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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=All of humankind is living on a single train. I know British commuters feel that way at times, but this is a much different circumstance – it is a train miles long, running non-stop as a self-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earth, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time in the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze it. It's certainly been going on long enough for it to have a culture – a hierarchical society from the rich and leisured classes near the front, through the orgiasts, past the useful carriages set aside for producing food, to the underclass at the end. It's all set in its routine, set in motion. But there are two fishes out of water – a man from the rear who escaped, and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaigners.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1836284683|title=The One Safe PlaceBig Happy|author=Tania UnsworthDavid Chadwick|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Devin lives on a farm with his grandfather, away from the rest of the world. He knows a little about it – how the gap between rich and poor is far wider than the world we live in, and how many children now live on the street, scavenging for scraps to say alive. But, he’s never been that concerned. On the farm the life is a simple one, but they can grow enough food to get by, and they’re happy. When tragedy strikes, Devin is forced to leave his home and venture into the city for the first time4.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Warm Bodies|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5

|summary=Warm Bodies Well! This is told in an alternating first person point of view, switching back and forth between ''R'' a zombie who has retained a bit more of the power of thought than most, and Julie, a feisty and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about others. In short, R has far more humanity than the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more of the traits that I feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than the human race itself. Two murder mystery unlike any other characters are important to this storyline, ''M'', R's best friend and Nora, Julie's closest friend and confidant. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>}}!

{{newreview|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I normally review do love it when I open a book within a day or two of finishing , it. I couldn't with this one. s nothing like I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied with the endingexpected it to be, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I wasit takes me on a wild ride. This book was written as a prequel, and most of the readers will have already read And that is just what happened with ''Warm BodiesThe Big Happy''. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldndon't quite bear want to rate it down, ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book 'll have to meat least set the scene. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the authorOnce that's first book. After reading it done, I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isn't after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever readthink you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0DB64PYV5|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)The White Rose|author=Emmy LaybourneDave Baines

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=We left our supermarket kids when they split up at the end of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]. NikoIn 2033, Alex and six others were taking a superstorm known as the school bus to try to save Brayden who had been shot and to find White Rose devastates the US military evacuation teamNorthern Hemisphere. DeanAnd it's not a storm that gathers, wreaks havoc, Astrid and three of the little ones had stayed behind - it was too risky to take pregnant Astrid into the poisoned outsidethen dissipates. And when we say poisonedInstead, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left hovers across half the air toxic in different ways to different peopleEarth with its octopus-like tentacles, depending on their blood group. Nobody knows where Jake isnot giving up and never going away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The TrapKay Chronister|authortitle=Andrew FukudaDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=''The Trap'' is the third and final book in this sequence about With a world in which vampires rule and humans are hepersthat is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, eaten post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost to extinctionmasochistic thrill. We left Gene and SissyWhether it is a robotic takeover, along with Epap and Davida world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, on the train that delivers hepers from the Mission this genre is a way for humans to the City, destined for the Rulercathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures''s feast table. Gene now knows by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that he and Sissy form the Origin, aligns many of the cure fears that will return Duskers to humans formulated by Gene's missing scientist fatherexist for humanity today. But It is a shocking novel that all there is still manages to it? Where did the Duskers come from? Can Gene and Sissy end their plague? Will they all make it out alive? And what of Ashley June, newly turned to Dusker? What does she know that Gene and Sissy don't?find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BORD2RG</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreview|title=Shadowlark|author=Meagan Spooner|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lark escaped Set in the city of her birth after being tortured and stripped of her magic by its architects. Lark's postnear-apocalyptic distant future, in a world runs on magic and there isn't enough the verge of it about. So Renewables - people whose magic will replenish after it climate collapse, Britain is drained - are in demand - not as people but as great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a resource. But hero (or several) to save the architects have made Lark differentday and rescue what little remains. She can drain What no-one expected was that one of the magic Knights of others and use it herself. We last saw Lark when she escaped the Iron Wood and went in search of her missing brother BasilRound Table would answer the call. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552565571</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Just Looking|author=Catherine FisherMatthew Tree

