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<!-- Quine -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Quine Beasts.jpg|leftisbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|linktitle=httpsAll Tomorrow's Futures://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0992754941?ieFictions that Disrupt|author=UTF8&tagBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=thebookbag-21&linkCode5|genre=as2&campScience Fiction|summary=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0992754941]]''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

===[[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine]]=== [[image:3I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Well, [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Meet JaymiI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. He I've kept up reasonably well with what's a world-class video games designer, and fresh advantageous to a new mansion in me but I'm left with the Hollywood Hills on the basis of some recent success. But hefeeling that it's seen the future and he doesn't like all getting away from me. Some of itis - frankly - quite frightening. His current employers, able to bring any amount of class Of course, skill and culture to I could research the world of gameplay, are beset on appealing to the most lunkheaded possibilities and lowest common denominators instead. Indeed, their next big thing will change the world for the worse – it will be a massively disturbing environment, where people progress through the world of the entity by spreading fake news about anyone probabilities and everyone else on the planet, end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're playing along talking about or not, and by getting kind of prestige points on spoiling and shaming anything beyond a user-accepted, algorithm-designed, status quothe latest conspiracy theorist. With a much more Reithian approach, Jaymi goes freelance, I needed people I knew I could trust and sets up who could deliver information in a way of restoring the balance with a launch of his own, where aspects of his more humanitarian mind are played out by avatars of him in the gameI could understand. He sees this as a way to improve society and get his own back – but the chance of getting revenge more quickly comes about when those avatars leave their encoded background, and become fully playable characters in reality… [[The Beasts of Electra Drive by Rohan Quine|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay CummingsSylvie Cathrall|title=Zenith A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=The Bloody Baroness There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is the captain one of the starship Maurader, and she and her all-female crew wreak havoc wherever they go across the galaxy. On board, however, the bloody baroness is just Andi, the misfit crew's friend and protector. One day they are captured, something that just never happens to them, and they find themselves facing up to their past lives, that they have been trying so hard to run away from. Will they be able to face not just their fears but their own personal demons, as they are blackmailed into an impossible rescue mission?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008228337</amazonuk>0356522776

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Brookmyre1803816759|title=Places in the DarknessThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|summary= Living in 2017 has me longing It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to live in do some sort real policing. In the aftermath of futuristic Utopiathe rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, in a world of free thinking British superfan and no major crimetech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CP95J1CG|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark Lingane|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides to go to the party but his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. Perhaps in And it seems like a Space Station high above good opportunity to get out of his room and away from the Earth were online activities he makes a living at. So he makes his way there, dodging the greatest minds have travelled so buses that they can build make up most of the traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefully.}}{{Frontpage|author=K P O'Donnell|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=VL-15, a vessel that will send prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the next generations nations of humans Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to populate new planetsrebuild. You know that as soon as you arrive 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 will be all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the same old problemsExhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. You canEven after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't really have a Utopia with people diminished in itthe slightest, and no errant machine, can you?no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>035650624X</amazonuk>B0CKRYFRZM

<!-- Curtis -->Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres.|isbn=0356521834}}{{Frontpage|author=M R Carey|title=Infinity Gate|rating=5*[[image:Curtis_Water.jpg|leftgenre=Science Fiction|linksummary=httpsI'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and when it's bad, it's often terrible. But the premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble://wwwif it was done well, it'd be fantastic.amazonSo this is where I sum up that premise.co.uk/gp/product/0995465754?ie|isbn=UTF8&tag0356518043}}{{Frontpage|author=thebookbag-21&linkCodeMichael Grothaus|title=as2&campBeautiful Shining People|rating=1634&creative4|genre=6738&creativeASINLiterary Fiction|summary=0995465754]]''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.''

''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739593901|title=[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating==5[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Science Fiction|General Fiction]]summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying cars, [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.''

Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine I've got a pregnant elephant is one couple of only a handful of animals living below the wavesconfessions to make. We follow Nerissa Crane, I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals few stories and falls into a world of intrigue. It is difficult then forget to return to properly review this the book without giving too much away. There will 's got to be mild spoilers throughout this right from the start but I will try a very compelling hook to avoid the main oneskeep me engaged. [[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Philip K Dick|title= Philip K Dick Then there's Electric Dreams|rating= 3|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Philip K Dickscience fiction: far too often it's stories were originally published in the 50s, but they are more present than past. On technology which takes centre stage along with the big screen ''Blade Runner 2049'' relaunched the Dickworld-inspired cult classic to reviews of pure praise; and on slightly smaller screens, Channel 4 has adapted the author's short stories for TVbuilding. Startlingly, Dick It's current relevance reaches beyond fiction and into human beings who fascinate me: the factual: his topics from intrusive advertising technology and loss of privacy to the increasing machination of society world scape are all headline material in today's newspurely incidental. It is as if half So, what did I think of a century after their inceptionbook of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Well, Dick's electric dreams are becoming realityI loved it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473223288</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=George MannMark Lingane|title=Ghosts of EmpireGalaxy

|summary=Taking on a band of undead Mummies will take Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it out of the best of us and through a holiday may be neededbattle alive. If you are His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from New York there are not many other cities worldwide a coma that could impress youlasted years, but London he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. But Earth is one of themunder threat and he must. SurelyReturned by his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a nice visit last ditch attempt to England, far save humanity - and not just from the hustle and bustle of the Big Applealien threats against it, will help you to relax. It is not as if Russian Tsarists are on the loose with magical powers or the events are conspiring to raise the sleeping power of Albion but also from its slumberown sins against itself. Is it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783294183</amazonuk>B09X3NZ76W

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian DoescherTade Thompson|title=William Shakespeare's Far From the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the SeventhLight of Heaven

|summary=A long time agoMichelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to space. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime, in a galaxy far awaybound for the world of Bloodroot, there was she will essentially be a man called William Shakespearebabysitter for the ship's AI captain. However, who was able when she wakes up at the end of her trip to create a series find dozens of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil her passengers butchered and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth AwakenRagtime's AI almost non-responsive, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodroot, but here at last we get disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the actual scriptRagtime. Meanwhile, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-former astronaut and friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle toBloodroot, half-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere alien daughter in his oeuvretow, and people keeping it in to see why the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragementRagtime has gone quiet, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Henry VI – here Space Station Lagos. What the series is so popular we're five of them discover on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk>0356514323

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James Goss and Russell T DaviesClaire North|title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)Notes from the Burning Age|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse Science Fiction|summary=Consider At its core ''Notes From the Doctor. Just how Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many birthday double crosses, interrogations and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each yearnight time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, were he to keep in touch as with even half the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of themnew and timely genre, saycli-fi, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a Time Lord world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and that live alongside nature without any of some of his friends the modern and enemies. As luck would have itcorrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advanceweapons of mass destruction, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself readyintensive farming). And if you're working on There is a shorter timescale, growing unhappiness with a shorter lifespanthis limiting world, and thinking perhaps just one gift season aheadgroup, well my advice is pretty much the sameBrotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk>0356514757

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andy WeirAdrian Tchaikovsky|title= Artemis|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to Artemis, the first city on the moon. A powerhouse for the rich and a once in a lifetime trip for earth tourists, and also a place a small community of citizens call home. Jazz Bashara is one such citizen. She came to Artemis with her father aged six, it's the only place she's ever known but she wouldn't say she's flourishing. In fact, the phrase most often used to describe Jazz is a waste Shards of talent. Jazz lives in the low end of town, sleeping on a bunk, using a shared bathroom, which is all she can afford through her job as a porter. However, Jazz dreams above all else of being rich and to this end, she has set up a side business of illegal smuggling activity. When one of Jazz's regular clients wants her to step up from petty criminal to major criminal for a handsome reward, it is just too tempting to refuse. What Jazz doesn't know is all the facts behind what she is being asked to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091956943</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Wes Stuart|title= My Name is SamEarth

|summary=Who is the real enemy? This is the question which confronts SamEighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the champion of the Sereia in their cosmosmoon-spanning war with sized aliens known as the Gibbus, and the main character in this storyArchitects. Sam is an unimposing boy who has no past and no memory of who he Humanity isscattered, yet he possesses extraordinary abilities. He is also Earthconstantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's last hope for salvation from reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the Gibbus whorun, in seven days, will destroy the planet and everyone on itArchitects vanished. This is not his choice however: that is And so, the decision memories of the alien Sereiawar fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, his mentors a man genetically engineered to try and guidescommunicate with the Architects, as he is forced does not want to confront this hazardous taskbe remembered. They have their own reasons for wanting Earth But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be savedrecent Architect activity, but are too weak to challenge suddenly he is thrust back into the Gibbus themselvesspotlight. In their search for a As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human champion they find the unlikely secret police and ill-prepared young boyrich slavers, Sam – but this child he slowly begins to realise that the real war is not quite as he appears…only just getting started…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1540504506</amazonuk>1529051886

