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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Bird1836284683|title=The Hunt|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This is Britain after the Very Big Crash. Life is very different, especially if you live in one of the lower suburbs under the Local Government's authority. Cush lives in one such suburb. He works as a detective in the floating Krawczyk building and, though he thinks it himself, is pretty good at his job. His wife Samir doesn't work, even though she'd like to, and spends her days at home reading those most antiquated of things: books. Their son Nim is sixteen and is obsessed with a video game called The Hunt. Cush and Samir fall out constantly over their differing approaches to Nim's obsession.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Philip Martin|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' had access to a time machine, they would be able to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found the likes of [[Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis of the Daleks]] to be too violent, she and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to a prison world, where soon-to-be victims of snuff movies are trapped in a reality-show styled existence, and a hard-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executions, the morgues and worse. If those watching ''Doctor Who'' had the benefit of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differently. They were quite vocal in complaining about a horrific character being a trade delegate who is half-man, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laugh, and such an artificial premise. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHappy|author=Yan Lianke|title=The Four Books|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The Four Books'' is a difficult, challenging novel and not for the feint hearted, or for someone looking for a page-turner. It really challenges the reader's perceptions and opens up a gateway to an era that is difficult to imagine for anyone brought up in a western culture. Set in Maoist China it tells the story of four protagonists and a memorable antagonist. The four, found guilty of anti-revolutionary crimes are undergoing re-education in a work camp governed by the child. With an Orwellian feel, ''The Four Books'' will come to be regarded as an undoubted masterpiece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569493</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Richard Kurti|title= Maladapted|rating= 3|genre=Teens|summary=Cillian isn't an average teenager. He knows he's a mathematical genius, he's already at university studying advanced theory, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he is until he's the sole survivor of a train explosion. With his father is dead and his last words to Cillian a riddle, Cillian's existence is thrown in a whole new light. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Barnes|title=NodDavid Chadwick

|summary=For anyone who has suffered from insomnia, the idea of a world with no sleep is an unsettling place as it feels so real. The thought of having to drag yourself to work after a night with no sleep is bad enough, but what about two nights, or three, or four? Society will crumble if everyone missed five meals in a row, but what would happen if we all missed five nights of sleep? If you end up in the land of Nod, we are all in trouble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298227</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= The Philosopher Kings|rating= 3.5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Twenty years have passed since the Goddess Athene founded the Just City. The god Apollo Well! This is still living there, albeit in human form. Now married, and the father of several children, the man/god struggles to cope when tragedy befalls his family. Beset by grief and a need for revenge, Apollo sets sail to find the man who caused him such pain, but discovers something that may change everything…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150791</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jim Carrington|title=Boy 23|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Boy 23 isn't in My Place murder mystery unlike any more. He can't see The Screen, he can't hear The Voice. Boy 23 is alone.''other!

Before being dumped alone in the forest by The VoiceI do love it when I open a book, Boy 23 - or Jesperit's nothing like I expected it to be, as we shall call him - has lived in and it takes me on a room entirely by himselfwild ride. He has never met another human being or been outsideAnd that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. His only experience of the world has been through a few short video clips, shown I don't want to him on his Screen by The Voice in My Place. Now, he finds himself alone with only ruin a bag full similar experience for any of survival equipment and some brief words from The Voice: his life is in danger, people you reading but I'll have been sent to kill him, he must head north west to at least set the Low Countriesscene. Once that's done, The Voice will meet him there and explain everythingI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kenneth CalhounB0DB64PYV5|title= Black MoonThe White Rose|author=Dave Baines|rating= 54|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Do you ever have those nights when you hear every chime of the clockIn 2033, when you watch the shadows move round the room painfully slowly a superstorm known as the moon crosses White Rose devastates the sky? Thankfully I have very few of thoseNorthern Hemisphere. I know And it's not a storm that gathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. Instead, it hovers across half the thing most likely to keep you awake is the worrying about the fact that you're Earth with its octopus-like tentacles, not asleep, giving up and I have distraction mechanisms for when I need themnever going away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Aldous HuxleyKay Chronister|title= After Many A SummerDesert Creatures

