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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leanne HallKay Chronister|title=This is ShynessDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian 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. ''This is ShynessDesert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirl, two strangers who meet in a pub in new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the town of Shynessfears that exist for humanity today. The teenagers are drawn together, each adopting It is a different identity so for the night they can be anyone but themselvesshocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>1803364998

Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF|title=The Remaining: AftermathJust Looking|author=D J MollesMatthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=A week is It was the summer of 2035 and on a long time cruise ship in politicsMarseilles, but it feels infinitely longer Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a zombie apocalypse. man! He's watching the tornado - they'The Remainingre more common in Europe these days - that'' started s keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, a new series of books that followed trained military expert Captain Lee Harden and French journalist in his mission to rebuild America should the undead hit the fanthirties. As an introductionHe writes for a relatively new paper, [[The Remaining by D J Molles|The Remaining]] did the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if a great job in creating little wordy on subjects such as the world difference between 'France' and exploring Harden’s tenacity to stick to 'the mission, but it ended so abruptlyFrench'. His partner, Helen, who''The Remaining: Aftermath'' picks up moments later s English and continues the taleJewish, but does it still deliver a week into his mission?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650347X</amazonuk>keeps him in check to some extent.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeSusi Holliday |title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)The Last Resort |rating=3.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=The city has A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been rebuilt for warinvited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The waves group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of cyborg attacks 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 dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are just the beginning – what follows revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is more devastatingreally a gilded cage. Not only 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 but also 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 flood precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of refugees surging in daily Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is as much trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a problem as 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 resourcegruelling daily torture ritual. Actually in one or two cases the word 'problem' Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a bit guinea pig for Alts in place of an understatementexecution] after Delay he is in despair. In His prison is based on the middle model of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best to fight and survive, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have infinity loop designed to go into make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the enemy's hive rumours of rebellion outside and bring the battle to 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 cyborgs.loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>1912626551

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SandMargaret Atwood|authortitle=Hugh HoweyThe Testaments|rating=4.5

|summary=World building in science fiction is easier said than doneFinally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. How can I don't want to tell you design too much about the plot because it's a completely foreign place and explain novel that is entirely plot driven. Suffice it all to your readersay that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, whilst still writing fifteen years after Offred gets into a compelling narrative? If you are an author such as Hugh Howeyvan, not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, the answer who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a girl brought up in Gilead with consummate ease. Howey has already got the fabulous ‘Wool’ trilogy under his belt expectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and following this up was always going to be its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the difficult second album syndromestore owned by her parents.. Well, be prepared to be sucked quickly into ‘Sand’, his new novel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780893183</amazonuk>1784742325

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Seven Second Delay1789018870|author=Tom Easton|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=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 Something 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 CityTell You|author=Steve FeaseyDavid Edwards

