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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Children of Icarus|author=Caighlan Smith|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between the ages of ten and sixteen who will enter the labyrinth, find their way through it to Alyssia, and become angels. Every child yearns to be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. Clara, our girl's best friend, is the most devout of everyone. She knows she is destined to become an angel. Our girl, though, does not want to be chosen. In her society, this is such a badge of shame that she keeps silent. And, along with Clara, chosen she is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Simon Mayo|title=Blame|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''A small hand in hers. 'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show the situation. Ant (a teenaged girl) and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and in a prison – HMP London, no less. Since the death of the EU and a huge, all-conquering recession, people are being imprisoned left, right and centre for the crimes of their parents and their parents in turn, meaning anyone with any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family that might have taken money away from the common good is having their children imprisoned. And even though Ant and Mattie are ''legitimately'' in there, due to their parents' activities, they've since been adopted by people who have themselves been accused and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as the worst criminal family in Britain. Surely, then, there's no hope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Concentr8|author=William Sutcliffe|rating=5|genreisbn=Teens|summary=In a speculative near-future London, there's a new wonder drug to treat ADHD. Concentr8 is cheap and effective. So effective that the mayor has instituted a programme to identify children for early, preventative treatment. Almost every troublesome teen in London is taking it, often before they've actually become troublesome. But then an austerity drive sees the program cut abruptly. Riots break out, led by the unmedicated teens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paul Bird1836284683|title=The Hunt|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This is Britain after the Very Big Crash. Life is very different, especially if you live in one of the lower suburbs under the Local Government's authority. Cush lives in one such suburb. He works as a detective in the floating Krawczyk building and, though he thinks it himself, is pretty good at his job. His wife Samir doesn't work, even though she'd like to, and spends her days at home reading those most antiquated of things: books. Their son Nim is sixteen and is obsessed with a video game called The Hunt. Cush and Samir fall out constantly over their differing approaches to Nim's obsession.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHappy|author=Philip Martin|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' had access to a time machine, they would be able to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found the likes of [[Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of the Daleks]] to be too violent, she and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to a prison world, where soon-to-be victims of snuff movies are trapped in a reality-show styled existence, and a hard-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executions, the morgues and worse. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had the benefit of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differently. They were quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being a trade delegate who is half-man, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laugh, and such an artificial premise. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Yan Lianke|title=The Four Books|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The Four Books'' is a difficult, challenging novel and not for the feint hearted, or for someone looking for a page-turner. It really challenges the reader's perceptions and opens up a gateway to an era that is difficult to imagine for anyone brought up in a western culture. Set in Maoist China it tells the story of four protagonists and a memorable antagonist. The four, found guilty of anti-revolutionary crimes are undergoing re-education in a work camp governed by the child. With an Orwellian feel, ''The Four Books'' will come to be regarded as an undoubted masterpiece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569493</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Richard Kurti|title= Maladapted|rating= 3|genre=Teens|summary=Cillian isn't an average teenager. He knows he's a mathematical genius, he's already at university studying advanced theory, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he is until he's the sole survivor of a train explosion. With his father is dead and his last words to Cillian a riddle, Cillian's existence is thrown in a whole new light. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Barnes|title=NodDavid Chadwick

|summary=For anyone who has suffered from insomnia, the idea of a world with no sleep is an unsettling place as it feels so real. The thought of having to drag yourself to work after a night with no sleep is bad enough, but what about two nights, or three, or four? Society will crumble if everyone missed five meals in a row, but what would happen if we all missed five nights of sleep? If you end up in the land of Nod, we are all in trouble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298227</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= The Philosopher Kings|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Twenty years have passed since the Goddess Athene founded the Just City. The god Apollo Well! This is still living there, albeit in human form. Now married, and the father of several children, the man/god struggles to cope when tragedy befalls his family. Beset by grief and a need for revenge, Apollo sets sail to find the man who caused him such pain, but discovers something that may change everything…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150791</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jim Carrington|title=Boy 23|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Boy 23 isn't in My Place murder mystery unlike any more. He can't see The Screen, he can't hear The Voice. Boy 23 is alone.''other!

