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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian J Walker1836284683|title=The End of the World Running ClubBig Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary=When the end of the world as we know Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it comes, Edgar is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, and in when I open a panicbook, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellarit's nothing like I expected it to be, and then he and his family eke out it takes me on a nightmarish existence in the dark until their supplies run outwild ride. Fortunately they are lucky, and they are rescued from the cellarAnd that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. As they emerge back into the world they see the I don't want to ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds a similar experience for any of large asteroids hitting the earth. Large areas of the country you reading but I'll have been destroyed. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and towns, turning feral, trying to find what's left to help them to surviveat least set the scene. EdgarOnce that's family are rescued by a small remaining army unitdone, 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 I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for another countryyourself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0DB64PYV5|title=Children of IcarusThe White Rose|author=Caighlan SmithDave Baines

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray to be chosen In 2033, a superstorm known as Icarii - honoured ones between the ages of ten and sixteen who will enter White Rose devastates the labyrinth, find their way through Northern Hemisphere. And 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 the most devout of everyone. She knows she is destined to become an angel. Our girl, though, does not want to be chosen. In her society, this is such a badge of shame storm that she keeps silentgathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. AndInstead, along it hovers across half the Earth with Claraits octopus-like tentacles, chosen she isnot giving up and never going away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MayoKay Chronister|title=BlameDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=''A small hand in hersWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. 'Is Whether it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show the situation. Ant (is a teenaged girl) and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and in robotic takeover, a prison – HMP London, no less. Since the death world devoid of the EU and water or a hugenuclear holocaust, all-conquering recession, people are being imprisoned left, right and centre this genre is a way for the crimes of humans to cathartically experience their parents and their parents in turn, meaning anyone with any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family that might have taken money away from the common good is having their children imprisonedmost existential fears. And even though Ant and Mattie are ''legitimatelyDesert Creatures'' in there, due to their parents' activities, they've since been adopted by people who have themselves been accused and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloidKay Chronister is a new work of post-fodder as apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the worst criminal family in Britainfears that exist for humanity today. Surely, then, there's no It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope?.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Concentr8Thomas D Lee|authortitle=William SutcliffePerilous Times|rating=53|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=In a speculative near-future London, there's a new wonder drug to treat ADHD. Concentr8 'Hate is cheap and effective. So effective that the mayor has instituted a programme to identify children for early, preventative treatment. Almost every troublesome teen in London is taking it, often before theypath of least resistance''ve actually become troublesome. But then an austerity drive sees the program cut abruptly. Riots break out, led by the unmedicated teens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paul Bird|title=The Hunt|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This is Britain after Set in the Very Big Crash. Life is very differentnear-distant future, especially if you live in one of the lower suburbs under the Local Government's authority. Cush lives in one such suburb. He works as a detective in world on the floating Krawczyk building and, though he thinks it himselfverge of climate collapse, Britain is pretty good at his job. His wife Samir doesn't work, even though she'd like to, and spends her days at home reading those most antiquated of things: booksin great peril. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Philip Martin|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' had access to British Isles desperately needs a time machine, they would be able hero (or several) to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found save the likes of [[Doctor Who day and the Genesis rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis Knights of the Daleks]] to be too violent, she and her coterie had no idea the series Round Table would soon turn to a prison world, where soon-to-be victims of snuff movies are trapped in a reality-show styled existence, and a hard-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executions, the morgues and worse. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had answer the benefit of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differently. They were quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being a trade delegate who is half-man, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laugh, and such an artificial premisecall. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yan LiankeB0BQXSYYTF|title=The Four Books|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The Four Books'' is a difficult, challenging novel and not for the feint hearted, or for someone looking for a page-turner. It really challenges the reader's perceptions and opens up a gateway to an era that is difficult to imagine for anyone brought up in a western culture. Set in Maoist China it tells the story of four protagonists and a memorable antagonist. The four, found guilty of anti-revolutionary crimes are undergoing re-education in a work camp governed by the child. With an Orwellian feel, ''The Four Books'' will come to be regarded as an undoubted masterpiece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569493</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewJust Looking|author= Richard Kurti|title= Maladapted|rating= 3|genre=Teens|summary=Cillian isn't an average teenager. He knows he's a mathematical genius, he's already at university studying advanced theory, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he is until he's the sole survivor of a train explosion. With his father is dead and his last words to Cillian a riddle, Cillian's existence is thrown in a whole new light. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Barnes|title=NodMatthew Tree

