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|summary= Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, Set during the aftermath of a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one Third World War where methods of Earthasia's overcrowded shelters, goes to school punishment 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 criminal activities have been amped up to the healthcare that could save her. It's a meanhorrific level by machines, desperate The Loop follows the precarious existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloriaadolescent Luka Kane. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that In a virus to kill them can be engineered world of Have and the citizens of Earthasia will Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Abi Curtis|title= Water & Glass|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= Something has happenedpower over Regulars, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant he is one of only trapped inside a handful living hell with no chance of animals living below the wavesescape. We follow Nerissa Crane, A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after trigger held by the animals and falls into a world of intrigue. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995465754</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Chris Beckett|title= America City|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= ''America City'' tells the story of Holly, an ambitious Publicist guards who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker can end his life with his Presidential campaignone squeeze. Set in the 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, and the South, which Luka is frequently ravaged taunted by extreme weather. Holly limited access to his memories and Slaymaker hope to change this, working together on the plan they believe to be the solution to the problem relentlessly drained of where energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to place the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786491524</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Phill Featherstone|title= Paradise Girl|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on Delay [a Yorkshire farm – risky medical trial where he is a somewhat idealised one that survives on a few hens and two or three cows and a few sheep. The kind guinea pig for Alts in place of farm that might have been profitable execution] after Delay he is in the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been strugglingdespair. A teenage boy not pulling his weight, now that the grandparents are old and the father His prison is dead, would not be met with exasperated indulgence. There are no stock-hands, no farm managers, no applications for subsidies, or worries about based on the tax returnmodel of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. Maybe With the unwelcome wind turbine covers only glimmers of hope being the costs rumours of rebellion outside and the rest visits of it. Alreadysympathetic Alt guard Wren, in setting, it's feeling a little unreal. But maybe we can forgive that… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=We See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lex lives in what used to Luka ever be London. Today, it is a closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are a constant presence overhead. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him the job of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but if he's hyped up to do it. It's fighting terrorism, after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. Lex and Alan will never meet. But their lives will collide in devastating ways...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408890194</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adam Roberts|title=The Real-Town Murders|rating=3|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=If you had can break the choice would you live your life onlineloop? In the future this may be possible, with the development of full 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473221455</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= K S Merbeth|title= Raid|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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507734</amazonuk>1912626551

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Val McDermidMargaret Atwood|title=Resistance: A Race Against Time to Save MankindThe Testaments

|summary=It began so innocentlyFinally! Almost forty years on, at we have a music festival in Northumberlandsequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. There were some stomach upsets, but what do I don't want to tell you expect when too much about the weatherplot because it's bada novel that is entirely plot driven. Suffice it to say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, therefifteen years after Offred gets into a van, not knowing what will happen next. It's inadequate sanitation and 150told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia,000 people out to enjoy themselves? Journalist Zoe Meadows who is covering secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a girl brought up in Gilead with the event and expectation she's filing her copy will 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 back of a food van run store owned by her friends Sam and Lisaparents. Sam's fussy about the food he serves - he's The Sausage Man - and he regularly checks out his suppliers. In his business you just can't be too careful. The stomach upsets seem to last for 24 hours, an unpleasant 24 hours, but then it seems to be over.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785295934</amazonuk>1784742325