Before being dumped alone in the forest by The VoiceI do love it when I open a book, Boy 23 - or Jesperit's nothing like I expected it to be, as we shall call him - has lived in and it takes me on a room entirely by himselfwild ride. He has never met another human being or been outsideAnd that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. His only experience of the world has been through a few short video clips, shown I don't want to him on his Screen by The Voice in My Place. Now, he finds himself alone with only ruin a bag full similar experience for any of survival equipment and some brief words from The Voice: his life is in danger, people you reading but I'll have been sent to kill him, he must head north west to at least set the Low Countriesscene. Once that's done, The Voice will meet him there and explain everythingI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kenneth CalhounB0DB64PYV5|title= Black MoonThe White Rose|author=Dave Baines|rating= 54|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Do you ever have those nights when you hear every chime of the clockIn 2033, when you watch the shadows move round the room painfully slowly a superstorm known as the moon crosses White Rose devastates the sky? Thankfully I have very few of thoseNorthern Hemisphere. I know And it's not a storm that gathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. Instead, it hovers across half the thing most likely to keep you awake is the worrying about the fact that you're Earth with its octopus-like tentacles, not asleep, giving up and I have distraction mechanisms for when I need themnever going away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aldous HuxleyKay Chronister|title= After Many A SummerDesert Creatures

|summary= Like many of usWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, I suspectpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, I knew nothing of Huxley other than the "required reading" a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Brave New WorldDesert Creatures''by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. Naturally, on It is a shocking novel that basis alone, he was pigeon-holed in my head under the heading ''Sci-fi - must check out further''still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul McAuleyThomas D Lee|title= ConfluencePerilous Times|rating= 53|genre= Dystopian FictionFantasy|summary=Yama ''Hate is a foundling orphan adopted as a baby by the Aedile (chief civil servant) path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, in a small city downriver of world on the mighty, ancient city verge of Ysclimate collapse, capital of Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the manday and rescue what little remains. What no-made world one expected was that one of Confluence. Longing to become a soldier and take his late brother's place in the long-running war against Knights of the heretics, Round Table would answer the restless seventeen year old is about to be taken as an apprentice clerk despite his young age, to keep him out of trouble. Destiny, however, has other plans for himcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057511942X</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ryan GraudinB0BQXSYYTF|title=The Walled CityJust Looking|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensDystopian Fiction|summary= In It was the walled city summer of Hak Nam2035 and on a cruise ship in Marseilles, there are three rules; run fast, trust no one, and always carry your knife. In streets controlled by vicious Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and sadistic drug lords, three individuals all seek something. Dai seeks information on the criminal brotherhood which employs him, lest he be imprisoned. Jin Ling seeks her sister end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the Walled Citysame sentence by a man! He's brothels, evading watching the roaming streettornado -gangs as she goes. Mei Yee, trapped they're more common in a brothel Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in the city port and forced falls into sexual relations conversation with the twoJean-faced Ambassador OsamuPierre, desperately seeks freedoma French journalist in his thirties. The three have just eighteen days to accomplish this He writes for a relatively new paper, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the officials of Seng Ngoi plan difference between 'France' and 'the French'. His partner, Helen, who's English and Jewish, keeps him in check to evict all residents of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>some extent.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo WaltonSusi Holliday |title= The Just CityLast Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop

|genre= Dystopian FictionTeens|summary=Urged on Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by her brother Apollomachines, goddess Pallas Athene founds The Loop follows the Just City precarious existence of Atlantis – adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a city based on Plato’s republicliving hell with no chance of escape. Filling it A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with an assortments of adults collected from throughout time, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of whom energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a disguised Apollo)guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. Whilst With the city flourishes, only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the arrival visits of Socrates may prove to sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be a fly in free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the ointment…loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>1912626551

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon A DavidsonMargaret Atwood|title=System: With his face in the sun|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Wallace Blair, like everyone else, is used to the benefits of a life guided by The System. After all, The System knows best. However he is somewhat dismayed when he wakes to a System message on his Commcuff informing him that his happy marriage is about to be dissolved and that's not his only concern. After being sent to retrieve papers from his grandfather's house, Wallace reflects on how long it's been since he's seen the old man. Wallace decides to drop in on him but what should be a trip to an elderly care facility takes him down an unexpected path.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1511491094</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tommy Wallach|title=We All Looked UpTestaments

|summary=Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The subject and title of Catherine ChanterHandmaid's Tale]]. I don't want to tell you too much about the plot because it's debut a novel that is entirely plot driven. Suffice it to say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a country idyll of which dreams are madevan, not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: charmingly ramshackleAunt Lydia, who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, disarmingly verdant and heaving a girl brought up in Gilead with fertile acreage. Ruth and Mark can barely believe their luck at finding this perfect retreatthe expectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, an oasis a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from their tired school lessons and overwrought City existence. Several months down the road and with its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the entire nation brought to its knees store owned by an almost apocalyptic drought, Ruth and Mark are beginning to question their good fortune in their ownership of The Wellher parents...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782113606</amazonuk>1784742325

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teri Terry1789018870|title=Mind GamesSomething to Tell You|author=David Edwards

