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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] {{adsense2}}__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Oliver1836284683|title=RequiemThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other!Out in the WildsI do love it when I open a book, it's nothing like I expected it to be, Lena and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is now trying just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to cope with ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the return of her first love Alex along with her feelings scene. Once that's done, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for Julianyourself.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0DB64PYV5|title=The White Rose|author=Dave Baines|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=In 2033, but these relationship issues take a backseat superstorm known as life becomes very dangerous for herthe White Rose devastates the Northern Hemisphere. And it's not a storm that gathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. Instead, it hovers across half the Earth with its octopus-like tentacles, not giving up and everyone elsenever going away. Back in Portland}}{{Frontpage|author= Kay Chronister|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, her friend Hana post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is set to marry the man who will become Mayor - a perfect pairingrobotic takeover, surely? While both girls have changed a lot since the start world devoid of book onewater or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the biggest changes are fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to come..find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444722972</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=Just Looking|author=Saci LloydMatthew 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=Quantum DropThe 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}} {{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|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

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=We're I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in Londonthe future. It came and went quickly enough. The London Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief thatOrwell's left after the next financial crash devastates life for most people right across the worldnightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Money is hard to come by Others, I think, and most people survive were out there already working on black market credits, supplied by making sure that all he got wrong was the Bettadate. Everyone either works for the Betta or borrows from them. And when Anthony Crosskey hasn's girlfriend gets t put a date on the wrong side of nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the Betta and is taken out future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in a gang hit, he must venture into the virtual world future at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the Drop if he is to find out blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who is responsible and how might be tempted to get justiceturn its fiction into reality". But the Drop My only response to that is a dangerous, dangerous place...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144490082X</amazonuk>: too late!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gemma Malley0241349176|title=The DisappearancesLast|author=Hanna Jameson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''The Disappearances'' opens Jon Keller is in a year after Evie and Raffy escaped from hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the Cityworld ends. They have begun a new life in the Settlement - Raffy farms and Evie sews and this kibbutz-like living He has no idea if his family is like balm alive, he has no idea what's going on in comparison to the ultra-controllednearest city, denunciation environment they left behindor if the nearest city has been obliterated. But Raffy's jealousy won't leave him Shocked, amid the mass hysteria and it's threatening exodus, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to ruin the coupleairport and home. He's preciousnot alone, new-found peacetwenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. Back in One day, when helping the Cityhotel manager, Lucas is finding that switching off Jon finds the System hasn't body of a girl deemed to have been killed before the panacea he thought it would beworld ended. His people are lost without The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the rigid controls they had lived under for so long. And to make matters worse, truth about what is possibly the City's young people are disappearinglast community on earth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00A4YZWJ6</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oisin McGann1473203287|title=Rat RunnersSummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Nimmo lives Imagine a world in a London which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the discovery of the future. It's not a great place to be. Under constant surveillance by afterlife, the WatchWorld network and British Empire has extended its Robocop-style Safe-Guardsreach into Summerland, even the slightest transgression brings you into very unwelcome attention from Big Smoke for the authoritiesrecently deceased. Life In 1938 the British Empire is particularly difficult for Nimmo. His parents are caught up in prison a race against Soviet spies and he must live below dealing with a mole buried deep in the radar heart of WatchWorldSummerland. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, amid becomes suspicious about the city's underground criminals. As you can imaginepotential rogue agent, Nimmo has skills. And this she must decide how far she is why gang boss Move-Easy calls him in when a case containing valuable black market credit cards goes missing. Nimmo, together with sibling grifters Manikin willing to go and FX, and teen geek Scope, are how much she is willing to risk to find uncover the case or face Move-Easy's chief goonstruth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552566209</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|authorisbn=Andrew Fukuda1444944525|title=The PreySurvival Game|author=Nicky Singer|rating=45|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Having escaped the vampires hunting them Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the boat left Isle of Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by the Scientists, Gene, Sissy climate change and the boys make their way down the river mass movement of people and arrive at the Mission. Food it is abundant, the place is peacefulone defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and the Elders promise them onto a trip on the next train plane to Civilisation. Gene Heathrow - which is more than can be said for Muma and Sissy can hardly believe itPapa. But itShe's soon apparent that the Mission is not all even made 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 of the Scientist - he developed detention centre at the Origin, a cure for vampirism - understanding his plans is as frustrating as everairport. And with the vampires coming ever closer, even to the Mission itselfduring this journey, Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and the Elders making moves of their own, time is running out and Gene and Sissy must decide what you can't allow anyone else to dorely on you... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075446</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren ShanNorth_84K|title=Zom-B Underground 84K|author=Claire North|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=OkTheo can, he calculates the worth of each person to the penny. Before we begin. If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series'The Company'' own everything and everyone, DON'T read this reviewincluding handing out punishments for crime. It contains spoilersTheo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. Read my review Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the cost of the first bookcrimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, read the first book itself, then come backexpense of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to their community. If you don't, you'll be sorryPrisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077562</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Harper0356510700|title=The DisappearedEverything About You|author=Heather Child