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=After Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a devastating chemical warlong time. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the world is slowly rebuilding itselffamilies got on. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie andJosh, went to a private boarding school, when but at weekends they re-emergedwere great friends with Sam's two children, built six cities in which the genetically pure live in luxury Liam and comfortHannah. But outside the city walls Sam's wife, Briony, everything is very differentwas head of product research at Nestlé. The survivors there are mutants Life was good for all eight of them, fighting until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. It's enough of a problem for survival in degradingSam and Bert to drag the head of CERN, impoverished circumstancesProf Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=RiotPoster Boy|author=Sarah MussiN 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. It is 2018 came and Britain is still in recessionwent quickly enough. Years Some of austerity us may have devastated breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the countrydate. Banks Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the future are going under1984 was when I first read Orwell. Unemployment is rising If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. The cost A lot of welfare what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is soaring. Prisons are overflowingalready happening. And the population is still rising Sadly. Something has to giveFrighteningly. The solution? Forced sterilisation of all school-leavers without a secured place in higher education or a guarantee of employment. The programme has started with prisoners but In the legislation to roll blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it out across the population is about far from anyone who might be tempted to go through parliamentturn its fiction into reality". Unsurprisingly, there My only response to that is a growing popular protest against it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>: too late!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=The GiverLast|author=Lois LowryHanna Jameson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Jonas lives Jon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world were sameness ends. He has prevailed over individuality. There are rulesno idea if his family is alive, 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 he has no idea what's going on in society by the Elders, and start training for it. These assignments are based on years of observation of their characters and aptitudesnearest city, and whether they are assigned to be a nurturer of the young or a caregiver of if the elderlynearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, a labourer who keeps amid the streets clean or someone who prepares mass hysteria and provides foodexodus, they are usually a good match for Jon decides to stay at the person. At the assignment ceremony, Jonas is not given a typical role, however. He is selected hotel rather than attempt to get to be the Receiver of Memory, a position given out only once every few generationsairport and home. He will receive and store all the memories of the past which the rest of society are no longer burdened with's not alone, but which may be needed from time to time to aid in decision making twenty other people also stay and law enforcementgradually form a small community.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Goddess|author=Laura Powell|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After an economic collapseOne day, Britain is close to breaking point. Citizens are going hungry and there are riots. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as a handmaiden in when helping the Cult of Artemis. In this Britainhotel manager, Jon finds the beliefs body of a girl deemed to have been killed before the Ancient Greeks persevere and are followed by millions - the cult sits side by side with Christianity world ended. The community descends into a deep mistrust as a mainstream religion. AuraJon becomes fixated on finding this girl's thoughts aren't taken up by killer and finding the suffering outside truth about what is possibly the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retireslast community on earth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473203287|title=ZOM-B MissionSummerland|author=Darren ShanHannu Rajaniemi

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=OkImagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. Have an obligatory warning about possible spoilers for After the series so far. If you don't want any, then run along and read our review discovery of the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]]. Otherwise, read this review at your own risk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The Explorers|author=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=All of humankind is living on a single train. Oh sorryafterlife, as this is the sequelBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, make that two trains. Launched on the same tracks as the original Snowpiercer, but clearly at a slight remove, was a second mile-long behemoth of a train, designed with the latest high tech to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly on the tracks encircling a frozen Earth, waiting Big Smoke for the time the world was inhabitable once morerecently deceased. But In 1938 the high tech on board, complete British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with lemon farms, and differing qualities of virtual holidays depending on cost and class of customer, has not put paid to one aspect of society – and a mole buried deep in fact the sole aspect heart of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer VolSummerland.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|the first book]] – religion. Some people are fearing the end timeWhen Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, when the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpiercer. Some believe they're duped into becomes suspicious about the whole train ideapotential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and are in fact on a spacecraft. Some people know something else – the rare few explorers who get how much she is willing to risk to go outside uncover the train into the world beyond, and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>truth.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683690613|title=Shattered Garrison Girl (Slated TrilogyAttack on Titan) |author=Teri TerryRachel Aaron

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Kyla - or is she Lucy? or Rain? or Riley? - was ''slatedYou want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it'' as a teen criminal in Lorder-run Britain. All memory of her past life was erased and she was sent to live with a new foster familys safe, controlled by a wrist bracelet that could kill her if she stepped out of line. But but that was some time ago. Since then, some of Kyla's memories have resurfaced and she has discovered that she isn't a run-of-the-mill Slatedan illusion. Used So long as a weapon by an anti-Lorder terrorist group, Kylathere are titans out there… no one is safe''s brain has been messed with in more than one way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319500</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=All In the dystopian world of humankind is living Attack on a single trainTitan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. I know British commuters feel that way at timesKnown as titans, but this is a much different circumstance – it is a train miles long, running non-stop as a selfthese enemies are impossibly tall human-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earthlike creatures, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time in the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze itwith sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. It's certainly been going on long enough for it Difficult to have a culture – a hierarchical society from the rich kill and leisured classes near innumerable they roam the front, through the orgiasts, past the useful carriages set aside Earth looking for producing foodprey, to and whilst the underclass at the end. It's all set in its routine, set in motion. But there are two fishes walls have always kept them out of water – a man from the rear who escaped, and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaigners.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>that has begun to change…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1444944525|title=The One Safe PlaceSurvival Game|author=Tania UnsworthNicky Singer

