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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian J WalkerKay Chronister|title=The End of the World Running ClubDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary=When the end of the With a world as we know that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it comes, Edgar is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrowsa robotic takeover, and in a panicworld devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellar, and then he and his family eke out this genre is a nightmarish existence in the dark until way for humans to cathartically experience their supplies run outmost existential fears. Fortunately they are lucky, and they are rescued from the cellar. As they emerge back into the world they see the ruin and disaster around them, caused ''Desert Creatures'' by hundreds Kay Chronister is a new work of large asteroids hitting the earth. Large areas post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the country have been destroyedfears that exist for humanity today. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and towns, turning feral, trying It is a shocking novel that still manages to find what's left to help them to survive. Edgar's family are rescued by a small remaining army unit, but he and his wife and children become separated, 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 countryhope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Children of IcarusThomas D Lee|authortitle=Caighlan SmithPerilous Times|rating=43|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between 'Hate is the ages path of ten and sixteen who will enter least resistance'' Set in the labyrinthnear-distant future, find their way through it to Alyssia, and become angels. Every child yearns to be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. Clara, our girl's best friend, is in a world on the most devout verge of everyone. She knows she climate collapse, Britain is destined to become an angelin great peril. Our girl, though, does not want The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to be chosensave the day and rescue what little remains. In her society, this is such a badge What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of shame that she keeps silent. And, along with Clara, chosen she isthe Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon MayoB0BQXSYYTF|title=BlameJust Looking|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=''A small hand in hers. 'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show It was the situation. Ant (summer of 2035 and on a teenaged girl) and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and cruise ship in a prison – HMP LondonMarseilles, no less. Since Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the death end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the EU and same sentence by a huge, allman! He's watching the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days -conquering recession, people are being imprisoned left, right and centre for that's keeping the crimes of their parents cruise ship in port and their parents in turnfalls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, meaning anyone with any slightly dodgy firm or habit a French journalist in their family that might have taken money away from the common good is having their children imprisonedhis thirties. And even though Ant and Mattie are He writes for a relatively new paper, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'legitimately'and he' in there, due to their parentss interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between ' activities, theyFrance'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 BritainFrench'. SurelyHis partner, thenHelen, therewho's no hope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>English and Jewish, keeps him in check to some extent.

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Concentr8Susi Holliday |authortitle=William SutcliffeThe Last Resort |rating=3.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=In A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a speculative nearbrand-future Londonnew product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, theregossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a new wonder drug to treat ADHDdark secret they would rather keep hidden. Concentr8 As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is cheap really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and effectiveprotect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop|rating= 3. So effective that 5|genre= Teens|summary= 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 mayor precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has instituted been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a programme trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to identify children his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for early, preventative treatment. Almost every troublesome teen Alts in London place of execution] after Delay he is taking it, often before they've actually become troublesomein despair. But then His prison is based on the model of an austerity drive sees infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the program cut abruptly. Riots rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break out, led by the unmedicated teens.loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>1912626551

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul BirdMargaret Atwood|title=The HuntTestaments|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=This is Britain after the Very Big CrashFinally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. Life is very different, especially if I don't want to tell you live in one of too much about the lower suburbs under the Local Governmentplot because it's authoritya novel that is entirely plot driven. Cush lives in one such suburb. He works as Suffice it to say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a detective in the floating Krawczyk building andvan, though he thinks it himselfnot knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is pretty good at his job. His wife Samir doesn't worksecretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, even though a girl brought up in Gilead with the expectation she'd like towill marry a commander; Daisy, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and spends its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the store owned by her days at home reading those most antiquated of things: booksparents. Their son Nim is sixteen and is obsessed with a video game called The Hunt. Cush and Samir fall out constantly over their differing approaches to Nim's obsession.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>1784742325

