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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ {{adsense2}}Frontpage|isbn=1836284683|title=The Big Happy__NOTOC__|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other!
{{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=Zom-B Underground |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Before we begin. If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first I do love it when I open a book]] in this series, DONit'T read this reviews nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. It contains spoilersAnd that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. Read my review I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the first book, read the first book itself, then come backscene. If you donOnce that'ts done, I think you'll be sorryshould simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077562</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J HarperB0DB64PYV5|title=The DisappearedWhite Rose|author=Dave Baines
|rating=4
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Jackson is self-confidentIn 2033, a superstorm known as the White Rose devastates the Northern Hemisphere. And it's not a storm that gathers, wreaks havoc, motivated and happythen dissipates. After allInstead, he attends one of it hovers across half the top Learning Communities Earth with its octopus-like tentacles, not giving up and has an AEP score of 98never going away.5. He }}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is destined to becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an important part of the Leadership some dayalmost masochistic thrill. You and I might see Jackson as an insufferableWhether it is a robotic takeover, pompous ass buta world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, since he this genre is surrounded a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by people like him, Jackson doesn't see it like Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel thatstill manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{Frontpage|author=Thomas D Lee|title=Perilous Times|rating=3|genre= Fantasy|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
But then Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a seemingly random violent attack leaves Jackson battered hero (or several) to save the day and bloody and his best friend Wilson deadrescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF|title=Just Looking|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4. When police return him to 5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=It was the Learning Communitysummer of 2035 and on a cruise ship in Marseilles, Jackson finds Jim was celebrating his teachers claim not to recognise him new-found wealth and all the end of his records wiped. Dumped marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! He's watching the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in an Academy port and falls into conversation with Jean- Pierre, a school purportedly French journalist in his thirties. He writes for those with lower AEP scores a relatively new paper, the right- Jacksonwing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's life becomes interesting if a hell. Academy students are known little wordy on subjects such as Specials. Theythe difference between 'France're disciplined by electric shocks distributed by teachers in cages. Theyand 're fed slop through nozzles in slots. Theythe French're encouraged to fight. And they His partner, Helen, who're kept in line by Reds - nominated Specials who get extra food s English and pride of place Jewish, keeps him in the violent Academy pecking ordercheck to some extent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857076981</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage|author= Susi Holliday |title= The Last 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|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= 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 machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a 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. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=1912626551}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sangu MandannaMargaret Atwood|title=The Lost Testaments|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary= Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. I don't want to tell you too much about the plot because it's 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 van, not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a girl brought up in Gilead with the expectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girlmissionaries who occasionally call into the store owned by her parents...|isbn=1784742325}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789018870|title=Something to Tell You|author=David Edwards
|rating=4
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Eva is an echoSam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Woven Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the Loomfamilies got on. Bert's wife, she is Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, went to a carbon copy private boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and Hannah. Sam's wife, Briony, was head of Amarraproduct research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of them, until Sam - a girl loved by her parents so much particle physicist - spotted that they canthe rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. It't bear s enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to drag the thought head of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of losing hera family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily. Should anything ever happen }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=Poster Boy|author=N J Crosskey|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to Amarrapass. Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, Eva will take her place - live I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. A lot of what happens in her home''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, go Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to her schoolthat is: too late!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=The Last|author=Hanna Jameson|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Jon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends. He has no idea if his family is alive, even kiss her boyfriend. So Evahe has no idea what's young life is all about Amarra. She eats going on in the same foodsnearest city, studies or if the same subjectsnearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, reads amid the same booksmass hysteria and exodus, watches Jon decides to stay at the same filmshotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and home. When Amarra gets He's not alone, twenty other people also stay and gradually form a tattoosmall community. One day, so must Evawhen helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the body of a girl deemed to have been killed before the world ended. The Weavers impose many rules community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and if Eva breaks even one of them, her life finding the truth about what is forfeitpossibly the last community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849416176</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff Norton1473203287|title=The Dead are Rising (MetaWars)Summerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction |summary=Jonah's father died Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the battle for control discovery of the Metasphere. He was a Guardian - a terrorist or freedom fighterafterlife, depending how you see things - and he had infiltrated himself the British Empire has extended its reach into a position of trust with Summerland, the Millenials, Big Smoke for the group supporting recently deceased. In 1938 the billionaire inventor who created and controlled an online world in which people living British Empire is caught up in a post peak-oil race against Soviet spies and devasted Earth spend most dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of their timeSummerland. But before he diedWhen Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, Jason Delacroix's memories had been uploaded she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the Metasphere as an avatartruth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314606</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1683690613
