==Science fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Terry Dehart
|title=The Unit
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=We all know about the nuclear family, well now meet the post-nuclear family in Terry De Hart's brutal vision of a post apocalyptic America.
We know the score; terrorists attack key US cities with nuclear devices, US retaliates on the nations supporting the terrorist. There is only one possible outcome, mass casualties and the breakdown of civil society leading to the rise of barbarism in a devastated landscape in the grip of a nuclear winter. Within this madness a family survives not knowing how much of the country or the world has been destroyed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841499331</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Things are never quiet when it comes to life on the Ketty Jay. For Captain Frey and his mismatched band of friends, colleagues, call them what you will, that make the raggle-taggle crew of the craft, will always find a dodgy scrape, a damsel in distress or some risky cargo to transport – and up til now have survived the consequences.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575085142</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Walter Jon Williams
|title=This Is Not A Game
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Dagmar is trapped in a hotel, with rioting Jakarta burning around her. When the conventional attempts to get her out fail, she decides to request help form the Group Mind: the on-line community of gamers who participate in Alternate Reality Games: games that happen in real life, not on the computer screen or over the Internet. Dagmar writes such games, working for Charlie, a phenomenally successful owner of a software company.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149657X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Heath A Hague
|title=The Unique Creation
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Terrorism – a happenstance where one might truthfully say an unwitting heroism can be born. But never as in this book.
Steve Westerman is in a malaise after a car crash killed his wife and children, when a nuclear bomb is set off in the centre of London. It all appears to our eyes to be a mysterious techno-cult, but the act has caused a big change to Westerman, and launched him as one of the Uniques.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1438928424</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Harry Harrison
|title=Make Room! Make Room!
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=A young man practically living on the streets finds a change of fortune with a job as a messenger boy, but will it lead to quite the right kind of luck? A political Mister Big Nasty gets killed, leaving behind a lovely and glamorous moll-type character, Shirl. Andy, the policeman from the incredibly under-resourced police force, while surprised at the amount he is ordered to concentrate on this murder for, falls in love with Shirl. But the biggest character in this book remains the setting.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014119023X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Buettner
|title=Orphan's Alliance (Jason Wander 4)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=[[:Category:Chris Bunch|Chris Bunch]] was the first to make the sci-fi space army genre his own, but Robert Buettner is certainly following close behind. Whilst I've always preferred Bunch's work over Buettner's, that by no means makes Buettner a bad writer and his work has always been enjoyable. Once again, Buettner has included much of what makes his work so much fun to read.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497525</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marianne De Pierres
|title=Chaos Space (Sentients of Orion)
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=I have to admit that when I first opened this book I was at a loss. It is Book 2 of the ''The Sentients of Orion'' series, so I did encounter some confusion as to what had happened before to lead to the events I was reading about. I stuck with it though, and as I read along, things became much clearer though I would heartily recommend reading the first book in the series before jumping into this one, as the plot has many threads and is quite complicated.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841494291</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Cobley
|title=Seeds of Earth (Humanity's Fire)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=It's a strange fact of the human psyche that while we send out our travellers in peace and exploration…we fear that whoever else is travelling out there, towards here, does so with malice aforethought.
Cobley is no exception to this rule. In his future world Earth's first contact with aliens came with the Swarm: a species of 'many reptilian similarities yet their appearance was unavoidably insectoid. With six, eight, ten or more limbs they could be as small as a pony or as large as a whale…' and they ravaged through our home galaxy like locusts destroying all in their path.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496324</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ken MacLeod
|title=Night Sessions
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=The world post Faith Wars (or Oil Wars, as the fundamentalists are inclined to call them) is both very different and, at the same time - as it should be in relatively close-future s-f - uncannily similar to ours. It's a world of the Second Enlightenment, where, at least in Europe, religion has been truly separated from politics and became a genuinely private and societaly marginalised activity.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496510</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Buettner
|title=Orphanage
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=I recently enjoyed Chris Bunch's [[The Last Legion by Chris Bunch|Last Legion]] series, which told the story of training, combat and down time in an army marooned without help and seemingly without hope in deep space. Robert Buettner's ''Orphanage'' promised more of the same, although based a little closer to home, so I was greatly looking forward to it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497541</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Charles Stross
|title=Saturn's Children
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=My first encounter with Charles Stross was through [[Halting State by Charles Stross|Halting State]], a William Gibson-meets-Christopher Brookmyre near-future post-cyberpunk crime caper.
''Saturn's Children'' is a different species within broadly the same habitat, a not-so-near-future space-opera thriller, more of a Asimov-meets-Philip K Dick-with-a-sprinkling-of-Douglas Adams.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495670</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sean Williams
|title=Saturn Returns (Astropolis)
|rating=4
|genre=Science Fiction
|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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