Guardian Review - Best Science Fiction Books for June

Eric Brown Reviews the best of this months Science Fiction. This months varied themes are reincarnation, visitors from the Stars, manmade Gods versus secular high tech forces, an island city, conspiracy theories and paranoia. includes reviews of Claire North's The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon, James Lovegrove's Shiva, Neil Williamson's The Moonking and Sarah Lotz'sThree.

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A novel set in an alternative version in Boston at the time of the American Civil War. This is from Cherie Priest's series of books called Clockwork Century. It had all the things I like: Steampunk, sky pirates and Zombies. The other thing I liked was that it was in America rather than an alternative Victorian England.

Briar Wilkes and her son Ezekiel are great characters as well as the mysterious and dangerous inventor Leviticus Blue. I loved the portrayal of a walled city with its community living underground in toxic conditions. This was the first book I have read by Cherie Priest and I want to read more.

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