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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= SM WilsonBen Oliver|title= The Extinction TrialsLoop|rating= 43.5

|summary= Storm 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 Lincoln live on EarthasiaHave 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 continent ruined trigger held by overpopulationthe guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Space Luka is scarce taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy and food are rationedthrough a gruelling daily torture ritual. Education Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is minimal and mostly focused around searching a guinea pig for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives Alts in one place of Earthasia's overcrowded shelters, goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a jobexecution] after Delay he is in despair. Lincoln's sister His prison is dying from based on the blistering disease and he has no access model of an infinity loop designed to the healthcare that could save hermake its inmates suffer. It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for With the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to only glimmers of hope being the neighbouring continent rumours of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered rebellion outside and the citizens visits of Earthasia will have access to sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>1912626551

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Abi CurtisMargaret Atwood|title= Water & GlassThe Testaments|rating= 4.5|genre= General Dystopian Fiction |summary= Something has happenedFinally! Almost forty years on, something very nasty and on we have a submarine 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 pregnant elephant novel that is one of only entirely plot driven. Suffice it to say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a handful of animals living below the wavesvan, not knowing what will happen next. We follow Nerissa CraneIt's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a vet, as girl brought up in Gilead with the expectation she remembers recent eventswill marry a commander; Daisy, looks after the animals a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and falls its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into a world of intriguethe store owned by her parents... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0995465754</amazonuk>1784742325

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Beckett1789018870|title= America CitySomething to Tell You|author=David Edwards|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was Sam''America City'' tells the story of Hollys boss at CERN, an ambitious Publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order but this never seemed to help affect the way that the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaignfamilies got on. Set in the 22nd century Bert's wife, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United StatesNatalia, where the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern Stateswas Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and the SouthJosh, which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and Slaymaker hope went to change thisa private boarding school, working together on the plan but at weekends they believe to be were great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and Hannah. Sam's wife, Briony, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of them, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the solution to rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. It's enough of a problem of where for Sam and Bert to place drag the thousands head of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating stormsCERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786491524</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Phill Featherstone1789550149|title= Paradise GirlPoster Boy|author=N J Crosskey|rating= 35|genre= General Dystopian Fiction|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a Yorkshire farm – a somewhat idealised one that survives on a few hens long time in the future. It came and two or three cows and a few sheepwent quickly enough. The kind Some of farm us may have breathed a sigh of relief that might have been profitable in the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been strugglingOrwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. A teenage boy not pulling his weight Others, I think, now were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the grandparents are old and date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the father is deadnightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be met with exasperated indulgenceas far in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. There are no stock-hands If she had, no farm managers, no applications for subsidies, or worries about I suspect it might hardly be in the tax returnfuture at all. Maybe the unwelcome wind turbine covers the costs A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the rest of blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep itfar from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". Already, in setting, it's feeling a little unreal. My only response to that is: But maybe we can forgive that… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>too late!

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=We See EverythingThe Last|author=William SutcliffeHanna Jameson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Lex lives Jon Keller is in what used to be London. Today, it is a closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes hotel in Switzerland 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 him the job of drone pilotremote countryside when the world ends. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but has no idea if his family is alive, hehas no idea what's hyped up going on in the nearest city, or if the nearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, amid the mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to do itstay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and home. ItHe's fighting terrorismnot alone, after alltwenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. Alan's observation target is One day, when helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the body of a high-profile target - girl deemed to have been killed before the world ended. The community descends into a man high up in the resistance organisation known deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. Lex s killer and Alan will never meet. But their lives will collide in devastating ways.finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earth..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408890194</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Roberts1473203287|title=The Real-Town MurdersSummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi|rating=34|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=If you had Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the discovery of the choice would you live your life online? In afterlife, the future this may be possibleBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, with the development of full realised virtual reality you may feel that Big Smoke for the online world is more real than your ownrecently deceased. Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. The only thing In 1938 the British Empire is that with most people online, some of us will have to stay caught up in the real world to deal a race against Soviet spies and dealing 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 mole buried deep in a blighted landscape that pulls no punchesthe heart of Summerland. We travel with ClementineWhen Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, a bounty hunterbecomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, in a world without heroes or hopeshe must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356507734</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1683690613|title=Resistance: A Race Against Time to Save MankindGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan)|author=Rachel Aaron

