no trace of memory bank cum virtual realitywhat it actually was. Where are German secret weapon was the aliens that had previously local gossip, but there should have been so silent while we sought for them with our Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence? What is the purpose an explosion and a crater, and message behind this capsule? And who can be sure that this alleged First Contact was actually the first?there were neither of those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356501728</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim Stanley RobinsonMark Lingane|title=2312Note to Self: An Education
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=In Kry'Intellectually engaged…intensely humane… exuberantly speculatives world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it' was Iain M Bankss found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it' blurb for ''2312''. So who am I s possible to disagree cure cancerous tumours but with one the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the current masters of cosmetics industry is using the genresame technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} No-one{{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. Just However, a discovery of an ordinary readerancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. And actuallyAfter the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the more I think about United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the less I do – actually – as such – disagreesystem to take Kira in for examination. Banks' phrases are true Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and accurateshe has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. They're just not She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the whole storynews is grim. Not for me anywayThe same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as 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=1529046505}}For {{Frontpage|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Seven Devils|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a readerresistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly 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. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, as opposed has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to another writer, the book war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is much her partner on this mission. Things get more difficult than interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret thatcould potentially cripple the Empire. ''Publishers Weekly'' called it ''challenging'Eris' s brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and thatthe last of the free alien species. It's much nearer a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the mark.balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841499978</amazonuk>1473231140
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth NixFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=A Confusion of PrincesLife Without End
|rating=4
|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet KhemriI looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. One It won't be one of the universe's chosenmajor numbers, he has been selected but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a Princefew of the big 0-numbers, giving him biological enhancementsand if all goes well, mental connection I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to priests be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to aid his psychic ability, and so much morebe living one. It has also probably led 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 death of his parentsfirst geneticist he interviews, and meant he is alone except for they end up with a very close bodyguardchild, but - which is at least he is in a way of continuing the running to become Emperorlife of his genes, and thus almost godlikea motive to keep on going. But in a world where you how can have everything - including more than one chance at living - it might still be wise he get to think more about what you wish for...not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007298358</amazonuk>1642860670
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