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[[Category:New Reviews|Dystopian Fiction]]
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|author=Antonia Honeywell
|title=The Ship
|rating=4
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=Sixteen year old Lalla has spent her life in London – mostly inside her family home. Because this is not the London of today, or any other day. When Lalla was seven, the apocalypse arrived; banks crashed, flood defences failed, power failed – and the world could only focus on survival. Now the Nazareth Act is in force and without your identity card, you don’t exist – literally, as you will be shot if you don't produce it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871498</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Suarez
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115976</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|title=1Q84: The Complete Trilogy
|summary=The ''1Q84'' trilogy is, without doubt, an impressive book. In many ways, the trilogy almost has to be read in this way as the three component books make little sense on their own. The first book in the series in particular is almost completely baffling if taken in isolation. It does, though, demand a degree of dedication, and if the prospect of a 1300 page novel in which not a huge amount happens in terms of plot and in which there is a significant level of repetition leaves you cold, then this might not be the best entry point into the wonderful world of Haruki Murakami. As often with Murakami though, it's possible to read this book at a number of levels. On the surface it's a love story set in a slightly fantastical setting with a little bit of crime thrown in. At a deeper level, he explores the thin lines between imagination and reality, life and death and what you might call yin and yang. It's a novel where balance and vacuums play a big part. It seems counter-intuitive to call a book of this magnitude 'delicate', but that's just how the story appears.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578077</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Bloodtide
|author=Melvin Burgess
|rating=5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=Set in a world only a book could inhabit - half in a post-apocalyptic future, half in the mists of the myths of the past - ''Bloodtide'' retells part of the Volsunga saga - Icelandic tales of gods and heroes and villains. Civilisation has long abandoned London to its criminals and its gang wars, going so far as to surround its borders with released ''halfmen'', genetically manipulated creatures with a lust for violence. With the population trapped inside the city walls, Val Volson has risen to a position of power. Only King Conor is left standing in his way. But Val wants peace. He wants unity so that his people can break out of the city and prosper.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>
}}

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