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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;"|===[[84K by Claire North]]===Teens[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] Can you put Set during the aftermath of a price on human life? Theo can, he calculates the worth Third World War where methods of each person to the penny. The Company own everything and everyone, including handing out punishments punishment for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work criminal activities have been amped up to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotiona horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the cost precarious existence of the crimes filling his inboxadolescent Luka Kane. They are variables on In a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, the expense world of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash. Have and Have Nots where Alts [[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]cyborgs]have power over Regulars, [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] In the future, your social feed he is your entire existencetrapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to date a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with your friends and fulfils your wishesone squeeze. It Luka is also stealing your jobs taunted by limited access to his memories and, possibly, loosening your grip on realityrelentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Freya Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is unexpectedly given a beta testing version guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front model of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality an infinity loop designed to guide hermake its inmates suffer. The problem is that With the personality on only glimmers of hope being the glasses is that rumours of her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown rebellion outside and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very 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 therevisits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can Luka ever be this accurate, it free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can't be this Ruby. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's databreak the loop? [[Everything About You by Heather Child|Full Review]]isbn=1912626551}}<!-- Wilson -->{{Frontpage|-author=Margaret Atwood| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Testaments[[image:Wilson_Extinction.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co4.uk/gp/product/1474927343?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474927343]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Dystopian Fiction|==summary=Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Extinction Trials Handmaid's Tale by SM Wilson]]=== [[image:4star.jpgMargaret Atwood|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|TeensThe Handmaid's Tale]] 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. StormI don's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasiat want to tell you too much about the plot because it's overcrowded a novel that is entirely plot driven. Suffice it to say that ''sheltersThe Testaments''takes place fifteen years later, goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for fifteen years after Offred gets into a jobvan, not knowing what will happen next. LincolnIt's sister told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save secretly writing her. It's a meanmemoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to girl brought up in Gilead with the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that expectation she will marry 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: topcommander; 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]]Daisy, [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals from school lessons and falls its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into a world of intrigue. It 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 store owned by Abi Curtis|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Beckett -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Beckett_Americaher parents.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]]==isbn=1784742325}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]Frontpage ''America City'' tells the story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. 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 is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this, working together on the plan they believe to be the solution to the problem of where to place the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms. [[America City by Chris Beckett|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Featherstone -->isbn=1789018870|-| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Something to Tell You[[image:Featherstone_Paradise.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785898728?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCodeauthor=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785898728]] David Edwards| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[Paradise Girl by Phill Featherstone]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]summary=Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Kerryl lives far away from but this never seemed to affect the way that the urban twenty-first century families got on a remote Yorkshire farm. The farm is high up on a hill and it Bert's a family endeavour - grandparentswife, motherNatalia, Kerrylwas Russian and seriously rich. There's Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, went to a market town below private boarding school, but Kerrylat weekends they were great friends with Sam's family is concentrated on the farm two children, Liam and the hard but beautiful living associated with itHannah. Kerryl Sam's wife, thoughBriony, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of them, is until Sam - a fiercely bright girl particle physicist - shespotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. It's won enough of a place at Cambridge University problem for Sam and is looking forward Bert to goingdrag the head of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. She loves poetry Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily. [[Paradise Girl by Phill Featherstone|Full Review]]}}<!-- Sutcliffe -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1789550149| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Poster Boy[[image:Sutcliffe_See.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408890194/refauthor=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] N J Crosskey| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|5===[[We See Everything by William Sutcliffe]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] Lex lives summary=I first read 1984 in what used to be London. Todayschool, it is in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''long time in the future. Nobody comes in It came and nobody can go outwent quickly enough. Drones are Some of us may have breathed a constant presence overhead, food is short and life is hard. But theresigh of relief that Orwell's a girl he likes and she can make him forget almost anythingnightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Alan spends Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer he got him wrong was the job of drone pilotdate. He Crosskey 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 put a high-profile target - a man high up in date on the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''nightmare. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. [[We See Everything by William Sutcliffe|Full Review]] <!-- Roberts -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Roberts_Real.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473221455/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]  If you she had the choice , I suspect it would you live your life online? In not be as far 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 ownare 1984 was when I first read Orwell. Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. The only thing is that with most people online If she had, some of us will have to stay I suspect it might hardly be in the real world to deal with unexpected events – such as a real town murderfuture at all. [[The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts|Full Review]] <!-- Merbeth -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Merbeth_Raid.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356507734/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Raid by K S Merbeth]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]  A brutal road trip lot of what happens in a blighted landscape that pulls no punches. We travel with Clementine, a bounty hunter, in a world without heroes or hope. [[Raid by K S Merbeth|Full Review]] <!-- McDermid -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mcdermid_Resistance.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785295934/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Resistance: A Race Against Time to Save Mankind by Val McDermid]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] It began so innocently, at a music festival in Northumberland. 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 Poster Boy'' is covering the event and she's filing her copy from the back of a food van run by her friends Sam and Lisaalready happening. Sadly. Sam's fussy about the food he serves - he's The Sausage Man - and he regularly checks out his suppliersFrighteningly. In his business you just can't be too careful. The stomach upsets seem to last for 24 hoursthe blurb, an unpleasant 24 hours, but then Christina Racher says "…but keep it seems far from anyone who might be tempted to be overturn its fiction into reality".[[Resistance My only response to that is: A Race Against Time to Save Mankind by Val McDermid|Full Review]] too late!}}<!-- Doctorow -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0241349176| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Last[[image:Doctorow_Walkaway.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786693054/ref=nosim?tagauthor=thebookbag-21]] Hanna Jameson| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Walkaway by Cory Doctorow]]==rating=5 [[image:2.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] Science Fiction summary=Jon Keller is not always what it seems. You may think that you are reading an exciting space adventure about many tentacled aliens, but in fact it is an allegory for race relations a hotel in Switzerland in modern America. The best books are able to balance the hidden meaning of remote countryside when the book, whilst still entertaining the reader with a great storyworld ends. The worst can feel like an author preaching directly to the reader and leaving their story to struggle in the background. [[Walkaway by Cory Doctorow|Full Review]] <!-- Terry -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Terry_Contagion.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408341727/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter) by Teri Terry]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] It's not a spoiler He has no idea if I tell you that bad things happen to Callie because they do. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a year ago. Her brother Kai his family is still looking for heralive, hopeful that she will be found alive and well. But Callie isn't alive and well. Shehe has no idea what's been taken to a secretive medical facility going on in the island of Shetlandnearest city, experimented onor if the nearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, amid the mass hysteria and then, wellexodus, turned into ''something else''. How? [[Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter) by Teri Terry|Full Review]] <!-- Phillips -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Phillips_Bureaucrat.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782273328/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] Meet Josephine. Married Jon decides to Joseph Jones, she has kept her maiden name to keep stay at least some character the hotel rather than attempt to her identity. As opposed get to her new boss, who has no gender, no face, the airport and horrid halitosishome. The job Josephine is forced to choose is a simple one, of taking a fileHe's paper contentsnot alone, clicking up the subject on twenty other people also stay and gradually form a huge databasesmall community. One day, entering a date newly printed on when helping the sheethotel manager, and repeating. Told to obey strict secrecy rules, she starts to find unusual signs Jon finds the body of malignance all over – a man in a grey sweatshirt following her, post redirected when nobody knows where Josephine and Joseph are even living from one month girl deemed to have been killed before the next, and world ended. The community descends into a husband missing from the marital bed more deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and more often… Is there a way for her find a spark of happiness in finding the humdrum, windowless cell she works, and the horrid housing that truth about what is all possibly the couple can afford? [[The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips|Full Review]]last community on earth.  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}}{{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|isbn=North_84K|title=84K|author=Ryan GraudinClaire North|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Theo can, he calculates the worth 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 of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0356510700|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 daughter, down into his cellarwhere the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, 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. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses }}{{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 townsit's a family endeavour - grandparents, turning feralmother, trying to find whatKerryl. There's left to help them to survive. Edgara market town below but Kerryl's family are rescued by a small remaining army unitis concentrated on the farm and the hard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, but he and his wife and children become separatedthough, and so begins Edgaris a fiercely bright girl - she's desperate race won a place at Cambridge University and is looking forward to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another countrygoing. She loves poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Sutcliffe_See|title=Children of IcarusWe See Everything|author=Caighlan SmithWilliam Sutcliffe|rating=45|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=DaedalumLex 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 children have one collective ambitiona 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. They pray He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to be chosen 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 the resistance organisation known as Icarii ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=The Real- honoured ones between 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 ages development of ten and sixteen who fully 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 enter have to stay in the labyrinthreal 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, find their way through it a bounty hunter, in a world without heroes or hope.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mcdermid_Resistance|title=Resistance: A Race Against Time to AlyssiaSave Mankind|author=Val McDermid|rating=4.5|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 the weather's bad, there's inadequate sanitation and 150,000 people out to enjoy themselves? Journalist Zoe Meadows is covering the event and become angelsshe'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. 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, experimented on, and then, along with Clarawell, chosen she isturned into ''something else''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>How?