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Luna is Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a Refuserlong time. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the families got on. In her world Bert's wife, Natalia, a Refuser is a kind of cross between a conscientious objector was Russian and a Ludditeseriously rich. In this post WW3 Britain Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, almost everyone has went to a brain implant which private boarding school, but at weekends they use to spend most were great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and Hannah. Sam's wife, Briony, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of their lives in them, until Sam - a virtual environmentparticle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. People don It't just play in s enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to drag the vast array head of games: they work, they learnCERN, they date. Even hacking is encouraged. And those who opt outProf Ralph Moyeur, like Luna, are shut out of the best careers and viewed a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with suspiciona plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Honeywell1789550149|title=The ShipPoster Boy|author=N J Crosskey|rating=45|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Sixteen year old Lalla has spent her life I first read 1984 in London – mostly inside her family homeschool, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Because this is Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not the London of today, or any other day(quite) come to pass. When Lalla was seven, the apocalypse arrived; banks crashed Others, flood defences failedI think, power failed – and were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the world could only focus date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on survivalthe nightmare. Now If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the Nazareth Act is in force and without your identity cardfuture are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, you don’t exist – literally, as you will I suspect it might hardly be shot if you donin the future at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy''t produce is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep itfar from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality".|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871498</amazonuk> My only response to that is: too late!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Suarez0241349176|title=InfluxThe Last|author=Hanna Jameson

|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary=We are told to never judge Jon Keller is in a book by its cover and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the frontworld ends. Since He has no idea if his debut novelfamily is alive, he has no idea what's going on in the nearest city, all or if the Daniel Suarez books I have read had a quote suggesting that he was nearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, amid the legitimate heir mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to Michael Crichton. To compare your work with one of stay at the best techno thriller writers of all time is never going hotel rather than attempt to get to be easy the airport and time after timehome. He's not alone, Suarez fell shorttwenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. That is until InfluxOne day, when helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the body of a book that finally puts Suarez in girl deemed to have been killed before the same illustrious company world ended. The community descends into a deep mistrust as CrichtonJon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Thompson Walker1473203287|title=The Age of MiraclesSummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=''The Age Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the discovery of Miracles'' was one the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of those much-talked Summerland. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about books that I never got the time potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to read go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1683690613|title=Garrison Girl (Attack on its first go aroundTitan)|author=Rachel Aaron|rating=4. I5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=''m not sure how I managed thatYou want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, but I didthat's an illusion. Anyway, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it has So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe'' In the dystopian themesworld of Attack on Titan, so it is right up my alley and not humanity hides behind the sort safety of thing I'd usually misshigh impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. And soKnown as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human-like creatures, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. Difficult to reissue it kill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for a YA market prey, and even happier whilst the walls have always kept them out, that they decided has begun to send me a copy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>change…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peyton Marshall 1444944525|title=GoodhouseThe Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=There have Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. But Mhairi's world has been times in history when governments have thought they knew who ravaged by climate change and the criminal underclass wasmass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow This did not lead to anything good under the Nazis and the same - which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. She's even made it out of the Goodhouse regimedetention centre at the airport. If we knew And during this journey, Mhairi has learned that certain genetics led you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to an increased chance of criminality, wouldn’t educating these people when they were young be a good thing? Prevention is better than cure, but I am not sure if fascism isrely on you...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085752190X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leanne HallNorth_84K|title=This is Shyness84K|author=Claire North|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Theo can, he calculates the worth of each person to the penny. ''This is ShynessThe Company'' is an unusual own everything and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirleveryone, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, two strangers who meet in a pub in the town cost of Shynessthe crimes filling his inbox. The teenagers They are drawn togethervariables on a spreadsheet, each adopting a different identity simple mathematical equation, the expense of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so for the night they can be anyone but themselvescriminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=The Remaining: AftermathEverything About You|author=D J MollesHeather Child

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=In the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A week .I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a long time beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in politicsfront of her eyes by barely thinking about it, but it feels infinitely longer in complete with a zombie apocalypsepersonality to guide her. ''The Remaining'' started a new series of books problem is that followed trained military expert Captain Lee Harden and his mission to rebuild America should the undead hit personality on the fanglasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. As an introduction, [[The Remaining Freya is thrown and unsettled by D J Molles|The Remaining]] did a great job in creating this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the world and exploring Harden’s tenacity very least to stick reset them to the mission, but it ended so abruptlya different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she'The Remaining: Aftermaths right there, and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can' picks up moments later and continues the talet believe that it can be this accurate, but does it still deliver a week into his missioncan't be this Ruby. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650347X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark LinganeWilson_Extinction|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)The Extinction Trials|author=SM Wilson|rating=54|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The city has been rebuilt for warStorm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. The waves of cyborg attacks Space is scarce and energy and food are just the beginning – what follows is more devastatingrationed. Not only that but also the flood of refugees surging in daily Education is as much of a problem as a resourceminimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Actually Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one or two cases the word of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'problem' is , goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a bit of an understatementjob. In Lincoln's sister is dying from the middle of this hell Seb blistering disease and Melanie are doing their best he has no access to fight the healthcare that could save her. It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and survive, although survival doesn't look like an option once so they realise they have are first to go into volunteer for the enemyStipulators's hive trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and bring the battle citizens of Earthasia will have access to the cyborgsspace and abundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Curtis_Water|title=SandWater & Glass|author=Hugh HoweyAbi Curtis