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cory Doctorow1789018870|title=WalkawaySomething to Tell You|author=David Edwards|rating=2.54|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Science Fiction is not always what it seemsSam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. You may think that you are reading an exciting space adventure about many tentacled aliensBert was Sam's boss at CERN, but in fact it is an allegory for race relations in modern America. The best books are able this never seemed to balance affect the hidden meaning of way that the bookfamilies got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, whilst still entertaining the reader with went to a private boarding school, but at weekends they were great storyfriends with Sam's two children, Liam and Hannah. The worst can feel like an author preaching directly to Sam's wife, Briony, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of them, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the reader earth had risen exponentially. It's enough of a problem for Sam and leaving their story Bert to struggle in drag the backgroundhead of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786693054</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Poster Boy|author=Teri TerryN J Crosskey|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. Itcame and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not a spoiler if (quite) come to pass. Others, I tell you think, were out there already working on making sure that Callie dies because all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. If she does die and had, I suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she dies had, I suspect it might hardly be in the first few pages future at all. A lot of what happens in ''ContagionPoster Boy''is already happening. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a year ago Sadly. Her brother Kai is still looking for her, hopeful that she will be found alive and well. But Callie isn't alive and wellFrighteningly. She's been taken to a secretive medical facility on In the island of Shetlandblurb, experimented on, and then burned Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to deathturn its fiction into reality". But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal form. How?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk> My only response to that is: too late!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Phillips0241349176|title=The Beautiful BureaucratLast|author=Hanna Jameson|rating=4.5|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary=Meet JosephineJon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends. Married to Joseph Jones, she He has kept her maiden name to keep at least some character to her identity. As opposed to her new bossno idea if his family is alive, who he has no gender, no face, and horrid halitosis. The job Josephine is forced to choose is a simple one, of taking a fileidea what's paper contentsgoing on in the nearest city, clicking up or if the subject on a huge databasenearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, entering a date newly printed on amid the sheetmass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and repeatinghome. Told to obey strict secrecy rulesHe's not alone, she starts to find unusual signs of malignance all over – twenty other people also stay and gradually form a man in a grey sweatshirt following hersmall community. One day, post redirected when nobody knows where Josephine and Joseph are even living from one month to helping the nexthotel manager, and Jon finds the body of a husband missing from girl deemed to have been killed before the marital bed more and more often… Is there world ended. The community descends into a way for her find a spark of happiness in the humdrum, windowless cell she works, deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the horrid housing that truth about what is all possibly the couple can afford?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273328</amazonuk>last community on earth.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Toner1473203287|title= The Weight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Summerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi

|genre= Science Dystopian Fiction|summary= One thing great science fiction needs is solid Imagine a world buildingin which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. When I pick up a book like thisAfter the discovery of the afterlife, I need to imagine that the universe British Empire has existed before extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the plot has started British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and will continue to do so after: it needs dealing with a strong sense mole buried deep in the heart of history and futureSummerland. With this bookWhen Rachel White, and seriesan ambitious SIS agent, I feel like I have just had a brief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens in becomes suspicious about the plotpotential rogue agent, but even more she must decide how far she is happening, willing to go and has happened, across how much she is willing to risk to uncover the Firmamenttruth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473211395</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= G X Todd1683690613|title= DefenderGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan)|author=Rachel Aaron|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction |summary= ''We have all become strangers You want me to each other be like everyone else andspend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, worse still: enemiesbut that's an illusion. The human spirit that once tethered us together has now divided us So long as surely as any ocean ever could.there are titans out there… no one is safe''

Defender describes a post apocalyptic In the dystopian world in of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the which destructive voices have entered people's mindsenemies outside. In three short weeksKnown as titans, these voices have persuaded people enemies are impossibly tall human-like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. Difficult to kill their most loved ones and themselves resulting in significant proportions of innumerable they roam the worlds population being wiped out. Those who have survivedEarth looking for prey, with voices and voiceless alikewhilst the walls have always kept them out, are few and far between.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472233085</amazonuk>that has begun to change…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johanna Sinisalo and Lola Rogers (translator)1444944525|title= The Core of the SunSurvival Game|author=Nicky Singer|rating= 45|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= In a different world, women are bred to be beautiful, man-serving Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and submissive, little more than pretty faces is on walking reproductive machines. All the intelligent, independent women are being removed from the gene pool through forced sterilisation, compelled her way home to while away their days doing menial jobs until the blessed end comesIsle of Arran. To But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the world, Vanna mass movement of people and it is one of the formerdefined by borders, an eloi checkpoints and soldiers with few rights and of whom there are few expectations beyond being well groomed and keeping her man well fedguns. But she Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a secret – she plane to Heathrow - which is not dim at allmore than can be said for Muma and Papa. She is one 's even made it out of the clever ones, who is playing dumb to further her causedetention centre at the airport. In between her college courses in good housekeepingAnd during this journey, (which sheMhairi has learned that you can's flunking, to perfection), she has the small matter of a drug addiction to feed, t rely on anyone else and the mystery of her true-eloi sisteryou can's disappearance t allow anyone else to solverely on you...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611855373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan Graudin|titleisbn=Blood for Blood|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Second and final book in sequence set in a world where Germany won WW2 and Nazi experiments on Jewish children has produced shapeshifting humans. Can Yael defeat the Wehrmacht? Interesting, moving and absorbing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNorth_84K|title=The Call84K|author=Peadar o GuilinClaire North