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Martin1789018870|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosSomething to Tell You|author=David Edwards

|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had access to been friends for a long time machine. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, they would be able but this never seemed to temper all their responsesaffect the way that the families got on. When Mary Whitehouse found the likes of [[Doctor Who Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and the Genesis of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of the Daleks]] to be too violentseriously rich. Their twins, she fifteen-year-olds Allie and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to a prison worldJosh, where soon-went to-be victims of snuff movies are trapped in a reality-show styled existenceprivate boarding school, and a hard-done-by populous are sat but at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executionsweekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, the morgues Liam and worseHannah. If those watching Sam''Doctor Who'' had the benefit s wife, Briony, was head of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differentlyproduct research at Nestlé. They Life was good for all eight of them, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were quite vocal in complaining about hitting the earth had risen exponentially. It's enough of a horrific character being a trade delegate who is half-manproblem for Sam and Bert to drag the head of CERN, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laughProf Ralph Moyeur, and such an artificial premiseout of a family lunch. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people Then Bert started having conversations with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>a plant called Lily.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yan Lianke1789550149|title=The Four BooksPoster Boy|author=N J Crosskey

|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=''The Four Books'' is a difficultI first read 1984 in school, challenging novel and not for in the feint hearted, or for someone looking for late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a page-turnerlong time in the future. It really challenges the readercame and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's perceptions and opens up a gateway nightmare had not (quite) come to an era pass. Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that is difficult to imagine for anyone brought up in all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn't put a western culturedate on the nightmare. Set If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in Maoist China it tells the story of four protagonists and a memorable antagonistfuture are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. The four If she had, found guilty of anti-revolutionary crimes are undergoing re-education I suspect it might hardly be in a work camp governed by the childfuture at all. With an Orwellian feel, A lot of what happens in ''The Four BooksPoster Boy'' will come is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to be regarded as an undoubted masterpieceturn its fiction into reality".|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569493</amazonuk> My only response to that is: too late!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Richard Kurti0241349176|title= MaladaptedThe Last|author=Hanna Jameson|rating= 35|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Cillian isn't an average teenagerJon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends. He knows has no idea if his family is alive, hehas no idea what's a mathematical geniusgoing on in the nearest city, or if the nearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, amid the mass hysteria and exodus, heJon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and home. He's already at university studying advanced theorynot alone, twenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. One day, when helping the hotel manager, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he is until he's Jon finds the sole survivor body of a train explosiongirl deemed to have been killed before the world ended. With his father is dead and his last words to Cillian The community descends into a riddle, Cilliandeep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's existence killer and finding the truth about what is thrown in a whole new lightpossibly the last community on earth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian Barnes1473203287|title=NodSummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=For anyone who has suffered from insomnia, the idea of Imagine a world with in which death was no sleep is an unsettling place as it feels so reallonger something to fear but something to aspire to. The thought After the discovery of having to drag yourself to work after a night with no sleep is bad enoughthe afterlife, but what about two nights, or three, or four? Society will crumble if everyone missed five meals in a row, but what would happen if we all missed five nights of sleep? If you end up in the land of NodBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, we are all in trouble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298227</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= The Philosopher Kings|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Twenty years have passed since the Goddess Athene founded Big Smoke for the Just Cityrecently deceased. The god Apollo In 1938 the British Empire is still living there, albeit caught up in human form. Now married, a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the father heart of several childrenSummerland. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the man/god struggles potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to cope when tragedy befalls his family. Beset by grief go and a need for revenge, Apollo sets sail how much she is willing to risk to find uncover the man who caused him such pain, but discovers something that may change everything…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150791</amazonuk>truth.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Carrington1683690613|title=Boy 23Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan)|author=Rachel Aaron

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Boy 23 isnYou want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it't in My Place any more. He can't see The Screens safe, he canbut that't hear The Voices an illusion. Boy 23 So long as there are titans out there… no one is alone.safe''