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Ok. LetIt 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 catch you up. Jakewatching the tornado - they's father is still lost re more common in time. VennEurope these days - that's wife is still deadkeeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, a French journalist in his thirties. Summer He writes for a relatively new paper, the Queen of the Shee, still hasnright-wing ''t made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasnLa Tribune Gauloise't prevented the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that and he's trying to do. The Chronoptika, interesting if a mirror made of black obsidian little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and a time travel device'the French'. His partner, connects JakeHelen, Venn, Sarah who's English and the restJewish, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likelykeeps him in check to some extent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Resist (Breathe)Susi Holliday |authortitle=Sarah CrossanThe Last Resort |rating=43.5 |genre=TeensThrillers|summary=''Resist'' carries A group of strangers gather on where [[Breathe by Sarah Crossan|Breathe]] left offa private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. To catch you up: deforestation has resulted in environmental catastrophe The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and the world hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a ravaged place in which there isnmystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other't enough oxygen to fully sustain human lifes histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. A corporation, Breathe, runs As the Podclock ticks down, whose inhabitants these well-kept secrets are divided into Premiums (plenty of oxygen) revealed, and Auxiliaries (barely enough)it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. OutsideIn a race against time, drifters Amelia must struggle to surviveuncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. With one alternative |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 the Pod - a horrific level by machines, The Grove - destroyed by Loop follows the Pod Ministry, Alina, Bea precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and QuinnHave Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, our three central characters, set out on separate, but equally perilous, journeys he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to find a trigger held by the other, Sequoiaguards 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. And back 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 Podrumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, Ronan is rethinking the world can Luka ever be free? Why has he thought been imprisoned? What waits for him if he lived in but didn't. can break the loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408827204</amazonuk>1912626551

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Waking World (The Future King)Margaret Atwood|authortitle=Tom HuddlestonThe Testaments

|summary=Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. Idon've read countless dystopian fiction accounts of a world changed overnight by everything from man eating plants, t want to nuclear war, plague, or zombies. This is tell you too much about the first to present plot because it's a complete meltdown of society as the result of economic crises, but this does hold far greater credibility than the average vampire or zombie plaguenovel that is entirely plot driven. Suffice it to say that ''The main protagonistTestaments'' takes place fifteen years later, Leonardofifteen years after Offred gets into a van, is not a heroknowing what will happen next. He is a very ordinary middle aged man with many flaws. He has no super human strength or abilities of any kind - the only thing that gives him the courage to continue is his love for his estranged daughterIt's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who suddenly reappears is secretly writing her memoirs in his lifeArdua Hall; Agnes, along a girl brought up in Gilead with the expectation she will marry a deeply disturbed stepbrothercommander; Daisy, early a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the crisisstore owned by her parents...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857051229</amazonuk>1784742325

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789018870|title=More Than ThisSomething to Tell You|author=Patrick NessDavid Edwards|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was Sam''Here is s boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the boy, drowningfamilies got on. Bert'' And Seth does drown. He is alone; taken by the seas wife, arms and legs flailing and breakingNatalia, skull dashed against the rocks whilst the icy water constricts his muscles was Russian and breath. Seth is consciously aware of his final momentsseriously rich. His death consumes him with a heavy Their twins, confusing blur until… he awakens fifteen-year-olds Allie and finds himself in Josh, went to a desolateprivate boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, shattered world; nakedLiam and Hannah. Sam's wife, aloneBriony, starving and alivewas head of product research at Nestlé. This place looks familiar 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 looks exactly like the English village where he spent his early childhood before his brother’s accident 's enough of a problem for Sam and his family’s move Bert to Americadrag the head of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, but it is now overgrown and devoid out of human lifea family lunch. It is as if the whole place was simply abandoned one day Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=The 100Poster Boy|author=Kass MorganN J Crosskey