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Jackson In the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is self-confident, motivated here and happyit is all around you. After allIt fills your fridge, he attends one of the top Learning Communities it keeps up to date with your friends and has an AEP score of 98fulfils your wishes.5It is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. He Freya is destined to become an important part unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the Leadership some day. You and I might see Jackson as an insufferablelatest smart specs, pompous ass butglasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, since he is surrounded right in front of her eyes by people like himbarely thinking about it, Jackson doesn't see it like complete with a personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is thatof her missing and presumed dead sister. But then a seemingly random violent attack leaves Jackson battered Freya is thrown and bloody and his best friend Wilson deadunsettled by this. When police return him Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the Learning Community, Jackson finds his teachers claim not very least to reset them to recognise him and all his records wiped. Dumped in an Academy - a school purportedly for those with lower AEP scores - Jackson's life becomes a helldifferent personality. Academy students are known as Specials. TheyBut Freya just can're disciplined by electric shocks distributed by teachers in cagest do this. TheyHearing her sister're fed slop through nozzles in slots. Theys voice again is like she're encouraged to fight. And theys right there, and although she knows this is just Ruby're kept in line by Reds - nominated Specials who get extra food and pride s data, part of place in the violent Academy pecking orderFreya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857076981</amazonuk>Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sangu MandannaWilson_Extinction|title=The Lost GirlExtinction Trials|author=SM Wilson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Eva Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is an echoscarce and energy and food are rationed. Woven at the Loom, she Education is a carbon copy of Amarraminimal and mostly focused around searching for new, a girl loved by her parents so much that they canefficient food sources. Storm't bear the thought of losing s mother has died and she never knew her. Should anything ever happen to Amarrafather, Eva will take her place - live so she lives in her homeone of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', go goes to her school, even kiss her boyfriendfor one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. So EvaLincoln's young life sister is all about Amarra. She eats dying from the same foods, studies blistering disease and he has no access to the same subjects, reads the same books, watches the same filmshealthcare that could save her. When Amarra gets It's a tattoomean, desperate existence for them both and so must Evathey are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The Weavers impose many rules aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and if Eva breaks even one the citizens of them, her life is forfeitEarthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849416176</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=Jeff NortonBeckett_America|title=The Dead are Rising (MetaWars)America City|author=Chris Beckett

|genre=Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction |summary=Jonah's father died in 'America City'' tells the battle for control story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the Metasphereambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. He was a Guardian - a terrorist or freedom fighterSet in the 22nd century, depending how you see things - and he had infiltrated himself into a position the novel tells of trust with the Millenialsan incredibly disunited United States, where the group supporting effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the billionaire inventor who created affluent Northern States, and controlled an online world in the South, which people living in a post peak-oil is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and devasted Earth spend most Slaymaker hope to change this, working together on the plan they believe to be the solution to the problem of their time. But before he died, Jason Delacroix's memories had been uploaded where to place the Metasphere as an avatarthousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314606</amazonuk>

{{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's 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's won a place at Cambridge University and is looking forward to going. She loves poetry.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan MaberrySutcliffe_See|title=Flesh & Bone (Rot & Ruin)We See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Having escaped the horrors of Gameland at the dreadful cost of losing TomLex lives in what used to be London. Today, Bennyit is a closed-off, Nixbombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are a constant presence overhead, Lilah food is short and life is hard. But there's a girl he likes and Chong must journey through the Rot & Ruin without she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his warrior smartstime watching The Strip. They're in search His talent as a gamer got him the job of the jet they saw in the sky months agodrone pilot. They hope He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to find hopedo it, some remains of whatever his mother thinks. It's fighting terrorism, after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a civilisation lost after First Night, when man high up in the zombie virus spread through the population like wildfire. When life resistance organisation known as it was ceased to be. When the undead started to walk''The Corps''.Alan calls him #K622.But Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857079719</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kat ZhangRoberts_Real|title=What's Left Of MeThe Real-Town Murders|author=Adam Roberts|rating=53|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Addie and Eva are 15 year olds living somewhere in America. They have a motherIf you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, this may be possible, a father and a younger brotherwith the development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the online world is more real than your own. But Addie and Eva are not sisters, Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or twinschecking statuses. The only thing is that with most people online, some of us will have to stay in the usual sensereal world to deal with unexpected events – such as a real town murder. They are two minds who share one body, and they are in trouble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007476817</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeyn RobertsMerbeth_Raid|title=Rage Within (Dark Inside)Raid|author=K S Merbeth|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=A brutal road trip in a blighted landscape that pulls no punches. We left Ariestravel with Clementine, Michaela bounty hunter, Clementine and Mason in a world they can barely recognise. After a series of devastating earthquakes many people changed. They became murderous monsters that the normal survivors called Baggers. There are few normal people left and they must hide in ruined cities, avoiding death at the hands of the Baggerswithout heroes or hope. And in ''Rage Within'', the battle for survival is about to get even tougher. The Baggers are organising themselves, clearing the streets of bodies and setting up worker camps for captured survivors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144721790X</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Neal Shusterman|genre=Dystopian Fiction|title=Unwind|rating=5|summary=A powerful, shocking, and intelligent novel about a future which practises retroactive abortion Move on troublesome teenagers, then uses their body parts for transplant. It's wonderful, wonderful stuff - but sensitive readers may be troubled by a shocking description of the process.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382312</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Emerging Readers Reviews]]