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=World building in science fiction is easier said than done. How can you design Something has happened, something very nasty and on a completely foreign place and explain it all to your reader, whilst still writing submarine a compelling narrative? If you are an author such as Hugh Howey, the answer pregnant elephant is with consummate ease. Howey has already got one of only a handful of animals living below the fabulous ‘Wool’ trilogy under his belt and following this up was always going to be the difficult second album syndromewaves. WellWe follow Nerissa Crane, be prepared to be sucked quickly into ‘Sand’a vet, his new novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Seven Second Delay|author=Tom Easton|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the futureas she remembers recent events, looks after the difference between West animals and East are greater than ever. Europe has evolved falls into the (British) Isles and the (E)U, linked by a bridge, and immigrants risk everything to pass from the third world of the latter intrigue. It is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the first world of the former. Mila has made it across, start but I will try to avoid the danger is not over, and as she falls into the hands of the Agents, she realises the real price of freedommain ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Beckett_America|title=Mutant America City|author=Steve FeaseyChris Beckett

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=After a devastating chemical war''America City'' tells the story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the world is slowly rebuilding itselfambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. A select group had hidden away Set in underground bunkers andthe 22nd century, when they re-emergedthe novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, built six cities in which where the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the genetically pure live in luxury affluent Northern States, and comfort. But outside the city wallsSouth, everything which is very differentfrequently ravaged by extreme weather. The survivors there are mutantsHolly and Slaymaker hope to change this, fighting for survival in degrading, impoverished circumstancesworking together on the plan they believe to be the solution to the problem of where to place the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Featherstone_Paradise|title=RiotParadise Girl|author=Sarah MussiPhill Featherstone|rating=43.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=It is 2018 and Britain is still in recession. Years of austerity have devastated Kerryl lives far away from the country. Banks are going under. Unemployment is risingurban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. The cost of welfare farm is soaring. Prisons are overflowing. And the population is still rising. Something has to give. The solution? Forced sterilisation of all school-leavers without high up on a secured place in higher education or hill and it's a guarantee of employmentfamily endeavour - grandparents, mother, Kerryl. The programme has started with prisoners There's a market town below but Kerryl's family is concentrated on the farm and the legislation to roll hard but beautiful living associated with it out across the population is about to go through parliament. UnsurprisinglyKerryl, though, there is a growing popular protest against itfiercely bright girl - she's won a place at Cambridge University and is looking forward to going. She loves poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Sutcliffe_See|title=The GiverWe See Everything|author=Lois LowryWilliam Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Jonas Lex lives in a world were sameness has prevailed over individualitywhat used to be London. There are rulesToday, so many rulesit is a closed-off, which are adhered to, and which allow society to live without pain, suffering or conflict. These rules are rarely questioned, merely acceptedbombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. When they turn twelve, children in this world are assigned their future role Nobody comes in society by the Elders, and start training for itnobody can go out. These assignments Drones are based on years of observation of their characters and aptitudesa constant presence overhead, food is short and whether they are assigned to be life is hard. But there's a nurturer of the young or a caregiver of the elderly, a labourer who keeps the streets clean or someone who prepares girl he likes and provides food, they are usually she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a good match for gamer got him the personjob of drone pilot. At the assignment ceremonyHe hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it, Jonas is not given a typical rolewhatever his mother thinks. It's fighting terrorism, howeverafter all. He Alan's observation target is selected to be a high-profile target - a man high up in the Receiver of Memory, a position given out only once every few generationsresistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. He will receive and store all the memories of the past which the rest of society are no longer burdened with, but which may be needed from time to time to aid in decision making and law enforcementBut Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=GoddessThe Real-Town Murders|author=Laura PowellAdam Roberts|rating=43|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=After an economic collapseIf you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, this may be possible, Britain with the development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the online world is close to breaking pointmore real than your own. Citizens are going hungry and there are riotsEven today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. But Aura The only thing is shielded from it all by her position as a handmaiden in the Cult of Artemis. In this Britainthat with most people online, the beliefs some of us will have to stay in the Ancient Greeks persevere and are followed by millions - the cult sits side by side real world to deal with Christianity unexpected events – such as a mainstream religionreal town murder. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up by the suffering outside the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retires}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=Raid|author=K S Merbeth|rating=4. 5|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>Dystopian Fiction |summary=A brutal road trip in a blighted landscape that pulls no punches. We travel with Clementine, a bounty hunter, in a world without heroes or hope.