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=It began so innocently, at a music festival in Northumberland. There were some stomach upsets, but what do you expect when ''You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the weatherwalls where it's badsafe, therebut that's inadequate sanitation and 150,000 people an illusion. So long as there are titans out to enjoy themselves? Journalist Zoe Meadows there… no one is covering safe'' In the event and she's filing her copy from dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the back safety of a food van run by her friends Sam and Lisahigh impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. Sam's fussy about the food he serves - he's The Sausage Man Known as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human- like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and he regularly checks out his suppliers. In his business you just can't be too carefulregenerative powers. The stomach upsets seem Difficult to last kill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for 24 hoursprey, an unpleasant 24 hoursand whilst the walls have always kept them out, but then it seems that has begun to be over.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785295934</amazonuk>change…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cory Doctorow1444944525|title=WalkawayThe Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer|rating=2.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Science Fiction Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is not always what on her way home to the Isle of Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it seemsis one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow You may think that you are reading an exciting space adventure about many tentacled aliens, but in fact it - which is an allegory more than can be said for race relations in modern AmericaMuma and Papa. The best books are able to balance the hidden meaning She's even made it out of the book, whilst still entertaining detention centre at the reader with a great storyairport. The worst And during this journey, Mhairi has learned that you can feel like an author preaching directly to the reader 't rely on anyone else and leaving their story you can't allow anyone else to struggle in the backgroundrely on you...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786693054</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=North_84K|title=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)84K|author=Teri TerryClaire North|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=It's not a spoiler if I tell you that Callie dies because she does die and she dies in Theo can, he calculates the first few pages worth of each person to the penny. ''ContagionThe Company''own everything and everyone, including handing out punishments for crime. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a year ago. Her brother Kai is still looking Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for her, hopeful that she will be found alive and well. But Callie isn't alive and wellthe Criminal Audit Office. She's been taken Doing just enough work to a secretive medical facility on avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the island cost of Shetlandthe crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a spreadsheet, experimented ona simple mathematical equation, and then burned the expense of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to deaththeir community. But Callie survived the burning Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in non-corporeal formcold hard cash. How?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Phillips0356510700|title=The Beautiful BureaucratEverything About You|author=Heather Child|rating=4.5|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary=Meet JosephineIn the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. Married to Joseph JonesIt fills your fridge, she has kept her maiden name it keeps up to keep at least some character to her identitydate with your friends and fulfils your wishes. As opposed to her new bossIt is also stealing your jobs and, who has no genderpossibly, no face, and horrid halitosisloosening your grip on reality. The job Josephine is forced to choose Freya is unexpectedly given a simple onebeta testing version of the latest smart specs, of taking a fileglasses which give her all the information she's paper contentsll ever need, clicking up the subject on a huge databaseright in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, entering complete with a date newly printed personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the sheet, glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and repeatingunsettled by this. Told Her mum tells her to obey strict secrecy rules, she starts stop using them or at the very least to reset them to find unusual signs of malignance all over – a man in a grey sweatshirt following different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing hersister's voice again is like she's right there, post redirected when nobody and although she knows where Josephine and Joseph are even living from one month to the nextthis is just Ruby's data, and a husband missing from the marital bed more and more often… Is there a way for her find a spark part of happiness in the humdrumFreya can't believe that it can be this accurate, windowless cell she works, and the horrid housing it can't be this Ruby. Is it just possible that something more is all the couple can affordfeeding this personality than Ruby's data?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273328</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom TonerWilson_Extinction|title= The Weight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Extinction Trials|author=SM Wilson

|genre= Science Dystopian Fiction|summary= One thing great science fiction needs Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is solid world buildingminimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. When I pick up a book like thisStorm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', I need goes to imagine that school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the universe blistering disease and he has existed before no access to the plot has started healthcare that could save her. It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and will continue so they are first to do so after: it needs volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a strong sense new mission to the neighbouring continent of history and futurePiloria. With this book, The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and series, I feel like I the citizens of Earthasia will have just had a brief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens in access to the plot, but even more is happening, space and has happened, across the Firmamentabundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473211395</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= G X ToddCurtis_Water|title= DefenderWater & 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 have all become strangers to each other andfollow Nerissa Crane, a vet, worse still: enemies. The human spirit that once tethered us together has now divided us as surely as any ocean ever couldshe remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue.''

