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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ {{adsense2}}Frontpage|isbn=1836284683|title=The Big Happy__NOTOC__|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other!

I do love it when I open a book, it's nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the scene. Once that's done, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff NortonB0DB64PYV5|title=The Dead are Rising (MetaWars)White Rose|author=Dave Baines

|genre=Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction|summary=JonahIn 2033, a superstorm known as the White Rose devastates the Northern Hemisphere. And it's father died in not a storm that gathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. Instead, it hovers across half the battle for control of the MetasphereEarth with its octopus-like tentacles, not giving up and never going away. He was }}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a Guardian world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post- apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a terrorist or freedom fighterrobotic takeover, depending how you see things - and he had infiltrated himself into a position world devoid of trust with the Millenialswater or a nuclear holocaust, the group supporting the billionaire inventor who created and controlled an online world in which people living in 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 peak-oil and devasted Earth spend most apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of their timethe fears that exist for humanity today. But before he died, Jason Delacroix's memories had been uploaded It is a shocking novel that still manages to the Metasphere as an avatarfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408314606</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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF|title=Just Looking|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=It was the summer of 2035 and on a cruise ship in Marseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the end of 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 cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, a French journalist in his thirties. He 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'. His partner, Helen, who's English and Jewish, keeps him in check to some extent.}}{{Frontpage|author= Susi Holliday |title= The Last 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}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MaberryBen Oliver|title=Flesh & Bone 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 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?|isbn=1912626551}}{{Frontpage|author=Margaret Atwood|title=The Testaments|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary= Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. I don't want to tell you too much about the plot because it's a novel that is entirely plot driven. Suffice it to say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a van, not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a girl brought up in Gilead with the expectation she 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 store owned by her parents...|isbn=1784742325}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789018870|title=Something to Tell You|author=David Edwards|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the 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. 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 earth had risen exponentially. It's enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to drag the head of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=Poster Boy|author=N J Crosskey|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (Rot & Ruinquite)come to pass. Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. 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!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=The Last|author=Hanna Jameson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Having escaped Jon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in the horrors of Gameland at remote countryside when the dreadful cost of losing Tomworld ends. He has no idea if his family is alive, Bennyhe has no idea what's going on in the nearest city, Nixor if the nearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, Lilah amid the mass hysteria and Chong must journey through exodus, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the Rot & Ruin without his warrior smartsairport and home. TheyHe're in search s not alone, twenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. One day, when helping the hotel manager, Jon 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 jet they saw in truth about what is possibly the sky months agolast community on earth. They hope }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473203287|title=Summerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to find hopefear but something to aspire to. After the discovery of the afterlife, some remains of a civilisation lost after First Nightthe British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, when the zombie virus spread through Big Smoke for the population like wildfirerecently deceased. When life as it was ceased to beIn 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the undead started potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to walk..uncover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857079719</amazonuk>

In the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. Known as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human-like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, and whilst the walls have always kept them out, that has begun to change…}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1444944525|title=The Survival Game|author=Kat ZhangNicky Singer|titlerating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=WhatMhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. She's Left Of Meeven made it out of the detention centre at the airport. 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...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=North_84K|title=84K|author=Claire North

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Addie Theo can, he calculates the worth of each person to the penny. ''The Company'' own everything and Eva everyone, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are 15 year olds living somewhere variables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, the expense of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in Americacold hard cash. They have }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=Everything About You|author=Heather Child|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=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 motherbeta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a father personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very least to reset them to a younger brotherdifferent personality. But Addie Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice 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. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Wilson_Extinction|title=The Extinction Trials|author=SM Wilson|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and Eva food are not sistersrationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, or twinsefficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the usual senseblistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. They are two minds who share one bodyIt's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are in troublefirst to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007476817</amazonuk>

It is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the start but I will try to avoid the main ones.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeyn RobertsBeckett_America|title=Rage Within (Dark Inside)America City|author=Chris Beckett

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=We left Aries''America City'' tells the story of Holly, Michael, Clementine and Mason an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in a world they can barely recogniseorder to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. After a series Set in the 22nd century, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, where the effects of devastating earthquakes many people changed. They became murderous monsters that climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, and the normal survivors called BaggersSouth, which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. There are few normal people left Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this, working together on the plan they must hide in ruined cities, avoiding death at believe to be the solution to the hands problem of where to place the Baggersthousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms. And in }}{{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. There'Rage Withins a market town below but Kerryl's family is concentrated on the farm and the hard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, though, is a fiercely bright girl - she', the battle for survival s won a place at Cambridge University and is about looking forward to get even toughergoing. The Baggers are organising themselves, clearing the streets of bodies and setting up worker camps for captured survivorsShe loves poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144721790X</amazonuk>

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|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=A powerfulLex lives in what used to be London. Today, it is a closed-off, shockingbombed-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 intelligent novel about she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a future which practises retroactive abortion on troublesome teenagersgamer got him the job of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it, then uses their body parts for transplantwhatever his mother thinks. It's wonderfulfighting terrorism, wonderful stuff after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - but sensitive readers may be troubled by a shocking description of man high up in the processresistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382312</amazonuk>