|summary= Like many of usWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, I suspectpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, I knew nothing of Huxley other than the "required reading" a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Brave New WorldDesert Creatures''by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. Naturally, on It is a shocking novel that basis alone, he was pigeon-holed in my head under the heading ''Sci-fi - must check out further''still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul McAuleyThomas D Lee|title= ConfluencePerilous Times|rating= 53|genre= Dystopian FictionFantasy|summary=Yama ''Hate is a foundling orphan adopted as a baby by the Aedile (chief civil servant) path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, in a small city downriver of world on the mighty, ancient city verge of Ysclimate collapse, capital of Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the manday and rescue what little remains. What no-made world one expected was that one of Confluence. Longing to become a soldier and take his late brother's place in the long-running war against Knights of the heretics, Round Table would answer the restless seventeen year old is about to be taken as an apprentice clerk despite his young age, to keep him out of trouble. Destiny, however, has other plans for himcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057511942X</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ryan GraudinB0BQXSYYTF|title=The Walled CityJust Looking|author=Matthew Tree|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensDystopian Fiction|summary= In It was the walled city summer of Hak Nam2035 and on a cruise ship in Marseilles, there are three rules; run fast, trust no one, and always carry your knife. In streets controlled by vicious Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and sadistic drug lords, three individuals all seek something. Dai seeks information on the criminal brotherhood which employs him, lest he be imprisoned. Jin Ling seeks her sister end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the Walled Citysame sentence by a man! He's brothels, evading watching the roaming streettornado -gangs as she goes. Mei Yee, trapped they're more common in a brothel Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in the city port and forced falls into sexual relations conversation with the twoJean-faced Ambassador OsamuPierre, desperately seeks freedoma French journalist in his thirties. The three have just eighteen days to accomplish this 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 officials of Seng Ngoi plan difference between 'France' and 'the French'. His partner, Helen, who's English and Jewish, keeps him in check to evict all residents of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>some extent.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo WaltonSusi Holliday |title= The Just CityLast Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop

|genre= Dystopian FictionTeens|summary=Urged on 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 her brother Apollomachines, goddess Pallas Athene founds The Loop follows the Just City precarious existence of Atlantis – adolescent Luka Kane. In a city based on Plato’s republic. Filling it with an assortments world of adults collected from throughout timeHave and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one of whom he is trapped inside a disguised Apollo)living hell with no chance of escape. Whilst the city flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to be a fly in trigger held by the ointment…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jon A Davidson|title=System: With guards who can end his face in the sun|rating=3life with one squeeze.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Wallace Blair, like everyone else, Luka is used taunted by limited access to the benefits his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a life guided by The Systemgruelling daily torture ritual. After all, The System knows best. However Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is somewhat dismayed when a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he wakes to a System message is in despair. His prison is based on his Commcuff informing him that his happy marriage is about the model of an infinity loop designed to be dissolved and that's not his make its inmates suffer. With the only concern. After glimmers of hope being sent to retrieve papers from his grandfather's housethe rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, Wallace reflects on how long it's can Luka ever be free? Why has he been since imprisoned? What waits for him if he's seen can break the old man. Wallace decides to drop in on him but what should be a trip to an elderly care facility takes him down an unexpected path.loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1511491094</amazonuk>1912626551

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tommy WallachMargaret Atwood|title=We All Looked UpThe Testaments

|summary=Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The subject and title of Catherine ChanterHandmaid's Tale]]. I don't want to tell you too much about the plot because it's debut 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 country idyll of which dreams are madevan, not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: charmingly ramshackleAunt Lydia, who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, disarmingly verdant and heaving a girl brought up in Gilead with fertile acreage. Ruth and Mark can barely believe their luck at finding this perfect retreatthe expectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, an oasis a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from their tired school lessons and overwrought City existence. Several months down the road and with its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the entire nation brought to its knees store owned by an almost apocalyptic drought, Ruth and Mark are beginning to question their good fortune in their ownership of The Wellher parents...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782113606</amazonuk>1784742325

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teri Terry1789018870|title=Mind GamesSomething to Tell You|author=David Edwards

