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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Ben Oliver|authortitle=Teri TerryThe Loop|rating=43.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's not Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a spoiler if I tell you that Callie dies because she does die horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and she dies in the first few pages Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of ''Contagion''escape. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a year agotrigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Her brother Kai Luka is still looking for her, hopeful that she will be found alive taunted by limited access to his memories and well. But Callie isn't alive and wellrelentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. She's been taken Doomed to Delay [a secretive risky medical facility 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 island model of Shetland, experimented on, and then burned an infinity loop designed to deathmake its inmates suffer. But Callie survived With the burning in non-corporeal form. Howonly 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>1912626551

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen PhillipsMargaret Atwood|title=The Beautiful BureaucratTestaments

|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary=Meet Josephine. Married to Joseph JonesFinally! Almost forty years on, she has kept her maiden name we have a sequel to keep at least some character to her identity. As opposed to her new boss, who has no gender, no face, and horrid halitosis[[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. The job Josephine is forced I don't want to choose is a simple one, of taking a filetell you too much about the plot because it's paper contents, clicking up the subject on a huge database, entering a date newly printed on the sheet, and repeatingnovel that is entirely plot driven. Told Suffice it to obey strict secrecy rulessay that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, she starts to find unusual signs of malignance all over – a man in fifteen years after Offred gets into a grey sweatshirt following hervan, post redirected when nobody knows where Josephine and Joseph are even living from one month to the not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, and a husband missing from the marital bed more and more often… Is there a way for who is secretly writing her find memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a spark of happiness girl brought up in Gilead with the humdrum, windowless cell expectation she workswill marry a commander; Daisy, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the horrid housing that is all the couple can afford?store owned by her parents...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782273328</amazonuk>1784742325

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Toner1789018870|title= The Weight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Something to Tell You|author=David Edwards

|genre= Science Dystopian Fiction|summary= One thing great science fiction needs is solid world buildingSam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. When I pick up a book like Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but this, I need never seemed to imagine affect the way that the universe has existed before the plot has started families got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and will continue Josh, went to do so after: it needs a strong sense of history private boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and futureHannah. With this book Sam's wife, Briony, and serieswas head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of them, I feel like I have just until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. It's enough of a brief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens in problem for Sam and Bert to drag the plothead of CERN, but even more is happeningProf Ralph Moyeur, and has happened, across the Firmamentout of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473211395</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= G X Todd1789550149|title= DefenderPoster 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''We have all become strangers s nightmare had not (quite) come to each other andpass. Others, I think, worse still: enemies. The human spirit were out there already working on making sure that once tethered us together has now divided us as surely as any ocean ever couldall he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn'' Defender describes t put a post apocalyptic world date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the which destructive voices have entered people's mindsfuture are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. In three short weeks If she had, these voices have persuaded people to kill their most loved ones and themselves resulting I suspect it might hardly be in significant proportions the future at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the worlds population being wiped out. Those who have survived, with voices and voiceless alikeblurb, are few and Christina Racher says "…but keep it far betweenfrom anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality".|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472233085</amazonuk> My only response to that is: too late!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johanna Sinisalo and Lola Rogers (translator)0241349176|title= The Core of the SunLast|author=Hanna Jameson|rating= 45|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= In Jon Keller is in a different hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the worldends. He has no idea if his family is alive, women are bred to be beautiful, man-serving and submissive, little more than pretty faces he has no idea what's going on walking reproductive machines. All in the intelligentnearest city, independent women are being removed from or if the gene pool through forced sterilisation, compelled to while away their days doing menial jobs until the blessed end comesnearest city has been obliterated. To the worldShocked, Vanna is one of amid the formermass hysteria and exodus, an eloi with few rights and of whom there are few expectations beyond being well groomed and keeping her man well fed. But she has a secret – she is not dim Jon decides to stay at all. She is one of the clever ones, who is playing dumb hotel rather than attempt to get to further her causethe airport and home. In between her college courses in good housekeeping, (which sheHe's flunkingnot alone, twenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. One day, to perfection)when helping the hotel manager, she has Jon finds the small matter body of a drug addiction girl deemed to feed, and have been killed before the mystery of her true-eloi sisterworld ended. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's disappearance to solvekiller and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611855373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan Graudin1473203287|title=Blood for BloodSummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi

|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction |summary=Second and final book Imagine a world in sequence set which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the discovery of 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 world where Germany won WW2 race against Soviet spies and Nazi experiments on Jewish children has produced shapeshifting humansdealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. Can Yael defeat When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the Wehrmacht? Interestingpotential rogue agent, moving she must decide how far she is willing to go and absorbinghow much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|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…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1444944525|title=The CallSurvival Game|author=Peadar o GuilinNicky Singer