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Nuclear war has rendered I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the Earth uninhabitable for centuriesfuture. The remains It came and went quickly enough. Some of human society, us may have breathed a colony sigh of people relief that managed Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to escape the cataclysmpass. Others, I think, live were out their lives there already working on massive city-like spaceshipsmaking sure that all he got wrong was the date. Unfortunately, Crosskey hasn't put a date on the spaceships are becoming unsustainable and as resources begin to run out, the Council is forced to introduce strict new plans and measures in an attempt to protect the remaining populationnightmare. With options running out If she had, a dangerous mission is conceived I suspect it would not be as a desperate roll of far in the dice: one hundred juvenile delinquents future are sent to the Earth to test if the planet can once more sustain life1984 was when I first read Orwell. There is no telling what the remaining radiation will do to the teenagers If she had, but I suspect it might hardly be in this hardened society, this is a risk worth taking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444766880</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Split Second|author=Sophie McKenzie|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Nat and Charlie are connected long before they meet. They were both there the day a terrorist bomb decimated the marketplacefuture at all. Nat was trying to find his brother and stop him because he A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy''s pretty sure Lucas is the bomberalready happening. Charlie was sulking because her mother wouldn't let her get a tattoo Sadly. And the bomb went off. Charlie's mother died. Nat's brother was left in a comaFrighteningly. In this Britain of the near-future, beset by an endless cycle of more and more austerity, where people queue for free food handouts and racist extremist groups are increasingly dominating the public conversationblurb, neither Charlie nor Nat had thought anything could get any worse. But Christina Racher says "…but keep it didfar from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115976</amazonuk> My only response to that is: too late!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=1Q84: The Complete TrilogyLast|author=Haruki MurakamiHanna Jameson

|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=The ''1Q84'' trilogy is, without doubt, an impressive book. In many ways, the trilogy almost has to be read in this way as the three component books make little sense on their own. The first book in the series in particular Jon Keller is almost completely baffling if taken in isolation. It does, though, demand a degree of dedication, and if the prospect of a 1300 page novel in which not a huge amount happens hotel in terms of plot and Switzerland in which there is a significant level of repetition leaves you cold, then this might not be the best entry point into remote countryside when the wonderful world of Haruki Murakamiends. As often with Murakami thoughHe has no idea if his family is alive, ithe has no idea what's possible to read this book at a number of levels. On going on in the nearest city, or if the surface it's a love story set in a slightly fantastical setting with a little bit of crime thrown innearest city has been obliterated. At a deeper levelShocked, he explores amid the thin lines between imagination mass hysteria and realityexodus, life and death and what you might call yin Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and yanghome. ItHe's a novel where balance not alone, twenty other people also stay and vacuums play gradually form a big partsmall community. It seems counter-intuitive One day, when helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the body of a girl deemed to call have been killed before the world ended. The community descends into a book of deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this magnitude 'delicate', but thatgirl's just how killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the story appearslast community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578077</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473203287|title=BloodtideSummerland|author=Melvin BurgessHannu Rajaniemi|rating=54|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Set in Imagine a world only a book could inhabit - half in a post-apocalyptic future, half in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the mists discovery of the myths of afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the past - ''Bloodtide'' retells part of Big Smoke for the Volsunga saga - Icelandic tales of gods and heroes and villainsrecently deceased. Civilisation has long abandoned London to its criminals In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and its gang wars, going so far as to surround its borders with released ''halfmen'', genetically manipulated creatures dealing with a lust for violencemole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. With the population trapped inside When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the city wallspotential rogue agent, Val Volson has risen she must decide how far she is willing to a position of power. Only King Conor go and how much she is left standing in his way. But Val wants peace. He wants unity so that his people can break out of willing to risk to uncover the city and prospertruth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683690613|title=Night WitchesGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan)|author=LJ AdlingtonRachel Aaron

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Rain Aranoza comes from Rodina. It's a nation of science and rationality. It holds no truck with superstition 'You want me to be like everyone else and religion. And, in spend my life hiding inside the tradition of all authoritarian societieswalls where it's safe, it is ruthless in stamping out traces of the Old World and its belief in witchesbut that's an illusion. Rodina is controlled by a network known So long as Aura and Aura encourages denunciations. Control there are titans out there… no one is enforced by the Scrutiners and Aura instructs citizens in even the minutiae of their daily lives. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>}}safe''

{{newreview|title=Blinded by In the Light|author=Joe Kipling|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Some time in a near-future Britaindystopian world of Attack on Titan, things look very different. The Sandman virus wiped humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out most of the populationenemies outside. The fortunate few live in one of three NeighbourhoodsKnown as titans, each protected by the Boundary. Beyond the Boundary is Outside these enemies are impossibly tall human- a wasteland populated like creatures, with infected feral Echoes. Luckily for MaryAnn, she lives in the Neighbourhood that was once known as Manchester. And she's a rich sharp hungry teeth and privileged Alpharegenerative powers. Although her parents aren't celebrities - which MaryAnn would like, because then she'd be invited Difficult to cooler parties - kill and innumerable they are influential in roam the LightEarth looking for prey, and whilst the Neighbourhood's leadership. So MaryAnn walls have always kept them out, that has designer clothes, servants, and nothing more begun to worry about than bagging a date with peer group kudos. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909776009</amazonuk>change…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Testing 1444944525|author=Joelle Charbonneau|rating=4|genre=Teens|summarytitle=I'll break from my usual reviewing style of starting off with a plot summary here, for reasons which will shortly become obvious, and just start by saying ''The Testing'' is an interesting dystopian read, with a wonderful narrator, which I'd definitely recommend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776535</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Winter DamageSurvival Game|author=Natasha CarthewNicky Singer