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Luna is Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a Refuserlong time. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the families got on. In her world Bert's wife, Natalia, a Refuser is a kind of cross between a conscientious objector was Russian and a Ludditeseriously rich. In this post WW3 Britain Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, almost everyone has went to a brain implant which private boarding school, but at weekends they use to spend most 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 their lives in them, until Sam - a virtual environmentparticle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. People don It't just play in s enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to drag the vast array head of games: they work, they learnCERN, they date. Even hacking is encouraged. And those who opt outProf Ralph Moyeur, like Luna, are shut out of the best careers and viewed a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with suspiciona plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Honeywell1789550149|title=The ShipPoster Boy|author=N J Crosskey|rating=45|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Sixteen year old Lalla has spent her life I first read 1984 in London – mostly inside her family homeschool, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Because this is Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not the London of today, or any other day(quite) come to pass. When Lalla was seven, the apocalypse arrived; banks crashed Others, flood defences failedI think, power failed – and were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the world could only focus date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on survivalthe nightmare. Now If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the Nazareth Act is in force and without your identity cardfuture are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, you don’t exist – literally, as you will I suspect it might hardly be shot if you donin the future at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy''t produce is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep itfar from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality".|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871498</amazonuk> My only response to that is: too late!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Suarez0241349176|title=InfluxThe Last|author=Hanna Jameson

|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary=We are told to never judge Jon Keller is in a book by its cover and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the frontworld ends. Since He has no idea if his debut novelfamily is alive, he has no idea what's going on in the nearest city, all or if the Daniel Suarez books I have read had a quote suggesting that he was nearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, amid the legitimate heir mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to Michael Crichton. To compare your work with one of stay at the best techno thriller writers of all time is never going hotel rather than attempt to get to be easy the airport and time after timehome. He's not alone, Suarez fell shorttwenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. That is until InfluxOne day, when helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the body of a book that finally puts Suarez in girl deemed to have been killed before the same illustrious company world ended. The community descends into a deep mistrust as CrichtonJon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Thompson Walker1473203287|title=The Age of MiraclesSummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=''The Age of Miracles'' Imagine a world in which death was one of those much-talked about books that I never got the time no longer something to read on its first go around. I'm not sure how I managed that, fear but I didsomething to aspire to. AnywayAfter the discovery of the afterlife, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it the British Empire has dystopian themesextended its reach into Summerland, so it the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is right caught up my alley and not the sort of thing I'd usually miss. And so, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided to reissue it for in a YA market race against Soviet spies and even happier that they decided to send me dealing with a copy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peyton Marshall |title=Goodhouse|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=There have been times mole buried deep in history when governments have thought they knew who the criminal underclass was. This did not lead to anything good under the Nazis and the same can be said heart of the Goodhouse regimeSummerland. If we knew that certain genetics led to When Rachel White, an increased chance of criminalityambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, wouldn’t educating these people when they were young be a good thing? Prevention she must decide how far she is better than cure, but I am not sure if fascism willing to go and how much she iswilling to risk to uncover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085752190X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leanne Hall1683690613|title=This is ShynessGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan)|author=Rachel Aaron

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''This is ShynessYou want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, but that' is s an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirl, two strangers who meet in a pub in the town of Shynessillusion. The teenagers So long as there are drawn together, each adopting a different identity so for the night they can be anyone but themselves.titans out there… no one is safe''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Remaining: Aftermath|author=D J Molles|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=A week is a long time in politicsIn the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, but it feels infinitely longer in a zombie apocalypse. ''The Remaining'' started a new series humanity hides behind the safety of books that followed trained military expert Captain Lee Harden and his mission high impenetrable walls to rebuild America should keep out the undead hit the fanenemies outside. As an introductionKnown as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human-like creatures, [[The Remaining by D J Molles|The Remaining]] did a great job in creating the world with sharp hungry teeth and exploring Harden’s tenacity to stick regenerative powers. Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the missionEarth looking for prey, but it ended so abruptly. ''The Remaining: Aftermath'' picks up moments later and continues whilst the talewalls have always kept them out, but does it still deliver a week into his mission?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650347X</amazonuk>that has begun to change…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1444944525|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)The Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The city Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. But Mhairi's world has been rebuilt for war. The waves ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows people and it is more devastatingone defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow Not only that but also the flood of refugees surging in daily - which is as much of a problem as a resourcemore than can be said for Muma and Papa. Actually in one or two cases the word She'problem' is a bit s even made it out of an understatementthe detention centre at the airport. In the middle of And during this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best to fight and survivejourney, although survival doesnMhairi has learned that you can't look like an option once they realise they have to go into the enemyrely on anyone else and you can's hive and bring the battle t allow anyone else to the cyborgsrely on you...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=North_84K|title=Sand84K|author=Hugh HoweyClaire North

