In The Lives of Puppets

Blurb: In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP,” he…

The Long Earth Series

Blurb: Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive, mad, and dangerous scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a... potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views the world(s) forever. Author: Terry Pratchett and…

XX

Author: Rian Hughes Genre: Sci-FiRating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 Published: 2020 Blurb:A mysterious signal arrives at Earth and Jack Fenwick (AI expert) believes he and his work colleagues can decipher the signal. By using software of his own creation Jack inadvertently discovers XX, 19th Century Count and Girl 21. Each resembling the ideals of the human mind…

Lovecraft Country

Author: Matt Ruff Genre: Horror / Sci-Fi Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 Published: 2016 Blurb:This book is set in 1954, Chicago, USA. It it a collected of Eight short stories that centre around one family trying to survive the Jim Crow era of America. "Atticus tried not to care, telling himself paperbacks were meant to be abused,…

Doctor Who – The Stealers of Dreams

Author: Steve Lyons Genre: Science Fiction Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ /5 Blurb:The Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack are stuck on a world where fiction has been banned. You cannot tell stories; tell a lie; hope or dream. However there is hope, a pirate TV Station is helping people fight back against these rules. The Doctor is soon…

Shades of Grey

Author: Jasper Fford Blurb:In a Society segregated by your ability to see colour, Eddie Russet is part of the lowest ranking in House of Red. He can see Red but nothing else, just various Shades of Grey, the gaps in his colour spectrum are filled artificially. The world was not always this way. Something Happened…