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|author= Kay Chronister
|title= Desert Creatures
|rating= 4
|genre= Dystopian Fiction
|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.
|isbn=1803364998
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=If you had It was the choice would you live your life online? In the future this may be possiblesummer of 2035 and on a cruise ship in Marseilles, with Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the development end of full realised virtual reality you may feel his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! He's watching the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that 's keeping the online world is more real than your owncruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, a French journalist in his thirties. Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statusesHe writes for a relatively new paper, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'. The only thing is that with most people onlineHis partner, Helen, who's English and Jewish, some of us will have to stay keeps him in the real world check to deal with unexpected events – such as a real town murdersome extent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473221455</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= K S MerbethSusi Holliday |title= RaidThe Last Resort |rating= 43.5|genre= Dystopian FictionThrillers|summary= A brutal road trip in group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a blighted landscape games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that pulls no punchesmakes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We travel with Clementinefollow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a bounty hunterdark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, in these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop|rating= 3.5|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 precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world without heroes or 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 been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to 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 Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope.being the 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 the loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0356507734</amazonuk>1912626551
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Val McDermidMargaret Atwood|title=Resistance: A Race Against Time to Save MankindThe Testaments
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=It began so innocentlyFinally! Almost forty years on, at we have a music festival in Northumberlandsequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. There were some stomach upsets, but what do I don't want to tell you expect when too much about the weatherplot because it's bada novel that is entirely plot driven. Suffice it to say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, therefifteen years after Offred gets into a van, not knowing what will happen next. It's inadequate sanitation and 150told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia,000 people out to enjoy themselves? Journalist Zoe Meadows who is covering secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a girl brought up in Gilead with the event and expectation she's filing her copy will marry a commander; Daisy, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the back of a food van run store owned by her friends Sam and Lisaparents. Sam's fussy about the food he serves - he's The Sausage Man - and he regularly checks out his suppliers. In his business you just can't be too careful. The stomach upsets seem to last for 24 hours, an unpleasant 24 hours, but then it seems to be over.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785295934</amazonuk>1784742325
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cory Doctorow1789018870|title=WalkawaySomething to Tell You|author=David Edwards|rating=2.54|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Science Fiction is not always what it seemsSam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. You may think that you are reading an exciting space adventure about many tentacled aliensBert was Sam's boss at CERN, but in fact it is an allegory for race relations in modern America. The best books are able this never seemed to balance affect the hidden meaning of way that the bookfamilies got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, whilst still entertaining the reader with went to a private boarding school, but at weekends they were great storyfriends with Sam's two children, Liam and Hannah. The worst can feel like an author preaching directly to Sam's wife, Briony, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of them, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the reader earth had risen exponentially. It's enough of a problem for Sam and leaving their story Bert to struggle in drag the backgroundhead of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786693054</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Poster Boy|author=Teri TerryN J Crosskey|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. Itcame and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not a spoiler if (quite) come to pass. Others, I tell you think, were out there already working on making sure that Callie dies because all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. If she does die and had, I suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she dies had, I suspect it might hardly be in the first few pages future at all. A lot of what happens in ''ContagionPoster Boy''is already happening. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a year ago Sadly. Her brother Kai is still looking for her, hopeful that she will be found alive and well. But Callie isn't alive and wellFrighteningly. She's been taken to a secretive medical facility on In the island of Shetlandblurb, experimented on, and then burned Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to deathturn its fiction into reality". But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal form. How?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk> My only response to that is: too late!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Phillips0241349176|title=The Beautiful BureaucratLast|author=Hanna Jameson|rating=4.5|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary=Meet JosephineJon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends. Married to Joseph Jones, she He has kept her maiden name to keep at least some character to her identity. As opposed to her new bossno idea if his family is alive, who he has no gender, no face, and horrid halitosis. The job Josephine is forced to choose is a simple one, of taking a fileidea what's paper contentsgoing on in the nearest city, clicking up or if the subject on a huge databasenearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, entering a date newly printed on amid the sheetmass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and repeatinghome. Told to obey strict secrecy rulesHe's not alone, she starts to find unusual signs of malignance all over – twenty other people also stay and gradually form a man in a grey sweatshirt following hersmall community. One day, post redirected when nobody knows where Josephine and Joseph are even living from one month to helping the nexthotel manager, and Jon finds the body of a husband missing from girl deemed to have been killed before the marital bed more and more often… Is there world ended. The community descends into a way for her find a spark of happiness in the humdrum, windowless cell she works, deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the horrid housing that truth about what is all possibly the couple can afford?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273328</amazonuk>last community on earth.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Toner1473203287|title= The Weight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Summerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi