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The Aes Sidhe are back. And in their quest Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to win back Ireland from humankind, they have placed a magical seal around the entire islandIsle of Arran. Nobody can get in or outBut Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. North? South? Doesn't matter any Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is morethan can be said for Muma and Papa. What does matter is ''The Call'She's even made it out of the detention centre at the airport. At some point And during adolescence, every teenager is transported to the Sidhe realmthis journey, Mhairi has learned that grey, colourless land you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to which they were banished thousands of years beforerely on you. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes in the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian J WalkerNorth_84K|title=The End of the World Running Club84K|author=Claire North|rating=45|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction |summary=When Theo can, he calculates the end worth of each person to the world as we know it comes, Edgar is totally unpreparedpenny. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, ''The Company'' own everything and in a panic, he throws random itemseveryone, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his daughter, head down into his cellarwhilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, and then he and calculates, without emotion, the cost of the crimes filling his family eke out a nightmarish existence in the dark until their supplies run outinbox. Fortunately they They are luckyvariables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, and they are rescued from the cellar. As they emerge back into the world they see the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds expense of large asteroids hitting solving the earth. Large areas of crime added to how much the country victim would have been destroyed. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and towns, turning feral, trying contributed to find what's left to help them to survivetheir community. Edgar's family Prisons are rescued by a small remaining army unit, but he and his wife and children become separated, and uneconomical so begins Edgar's desperate race criminals in this world pay their debt to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another countrysociety in cold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=Children of IcarusEverything About You|author=Caighlan SmithHeather Child

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambitionIn the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. They pray to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between the ages of ten is here and sixteen who will enter the labyrinthit is all around you. It fills your fridge, find their way through it keeps up to Alyssia, date with your friends and become angelsfulfils your wishes. Every child yearns to be chosenIt is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. ClaraFreya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, our girlglasses which give her all the information she's best friendll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her. The problem is that the most devout personality on the glasses is that of everyoneher missing and presumed dead sister. She knows she Freya is destined thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very least to reset them to become an angela different personality. Our girl, though, does not want to be chosenBut Freya just can't do this. In Hearing her societysister's voice again is like she's right there, and although she knows this is such a badge just Ruby's data, part of shame Freya can't believe that she keeps silentit can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby. And, along with Clara, chosen she Is it just possible that something more is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon MayoWilson_Extinction|title=BlameThe Extinction Trials|author=SM Wilson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''A small hand in hers. 'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show the situation. Ant (a teenaged girl) Storm and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and in Lincoln live on Earthasia, a prison – HMP London, no lesscontinent ruined by overpopulation. Since the death of the EU Space is scarce and energy and a huge, all-conquering recession, people food are being imprisoned left, right rationed. Education is minimal and centre mostly focused around searching for the crimes of their parents new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and their parents in turnshe never knew her father, meaning anyone with any slightly dodgy firm or habit so she lives 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 one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''legitimatelyshelters'' in there, due goes to their parentsschool for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It' activitiess a mean, desperate existence for them both and so theyare first to volunteer for the Stipulators've since been adopted by people who 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 themselves been accused access to the space and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as the worst criminal family in Britainabundant food sources Piloria offers... Surely, then, there's no hope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Curtis_Water|title=Concentr8Water & Glass|author=William SutcliffeAbi Curtis

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=In Something has happened, something very nasty and on a speculative near-future London, there's submarine a new wonder drug to treat ADHD. Concentr8 pregnant elephant is cheap and effectiveone of only a handful of animals living below the waves. So effective that We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the mayor has instituted animals and falls into a programme to identify children for early, preventative treatmentworld of intrigue. Almost every troublesome teen in London  It is taking it, often before they've actually become troublesomedifficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. But then an austerity drive sees There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the program cut abruptly. Riots break out, led by start but I will try to avoid the unmedicated teensmain ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul BirdBeckett_America|title=The HuntAmerica City|author=Chris Beckett