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= C Robert CargillTerry Miles|title= Sea of RustRabbits|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Have you ever watched the ''Terminator'' movies or some similar 'Robo-geddon' franchise and wondered what would have happened if the robots had actually ''won?'' Well wonder no more, because ''Sea of Rust'' hinges on that exact premise; a world where the robots have wiped out every living thing from planet earth. Only artificial life remains; there is no trace of organic matter anywhere, since the robot uprising that devastated the planet. Now two huge mainframes compete for world domination: CISSUS and VIRGIL. They capture robots and turn them into drones; uploading their minds into a hive consciousness. The few remaining bots are called 'freebots,' and inhabit a desert called the Sea of Rust, where they do what they can to survive, including cannibalising other bots for spare parts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473212782</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul McAuley|title= Austral|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Austral has no doubts about who she is. Her birth was, as she puts it, ''a political act. Conceived in a laboratory dish by direct injection of sperm into an egg. I was customised by a suite of targeted genes…'' She was, as the jargon of her world has it ''edited''. She is, as a result, a Husky. A human modified to withstand the cold temperatures of the Antarctic continent. Those temperatures are still hard for un-modified humans to survive in, but maybe not for much longer. This is a world in which the threats of global warming went unheeded…a world in which the ice has retreated and continues to retreat…a world in which the harshest of environments is being opened up for exploitation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217318</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geoffrey Arnold|title= Hunted|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the young men and women, a mixture of awe, desire, fear and hate. Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best friends from the Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. Forming a connection with the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a short test run, the village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, he flees from the village...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785891855</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Suarez|title=Change Agent|rating=3.5

|summary=I wish I was 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 little bit tallerslangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, I wish I had blue eyesit has no official title, I wishno official source, I wishno hard and fast structure, I wishand to the average person no obvious entry point. In A bit like the genetic lottery that game of life then. Yes, this is our lives we are given the game of life for a selection certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our mother hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and our father his bezzies are trying to work withbe historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. Howeverthis time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, although they may be over six footnay lethal, you could still end up being shorterthe most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. You can't currently choose Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what coding you getthe game is doing, but what if you could cherry pick the best aspects of your family traits? It would it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be a great way kept safe, he is only to save people from hereditary diseasefind out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, but would we end up with is a world full of identikit humans all following the latest genetic fashions? In the future someone would need to be in charge of stopping science going too farvery thin one indeed...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>110198466X</amazonuk>1529016932

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen Baxter C J Carey|title= Xeelee: Vengeance Widowland|rating= 24|genre= Science General Fiction|summary=Michael PooleIt's April 1953, Earthand Adolf Hitler's greatest living engineerschedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, changed parading around a bit, and watching over the galaxy when he opened a worm hole sanctioned return to allow for quick and easy transportation across the solar systemthrone of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. However For yes, such Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a thing was created with protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a degree of naivety different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and a lack ideas of foresight because out female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the worm hole flew an unknown vessel of alien origin. Unlike anything seen by human eyes beforedrudges, it is unstoppable and unfathomable. Bent beyond those, right on an unknown pathdown to the childless, the vessel is unresponsive to husbandless and the human life around itwidows. It ignores hails and even direct attacks Female literacy is actively discouraged. Nothing affects 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, not even every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the surface of the sunparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. All it seems to want That is energyher job, and Earth has plenty at least, until the first emerging signs of that female protest come to light, with their potential to be absorbedspoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473217172</amazonuk>152941198X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel GodfreyEverina Maxwell|title=Empire of Time (New Pompeii)Winter's Orbit

|summary=Warning: Spoilers for [[New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey|Book 1]] from Prince Kiem is a famous political disappointment. He's outgoing, carefree, and has gotten into many drunken scandals over the beginningpast few years.The experiment So when an important political alliance is to study Ancient Romans by transporting them through time be arranged – one that is supposed to a new Pompeii just before the disaster hits the old prevent an interplanetary war – no one sounded great in theory. The practice has been going on expects him to be chosen for years now, but the modern and old worlds living alongside each other in an uneasy peace. Scientist Nick Houghton only ever wanted to live within the experiment out of curiosity but it's more dangerous than he ever dreamtrole. Since he arrived, he's watched the Romans kill the inventors Least of the machine that saved them. Nick, or Decimus Horatius Pullus to give all him his Roman name, is the only non-Roman living in New Pompeii and that's not a safe position or location in which to live.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785653156</amazonuk>0356515885