Defender describes a post apocalyptic world in It is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the which destructive voices have entered people's minds. In three short weeks, these voices have persuaded people start but I will try to kill their most loved avoid the main ones and themselves resulting in significant proportions of the worlds population being wiped out. Those who have survived, with voices and voiceless alike, are few and far between.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472233085</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johanna Sinisalo and Lola Rogers (translator)Beckett_America|title= The Core of the SunAmerica City|author=Chris Beckett|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= In a different world''America City'' tells the story of Holly, women are bred an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to be beautiful, man-serving and submissive, little more than pretty faces on walking reproductive machineshelp the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. All Set in the intelligent22nd century, independent women are being removed from the gene pool through forced sterilisationnovel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, compelled to while away their days doing menial jobs until where the blessed end comes. To the world, Vanna is one effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the formeraffluent Northern States, 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 at all. She is one of the clever onesSouth, who which is playing dumb frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and Slaymaker hope to further her cause. In between her college courses in good housekeeping, (which she's flunkingchange this, working together on the plan they believe to be the solution to perfection), she has the small matter problem of a drug addiction where to feed, and place the mystery thousands of her true-eloi sister's disappearance to solveAmericans who have been made homeless by devastating storms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611855373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan GraudinFeatherstone_Paradise|title=Blood for BloodParadise Girl|author=Phill Featherstone|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction |summary=Second Kerryl lives far away from the urban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. The farm is high up on a hill and final book in sequence set in it's a family endeavour - grandparents, mother, Kerryl. There's a world where Germany won WW2 market town below but Kerryl's family is concentrated on the farm and Nazi experiments on Jewish children has produced shapeshifting humansthe hard but beautiful living associated with it. Can Yael defeat the Wehrmacht? InterestingKerryl, though, moving is a fiercely bright girl - she's won a place at Cambridge University and absorbingis looking forward to going. She loves poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Sutcliffe_See|title=The CallWe See Everything|author=Peadar o GuilinWilliam Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The Aes Sidhe are back. And Lex lives in their quest what used to win back Ireland from humankindbe London. Today, they have placed it is a magical seal around the entire islandclosed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can get in or go out. North? South? DoesnDrones are a constant presence overhead, food is short and life is hard. But there't matter any mores a girl he likes and she can make him forget almost anything. What does matter is ''Alan spends all his time watching The CallStrip. His talent as a gamer got him the job of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he'. At some point during adolescence, every teenager is transported s hyped up to the Sidhe realmdo it, that greywhatever his mother thinks. It's fighting terrorism, colourless land to which they were banished thousands of years beforeafter all. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a full day (just three minutes man high up in the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilationsresistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. Fewer than one in ten children surviveBut Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian J WalkerRoberts_Real|title=The End of the World Running ClubReal-Town Murders|author=Adam Roberts|rating=43|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction |summary=When If you had the end of choice would you live your life online? In the world as we know it comes, Edgar is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrowsfuture, and in a panic, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellar, and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in the dark until their supplies run out. Fortunately they are luckythis may be possible, and they are rescued from with the cellar. As they emerge back into development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the online world they see the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds of large asteroids hitting the earthis more real than your own. Large areas of the country have been destroyedEven today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. Groups of The only thing is that with most people left alive scavenge houses and townsonline, turning feral, trying some of us will have to find what's left stay in the real world to help them to survivedeal with unexpected events – such as a real town murder.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=Raid|author=K S Merbeth|rating=4. Edgar's family are rescued by 5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=A brutal road trip in a small remaining army unitblighted landscape that pulls no punches. We travel with Clementine, but he and his wife and children become separateda bounty hunter, and so begins Edgar's desperate race to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another countryin a world without heroes or hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mcdermid_Resistance|title=Children of IcarusResistance: A Race Against Time to Save Mankind|author=Caighlan SmithVal McDermid|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=DaedalumIt began so innocently, at a music festival in Northumberland. There were some stomach upsets, but what do you expect when the weather's children have one collective ambition. They pray bad, there's inadequate sanitation and 150,000 people out to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between enjoy themselves? Journalist Zoe Meadows is covering the event and she's filing her copy from the ages back of ten a food van run by her friends Sam and sixteen who will enter Lisa. Sam's fussy about the labyrinth, find their way through it to Alyssia, food he serves - he's The Sausage Man - and become angelshe regularly checks out his suppliers. Every child yearns to In his business, you just can't be chosentoo careful. Every parent yearns The stomach upsets seem to last for their child to be chosen. Clara24 hours, our girl's best friend, is the most devout of everyone. She knows she is destined to become an angel. Our girlunpleasant 24 hours, though, does not want but then it seems to be chosenover. 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 MayoDoctorow_Walkaway|title=BlameWalkaway|author=Cory Doctorow|rating=42.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''A small hand in hers. 'Is Science Fiction is not always what it our fault?' Abi said nothingseems.'' These tender words show the situation. Ant (a teenaged girl) and Mattie (her younger brother) You may think that you are innocent and reading an exciting space adventure about many-tentacled aliens, but in a prison – HMP Londonfact, no lessit is an allegory for race relations in modern America. Since The best books are able to balance the death hidden meaning of the EU and a huge, all-conquering recession, people are being imprisoned leftbook, right and centre for whilst still entertaining the crimes of their parents and their parents in turn, meaning anyone reader with any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family that might have taken money away from a great story. The worst can feel like an author preaching directly to the common good is having reader and leaving their children imprisoned. And even though Ant and Mattie are ''legitimately'' story to struggle 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 Britainbackground. Surely, then, there's no hope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Terry_Contagion|title=Concentr8Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)|author=William SutcliffeTeri Terry|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=In a speculative near-future London, thereIt's not a new wonder drug spoiler if I tell you that bad things happen to treat ADHDCallie because they do. Concentr8 Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a year ago. Her brother Kai is cheap still looking for her, hopeful that she will be found alive and effectivewell. So effective that But Callie isn't alive and well. She's been taken to a secretive medical facility on the mayor has instituted a programme to identify children for earlyisland of Shetland, preventative treatment. Almost every troublesome teen in London is taking itexperimented on, often before they've actually become troublesome. But and then an austerity drive sees the program cut abruptly. Riots break out, led by the unmedicated teenswell, turned into ''something else''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>How?