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=This is Britain after ''America City'' tells the Very Big Crash. Life is very differentstory of Holly, especially if you live an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in one of order to help the lower suburbs under the Local Government's authorityambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. Cush lives in one such suburb. He works as a detective Set in the floating Krawczyk building 22nd century, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, where the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, andthe South, though he thinks it himself, which is pretty good at his jobfrequently ravaged by extreme weather. His wife Samir doesn't workHolly and Slaymaker hope to change this, even though she'd like working together on the plan they believe to be the solution to, and spends her days at home reading those most antiquated the problem 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 where to Nim's obsessionplace the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip MartinFeatherstone_Paradise|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosParadise Girl|author=Phill Featherstone|rating=43.5|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing 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''Doctor Who'' had access to s a time machinefamily endeavour - grandparents, mother, they would be able to temper all their responsesKerryl. When Mary Whitehouse found There's a market town below but Kerryl's family is concentrated on the likes of [[Doctor Who farm and the Genesis of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of the Daleks]] to be too violenthard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, she and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to a prison worldthough, where soon-to-be victims of snuff movies are trapped in is a realityfiercely bright girl -show styled existence, and she's won a hard-done-by populous are sat place at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executions, the morgues Cambridge University and worse. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had the benefit of foresight they might have responded is looking forward to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differentlygoing. 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 premiseShe loves poetry. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yan LiankeSutcliffe_See|title=The Four BooksWe See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe

|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Lex lives in what used to be London. Today, it is a closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Four BooksStrip'' is . Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are a difficultconstant presence overhead, challenging novel food is short and not for the feint hearted, or for someone looking for life is hard. But there's a page-turnergirl he likes and she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. It really challenges His talent as a gamer got him the readerjob of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's perceptions and opens hyped up a gateway to an era that is difficult to imagine for anyone brought up in a western culture. Set in Maoist China do it tells the story of four protagonists and a memorable antagonist, whatever his mother thinks. The fourIt's fighting terrorism, found guilty of antiafter all. Alan's observation target is a high-revolutionary crimes are undergoing reprofile target -education a man high up in a work camp governed by the child. With an Orwellian feel, resistance organisation known as ''The Four BooksCorps'' will come to be regarded as an undoubted masterpiece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569493</amazonuk>Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Richard KurtiRoberts_Real|title= MaladaptedThe Real-Town Murders|author=Adam Roberts|rating= 3|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Cillian isn't an average teenager. He knows he's a mathematical geniusIf you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, he's already at university studying advanced theorythis may be possible, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he is until he's with the sole survivor development of a train explosionfully 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. With his father The only thing is dead and his last words that with most people online, some of us will have to Cillian a riddle, Cillian's existence is thrown stay in the real world to deal with unexpected events – such as a whole new lightreal town murder. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian BarnesMerbeth_Raid|title=NodRaid|author=K S Merbeth

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=For anyone who has suffered from insomnia, the idea of A brutal road trip in a world with blighted landscape that pulls no sleep is an unsettling place as it feels so realpunches. The thought of having to drag yourself to work after a night We travel with no sleep is bad enoughClementine, but what about two nights, or threea bounty hunter, 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 troubleworld without heroes or hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298227</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jo WaltonMcdermid_Resistance|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 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 Resistance: A Race Against Time to find the man who caused him such pain, but discovers something that may change everything…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150791</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSave Mankind|author=Jim Carrington|title=Boy 23Val McDermid

