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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=Andrew FukudaB0DB64PYV5|title=The PreyWhite Rose|author=Dave Baines

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Having escaped the vampires hunting them on the boat left by the ScientistsIn 2033, Gene, Sissy and the boys make their way down a superstorm known as the river and arrive at White Rose devastates the MissionNorthern Hemisphere. Food is abundant, the place is peaceful, and the Elders promise them a trip on the next train to Civilisation. Gene and Sissy can hardly believe it. But And it's soon apparent that the Mission is not all it seems and Gene begins to wonder if they haven't simply exchanged one hellhole for another. Although they find out a great deal more about the Scientist - he developed the Originstorm that gathers, wreaks havoc, a cure for vampirism - understanding his plans is as frustrating as everthen dissipates. And with the vampires coming ever closerInstead, even to it hovers across half the Mission itselfEarth with its octopus-like tentacles, not giving up and the Elders making moves of their own, time is running out and Gene and Sissy must decide what to do..never going away. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075446</amazonuk>

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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanSusi Holliday |title=ZomThe 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-B Underground 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 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

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Ok. Before Finally! Almost forty years on, we begin. If you haven't read the have a sequel to [[Zom-B The Handmaid's Tale by Darren ShanMargaret Atwood|first bookThe Handmaid's Tale]] in this series. 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, DON'T read this reviewnot knowing what will happen next. It contains spoilers. Read my review of '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 first bookexpectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, read a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the first book itself, then come backstore owned by her parents.. If you don't, you'll be sorry.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077562</amazonuk>1784742325

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Harper1789018870|title=The DisappearedSomething to Tell You|author=David Edwards

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Jackson is selfSam 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-confidentolds Allie and Josh, motivated went to a private boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and happyHannah. After Sam's wife, Briony, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for alleight of them, he attends one 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 top Learning Communities and has an AEP score head of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of 98a 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. He is destined Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to become an important part of 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 Leadership some daynightmare. You and If she had, I might see Jackson suspect it would not be as an insufferablefar in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, pompous ass but, since he I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is surrounded by people like himalready happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Jackson doesn't see Christina Racher says "…but keep it like 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|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction But then |summary=Jon Keller is in a seemingly random violent attack leaves Jackson battered and bloody and hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends. He has no idea if his best friend Wilson deadfamily is alive, he has no idea what's going on in the nearest city, or if the nearest city has been obliterated. When police return him Shocked, amid the mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at the Learning Community, Jackson finds his teachers claim not hotel rather than attempt to get to recognise him the airport and all his records wipedhome. Dumped in an Academy - a school purportedly for those with lower AEP scores - JacksonHe's life becomes not alone, twenty other people also stay and gradually form a hellsmall community. Academy students are known as Specials. They're disciplined by electric shocks distributed by teachers in cages. They're fed slop through nozzles in slots. They're encouraged One day, when helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the body of a girl deemed to fighthave been killed before the world ended. And theyThe community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl're kept in line by Reds - nominated Specials who get extra food s killer and pride of place in finding the truth about what is possibly the violent Academy pecking orderlast community on earth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857076981</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sangu Mandanna1473203287|title=The Lost GirlSummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Eva is an echoImagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. Woven at After the Loomdiscovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, she the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a carbon copy of Amarra, race against Soviet spies and dealing with a girl loved by her parents so much that they can't bear mole buried deep in the thought heart of losing herSummerland. Should anything ever happen to AmarraWhen Rachel White, Eva will take her place - live in her homean ambitious SIS agent, go to her school, even kiss her boyfriend. So Eva's young life is all becomes suspicious about Amarra. She eats the same foodspotential rogue agent, studies the same subjects, reads the same books, watches the same films. When Amarra gets a tattoo, so she must Eva. The Weavers impose many rules decide how far she is willing to go and if Eva breaks even one of them, her life how much she is forfeitwilling to risk to uncover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849416176</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Jeff Norton|title=The Dead are Rising (MetaWars)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jonah's father died in In the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the battle for control safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the Metasphereenemies outside. He was a Guardian Known as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human- a terrorist or freedom fighterlike creatures, depending how you see things - with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. Difficult to kill and he had infiltrated himself into a position of trust with innumerable they roam the MillenialsEarth looking for prey, and whilst the group supporting the billionaire inventor who created and controlled an online world in which people living in a post peak-oil and devasted Earth spend most of their time. But before he diedwalls have always kept them out, Jason Delacroix's memories had been uploaded that has begun to the Metasphere as an avatar.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314606</amazonuk>change…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Maberry1444944525|title=Flesh & Bone (Rot & Ruin)The Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Having escaped Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the horrors Isle of Gameland at Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the dreadful cost mass movement of losing Tompeople and it is one defined by borders, Benny, Nix, Lilah 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 Chong must journey through the Rot & Ruin without his warrior smartsPapa. TheyShe're in search s even made it out of the jet they saw in detention centre at the sky months agoairport. They hope to find hopeAnd during this journey, some remains of a civilisation lost after First Night, when the zombie virus spread through the population like wildfire. When life as it was ceased to be. When the undead started Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to walkrely on you...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857079719</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kat ZhangNorth_84K|title=What's Left Of Me84K|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 are 15 year olds living somewhere in Americaeveryone, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. They have a motherDoing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, a father and a younger brother. But Addie and Eva are not sistershe calculates, or twinswithout emotion, in the usual sensecost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are two minds who share one bodyvariables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, and they 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 troublecold hard cash.|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal ShustermanSutcliffe_See|genretitle=Dystopian FictionWe See Everything|titleauthor=UnwindWilliam Sutcliffe

|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 - a man high up in the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=The Real- but sensitive readers Town Murders|author=Adam Roberts|rating=3|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=If you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, this may be troubled by a shocking description possible, with the development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the 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 most people online, some of us will have to stay in the processreal world to deal with unexpected events – such as a real town murder.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=Raid|author=K S Merbeth|amazonukrating=<amazonuk>1847382312</amazonuk>4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=A brutal road trip in a blighted landscape that pulls no punches. We travel with Clementine, a bounty hunter, in a world without heroes or hope.