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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Val McDermidMargaret Atwood|title=Resistance: A Race Against Time to Save MankindThe Testaments
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|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
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{{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>
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{{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!
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{{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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Toner1473203287|title= The Weight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Summerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi
|rating=4
|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>
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{{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''
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{{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>
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{{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
|rating=5
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian J Walker0356510700|title=The End of the World Running ClubEverything About You|author=Heather Child
|rating=4
|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?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wilson_Extinction|title=Children of IcarusThe Extinction Trials|author=Caighlan SmithSM Wilson
|rating=4
|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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Curtis_Water|title=Water & Glass|author=Abi Curtis|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Something has happened, this something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is such one of only a badge handful of shame that she keeps silentanimals living below the waves. AndWe follow Nerissa Crane, along with Claraa vet, chosen as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue. It isdifficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the start but I will try to avoid the main ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon MayoBeckett_America|title=BlameAmerica City|author=Chris Beckett
|rating=4
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''A small hand in hers. America City'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show tells the story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the situationambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. Ant (a teenaged girl) and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and Set in a prison – HMP Londonthe 22nd century, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, no less. Since where the death effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the EU affluent Northern States, and a hugethe South, all-conquering recessionwhich is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this, people are being imprisoned left, right and centre for working together on the plan they believe to be the solution to the problem of where to place the crimes thousands of their parents and their parents in turn, meaning anyone with any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family that might Americans who have taken money been made homeless by devastating storms.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Featherstone_Paradise|title=Paradise Girl|author=Phill Featherstone|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Kerryl lives far away from the common good urban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. The farm is having their children imprisoned. And even though Ant high up on a hill and Mattie are it''legitimately'' in theres a family endeavour - grandparents, mother, due to their parentsKerryl. There' activities, theys a market town below but Kerryl've since been adopted by people who have themselves been accused s family is concentrated on the farm and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as the worst criminal family in Britainhard but beautiful living associated with it. SurelyKerryl, thenthough, thereis a fiercely bright girl - she's no hope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>won a place at Cambridge University and is looking forward to going. She loves poetry.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Sutcliffe_See|title=Concentr8We See Everything
|author=William Sutcliffe
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=In Lex lives in what used to be London. Today, it is a speculative nearclosed-off, bombed-future Londonout area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are a constant presence overhead, food is short and life is hard. But there's a new wonder drug girl he likes and she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him the job of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to treat ADHDdo it, whatever his mother thinks. Concentr8 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=The Real-Town Murders|author=Adam Roberts|rating=3|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=If you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, this may be possible, with the development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the online world is cheap and effectivemore real than your own. Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. So effective The only thing is that with most people online, some of us will have to stay in the mayor has instituted real world to deal with unexpected events – such as a programme real town murder.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=Raid|author=K S Merbeth|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=A brutal road trip in a blighted landscape that pulls no punches. We travel with Clementine, a bounty hunter, in a world without heroes or hope.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mcdermid_Resistance|title=Resistance: A Race Against Time to identify children for earlySave Mankind|author=Val McDermid|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=It began so innocently, preventative treatmentat a music festival in Northumberland. Almost every troublesome teen in London There were some stomach upsets, but what do you expect when the weather's bad, there's inadequate sanitation and 150,000 people out to enjoy themselves? Journalist Zoe Meadows is taking itcovering the event and she's filing her copy from the back of a food van run by her friends Sam and Lisa. Sam's fussy about the food he serves - he's The Sausage Man - and he regularly checks out his suppliers. In his business, often before theyyou just can've actually become troublesomet be too careful. But The stomach upsets seem to last for 24 hours, an unpleasant 24 hours, but then it seems to be over.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Doctorow_Walkaway|title=Walkaway|author=Cory Doctorow|rating=2.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Science Fiction is not always what it seems. You may think that you are reading an austerity drive sees 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 program cut abruptlyhidden meaning of the book, whilst still entertaining the reader with a great story. Riots break out, led by The worst can feel like an author preaching directly to the reader and leaving their story to struggle in the unmedicated teensbackground.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Terry_Contagion|title=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)|author=Teri Terry|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>It's not a spoiler if I tell you that bad things happen to Callie because they do. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a year ago. Her brother Kai is still looking for her, hopeful that she will be found alive and well. But Callie isn't alive and well. She's been taken to a secretive medical facility on the island of Shetland, experimented on, and then, well, turned into ''something else''. How?
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