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=World building in science fiction is easier said than doneTheo can, he calculates the worth of each person to the penny. How can you design a completely foreign place ''The Company'' own everything and explain it all 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 your readeravoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a spreadsheet, whilst still writing a compelling narrative? If you are an author such as Hugh Howeysimple mathematical equation, the answer is with consummate ease. Howey has already got expense of solving the fabulous ‘Wool’ trilogy under his belt and following this up was always going crime added to be how much the difficult second album syndromevictim would have contributed to their community. Well, be prepared Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to be sucked quickly into ‘Sand’, his new novelsociety in cold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893183</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=Seven Second DelayEverything About You|author=Tom EastonHeather Child|rating=3.54|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=In the future, the difference between West 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 East are greater than ever, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Europe has evolved into Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the (British) Isles and latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the (E)Uinformation she'll ever need, linked right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a bridge, and immigrants risk everything personality to pass from guide her. The problem is that the third world 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 latter very least to the first world of the formerreset them to a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Mila has made it across, but the danger Hearing her sister's voice again is not overlike she's right there, and as although she falls into the hands knows this is just Ruby's data, part of the AgentsFreya can't believe that it can be this accurate, she realises the real price of freedomit can't be this Ruby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wilson_Extinction|title=Mutant CityThe Extinction Trials|author=Steve FeaseySM Wilson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=After Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a devastating chemical war, the world continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is slowly rebuilding itselfscarce and energy and food are rationed. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers Education is minimal andmostly focused around searching for new, when they re-emergedefficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, built six cities so she lives in which 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 genetically pure live in luxury blistering disease and comforthe has no access to the healthcare that could save her. But outside It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the city walls, everything Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is very differentto 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.. The survivors there are mutants, fighting for survival in degrading, impoverished circumstances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Riot|author=Sarah Mussi|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It is 2018 and Britain is still in recession. Years of austerity have devastated the country. Banks are going under. Unemployment is rising. The cost of welfare is soaring. Prisons are overflowing. And the population is still rising. Something has to give. The solution? Forced sterilisation of all school-leavers without a secured place in higher education or a guarantee of employment. The programme has started with prisoners but the legislation to roll it out across the population is about to go through parliament. Unsurprisingly, there is a growing popular protest against it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCurtis_Water|title=The GiverWater & Glass|author=Lois LowryAbi Curtis

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Jonas lives in a world were sameness Something has prevailed over individuality. There are rules, so many rules, which are adhered to, and which allow society to live without pain, suffering or conflict. These rules are rarely questioned, merely accepted. When they turn twelve, children in this world are assigned their future role in society by the Eldershappened, something very nasty and start training for it. These assignments are based on years of observation of their characters and aptitudes, and whether they are assigned to be a nurturer submarine a pregnant elephant is one of the young or only a caregiver handful of animals living below the elderlywaves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a labourer who keeps vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the streets clean or someone who prepares animals and provides food, they are usually falls into a good match for the personworld of intrigue. At the assignment ceremony, Jonas  It is not given a typical role, however. He is selected difficult to be the Receiver of Memory, a position given out only once every few generationsproperly review this book without giving too much away. He There will receive and store all be mild spoilers throughout this right from the memories of the past which the rest of society are no longer burdened with, start but which may be needed from time I will try to time to aid in decision making and law enforcementavoid the main ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Beckett_America|title=GoddessAmerica City|author=Laura PowellChris Beckett

