"Entertaining first contact novel. Aliens want our help in a fight against a galactic menace but a peace-loving musician tries to persuade them that humanity isn't violent. They soon learn otherwise."
"Astronaut returns to Earth from an aborted mission to find it empty of all human life and pieces together the story from fragments of data in an old computer network."
"Fast moving, fun and slightly trashy pulp sci-fi about a nanotech-enhanced mercenary and his sentient warship. Not a literary masterpiece but it is an enjoyable action yarn."
"A soldier keeps dying and reliving a single battle against alien invaders. It's like The Forever War crossed with Groundhog Day. Good translation from the original Japanese."
"A supernova wrecks all electrical devices on the planet and civilisation collapses. The story focuses largely on a small group of survivors on a personal quest. Has some interesting characterisation."
"First in a loose trilogy of which Kaleidoscope Century is the second and Candle the third, but it's not essential that they are read in order. This is a little slow but it fleshes out the universe."
"Incredibly dark novel following an amnesiac of uncertain age who wakes on Mars and tries to recreate his memories from scattered notes. There's action, mystery, apocalyptic wars and time travel."
"A bounty hunter is ordered by the hive mind AI that rules Earth to hunt down the last free human. Grim in places but a little more optimistic than Kaleidoscope Century."
"Outstanding hard sci-fi novel about human expansion into space and the discovery of an ancient alien civilisation. Written from both a human and alien perspective. Highly, highly recommended!"
"Written as a more action-packed alternative to Starship Troopers this is a violent tale of a war against alien bugs. Let down slightly by a dull sub-plot but still well worth your time."