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Devin lives on a farm with his grandfather, away from the rest of the world. He knows a little about it – how the gap between rich Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and poor is far wider than the world we live in, and how many children now live on her way home to the street, scavenging for scraps to say aliveIsle of Arran. But, he’s never Mhairi's world has been that concerned. On ravaged by climate change and the farm the life mass movement of people and it is a simple one, but they can grow enough food to get defined byborders, checkpoints and they’re happysoldiers with guns. When tragedy strikes, Devin Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is forced to leave his home more than can be said for Muma and venture into Papa. She's even made it out of the city for detention centre at the first timeairport. And during this journey, Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to rely on you...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=North_84K|title=Warm Bodies84K|author=Isaac MarionClaire North

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first Theo can, he calculates the worth of each person point of view, switching back and forth between to the penny. ''RThe Company'' a zombie who has retained a bit more of own everything and everyone, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the power of thought than mostCriminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, and Juliewithout emotion, the cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a feisty and courageous heroinespreadsheet, who has been through horrible hardshipsa simple mathematical equation, but retained an ability to truly care about others. In short, R has far more humanity than the average zombie, but Julie also held on expense of solving the crime added to more of how much the traits that I feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love victim would have become even more endangered than the human race itselfcontributed to their community. Two other characters Prisons are important to uneconomical so criminals in this storyline, ''M'', R's best friend and Nora, Julie's closest friend and confidant. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing world pay their debt to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as wellsociety in cold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I normally review a book within a day or two of finishing it. I couldn't with this one. I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied with the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequel, and most of the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the author's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isn't after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview0356510700|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)Everything About You|author=Emmy LaybourneHeather Child

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=We left our supermarket kids when they split up at In the end of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. NikoIt fills your fridge, Alex and six others were taking the school bus it keeps up to try to save Brayden who had been shot date with your friends and to find the US military evacuation teamfulfils your wishes. DeanIt is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, Astrid and three loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the little ones had stayed behind - 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 was too risky , complete with a personality to take pregnant Astrid into guide her. The problem is that the poisoned outsidepersonality on the glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. And when we say poisoned, we mean itFreya is thrown and unsettled by this. A bioweapons accident had left Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the air toxic in different ways very least to reset them to a different peoplepersonality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right there, depending on their blood group. Nobody and although she knows where Jake this isjust Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wilson_Extinction|title=The TrapExtinction Trials|author=Andrew FukudaSM Wilson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''The Trap'' Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is the third scarce and final book in this sequence about a world in which vampires rule energy and humans food are hepers, eaten almost to extinctionrationed. We left Gene Education is minimal and Sissymostly focused around searching for new, along with Epap efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and Davidshe never knew her father, on the train that delivers hepers from the Mission to the City, destined for the Rulerso she lives in one of Earthasia's feast table. Gene now knows that he and Sissy form the Originovercrowded ''shelters'', the cure that will return Duskers goes to humans formulated by Geneschool for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's missing scientist father. But sister is that all there is to it? Where did dying from the Duskers come from? Can Gene blistering disease and Sissy end their plague? Will they all make it out alive? And what of Ashley June, newly turned he has no access to Dusker? What does she know the healthcare that Gene and Sissy don't?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BORD2RG</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Shadowlark|author=Meagan Spooner|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lark escaped the city of could save her birth after being tortured and stripped of her magic by its architects. LarkIt's post-apocalyptic world runs on magic a mean, desperate existence for them both and there isnso they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators't enough trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of it aboutPiloria. So Renewables - people whose magic will replenish after it The aim is drained - are in demand - not as people but as to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a resource. But virus to kill them can be engineered and the architects citizens of Earthasia will have made Lark different. She can drain access to the magic of others space and use it herselfabundant food sources Piloria offers.. We last saw Lark when she escaped the Iron Wood and went in search of her missing brother Basil. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565571</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)|author=Catherine Fisher|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Let's catch you up. Jake's father It is still lost in timedifficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. Venn's wife is still dead. Summer, There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the Queen of the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that he's trying start but I will try to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and avoid the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likelymain ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Beckett_America|title=Resist (Breathe)America City|author=Sarah CrossanChris Beckett