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The Aes Sidhe are back. And in their quest Theo can, he calculates the worth of each person to win back Ireland from humankind, they have placed a magical seal around the entire islandpenny. Nobody can get in or out. North? South? Doesn't matter any more. What does matter is ''The CallCompany''own everything and everyone, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. At some point during adolescenceDoing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, every teenager is transported to he calculates, without emotion, the cost of the Sidhe realmcrimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a spreadsheet, that greya simple mathematical equation, colourless land the expense of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to which they were banished thousands of years beforetheir community. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in the human this world) then pay their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one debt to society in ten children survivecold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian J Walker0356510700|title=The End of the World Running ClubEverything About You|author=Heather Child

|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction |summary=When In the end of the world as we know future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it comes, Edgar is totally unpreparedall around you. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrowsIt fills your fridge, it keeps up to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs and in a panic, he throws random itemspossibly, including his daughterloosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, down into his cellarglasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence right in the dark until their supplies run out. Fortunately they are luckyfront of her eyes by barely thinking about it, and they are rescued from the cellarcomplete with a personality to guide her. As they emerge back into The problem is that the world they see personality on the ruin glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and disaster around them, caused unsettled by hundreds of large asteroids hitting the earththis. Large areas of Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the country have been destroyed. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and towns, turning feral, trying very least to find what's left to help reset them to survivea different personality. But Freya just can't do this. EdgarHearing her sister's voice again is like she's family are rescued by a small remaining army unitright there, but he and his wife and children become separated, and so begins Edgaralthough she knows this is just Ruby's desperate race to reach his loved onesdata, who are hundreds part of miles awayFreya can't believe that it can be this accurate, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another countryit can't be this Ruby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wilson_Extinction|title=Children of IcarusThe Extinction Trials|author=Caighlan SmithSM Wilson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=DaedalumStorm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's children have mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one collective ambition. They pray to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between the ages of ten and sixteen who will enter the labyrinthEarthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', find their way through it goes to Alyssia, school for one day per week and become angelswrestles hay bales for a job. Every child yearns Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to be chosenthe healthcare that could save her. Every parent yearns It's a mean, desperate existence for their child them both and so they are first to be chosen. Clara, our girlvolunteer for the Stipulators's best friend, is trials for a new mission to the most devout neighbouring continent of everyonePiloria. She knows she The aim is destined to become an angel. Our girl, though, does not want retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be chosenengineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon MayoCurtis_Water|title=BlameWater & Glass|rating=4|genreauthor=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 SutcliffeCurtis

|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 UpTeri Terry

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Peter, Eliza, Andy and Anita are all about It's not a spoiler if I tell you that bad things happen to graduate high schoolCallie because they do. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a year ago. They all have plans Her brother Kai is still looking for her, hopeful that she will be found alive and expectations, even slacker Andywell. But those expectations are about to be thrown into disarrayCallie isn't alive and well. An asteroid is approaching Earth and thereShe's been taken to a 66% chance secretive medical facility on the island of a collision Shetland, experimented on, and an extinction level event. There are just a few weeks before a possiblethen, no a likelywell, end of the world. What will happen? How will they react? What will they turned into ''dosomething else''. How?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147112455X</amazonuk>