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cixin LiuRob Winters|title=The Wandering EarthHis Name Was Wren|rating= 54|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= If anyone thought that the short story as a form had been relegated to In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the pages village of women's magazines (no disrespect) – think againHurstwick. One genre that has always been a stalwart supporter and encourager It came down hard, taking the spire of the short form is Sci-fi. village church with it, destroying a stone shack, So when you pick up and leaving a collection wide trail through the wood, but no trace of Sci-fi shorts, you know that what it will have just as much depth and thought-provoking philosophy as any similar novelactually was. Add to that German secret weapon was the intrigue of seeing how the concepts are approached by someone from China which – to be polite – has a somewhat different world-view in many ways to much of the rest of the planet…and add to that local gossip, but there should have been an author who is not only explosion and a best-seller in his home country but has the distinction crater, and there were neither of having produced the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award…this has got to be good!those things.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784978493</amazonuk>B08KGVNVNB

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jack CampbellMark Lingane|title= The Genesis FleetNote to Self: VanguardAn Education|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary= In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?|isbn=B08LY8J4KS}} {{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

|summary=The On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human adventure continues! As humanity spreads to life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the stars it takes moon's surface leaves her bonded with it both a strange alien entity. After the best entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the worst examples staff of itselfthe research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. The isolation She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and edginess of a Spaghetti Western meets hard Scirag-Fi in this tale tag bunch of far-flung colonies misfits, and bullying neighboursthe news is grim. We follow our protagonists, each failures in their own careers (crisis management, The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space navy, politics and marines) only a mythical weapon known as they become heroesthe 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650408</amazonuk>1529046505

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anne CorlettLaura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= The Space Between The StarsSeven Devils

|summary= Jamie Allenby wakesEris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, alonea resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, and realises her fever whom everyone believed has brokenbeen dead for years. But could everyone she knows be dead? Months earlierClo, Jamie had left her partner Danielan ace pilot for the Novantae, mourning has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the miscarriage of their babywar effort. SheAlthough she'd just had s less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get away, so took more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a job on a distant planetsecret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Then Eris's brother Damocles, the virus hit. Jamie survived as it swept through our farrunner-flung colonies. Now she feels desperate and isolatedup heir to the Empire, until she receives a garbled message from Earth. If someone from her past is still alive – perhaps Daniel – she knows she must find a way plotting to return. She meets others seeking Earth, disrupt peace talks between Tholos and their ill-matched group will travel across space to achieve their dreamthe last of the free alien species. But they'll clash with survivors intent on repeating humanityIt's past mistakes, threatening their precious fresh start. Jamie will also get a second chance at happiness. But can she escape her troubled past, race against time as the rebels move to embrace put a hopeful future?stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509833528</amazonuk>1473231140

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Elizabeth MoonFrederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|title= Cold Welcome: Vatta's PeaceA Life Without End|rating= 4.5|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary=''I'm convinced we can survive anything'' After saving looked at the calendar the empireother week, Admiral Kylara Vatta wants nothing less than to return to her home planet. But after her cousin's request, that's exactly where Ky finds herselfand disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, enroute to tie up some family businessyet another one. Promised a hero It won's welcomet be one of the major numbers, Ky plans to stay as little but the time when I have the same number as possible back in Heinz varieties looms on the place filled with such horrible memorieshorizon. But as soon as she arrives And then a few of the big 0-numbers, Ky finds herself in perilous dangerand if all goes well, caught in the middle I'll be an OBE. (Which of an assassination attemptcourse stands for Over Bloody Eighty. ) Now stranded at sea and without communication links with if that's the outside worldextent of my mid-life crisis, Ky must I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use every ounce of skill she possesses that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to battle prolong life for survival. But as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with an unfamiliar crew who don't trust herthe assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, sabotaged equipment and they end up with a traitor in the midstchild, which is at least a way of continuing the odds aren't in her favour. While the survivors hunt for landlife of his genes, Ky's family members are doing everything possible and a motive to ensure her rescuekeep on going. Old friends are called in and new alliances are made, but will it be enough? Will they But how can he get to Ky before itnot flick the 'final way out's too lateswitch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356506282</amazonuk>1642860670