Before being dumped alone in In the forest by The Voicedystopian world of Attack on Titan, Boy 23 - or Jesper, as we shall call him - has lived in a room entirely by himself. He has never met another human being or been humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. His only experience of the world has been through a few short video clipsKnown as titans, shown to him on his Screen by The Voice in My Place. Nowthese enemies are impossibly tall human-like creatures, he finds himself alone with only a bag full of survival equipment sharp hungry teeth and some brief words from The Voice: his life is in danger, people have been sent regenerative powers. Difficult to kill himand innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, he must head north west to and whilst the Low Countrieswalls have always kept them out, The Voice will meet him there and explain everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>that has begun to change…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kenneth Calhoun1444944525|title= Black MoonThe Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer|rating= 5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Do you ever have those nights when you hear every chime Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the clockmass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, when you watch the shadows move round the room painfully slowly as the moon crosses the sky? Thankfully I have very few of thosecheckpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow I know that the thing most likely to keep you awake - which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. She's even made it out of the worrying about detention centre at the fact airport. And during this journey, Mhairi has learned that youcan're not asleep, t rely on anyone else and I have distraction mechanisms for when I need themyou can't allow anyone else to rely on you...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Aldous HuxleyNorth_84K|title= After Many A Summer|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Like many of us, I suspect, I knew nothing of Huxley other than the "required reading" of ''Brave New World''. Naturally, on that basis alone, he was pigeon-holed in my head under the heading ''Sci-fi - must check out further''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk>}}{{newreview84K|author= Paul McAuley|title= ConfluenceClaire North|rating= 5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Yama is a foundling orphan adopted as a baby by Theo can, he calculates the Aedile (chief civil servant) of a small city downriver of the mighty, ancient city of Ys, capital worth of each person to the man-made world of Confluencepenny. Longing to become a soldier ''The Company'' own everything and take his late brother's place in the long-running war against the hereticseveryone, the restless seventeen year old is about to be taken as an apprentice clerk despite his young age, to keep him including handing out of troublepunishments for crime. Destiny, however, has other plans Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057511942X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ryan Graudin|title=The Walled City|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= In the walled city of Hak Nam, there are three rules; run fast, trust no one, and always carry your knifeCriminal Audit Office. In streets controlled by vicious and sadistic drug lords, three individuals all seek something. Dai seeks information on the criminal brotherhood which employs Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, lest he be imprisoned. Jin Ling seeks her sister in the Walled City's brothelscalculates, evading the roaming street-gangs as she goes. Mei Yeewithout emotion, trapped in a brothel in the city and forced into sexual relations with cost of the two-faced Ambassador Osamu, desperately seeks freedomcrimes filling his inbox. The three have just eighteen days to accomplish this, as the officials of Seng Ngoi plan to evict all residents of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= The Just City|rating= 3.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Urged They are variables on by her brother Apollo, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – a city based on Plato’s republic. Filling it with an assortments of adults collected from throughout timespreadsheet, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one of whom is a disguised Apollo). Whilst the city flourishessimple mathematical equation, the arrival expense of Socrates may prove to be a fly in solving the ointment…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jon A Davidson|title=System: With his face in the sun|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Wallace Blair, like everyone else, is used crime added to the benefits of a life guided by The System. After all, The System knows best. However he is somewhat dismayed when he wakes to a System message on his Commcuff informing him that his happy marriage is about to be dissolved and that's not his only concern. After being sent to retrieve papers from his grandfather's house, Wallace reflects on how long it's been since he's seen much the old man. Wallace decides to drop in on him but what should be a trip to an elderly care facility takes him down an unexpected path.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1511491094</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tommy Wallach|title=We All Looked Up|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter, Eliza, Andy and Anita are all about to graduate high school. They all victim would have plans and expectations, even slacker Andy. But those expectations are about contributed to be thrown into disarray. An asteroid is approaching Earth and there's a 66% chance of a collision and an extinction level eventtheir community. There Prisons are just a few weeks before a possible, no a likely, end of the uneconomical so criminals in this worldpay their debt to society in cold hard cash. What will happen? How will they react? What will they ''do''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147112455X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine Chanter|title=The Well|rating=3.5|genreisbn=Dystopian Fiction0356510700|summary=The subject and title of Catherine Chanter's debut novel is a country idyll of which dreams are made: charmingly ramshackle, disarmingly verdant and heaving with fertile acreage. Ruth and Mark can barely believe their luck at finding this perfect retreat, an oasis from their tired and overwrought City existence. Several months down the road and with the entire nation brought to its knees by an almost apocalyptic drought, Ruth and Mark are beginning to question their good fortune in their ownership of The Well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782113606</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewEverything About You|author=Teri Terry|title=Mind GamesHeather Child