|title=Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan)
|author=Rachel Aaron
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=''You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, but that's an illusion. So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''
In the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. Known as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human-like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, and whilst the walls have always kept them out, that has begun to change…}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Maberry1444944525|title=Flesh & Bone (Rot & Ruin)The Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Having escaped Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the horrors Isle of Gameland at Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the dreadful cost mass movement of losing Tompeople and it is one defined by borders, Benny, Nix, Lilah checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be said for Muma and Chong must journey through the Rot & Ruin without his warrior smartsPapa. TheyShe're in search s even made it out of the jet they saw in detention centre at the sky months agoairport. They hope to find hopeAnd during this journey, some remains of a civilisation lost after First Night, when the zombie virus spread through the population like wildfire. When life as it was ceased to be. When the undead started Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to walkrely on you...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857079719</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kat ZhangNorth_84K|title=What's Left Of Me84K|author=Claire North
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Addie Theo can, he calculates the worth of each person to the penny. ''The Company'' own everything and Eva everyone, 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, the cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are 15 year olds living somewhere variables on a spreadsheet, a 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 criminals in this world pay their debt to society in Americacold hard cash. They have }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=Everything About You|author=Heather Child|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=In the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.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 motherbeta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a father personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very least to reset them to a younger brotherdifferent personality. But Addie Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right there, and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Wilson_Extinction|title=The Extinction Trials|author=SM Wilson|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and Eva food are not sistersrationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, or twinsefficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the usual senseblistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. They are two minds who share one bodyIt's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are in troublefirst to volunteer for the Stipulators' 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 the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007476817</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Curtis_Water
|title=Water & Glass
|author=Abi Curtis
|rating=5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue.
It is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the start but I will try to avoid the main ones.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeyn RobertsBeckett_America|title=Rage Within (Dark Inside)America City|author=Chris Beckett
|rating=4
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=We left Aries''America City'' tells the story of Holly, Michael, Clementine and Mason an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in a world they can barely recognise. After a series of devastating earthquakes many people changed. They became murderous monsters that order to help the normal survivors called Baggersambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. There are few normal people left and they must hide Set in ruined citiesthe 22nd century, avoiding death at the hands novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, where the Baggers. And in ''Rage Within''effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, and the battle for survival South, which is about frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and Slaymaker hope to get even tougher. The Baggers are organising themselveschange this, clearing working together on the plan they believe to be the solution to the streets problem of bodies and setting up worker camps for captured survivorswhere to place the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144721790X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Featherstone_Paradise|title=Paradise Girl|author=Neal ShustermanPhill Featherstone|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Kerryl lives far away from the urban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. The farm is high up on a hill and it's a family endeavour - grandparents, mother, Kerryl. There's a market town below but Kerryl's family is concentrated on the farm and the hard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, though, is a fiercely bright girl - she's won a place at Cambridge University and is looking forward to going. She loves poetry.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Sutcliffe_See|title=UnwindWe See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe
|rating=5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=A powerfulLex lives in what used to be London. Today, it is a closed-off, shockingbombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are a constant presence overhead, food is short and life is hard. But there's a girl he likes and intelligent novel about she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a future which practises retroactive abortion on troublesome teenagersgamer got him the job of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it, then uses their body parts for transplantwhatever his mother thinks. It's wonderfulfighting terrorism, wonderful stuff after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - but sensitive readers may be troubled by a shocking description of man high up in the processresistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382312</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Roberts_Real
|title=The Real-Town Murders
|author=Adam Roberts
|rating=3
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=If you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, this may be possible, with the development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the online world is more real than your own. Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. The only thing is that with most people online, some of us will have to stay in the real world to deal with unexpected events – such as a real town murder.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Merbeth_Raid
|title=Raid
|author=K S Merbeth
|rating=4.5
|genre=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.
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