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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul BirdB0DB64PYV5|title=The HuntWhite Rose|author=Dave Baines
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|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=This is Britain after the Very Big Crash. Life is very differentIn 2033, especially if you live in one of a superstorm known as the lower suburbs under White Rose devastates the Local GovernmentNorthern Hemisphere. And it's authority. Cush lives in one such suburb. He works as not a detective in the floating Krawczyk building andstorm that gathers, though he thinks it himselfwreaks havoc, is pretty good at his jobthen dissipates. His wife Samir doesn't workInstead, even though she'd it hovers across half the Earth with its octopus-like totentacles, not giving up 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 obsessionnever going away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip MartinKay Chronister|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' had access to With a time machineworld that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, they would be able to temper all their responsespost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. 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 violentWhether it is a robotic takeover, she and her coterie had no idea the series would soon turn to a prison world, where soon-to-be victims devoid of snuff movies are trapped in water or a reality-show styled existencenuclear holocaust, and this genre is a hard-done-by populous are sat at home doing nothing other than watching the feeds from the executions, the morgues and worseway for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. If those watching ''Doctor WhoDesert Creatures'' had by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the benefit of foresight they might have responded to ''Vengeance on Varos'' differentlyfears that exist for humanity today. They were quite vocal in complaining about It is a horrific character being a trade delegate who is half-man, half-slug and wholly stupid evil laugh, and such an artificial premiseshocking novel that still manages to find hope. Little did they know the series would soon lumber people with Bonnie Langford, and aliens looking like liquorice bleeding allsorts…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940406</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yan LiankeThomas D Lee|title=The Four BooksPerilous Times|rating=53|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary=''The Four BooksHate is the path of least resistance'' is a difficult, challenging novel and not for Set in the feint heartednear-distant future, or for someone looking for in a page-turner. It really challenges world on the reader's perceptions and opens up a gateway to an era that verge of climate collapse, Britain is difficult to imagine for anyone brought up in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a western culture. Set in Maoist China it tells hero (or several) to save the story of four protagonists day and a memorable antagonistrescue what little remains. The four, found guilty What no-one expected was that one of the Knights 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 masterpieceRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099569493</amazonuk>0356518523
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Richard KurtiB0BQXSYYTF|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>}}{{newreviewJust Looking|author=Adrian Barnes|title=NodMatthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=For anyone who has suffered from insomniaIt was the summer of 2035 and on a cruise ship in Marseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the idea end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a world 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 no sleep is an unsettling place as it feels so realJean-Pierre, a French journalist in his thirties. The thought of having to drag yourself to work after He writes for a night with no sleep is bad enoughrelatively new paper, but what about two nights, or three, or four? Society will crumble the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if everyone missed five meals in a rowlittle wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'. His partner, but what would happen if we all missed five nights of sleep? If you end up in the land of NodHelen, who's English and Jewish, we are all keeps him in troublecheck to some extent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298227</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo WaltonSusi Holliday |title= The Philosopher KingsLast Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop
|rating= 3.5
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|summary= In Set during the walled city aftermath of a Third World War where methods of Hak Nam, there are three rules; run fast, trust no one, and always carry your knife. In streets controlled by vicious and sadistic drug lords, three individuals all seek something. Dai seeks information on the punishment for criminal brotherhood which employs him, lest he be imprisoned. Jin Ling seeks her sister in the Walled City's brothels, evading the roaming street-gangs as she goes. Mei Yee, trapped in activities have been amped up to a brothel in the city and forced into sexual relations with the two-faced Ambassador Osamuhorrific level by machines, desperately seeks freedom. The three have just eighteen days to accomplish this, as Loop follows the officials of Seng Ngoi plan to evict all residents precarious existence of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= The Just City|rating= 3adolescent Luka Kane.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Urged on by her brother Apollo, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – 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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tommy WallachMargaret Atwood|title=We All Looked UpThe 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 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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teri Terry1789018870|title=Mind GamesSomething to Tell You|author=David Edwards
|rating=4
|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>
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{{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!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Suarez0241349176|title=InfluxThe Last|author=Hanna Jameson
|rating=5
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Thompson Walker1473203287|title=The Age of MiraclesSummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi
|rating=4
|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 in a race against Soviet spies and not dealing with a mole buried deep in the sort heart of thing I'd usually missSummerland. And soWhen Rachel White, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to reissue it for a YA market go and even happier that they decided how much she is willing to send me a copyrisk to uncover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peyton Marshall 1683690613|title=Goodhouse|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=There have been times 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 of the Goodhouse regime. If we knew that certain genetics led to an increased chance of criminality, wouldn’t educating these people when they were young be a good thing? Prevention is better than cure, but I am not sure if fascism is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085752190X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan)|author=Leanne Hall|title=This is ShynessRachel Aaron