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Luna 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 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 Refuser. In beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of her worldeyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a Refuser personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is a kind that of cross between a conscientious objector her missing and a Ludditepresumed dead sister. In Freya is thrown and unsettled by this post WW3 Britain, almost everyone has a brain implant which they use . Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very least to reset them to spend most of their lives in a virtual environmentdifferent personality. People donBut Freya just can't just play in the vast array of games: they work, they learn, they datedo this. Even hacking Hearing her sister's voice again is encouraged. And those who opt outlike she's right there, like Lunaand although she knows this is just Ruby's data, are shut out part of the best careers and viewed with suspicionFreya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia HoneywellWilson_Extinction|title=The ShipExtinction Trials|author=SM Wilson

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Sixteen year old Lalla 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 spent died and she never knew her life father, so she lives in London – mostly inside her family home. Because this is not the London one of todayEarthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', or any other goes to school for one dayper week and wrestles hay bales for a job. When Lalla was seven, Lincoln's sister is dying from the apocalypse arrived; banks crashed, flood defences failed, power failed – blistering disease and he has no access to the world healthcare that could only focus on survivalsave her. Now It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Nazareth Act Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is in force to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and without your identity card, you don’t exist – literally, as you the citizens of Earthasia will be shot if you don't produce ithave access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871498</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel SuarezCurtis_Water|title=InfluxWater & Glass|author=Abi Curtis

|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary=We are told to never judge Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a book by its cover and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn handful of animals living below the frontwaves. Since his debut novelWe follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, all looks after the Daniel Suarez books I have read had animals and falls into a quote suggesting that he was the legitimate heir world of intrigue. It is difficult to Michael Crichtonproperly review this book without giving too much away. To compare your work with one of There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the best techno thriller writers of all time is never going start but I will try to be easy and time after time, Suarez fell short. That is until Influx, a book that finally puts Suarez in avoid the same illustrious company as Crichtonmain ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Thompson WalkerBeckett_America|title=The Age of MiraclesAmerica City|author=Chris Beckett

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=''The Age of MiraclesAmerica City'' was one tells the story of those much-talked about books that I never got Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the time to read on its first go aroundambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. I'm not sure how I managed thatSet in the 22nd century, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, but I did. Anywaywhere the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it has dystopian themesthe South, so it which is right up my alley frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and not Slaymaker hope to change this, working together on the plan they believe to be the solution to the sort problem of thing I'd usually miss. And so, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided where to reissue it for a YA market and even happier that they decided to send me a copyplace the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peyton Marshall Featherstone_Paradise|title=GoodhouseParadise Girl|author=Phill Featherstone