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''ResistAmerica City'' carries on where [[Breathe by Sarah Crossan|Breathe]] left off. To catch you up: deforestation has resulted in environmental catastrophe and tells the world is a ravaged place story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in which there isn't enough oxygen order to fully sustain human lifehelp the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. A corporationSet in the 22nd century, Breathe, runs the Pod, whose inhabitants are divided into Premiums (plenty novel tells of oxygen) and Auxiliaries (barely enough). Outsidean incredibly disunited United States, drifters struggle to survive. With one alternative to where the Pod - The Grove - destroyed by effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the Pod Ministryaffluent Northern States, Alinaand the South, Bea which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and Quinn, our three central charactersSlaymaker hope to change this, set out working together on separate, but equally perilous, journeys the plan they believe to find be the other, Sequoia. And back in solution to the Pod, Ronan is rethinking problem of where to place the world he thought he lived in but didn'tthousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827204</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Featherstone_Paradise|title=The Waking World (The Future King)Paradise Girl|author=Tom HuddlestonPhill Featherstone|rating=43.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Many tales have been told of Kerryl lives far away from the boy who became our greatest kingurban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. Very few have spoken of the future...'' Aran The farm is the son of one of the Islandhigh up on a hill and it's wealthiest Lawsa family endeavour - grandparents, mother, Kerryl. He lives in the underground farmstead of HawkThere's a market town below but Kerryl's Cross. He wants for nothing. But Aran family is not entirely happy. Rumours are everywhere and concentrated on the Island is under threat. Bands of fierce men known as Marauders are beginning to attack further and further inland, burning homes farm and taking slaves. Aran wants to join the fight against them hard but that task has been given to his older brotherbeautiful living associated with it. AranKerryl, though, is a fiercely bright girl - she's future lies in overseeing the farmstead won a place at Cambridge University and it's not a future he wantsis looking forward to going. She loves poetry. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085756045X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan MaberrySutcliffe_See|title=Fire & AshWe See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=ALERT! Spoilers for early books 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 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 Rot & Ruin series are scattered throughout this reviewjob of drone pilot. So if you havenHe hasn't read 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 the others, get thee over to my words about [[Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry|book one]]resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=Last Man StandingThe Real-Town Murders|author=Davide Longo and Silvester MazzarellaAdam Roberts

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I've read countless dystopian fiction accounts of a world changed overnight by everything from man eating plantsIf you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, to nuclear warthis may be possible, plague, or zombies. This is with the first to present a complete meltdown development of society as fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the result of economic crises, but this does hold far greater credibility online world is more real than the average vampire your own. Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or zombie plaguechecking statuses. The main protagonist, Leonardo, only thing is not a hero. He is a very ordinary middle aged man that with many flaws. He has no super human strength or abilities most people online, some of any kind - us will have to stay in the only thing that gives him the courage real world to continue is his love for his estranged daughter, who suddenly reappears in his life, along deal with unexpected events – such as a deeply disturbed stepbrother, early in the crisisreal town murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051229</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=More Than ThisRaid|author=Patrick NessK S Merbeth