|summary=For anyone who has suffered from insomniaIt was the summer of 2035 and on a cruise ship in Marseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the idea end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a world man! He's watching the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with no sleep is an unsettling place as it feels so realJean-Pierre, a French journalist in his thirties. The thought of having to drag yourself to work after He writes for a night with no sleep is bad enoughrelatively new paper, but what about two nights, or three, or four? Society will crumble the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if everyone missed five meals in a rowlittle wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'. His partner, but what would happen if we all missed five nights of sleep? If you end up in the land of NodHelen, who's English and Jewish, we are all keeps him in troublecheck to some extent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298227</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo WaltonSusi Holliday |title= The Philosopher KingsLast Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A 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 games designer, social media influencer, gossip 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 dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, 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

|genre= Science FictionTeens|summary= Twenty years Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have passed since been amped up to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the Goddess Athene founded the Just Cityprecarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. The god Apollo In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is still trapped inside a living there, albeit in human formhell with no chance of escape. Now married, and A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the father of several children, the man/god struggles to cope when tragedy befalls guards who can end his familylife with one squeeze. Beset Luka is taunted by grief 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 need guinea pig for revenge, Apollo sets sail Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to find make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the man who caused visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him such pain, but discovers something that may change everything…if he can break the loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150791</amazonuk>1912626551

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonMargaret Atwood|title=Boy 23The Testaments

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid'Boy 23 isn't in My Place any mores Tale]]. He canI don't see The Screen, he canwant to tell you too much about the plot because it't hear The Voice. Boy 23 s a novel that is aloneentirely plot driven.Suffice it to say that '' Before being dumped alone in the forest by The VoiceTestaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a van, Boy 23 - or Jespernot knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, as we shall call him - has lived who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a room entirely by himself. He has never met another human being or been outside. His only experience of girl brought up in Gilead with the world has been through expectation she will marry a few short video clipscommander; Daisy, shown to him on his Screen by The Voice a rebellious teenage girl in My Place. Now, he finds himself alone with Canada who knows of Gilead only a bag full of survival equipment from school lessons and some brief words from The Voice: his life is in danger, people have been sent to kill him, he must head north west to its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the Low Countries, The Voice will meet him there and explain everythingstore owned by her parents...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>1784742325