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=There have been times in history when governments have thought they knew who Kerryl lives far away from the criminal underclass wasurban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. This did not lead to anything good under 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 Nazis farm and the same can be said of the Goodhouse regimehard but beautiful living associated with it. If we knew that certain genetics led to an increased chance of criminalityKerryl, though, wouldn’t educating these people when they were young be is a good thing? Prevention is better than cure, but I am not sure if fascism fiercely bright girl - she's won a place at Cambridge University and islooking forward to going. She loves poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085752190X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leanne HallSutcliffe_See|title=This is Shyness|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''This is Shyness'' is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirl, two strangers who meet in a pub in the town of Shyness. The teenagers are drawn together, each adopting a different identity so for the night they can be anyone but themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Remaining: Aftermath|author=D J Molles|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=A week is a long time in politics, but it feels infinitely longer in a zombie apocalypse. ''The Remaining'' started a new series of books that followed trained military expert Captain Lee Harden and his mission to rebuild America should the undead hit the fan. As an introduction, [[The Remaining by D J Molles|The Remaining]] did a great job in creating the world and exploring Harden’s tenacity to stick to the mission, but it ended so abruptly. ''The Remaining: Aftermath'' picks up moments later and continues the tale, but does it still deliver a week into his mission?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650347X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWe See Everything|author=Mark Lingane|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)William Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The city has been rebuilt for war. The waves of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – Lex lives in what follows is more devastatingused to be London. Not only that but also the flood of refugees surging in daily Today, it is as much of a problem closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are a resourceconstant presence overhead, food is short and life is hard. Actually in one or two cases the word But there'problem' is s a bit of an understatementgirl he likes and she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. In His talent as a gamer got him the middle job of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to fight and survivedo it, although survival doesnwhatever his mother thinks. It't look like an option once they realise they have to go into the enemys fighting terrorism, after all. Alan's hive and bring observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the battle to the cyborgsresistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=SandThe Real-Town Murders|author=Hugh HoweyAdam Roberts|rating=53|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=World building in science fiction is easier said than done. How can If you had the choice would you design a completely foreign place and explain it all to live your readerlife online? In the future, this may be possible, whilst still writing a compelling narrative? If with the development of fully realised virtual reality you are an author such as Hugh Howey, may feel that the answer 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 consummate ease. Howey has already got the fabulous ‘Wool’ trilogy under his belt and following this up was always going most people online, some of us will have to be stay in the difficult second album syndrome. Well, be prepared real world to be sucked quickly into ‘Sand’, his new noveldeal with unexpected events – such as a real town murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893183</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Seven Second Delay|authorisbn=Tom Easton|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future, the difference between West and East are greater than ever. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)U, linked by a bridge, and immigrants risk everything to pass from the third world of the latter to the first world of the former. Mila has made it across, but the danger is not over, and as she falls into the hands of the Agents, she realises the real price of freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Mutant City|author=Steve Feasey|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After a devastating chemical war, the world is slowly rebuilding itself. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers and, when they re-emerged, built six cities in which the genetically pure live in luxury and comfort. But outside the city walls, everything is very different. The survivors there are mutants, fighting for survival in degrading, impoverished circumstances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMerbeth_Raid|title=RiotRaid|author=Sarah MussiK S Merbeth

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=It is 2018 and Britain is still A brutal road trip in recession. Years of austerity have devastated the country. Banks are going under. Unemployment is rising. The cost of welfare is soaring. Prisons are overflowing. And the population is still rising. Something has to give. The solution? Forced sterilisation of all school-leavers without a secured place in higher education or a guarantee of employmentblighted landscape that pulls no punches. The programme has started We travel with prisoners but the legislation to roll it out across the population is about to go through parliament. UnsurprisinglyClementine, there is a growing popular protest against it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Giver|author=Lois Lowry|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Jonas lives bounty hunter, in a world were sameness has prevailed over individuality. There are rules, so many rules, which are adhered to, and which allow society to live without pain, suffering or conflict. These rules are rarely questioned, merely accepted. When they turn twelve, children in this world are assigned their future role in society by the Elders, and start training for it. These assignments are based on years of observation of their characters and aptitudes, and whether they are assigned to be a nurturer of the young or a caregiver of the elderly, a labourer who keeps the streets clean heroes or someone who prepares and provides food, they are usually a good match for the person. At the assignment ceremony, Jonas is not given a typical role, howeverhope. He is selected to be the Receiver of Memory, a position given out only once every few generations. He will receive and store all the memories of the past which the rest of society are no longer burdened with, but which may be needed from time to time to aid in decision making and law enforcement.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>