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Here is the boy, drowning.'' And Seth does drown. He is alone; taken by the sea, arms and legs flailing and breaking, skull dashed against the rocks whilst the icy water constricts his muscles and breath. Seth is consciously aware of his final moments. His death consumes him with a heavy, confusing blur until… he awakens and finds himself A brutal road trip in a desolate, shattered world; naked, alone, starving and alive. This place looks familiar. It looks exactly like the English village where he spent his early childhood before his brother’s accident and his family’s move to America, but it is now overgrown and devoid of human life. It is as if the whole place was simply abandoned one day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The 100|author=Kass Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Nuclear war has rendered the Earth uninhabitable for centuries. The remains of human society, a colony of people blighted landscape that managed to escape the cataclysm, live out their lives on massive city-like spaceshipspulls no punches. Unfortunately, the spaceships are becoming unsustainable and as resources begin to run out, the Council is forced to introduce strict new plans and measures in an attempt to protect the remaining population. With options running outWe travel with Clementine, a dangerous mission is conceived as a desperate roll of the dice: one hundred juvenile delinquents are sent to the Earth to test if the planet can once more sustain life. There is no telling what the remaining radiation will do to the teenagersbounty hunter, but in this hardened society, this is a risk worth takingworld without heroes or hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444766880</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Split Second|author=Sophie McKenzie|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Nat and Charlie are connected long before they meet. They were both there the day a terrorist bomb decimated the marketplace. Nat was trying to find his brother and stop him because he's pretty sure Lucas is the bomber. Charlie was sulking because her mother wouldn't let her get a tattoo. And the bomb went off. Charlie's mother died. Nat's brother was left in a coma. In this Britain of the near-future, beset by an endless cycle of more and more austerity, where people queue for free food handouts and racist extremist groups are increasingly dominating the public conversation, neither Charlie nor Nat had thought anything could get any worse. But it did. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115976</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=1Q84: The Complete Trilogy|author=Haruki Murakami|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The ''1Q84'' trilogy is, without doubt, an impressive book. In many ways, the trilogy almost has to be read in this way as the three component books make little sense Move on their own. The first book in the series in particular is almost completely baffling if taken in isolation. It does, though, demand a degree of dedication, and if the prospect of a 1300 page novel in which not a huge amount happens in terms of plot and in which there is a significant level of repetition leaves you cold, then this might not be the best entry point into the wonderful world of Haruki Murakami. As often with Murakami though, it's possible to read this book at a number of levels. On the surface it's a love story set in a slightly fantastical setting with a little bit of crime thrown in. At a deeper level, he explores the thin lines between imagination and reality, life and death and what you might call yin and yang. It's a novel where balance and vacuums play a big part. It seems counter-intuitive to call a book of this magnitude 'delicate', but that's just how the story appears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578077</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bloodtide|author=Melvin Burgess|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Set in a world only a book could inhabit - half in a post-apocalyptic future, half in the mists of the myths of the past - ''Bloodtide'' retells part of the Volsunga saga - Icelandic tales of gods and heroes and villains. Civilisation has long abandoned London to its criminals and its gang wars, going so far as to surround its borders with released ''halfmen'', genetically manipulated creatures with a lust for violence. With the population trapped inside the city walls, Val Volson has risen to a position of power. Only King Conor is left standing in his way. But Val wants peace. He wants unity so that his people can break out of the city and prosper. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Night Witches|author=LJ Adlington|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Rain Aranoza comes from Rodina. It's a nation of science and rationality. It holds no truck with superstition and religion. And, in the tradition of all authoritarian societies, it is ruthless in stamping out traces of the Old World and its belief in witches. Rodina is controlled by a network known as Aura and Aura encourages denunciations. Control is enforced by the Scrutiners and Aura instructs citizens in even the minutiae of their daily lives. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Blinded by the Light|author=Joe Kipling|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Some time in a near-future Britain, things look very different. The Sandman virus wiped out most of the population. The fortunate few live in one of three Neighbourhoods, each protected by the Boundary. Beyond the Boundary is Outside - a wasteland populated with infected feral Echoes. Luckily for MaryAnn, she lives in the Neighbourhood that was once known as Manchester. And she's a rich and privileged Alpha. Although her parents aren't celebrities - which MaryAnn would like, because then she'd be invited to cooler parties - they are influential in the Light, the Neighbourhood's leadership. So MaryAnn has designer clothes, servants, and nothing more to worry about than bagging a date with peer group kudos. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909776009</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Emerging Readers Reviews]]