|rating=4.5
|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…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1444944525|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)The Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer
|rating=5
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=North_84K|title=Sand84K|author=Hugh HoweyClaire North
|rating=5
|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>
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{{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?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wilson_Extinction|title=Mutant CityThe Extinction Trials|author=Steve FeaseySM Wilson
|rating=4
|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 itself. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers scarce and, when they re-emerged, built six cities in which the genetically pure live in luxury energy and comfortfood are rationed. But outside the city walls, everything Education is very different. The survivors there are mutants, fighting minimal and mostly focused around searching for survival in degradingnew, impoverished circumstancesefficient food sources.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Riot|author=Sarah Mussi|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It is 2018 Storm's mother has died and Britain is still she never knew her father, so she lives in recession. Years one of austerity have devastated the country. Banks are going underEarthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Unemployment Lincoln's sister is rising. The cost of welfare is soaring. Prisons are overflowing. And dying from the population is still rising. Something blistering disease and he has no access to givethe healthcare that could save her. The solution? Forced sterilisation of all school-leavers without It's a secured place in higher education or mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a guarantee new mission to the neighbouring continent of employmentPiloria. The programme has started with prisoners but aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the legislation citizens of Earthasia will have access to roll it out across the population is about to go through parliamentspace and abundant food sources Piloria offers.. Unsurprisingly, there is a growing popular protest against it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Curtis_Water|title=The GiverWater & Glass|author=Lois LowryAbi Curtis
|rating=5
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Beckett_America|title=GoddessAmerica City|author=Laura PowellChris Beckett
|rating=4
|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 pointhelp the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. Citizens are going hungry 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 there are riots. But Aura the South, which is shielded from it all frequently ravaged by her position as a handmaiden in the Cult of Artemisextreme weather. In Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this Britain, working together on the plan they believe to be the solution to the beliefs problem of where to place the Ancient Greeks persevere and are followed thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by millions devastating storms.}}{{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- the cult sits side by side with Christianity as first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. The farm is high up on a hill and it's a mainstream religionfamily endeavour - grandparents, mother, Kerryl. AuraThere's thoughts arena market town below but Kerryl't taken up by s family is concentrated on the suffering outside farm and the sanctuary hard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, though , is a fiercely bright girl - theyshe're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite s won a place at Cambridge University and is looking forward to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retiresgoing. She loves poetry. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Sutcliffe_See|title=ZOM-B MissionWe See Everything|author=Darren ShanWilliam Sutcliffe|rating=45|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=OkLex 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. Have an obligatory warning about possible spoilers for His talent as a gamer got him the series so farjob of drone pilot. If you donHe hasn't want anybombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it, whatever his mother thinks. It's fighting terrorism, then run along and read our review of after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]]resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. Otherwise, read this review at your own riskBut Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 The Real- The ExplorersTown Murders|author=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc RochetteAdam Roberts|rating=4.53|genre=Graphic NovelsDystopian Fiction |summary=All of humankind is living on a single train. Oh sorry, as this is If you had the sequel, make that two trains. Launched on choice would you live your life online? In the same tracks as the original Snowpiercerfuture, but clearly at a slight removethis may be possible, was a second mile-long behemoth of a train, designed with the latest high tech to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly on the tracks encircling a frozen Earth, waiting for the time development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the online world was inhabitable once is morereal than your own. But the high tech on board, complete Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. The only thing is that with lemon farmsmost people online, and differing qualities some of virtual holidays depending on cost and class of customer, has not put paid us will have to one aspect of society – and stay 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]] real world to deal with unexpected events – 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 on such as a spacecraftreal town murder. Some people know something else – the rare few explorers who get to go outside the train into the world beyond, and see glimpses of what came before…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=Shattered (Slated Trilogy) Raid|author=Teri TerryK S Merbeth
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Kyla - or is she Lucy? or Rain? or Riley? - was ''slated'' as a teen criminal A brutal road trip in Lorder-run Britain. All memory of her past life was erased and she was sent to live with a new foster family, controlled by a wrist bracelet blighted landscape that could kill her if she stepped out of linepulls no punches. But that was some time ago. Since thenWe travel with Clementine, some of Kyla'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 groupbounty hunter, Kyla's brain has been messed with in more than one waya world without heroes or hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319500</amazonuk>
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