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kenneth Calhoun1789018870|title= Black MoonSomething to Tell You|author=David Edwards|rating= 54|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Do you ever have those nights when you hear every chime of the clockSam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, when you watch but this never seemed to affect the shadows move round way that the room painfully slowly as the moon crosses the sky? families got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, went to a private boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and Hannah. Thankfully I have very few Sam's wife, Briony, was head of thoseproduct research at Nestlé. I know Life was good for all eight of them, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the thing most likely rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. It's enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to keep you awake is drag the worrying about the fact that you're not asleephead of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, and I have distraction mechanisms for when I need themout of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Aldous Huxley1789550149|title= After Many A SummerPoster Boy|author=N J Crosskey|rating= 45|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Like many of us, I suspectfirst read 1984 in school, I knew nothing in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of Huxley other than the "required reading" us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell''Brave New World''s nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. NaturallyOthers, I think, were out there already working on making sure that basis aloneall he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. If she had, he I suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was pigeon-holed when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in my head under the heading future at all. A lot of what happens in ''Sci-fi - must check out furtherPoster Boy''is already happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk> Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: too late!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul McAuley0241349176|title= ConfluenceThe Last|author=Hanna Jameson|rating= 5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Yama Jon Keller is in a foundling orphan adopted as a baby by hotel in Switzerland in the Aedile (chief civil servant) of a small city downriver of the mighty, ancient city of Ys, capital of remote countryside when the man-made world of Confluenceends. Longing to become a soldier and take He has no idea if his late brotherfamily is alive, he has no idea what's place going on in the long-running war against nearest city, or if the hereticsnearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, amid the mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at the restless seventeen year old is about hotel rather than attempt to get to be taken as an apprentice clerk despite his young agethe airport and home. He's not alone, to keep him out of troubletwenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. DestinyOne day, howeverwhen helping the hotel manager, has other plans for himJon finds the body of a girl deemed to have been killed before the world ended. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057511942X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ryan Graudin1473203287|title=The Walled CitySummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi|rating= 4|genre= TeensDystopian Fiction |summary= In the walled city of Hak Nam, there are three rules; run fast, trust Imagine a world in which death was no one, and always carry your knife. In streets controlled by vicious and sadistic drug lords, three individuals all seek longer something to fear but somethingto aspire to. Dai seeks information on After the criminal brotherhood which employs himdiscovery of the afterlife, lest he be imprisoned. Jin Ling seeks her sister in the Walled City's brothelsBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, evading the roaming street-gangs as she goesBig Smoke for the recently deceased. Mei Yee, trapped In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a brothel in the city race against Soviet spies and forced into sexual relations dealing with a mole buried deep in the two-faced Ambassador Osamuheart of Summerland. When Rachel White, desperately seeks freedom. The three have just eighteen days to accomplish thisan ambitious SIS agent, as becomes suspicious about the officials of Seng Ngoi plan potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to evict all residents of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>uncover the truth.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jo Walton1683690613|title= The Just CityGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan)|author=Rachel Aaron|rating= 34.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Urged ''You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, but that's an illusion. So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe'' In the dystopian world of Attack on by her brother ApolloTitan, goddess Pallas Athene founds humanity hides behind the Just City safety of Atlantis – a city based on Plato’s republichigh impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. Filling it with an assortments of adults collected from throughout timeKnown as titans, as well as ten thousand ten year oldsthese enemies are impossibly tall human-like creatures, (one of whom is a disguised Apollo)with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. Whilst Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the city flourishesEarth looking for prey, and whilst the arrival of Socrates may prove walls have always kept them out, that has begun to be a fly in the ointment…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>change…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon A Davidson1444944525|title=System: With his face in the sunThe Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer|rating=3.5|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary=Wallace Blair, like everyone else, Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is used on her way home to the benefits Isle of a life guided Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by The System. After allborders, The System knows bestcheckpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow However he is somewhat dismayed when he wakes to a System message on his Commcuff informing him that his happy marriage - which is about to more than can be dissolved said for Muma and thatPapa. She's not his only concerneven made it out of the detention centre at the airport. After being sent to retrieve papers from his grandfatherAnd during this journey, Mhairi has learned that you can's house, Wallace reflects t rely on how long itanyone else and you can's been since he's seen the old man. Wallace decides t allow anyone else to drop in rely on him but what should be a trip to an elderly care facility takes him down an unexpected pathyou...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1511491094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tommy WallachNorth_84K|title=We All Looked Up84K|author=Claire North|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=PeterTheo can, Eliza, Andy and Anita are all about he calculates the worth of each person to graduate high schoolthe penny. They all have plans ''The Company'' own everything and expectationseveryone, even slacker Andyincluding handing out punishments for crime. But those expectations are about Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to be thrown into disarray. An asteroid is approaching Earth and there's a 66% chance avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the cost of a collision and an extinction level eventthe crimes filling his inbox. There They are just a few weeks before variables on a possiblespreadsheet, no a likelysimple mathematical equation, end the expense of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this 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>