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''The moor and all it had got was out there waiting for her in the dark, a cold rock thing, hard as nails.'' But Ennor doesn't see another choice. She has to go. The Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen-year-years old girl lives with her ailing father and autistic brother, Trip, in a trailer is on her way home to the frozen Cornish moorIsle of Arran. EnnorBut Mhairi's mother world has been gone for years - after they lost ravaged by climate change and the farm mass movement of people and Ennor's father turned to drugsit is one defined by borders, she turned checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to religion. And left. But now the country Heathrow - which is falling to piecesmore than can be said for Muma and Papa. There are riots. ThereShe's no money to be earnedeven made it out of the detention centre at the airport. School And during this journey, Mhairi has closed. Father is getting iller. Theylearned that you can're behind t rely on the rent anyone else and eviction is loomingyou can't allow anyone else to rely on you. The social are threatening to take Trip away. There's nothing else for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408835835</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Gordon SmithNorth_84K|title=The Fury: The Director's Cut84K|author=Claire North

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I chose The Fury expecting a zombie novelTheo can, he calculates the worth of each person to the penny. It isn't what I was expecting at all. 'The official press release describes the Fury as ''a zombie book without zombiesCompany''own everything and everyone, including handing out punishments for crime. This book has several things in common with Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the zombie genre; a group of survivorsCriminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, in this case all children struggling to survive against a world that wants to destroy them. Unlike the typical zombie bookwithout emotion, those affected by the fury are not cost of the mindless living deadcrimes filling his inbox. They are ordinary people who go about ordinary lives with one exception. When they get near one of these children they are gripped by an uncontrollable urge to rip them apart, and everyone variables on the planeta spreadsheet, other than a very small group is affected. Parents murder their childrensimple mathematical equation, other children will kill their best friends and total strangers will give up everything the expense of solving the crime added to destroy them. After they how much the victim would have killed them, they will go back contributed to their ordinary livescommunity. The Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world will continue unchanged - at least for nowpay their debt to society in cold hard cash. What makes these children different? Why does the whole world want them dead? Who is infected - and with what?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571303854</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bethany Wiggins0356510700|title=StungEverything About You|author=Heather Child|rating=34|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Fiona wakes 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 confused to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs and disoriented, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. SheFreya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she's ll ever need, right in front of her bedroom but eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her bedroom has never looked like this. It's filthyThe problem is that the personality on the glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. And abandonedFreya is thrown and unsettled by this. Where is Her mum tells her family? And how has she come to have stop using them or at the very least to reset them to a strange tattoo on different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her handsister'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? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0802734189</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan WellsWilson_Extinction|title=FragmentsThe Extinction Trials|author=SM Wilson|rating=54|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I didnStorm 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 died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters't have much hope ', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for this book - a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the middle book in blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It's a series tends to be fillermean, desperate existence for them both and as [[Partials by Dan Wells|Partials]] was so brilliant, I though it was going they are first 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 hard engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to topthe space and abundant food sources Piloria offers. I was very wrong. This book is mind-blowing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007465238</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie BlackmanCurtis_Water|title=Noble ConflictWater & Glass|author=Abi Curtis

