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{{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- North -->Ben Oliver|-| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Loop[[image:North_84K.jpg|left|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356507378/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Teens===[[84K by Claire North]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] Can you put a price on human life? Theo can, he calculates Set during the worth aftermath of each person to the penny. The Company 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. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, the expense Third World War where methods of solving the crime added to how much the victim would punishment for criminal activities have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash. [[84K by Claire North|Full Review]] <!-- Child -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0356510700.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356510700/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Everything About You by Heather Child]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] In the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps been amped up to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes horrific level by barely thinking about itmachines, complete with a personality to guide her. The problem is that Loop follows the personality on the glasses is that precarious existence of her missing and presumed dead sisteradolescent Luka Kane. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very least to reset them to In a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right there, world of Have and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? [Have Nots where Alts [Everything About You by Heather Child|Full Reviewcyborgs]] <!-- Wilson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wilson_Extinction.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474927343?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474927343]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasiahave power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a continent ruined by overpopulationliving hell with no chance of escape. 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 A detonator has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes been sewn inside his heart connecting him to school for a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a jobsqueeze. Lincoln's sister Luka is dying from the blistering disease and he has no taunted by limited access to the healthcare that could save her. It's a mean, desperate existence for them both his memories and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for relentlessly drained of energy through a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloriagruelling daily torture ritual. The aim is Doomed to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers... [[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Curtis -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Curtis_Water.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0995465754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0995465754]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [Delay [:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant risky medical trial where he is one of only a handful guinea pig for Alts in place of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks execution] after the animals and falls into a world of intrigueDelay he is in despair. It His prison is difficult 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. [[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Beckett -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Beckett_America.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1786491524?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1786491524]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[America City by Chris Beckett]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] ''America City'' tells based on the story model of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order infinity loop designed to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaignmake its inmates suffer. Set in With the 22nd century, the novel tells only glimmers of an incredibly disunited United States, where hope being the effects rumours of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, rebellion outside and the Southvisits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this, working together on the plan they believe to can Luka ever be the solution to the problem of where to place the thousands of Americans who have free? Why has he been made homeless by devastating storms. [[America City by Chris Beckett|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Featherstone -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Featherstone_Paradise.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785898728imprisoned?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785898728]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Paradise Girl by Phill Featherstone]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] 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's a family endeavour - grandparents, mother, Kerryl. There's a market town below but Kerryl's family is concentrated on the farm and the hard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, though, is a fiercely bright girl - she's won a place at Cambridge University and is looking forward to going. She loves poetry. [[Paradise Girl by Phill Featherstone|Full Review]] <!-- Sutcliffe -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Sutcliffe_See.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408890194/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We See Everything by William Sutcliffe]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] Lex lives in what used to 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, food is short and life is hard. But there's a girl What waits for him if 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 do it, whatever his mother thinks. It's fighting terrorism, after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in break the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. [[We See Everything by William Sutcliffe|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview|author=Adam Roberts|title=The Real-Town Murders|rating=3|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=If you had 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473221455</amazonuk>1912626551

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= K S MerbethMargaret Atwood|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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356507734</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Val McDermid|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 which destructive voices have entered people's mindssafety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies 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 Earth looking for prey, and whilst the worlds population being wiped walls have always kept them out, that has begun to change…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1444944525|title=The Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. Those who have survivedBut 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 voices guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be said for Muma and voiceless alikePapa. She's even made it out of the detention centre at the airport. And during this journey, are few Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and far betweenyou can't allow anyone else to rely on you...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472233085</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johanna Sinisalo and Lola Rogers (translator)North_84K|title= The Core of the Sun84K|author=Claire North|rating= 45|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= In a different worldTheo can, women are bred he calculates the worth of each person to be beautiful, man-serving the penny. ''The Company'' own everything and submissiveeveryone, little more than pretty faces on walking reproductive machinesincluding handing out punishments for crime. All Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the intelligentCriminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, independent women are being removed from the gene pool through forced sterilisationwithout emotion, compelled to while away their days doing menial jobs until the blessed end comes. To the world, Vanna is one cost of the former, an eloi with few rights and of whom there crimes filling his inbox. They are few expectations beyond being well groomed and keeping her man well fed. But she has variables on a secret – she is not dim at all. She is one of the clever onesspreadsheet, who is playing dumb to further her cause. In between her college courses in good housekeeping, (which she's flunking, to perfection)a simple mathematical equation, she has the small matter expense of a drug addiction solving the crime added to feed, and how much the mystery of her true-eloi sister's disappearance victim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to solvesociety in cold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611855373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan Graudin0356510700|title=Blood for BloodEverything About You|author=Heather Child

