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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]]__NOTOC__ <{{Frontpage|isbn=1836284683|title=The Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other!-- Remove -->
|rating= 4
|genre= Dystopian Fiction
|summary= In With a different worldthat is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, women are bred to be beautiful, manpost-serving and submissive, little more than pretty faces on walking reproductive machinesapocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. All the intelligentWhether it is a robotic takeover, independent women are being removed from the gene pool through forced sterilisationa world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, compelled this genre is a way for humans to while away cathartically experience their days doing menial jobs until the blessed end comesmost existential fears. To the world, Vanna ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is one a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the former, an eloi with few rights and of whom there are few expectations beyond being well groomed and keeping her man well fedfears that exist for humanity today. But she has It is a secret – she is not dim at allshocking novel that still manages to find hope. She |isbn=1803364998}}{{Frontpage|author=Thomas D Lee|title=Perilous Times|rating=3|genre= Fantasy|summary= ''Hate is one the path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the clever onesverge of climate collapse, who Britain is playing dumb to further her causein great peril. In between her college courses in good housekeeping, The British Isles desperately needs a hero (which she's flunking, or several) to perfection), she has save the small matter day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of a drug addiction to feed, and the mystery Knights of her true-eloi sister's disappearance to solvethe Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1611855373</amazonuk>0356518523
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF|title=Just Looking|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=It was the summer of 2035 and on a cruise ship in Marseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! He's watching the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, a French journalist in his thirties. He writes for a relatively new paper, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'. His partner, Helen, who's English and Jewish, keeps him in check to some extent.}}{{Frontpage|author= Susi Holliday |title= The Last Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|author=Ryan GraudinBen Oliver|title=Blood 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 Bloodhim 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
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|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction |summary=Second Sam Murray and final book in sequence set in Bert Leinster had been friends for a world where Germany won WW2 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 Nazi experiments on Jewish Josh, went to a private boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children has produced shapeshifting humans, Liam and Hannah. Sam's wife, Briony, was head of product research at Nestlé. Can Yael defeat 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 Wehrmacht? Interestingearth had risen exponentially. It's enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to drag the head of CERN, moving and absorbingProf Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=Poster Boy|author=N J Crosskey|rating=5|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>Dystopian Fiction |summary=I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: too late!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=The CallLast|author=Peadar o GuilinHanna Jameson
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The Aes Sidhe are back. And Jon Keller is in their quest to win back Ireland from humankind, they have placed a magical seal around hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the entire islandworld ends. Nobody can get He has no idea if his family is alive, he has no idea what's going on in the nearest city, or outif the nearest city has been obliterated. North? South? Doesn't matter any moreShocked, amid the mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and home. What does matter is ''The Call'He's not alone, twenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. At some point during adolescenceOne day, every teenager is transported to when helping the Sidhe realmhotel manager, that grey, colourless land Jon finds the body of a girl deemed to which they were banished thousands of years have been killed beforethe world ended. If they can evade The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes in truth about what is possibly the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children survivelast community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian J Walker1473203287|title=The End of the World Running ClubSummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction |summary=When Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After the end discovery of the world as we know it comesafterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, Edgar the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, and caught up in a panic, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellar, race against Soviet spies and then he and his family eke out dealing with a nightmarish existence mole buried deep in the dark until their supplies run outheart of Summerland. Fortunately they are luckyWhen Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, and they are rescued from becomes suspicious about the cellar. As they emerge back into the world they see the ruin potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and disaster around them, caused by hundreds of large asteroids hitting how much she is willing to risk to uncover the earthtruth. Large areas of the country have been destroyed}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1683690613|title=Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan)|author=Rachel Aaron|rating=4. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses and towns, turning feral, trying to find what5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=''s left You want me to help them to survive. Edgarbe like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it's family are rescued by a small remaining army unitsafe, but he and his wife and children become separated, and so begins Edgarthat's desperate race an illusion. So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe'' In the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to reach his loved oneskeep out the enemies outside. Known as titans, who these enemies are hundreds of miles awayimpossibly tall human-like creatures, before with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. Difficult to kill and innumerable they leave on an evacuation ship roam the Earth looking for another country.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>prey, and whilst the walls have always kept them out, that has begun to change…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1444944525|title=The Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. She's even made it out of the detention centre at the airport. And during this journey, Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to rely on you...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=North_84K|title=Children 84K|author=Claire North|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Theo can, he calculates the worth of each person to the penny. ''The Company'' own everything and everyone, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the cost of Icarusthe crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, the expense of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=Everything About You|author=Caighlan SmithHeather Child
|rating=4
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambitionIn the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. They pray to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between the ages of ten is here and sixteen who will enter the labyrinthit is all around you. It fills your fridge, find their way through it keeps up to Alyssia, date with your friends and become angelsfulfils your wishes. Every child yearns to be chosenIt is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. ClaraFreya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, our girlglasses which give her all the information she's best friendll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her. The problem is that the most devout personality on the glasses is that of everyoneher missing and presumed dead sister. She knows she Freya is destined thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very least to reset them to become an angela different personality. Our girl, though, does not want to be chosenBut Freya just can't do this. In Hearing her societysister's voice again is like she's right there, and although she knows this is such a badge just Ruby's data, part of shame Freya can't believe that she keeps silentit can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby. And, along with Clara, chosen she Is it just possible that something more is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>feeding this personality than Ruby's data?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Wilson_Extinction
|title=The Extinction Trials
|author=SM Wilson
|rating=4
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and 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'', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so 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 engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Curtis_Water
|title=Water & Glass
|author=Abi Curtis
|rating=5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue.
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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Beckett_America
|title=America City
|author=Chris Beckett
|rating=4
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=''America City'' tells the story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. Set in the 22nd 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. Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this, working 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.
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{{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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Sutcliffe_See
|title=We See Everything
|author=William Sutcliffe
|rating=5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=Lex lives in what used to be London. Today, it is a closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are a constant presence overhead, food is short and life is hard. But there's a girl he likes and 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 drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it, whatever his mother thinks. It's fighting terrorism, after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Roberts_Real
|title=The Real-Town Murders
|author=Adam Roberts
|rating=3
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=If you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, this may be possible, with the development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the online world is more real than your own. Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. The only thing is that with most people online, some of us will have to stay in the real world to deal with unexpected events – such as a real town murder.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Merbeth_Raid
|title=Raid
|author=K S Merbeth
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=A brutal road trip in a blighted landscape that pulls no punches. We travel with Clementine, a bounty hunter, in a world without heroes or hope.
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