==Science fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Scott Westerfeld
|title=Extras
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In the future city of this book, many people live with what is called a reputation economy. With everybody practically a cyborg, they're online permanently, using optical and brain implants to see everybody's status, output and more. Many people have hovercam companions, to make their own documentaries and film their own lives. They rely on metablogs to interact and keep their popularity up. They continuously spread their opinions and interests in order to become more well-known. A girl called Aya is struggling to get any renown, but things change, when she meets other people doing incredibly notorious things, but in complete secrecy and anonymity.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389228</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Scott Westerfeld
|summary=Imre is surprised to wake up in a bunk in an alien spacecraft. It's an alien with a hive-mind, drifting around the outer rim of the Milky Way trying to find God, and/or the first ever life-forms of the galaxy. Imre quickly finds out he has a form of amnesia – quite unsurprising, given that the aliens have had to built him from scratch, using a stash of data contained within an iron casket, sent into space millennia ago. Imre also quickly finds out he is now a female.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495190</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cherith Baldry
|title=The Reliquary Ring
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=In an alternate Venice ruled by The Church, genetically engineered beings called genics are bought and sold as the servants and playthings of wealthy aristocrats. They are considered heretical, outside the laws of both man and God and even their touch is believed to be unclean.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330492071</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeff Somers
|title=The Digital Plague
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=I have to admit the previous book to be written about, and narrated by, killer-for-hire Avery Cates, did not last long in the memory. There is some gratitude that this book mentions the first literary outing in very oblique ways, to maximise the way this adventure is a self-contained one, but I did need reminding of the global scope of the first book, where a world-stifling religion, and a police force even more guilty of the same, were in conflict.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497045</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Frederik Pohl
|title=Gateway
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Gateway'', by Frederik Pohl, is very much in the grand tradition of 'hard SF'. Whereas much of what gets put in the science-fiction section of bookshops is actually little more than fantasy with lasers instead of swords, ''Gateway'' is part of the Arthur C Clarke, Bradbury and Asimov school that seeks to extrapolate fantastic worlds from real current science, and examines how science and technology could affect the peoples of those worlds.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575078995</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=D B Shan
|title=Procession of the Dead (The City Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Capac Raimi arrives in the City full of ambition. He intends to make a name for himself in his Uncle Theo's protection business. And, as he always knew he would, Capac turns out to be good at it. He loves the seedy side of the City and he has no compunction in using any dirty tricks to climb the gangster ladder. Capac's ultimate aim is to work directly for the Cardinal, the City's godfather. The Cardinal is the City and the City is the Cardinal. But when Capac finally gets his wish, things start to unravel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007261306</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neal Asher
|title=Line War
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=This new addition to the Polity universe starts off where the ''Polity Agent'' left off. Polity is still suffering from the onslaught of Jain tech, a lethal nanotechnology designed to destroy civilisations. Jain-infested Erebus and all his subjugated AIs are at war with the Polity and Agent Cormac, Orlandine and Dragon all are trying to their best, in their unique ways, to thwart Erebus's plans, whatever they might be.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405055014</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Derek Gunn
|title=Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Given the recent success of the film version of Matheson's [[I Am Legend by Richard Matheson|I Am Legend]], it's not a surprise that anything featuring humans fighting vampires should be optioned for a film version. Admittedly, the identity of the enemy is really the only thing the two books have in common, but on reading this one, I can see exactly why the film industry would be interested.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>097679148X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stephenie Meyer
|title=The Host
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=The healer Fords Deep Waters is a Soul, so ''by nature he was all things good: compassionate, patient, honest, virtuous and full of love… However, because Fords Deep Waters lived inside a human body, irritation was sometimes inescapable.''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441831</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ken MacLeod
|title=The Execution Channel
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=In a post flu pandemic Britain not so far into the future, a nuclear explosion rocks the US base at RAF Leuchars. Several thousand people die. The War on Terror is being lost, perhaps has already been lost. Russia and China are gradually reverting back to old-style Communism, Britain is a seething mass of racial tension, and a goodly proportion of Americans are subsisting in FEMA camps, refugees from global warming and debt. India leads the profitable race in designing technological consumer goods, China does the skilled manufacturing, leaving the newly-impoverished American workers the crumbs of slave-labour assembly work. Conspiracy theorists and state disinformation networks have become indistinguishable from one another and someone, somewhere has set up the Execution Channel, which shows loop after loop of the murder, execution and torture, nobody knows how.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496677</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Iain M Banks
|title=Matter
|genre=Science Fiction
|rating=4
|summary=A king of Sarl dies - seemingly in battle, but really by the hand of his right-hand man and friend. On of his sons runs away with his trusty servant to seek help from the representatives of civilisations so advanced that they are practically gods. A Special Circumstances agent, once the unruly princess and daughter of the king, on learning of his demise decides to get de-fanged and go back to a world which she thought she had left for good. The other son, for now Prince Regent, dodges several assassination attempts while personally supervising the discovery of a mysterious, unimaginably ancient and seemingly sentient artefact. Two of the most advanced civilisations in the Galaxy, the Morthanveld and The Culture, dance round each other trying to figure out why exactly one of the client cultures of Morthanveld created a phantom fleet of warships.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841494178</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Serrano Succession
|author=Elizabeth Moon
|genre=Science Fiction
|rating=3
|summary=The politics of the empire of great noble families is still up in arms about the newish medical practice of rejuv – is the drug process at fault, or poisoned, and how far-reaching are its effects on the military officers that have been able over the past generation or so to afford this anti-aging process?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149674X</amazonuk>
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