|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction |summary=Second In the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and final book in sequence set it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a world where Germany won WW2 personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is that of her missing and Nazi experiments on Jewish children has produced shapeshifting humanspresumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Can Yael defeat Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the Wehrmacht? Interestingvery least to reset them to a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right there, moving and absorbingalthough she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wilson_Extinction|title=The CallExtinction Trials|author=SM Wilson|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Storm 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 mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school 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's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' 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 access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Curtis_Water|title=Water & Glass|author=Peadar o GuilinAbi Curtis

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The Aes Sidhe are back. And in their quest to win back Ireland from humankindSomething has happened, they have placed something very nasty and on a magical seal around submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the entire island. Nobody can get in or outwaves. North? South? Doesn't matter any more. What does matter is ''The Call''. At some point during adolescenceWe follow Nerissa Crane, every teenager is transported to the Sidhe realma vet, that greyas she remembers recent events, colourless land looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue. It is difficult to which they were banished thousands of years beforeproperly review this book without giving too much away. If they can evade There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes in start but I will try to avoid the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilationsmain ones. Fewer than one in ten children survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian J WalkerBeckett_America|title=The End of the World Running ClubAmerica City|author=Chris Beckett

|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction |summary=When ''America City'' tells the end story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the world as we know it comes, Edgar is totally unpreparedambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, and Set in a panicthe 22nd century, he throws random itemsthe novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, including his daughterwhere the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, down into his cellar, and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in the dark until their supplies run outSouth, which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Fortunately they are luckyHolly and Slaymaker hope to change this, and they are rescued from working together on the cellar. As plan they emerge back into believe to be the world they see solution to the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds problem of large asteroids hitting where to place the earth. Large areas thousands of the country Americans who have been destroyedmade 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 urban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. The farm is high up on a hill and it's a family endeavour - grandparents, mother, Kerryl. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses There's a market town below but Kerryl's family is concentrated on the farm and townsthe hard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, turning feralthough, trying to find whatis a fiercely bright girl - she's left won a place at Cambridge University and is looking forward to help them going. She loves poetry.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Sutcliffe_See|title=We See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Lex lives in what used to survivebe London. EdgarToday, it is a closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''s family . Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are rescued by a small remaining army unitconstant presence overhead, but food is short and life is hard. But there's a girl he likes and she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his wife and children become separated, and so begins Edgartime watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him the job of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's desperate race hyped up to reach do it, whatever his loved onesmother thinks. It's fighting terrorism, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another countryafter 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=Children 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 Icarusfully 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.}}{{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 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 24 hours, an unpleasant 24 hours, but then it seems to be chosenover. Clara}}{{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 exciting space adventure about many-tentacled aliens, our girl's best friendbut in fact, it is an allegory for race relations in modern America. The best books are able to balance the most devout hidden meaning of everyonethe book, whilst still entertaining the reader with a great story. She knows she is destined The worst can feel like an author preaching directly to the reader and leaving their story to become an angelstruggle in the background.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Terry_Contagion|title=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)|author=Teri Terry|rating=4. Our girl, though, does 5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=It's not want a spoiler if I tell you that bad things happen to be chosenCallie because they do. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a year ago. In Her brother Kai is still looking for her society, this is such a badge of shame hopeful that she keeps silentwill be found alive and well. But Callie isn't alive and well. AndShe's been taken to a secretive medical facility on the island of Shetland, along with Claraexperimented on, and then, well, chosen she isturned into ''something else''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>How?