|rating=4
|genre= Science Dystopian Fiction|summary= One thing great science fiction needs is solid Imagine a world buildingin which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. When I pick up a book like thisAfter the discovery of the afterlife, I need to imagine that the universe British Empire has existed before extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the plot has started British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and will continue to do so after: it needs dealing with a strong sense mole buried deep in the heart of history and futureSummerland. With this bookWhen Rachel White, and seriesan ambitious SIS agent, I feel like I have just had a brief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens in becomes suspicious about the plotpotential rogue agent, but even more she must decide how far she is happening, willing to go and has happened, across how much she is willing to risk to uncover the Firmamenttruth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473211395</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= G X Todd1683690613|title= DefenderGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan)|author=Rachel Aaron|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction |summary= ''We have all become strangers You want me to each other be like everyone else andspend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, worse still: enemiesbut that's an illusion. The human spirit that once tethered us together has now divided us So long as surely as any ocean ever could.there are titans out there… no one is safe''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johanna Sinisalo and Lola Rogers (translator)1444944525|title= The Core of the SunSurvival Game|author=Nicky Singer|rating= 45|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= In a different Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. But Mhairi's worldhas been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, women are bred checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be beautifulsaid for Muma and Papa. She's even made it out of the detention centre at the airport. And during this journey, man-serving Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to rely on you...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=North_84K|title=84K|author=Claire North|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Theo can, he calculates the worth of each person to 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, independent women he calculates, without emotion, the cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are being removed from variables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, the expense of solving the crime added to how much the gene pool through forced sterilisation, compelled victim would have contributed to while away their days doing menial jobs until the blessed end comescommunity. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash. To }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=Everything About You|author=Heather Child|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=In the worldfuture, Vanna your social feed is one of the formeryour entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, an eloi it keeps up to date with few rights your friends and of whom there are few expectations beyond being well groomed and keeping her man well fedfulfils your wishes. But she has a secret – she It is not dim at allalso stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. She Freya is one unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the clever oneslatest smart specs, who is playing dumb to further glasses which give her cause. In between her college courses in good housekeeping, (which all the information she's flunkingll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to perfection), she has guide her. The problem is that the personality on the small matter glasses is that of a drug addiction her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to feed, and stop using them or at the mystery of very least to reset them to a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her true-eloi sister's disappearance to solvevoice again is like she's right there, 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611855373</amazonuk>Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan GraudinWilson_Extinction|title=Blood for BloodThe Extinction Trials|author=SM Wilson
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction |summary=Second Storm and final book in sequence set 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 world where Germany won WW2 job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and Nazi experiments on Jewish children he has produced shapeshifting humansno 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. Can Yael defeat The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the Wehrmacht? Interesting, moving citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and absorbingabundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Curtis_Water|title=The CallWater & Glass|author=Peadar o GuilinAbi Curtis
|rating=5
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian J WalkerBeckett_America|title=The End of the World Running ClubAmerica City|author=Chris Beckett
|rating=4
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=Children of IcarusThe Real-Town Murders|author=Caighlan SmithAdam Roberts|rating=43|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray to If you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, this may be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between possible, with the ages development of ten and sixteen who will enter fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the labyrinth, find their way through it to Alyssia, and become angels. Every child yearns to be chosenonline world is more real than your own. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosenEven today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. Clara, our girl's best friend, The only thing is the that with most devout people online, some of everyone. She knows she is destined us will have to stay in the real world to become an angeldeal with unexpected events – such as a real town murder. Our girl, though, does not want to be chosen}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=Raid|author=K S Merbeth|rating=4. In her society, this is such 5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=A brutal road trip in a badge of shame blighted landscape that she keeps silentpulls no punches. AndWe travel with Clementine, along with Claraa bounty hunter, chosen she isin a world without heroes or hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>
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