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=After ''America City'' tells the story of Holly, an economic collapse, Britain is close ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to breaking point. Citizens are going hungry and there are riotshelp the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as a handmaiden Set in the Cult 22nd century, the novel tells of Artemis. In this Britainan incredibly disunited United States, where the beliefs effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the Ancient Greeks persevere affluent Northern States, and are followed by millions - the cult sits side South, which is frequently ravaged by side with Christianity as a mainstream religionextreme weather. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up by Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this, working together on the plan they believe to be the suffering outside solution to the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite problem of where to take over place the position thousands of head priestess when Opis retiresAmericans who have been made homeless by devastating storms. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=ZOM-B Mission|author=Darren Shan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Have an obligatory warning about possible spoilers for the series so far. If you don't want any, then run along and read our review of the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]]. Otherwise, read this review at your own risk.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFeatherstone_Paradise|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The ExplorersParadise Girl|author=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc RochettePhill Featherstone|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsDystopian Fiction |summary=All of humankind is living on a single train. Oh sorry, as this is Kerryl lives far away from the sequel, make that two trains. Launched on the same tracks as the original Snowpiercer, but clearly at a slight remove, was a second mileurban twenty-long behemoth of a train, designed with the latest high tech to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly first century on the tracks encircling a frozen Earth, waiting for the time the world was inhabitable once moreremote Yorkshire farm. But the The farm is high tech on board, complete with lemon farms, and differing qualities of virtual holidays depending on cost and class of customer, has not put paid to one aspect of society – and in fact the sole aspect of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette|the first book]] – religion. Some people are fearing the end time, when the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpiercer. Some believe they're duped into the whole train idea, and are in fact up on a spacecraft. Some people know something else – the rare few explorers who get to go outside the train into the world beyond, hill and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Shattered (Slated Trilogy) |author=Teri Terry|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Kyla - or is she Lucy? or Rain? or Riley? - was it''slated'' as s a teen criminal in Lorderfamily endeavour -run Britain. All memory of her past life was erased and she was sent to live with a new foster familygrandparents, mother, controlled by a wrist bracelet that could kill her if she stepped out of lineKerryl. But that was some time ago. Since then, some of KylaThere's memories have resurfaced and she has discovered that she isn't a run-of-the-mill Slated. Used as a weapon by an anti-Lorder terrorist group, Kylamarket town below but Kerryl's brain has been messed with in more than one way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319500</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The Escape|author=Jacques Lob family is concentrated on the farm and Jean-Marc Rochette|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=All of humankind is the hard but beautiful living on a single trainassociated with it. I know British commuters feel that way at timesKerryl, though, but this is a much different circumstance – it is a train miles long, running nonfiercely bright girl -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. Itshe's certainly been going on long enough for it to have won a culture – a hierarchical society from the rich place at Cambridge University and leisured classes near the front, through the orgiasts, past the useful carriages set aside for producing food, is looking forward to the underclass at the endgoing. It's all set in its routine, set in motionShe loves poetry. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Sutcliffe_See|title=The One Safe PlaceWe See Everything|author=Tania UnsworthWilliam Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Devin Lex lives on in what used to be London. Today, it is a farm with his grandfatherclosed-off, away from the rest of the worldbombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. He knows Drones are a little about it – how the gap between rich constant presence overhead, food is short and poor life is far wider than the world we live in, hard. But there's a girl he likes and how many children now live on the street, scavenging for scraps to say aliveshe can make him forget almost anything. But, he’s never been that concernedAlan spends all his time watching The Strip. On His talent as a gamer got him the farm the life is a simple one, job of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but they can grow enough food he's hyped up to get bydo it, and they’re happywhatever his mother thinks. When tragedy strikesIt's fighting terrorism, Devin after all. Alan's observation target is forced to leave his home and venture into a high-profile target - a man high up in the city for the first timeresistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=Warm BodiesThe Real-Town Murders|author=Isaac MarionAdam Roberts|rating=53|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Warm Bodies 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 If you had the choice would you live your life online? In the power of thought than mostfuture, and Julie, a feisty and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about others. In shortthis may be possible, R has far more humanity than with the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the traits that I feel truly make us human in a online world where kindness and unselfish love have become even is more endangered real than the human race itselfyour own. Two other characters are important to this storyline, ''M'', R's best friend and Nora, Julie's closest friend and confidantEven today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. I especially liked NoraThe only thing is that with most people online, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing some of us will have to stay in the real world to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points deal with unexpected events – such as wella real town murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm BodiesRaid|author=Isaac MarionK S Merbeth|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I normally review A brutal road trip in a book within a day or two of finishing itblighted landscape that pulls no punches. I couldn't We travel with this one. I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied with the endingClementine, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequelbounty hunter, and most of the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre endingworld without heroes or hope. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the author's first book. After reading it 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 read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>