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Kaspar believes in the Alliance with Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a whole heart. Who wouldn't? In the face handful of terrorist attacks from animals living below the Crusader Insurgencywaves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, the Alliance's response is non-fatal. Its security forces are equipped with stun guns and captured insurgents are not killed. They're incapacitatedas she remembers recent events, given medical treatment and imprisoned. Guardians like Kaspar are trained to defend themselves against these unprovoked attacks in looks after the least violent way possible. And considering the Crusaders destroyed their own country before attacking Kaspar's, you can see how measured animals and ethical the Alliance's response seemsfalls into a world of intrigue. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385610424</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Chris Wooding|title=Silver|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary='Silver' has a large ant with silver circuits on the cover, and while there are no actual ants in this book, the illustration It is very well suited. This books puts a unique twist on the ever popular zombie genre. Instead of living corpses, we have nanobots which can turn humans into machines. They possess a swarm intelligence similar difficult to ants. This sounds far fetched but a great deal of progress has been made in research currently being conducted with just properly review this in mind - to create nanobots with swarm intelligence - a phenomenon well known in the natural sciences in which a less intelligent organism is capable of highly intelligent behaviour through a hive mindbook without giving too much away. It would There will be impossible for scientists to control hundreds or thousands of nanobots independently - so mild spoilers throughout this right from the idea is start but I will try to control a few and have these control the rest. Of course there would always be safeguards on this type of technology and there were safeguards in avoid the book as well - they just didn't workmain ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124285</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren ShanBeckett_America|title=ZOM-B AngelsAmerica City|author=Chris Beckett

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Ok. I'm going 'America City'' tells the story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to do this for all books help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. Set in this series except the first one22nd century, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, where the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, and the South, which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Before we begin. If you haven't read the first book in Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this series, DON'T read this reviewworking together on the plan they believe to be the solution to the problem of where to place the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms. It contains spoilers}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Featherstone_Paradise|title=Paradise Girl|author=Phill Featherstone|rating=3. Read my review of 5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Kerryl lives far away from the urban twenty-first bookcentury on a remote Yorkshire farm. The farm is high up on a hill and it's a family endeavour - grandparents, read the first book itselfmother, then come backKerryl. If you donThere'ts a market town below but Kerryl's family is concentrated on the farm and the hard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, youthough, is a fiercely bright girl - she'll be sorrys won a place at Cambridge University and is looking forward to going.She loves poetry.. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077643</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lily HerneSutcliffe_See|title=DeadlandsWe See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I was hesitant Lex lives in what used to choose this bookbe London. I love Today, it is a good dystopian future bookclosed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. The problem Drones are a constant presence overhead, food is short and life is, I donhard. But there't define very many s a girl he likes and she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him the job of them as gooddrone pilot. I have read far too many zombie books that really donHe hasn't offer anything different, plenty of blood, gore, and damsels in distress, bombed anyone yet but not enough character developmenthe's hyped up to do it, or logical thoughtwhatever his mother thinks. Psychological horror can be ever so much more chilling than blood and gutsIt's fighting terrorism, but it after all. Alan's observation target is also much more difficult to pull offa high-profile target - a man high up in the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. Sarah and Savannah Lotz, the mother and daughter team who have written this book under the pen name Lily Herne, have managed to do this perfectlyBut Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100905</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma PassRoberts_Real|title=ACIDThe Real-Town Murders|author=Adam Roberts

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The UK is now If you had the choice would you live your life online? In the IRB - Independent Republic of Britain. It's no longer run by elected politiciansfuture, who were completely discredited after a catastrophic financial crash. Insteadthis may be possible, with the IRB is a police state, led by ACID, a fearsomely authoritarian organisation. Marriage has been abandoned in favour development of ''life partnering'' - the state tells you who to live with and whether or not fully realised virtual reality you can have a child. Contact with may feel that the outside online world is forbiddenmore real than your own. Society Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. The only thing is dividedthat with most people online, some of us will have to stay in the real world to deal with unexpected events – such as a tiny wealthy elite and a huge mass of an underclass living in poverty and shortagereal town murder.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=Raid|author=K S Merbeth|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>0552566144</amazonuk>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.

{{newreview|author=Gillian Cross|title=After Tomorrow|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''We were looking at a long line of people trudging down a country road. They were loaded with bundles and backpacks and babies and they all looked miserable and exhausted. Refugees, I thought automatically. But they weren't. They were people like us.'' After ''Armageddon Monday'' - the collapse of all the major banks in the UK - life has become increasingly difficult for Matt and his family. Money is worthless. Food is the main currency. People who have it are resented and hated. They're named and shamed Move on ''hoarder'' websites and subject to violent raids by those who don't. Matt's family has more food than most because they have an allotment and have set up a trading network. But the raiders don't care about ''how'' they got their food. They just want it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756265</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Emerging Readers Reviews]]