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Boy 23 isn't It began so innocently, at a music festival in My Place any moreNorthumberland. He canThere were some stomach upsets, but what do you expect when the weather't see The Screens bad, he canthere't hear The Voice. Boy 23 s inadequate sanitation and 150,000 people out to enjoy themselves? Journalist Zoe Meadows is alone.covering the event and she'' Before being dumped alone in s filing her copy from the forest by The Voice, Boy 23 - or Jesper, as we shall call him - has lived in back of a room entirely food van run by himselfher friends Sam and Lisa. He has never met another human being or been outside. His only experience of Sam's fussy about the world has been through a few short video clips, shown to him on food he serves - he's The Sausage Man - and he regularly checks out his Screen by The Voice in My Placesuppliers. NowIn his business, he finds himself alone with only a bag full of survival equipment and some brief words from you just can't be too careful. The Voice: his life is in dangerstomach upsets seem to last for 24 hours, people have been sent to kill himan unpleasant 24 hours, he must head north west but then it seems to the Low Countries, The Voice will meet him there and explain everythingbe over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kenneth CalhounDoctorow_Walkaway|title= Black MoonWalkaway|author=Cory Doctorow|rating= 2.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Do Science Fiction is not always what it seems. You may think that you ever have those nights when you hear every chime are reading an exciting space adventure about many-tentacled aliens, but in fact, it is an allegory for race relations in modern America. The best books are able to balance the hidden meaning of the clockbook, when you watch the shadows move round the room painfully slowly as the moon crosses whilst still entertaining the sky? Thankfully I have very few of thosereader with a great story. I know that The worst can feel like an author preaching directly to the thing most likely reader and leaving their story to keep you awake is the worrying about struggle in the fact that you're not asleep, and I have distraction mechanisms for when I need thembackground.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Aldous HuxleyTerry_Contagion|title= After Many A Summer|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Like many of us, I suspect, I knew nothing of Huxley other than the "required reading" of ''Brave New World''. Naturally, on that basis alone, he was pigeon-holed in my head under the heading ''Sci-fi - must check out further''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul McAuley|title= Confluence|rating= 5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Yama is a foundling orphan adopted as a baby by the Aedile Contagion: Book 1 (chief civil servantDark Matter) of a small city downriver of the mighty, ancient city of Ys, capital of the man-made world of Confluence. Longing to become a soldier and take his late brother's place in the long-running war against the heretics, 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 him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057511942X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ryan Graudin|title=The Walled City|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= In the walled city of Hak Nam, there are three rules; run fast, trust no one, and always carry your knife. In streets controlled by vicious 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 in the Walled City's brothels, evading the roaming street-gangs as she goes. Mei Yee, trapped in a brothel in the city and forced into sexual relations with the two-faced Ambassador Osamu, desperately seeks freedom. The three have just eighteen days to accomplish this, as the officials of Seng Ngoi plan to evict all residents of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= The Just City|rating= 3.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Urged on by her brother Apollo, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – a city based on Plato’s republic. Filling it with an assortments of adults collected from throughout time, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one of whom is a disguised Apollo). Whilst the city flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove to be a fly in the ointment…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jon A Davidson|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 Up|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter, Eliza, Andy and Anita are all about to graduate high school. They all have plans and expectations, even slacker Andy. But those expectations are about to be thrown into disarray. An asteroid is approaching Earth and there's a 66% chance of a collision and an extinction level event. There are just a few weeks before a possible, no a likely, end of the world. What will happen? How will they react? What will they ''do''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147112455X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catherine Chanter|title=The Well|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=The subject and title of Catherine Chanter's debut novel is a country idyll of which dreams are made: charmingly ramshackle, disarmingly verdant and heaving with fertile acreage. Ruth and Mark can barely believe their luck at finding this perfect retreat, an oasis from their tired and overwrought City existence. Several months down the road and with the entire nation brought to its knees by an almost apocalyptic drought, Ruth and Mark are beginning to question their good fortune in their ownership of The Well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782113606</amazonuk>}}{{newreview

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=It''This is Shyness'' is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirl, two strangers who meet in s not a pub in the town of Shynessspoiler if I tell you that bad things happen to Callie because they do. The teenagers are drawn together, each adopting Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a different identity so for the night they can be anyone but themselvesyear ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Remaining: Aftermath|author=D J Molles|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=A week Her brother Kai is a long time in politicsstill looking for her, but it feels infinitely longer in a zombie apocalypsehopeful that she will be found alive and well. But Callie isn't alive and well. She'The Remaining'' started s been taken to a new series secretive medical facility on the island of books that followed trained military expert Captain Lee Harden Shetland, experimented on, and his mission to rebuild America should the undead hit the fan. As an introductionthen, [[The Remaining by D J Molles|The Remaining]] did a great job in creating the world and exploring Harden’s tenacity to stick to the missionwell, but it ended so abruptly. turned into ''The Remaining: Aftermathsomething else'' picks up moments later and continues the tale, but does it still deliver a week into his mission. How?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650347X</amazonuk>