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His Majesty's Starship
By Ben Jeapes
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Young Adult (YA)
Age Groups: 12-18, 18+
Michael Gilmore, Captain of the HMSS Ark Royal is part of Earth’s first interstellar delegation to visit an alien planet. His passengers are an ill-tempered prince and an inscrutable quadruped alien. His First Officer is on the brink of mutiny, the ship’s A.I. seems to have turned renegade, and the neighbouring vessel harbours a genocidal maniac.
What should be a prestigious honour is turning into a treacherous journey whose true purpose has yet to be revealed by their mysterious alien hosts…
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Trapped in the Real World
As a thriller, gripping, as science fiction, fascinating. Cunning twists in the plot hurl the reader unexpectedly from one pupil-dilating crisis to another. Make sure you have time for this because once you have started you can’t stop.
SFX
A veritable fount of plot, characterisation and intrigue, with some astoundingly original ideas
Alastair Reynolds
One of the best first contact books in a long while – a gripping, logical, original and fundamentally optimistic retake on one of SF’s richest themes.