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|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 sterilisation, compelled to while away their days doing menial jobs until the blessed end comes. To the a world, Vanna is one of the former, an eloi with few rights and devoid of whom there are few expectations beyond being well groomed and keeping her man well fed. But she has water or a secret – she is not dim at all. She is one of the clever onesnuclear holocaust, who this genre is playing dumb a way for humans to further her causecathartically experience their most existential fears. In between her college courses in good housekeeping, (which she's flunking, to perfection), she has the small matter of 'Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a drug addiction to feed, and the mystery new work of her truepost-eloi sister's disappearance apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to solvefind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1611855373</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan GraudinThomas D Lee|title=Blood for BloodPerilous Times|rating=43|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Second and final book ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in sequence set the near-distant future, in a world where Germany won WW2 and Nazi experiments on Jewish children has produced shapeshifting humansthe verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. Can Yael defeat The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the Wehrmacht? Interesting, moving day and absorbingrescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>0356518523

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF|title=The CallJust Looking|author=Peadar o GuilinMatthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=The Aes Sidhe are back. And It was the summer of 2035 and on a cruise ship in their quest to win back Ireland from humankindMarseilles, 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 have placed 're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, a magical seal around the entire island. Nobody can get French journalist in or outhis thirties. North? South? Doesn He writes for a relatively new paper, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he't matter any more. What does matter is s interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France'The Calland 'the French'. At some point during adolescence His partner, every teenager is transported to the Sidhe realmHelen, that greywho's English and Jewish, colourless land keeps him in check to which they were banished thousands of years before. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes in the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children survivesome extent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adrian J WalkerSusi Holliday |title=The End of the World Running ClubLast Resort |rating=43.5 |genre=Thrillers|summary=When the end 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 world as we know it comesmysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, Edgar is totally unprepared. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrowssocial media influencer, gossip columnist and in hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a panic, he throws random items, including his daughter, down into his cellarmystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and then he each other's histories and his family eke out it becomes clear that they all have a nightmarish existence in the dark until their supplies run outsecret they would rather keep hidden. Fortunately they As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are luckyrevealed, and they are rescued from the cellarit soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. As they emerge back into In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the world they see reason for her attendance and protect the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds rest of large asteroids hitting the earthguests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop|rating= 3. Large areas 5|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the aftermath of the country a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been destroyedamped up to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. Groups In a world of people left alive scavenge houses Have and townsHave Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, turning feral, trying he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to find what's left to help them to survivea trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Edgar's family are rescued Luka is taunted by a small remaining army unit, but he and limited access to his wife memories and children become separated, and so begins Edgar's desperate race relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to reach his loved ones, who are hundreds Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of miles away, before they leave execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an evacuation ship 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 another country.him if he can break the loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>1912626551

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Children of IcarusMargaret Atwood|authortitle=Caighlan SmithThe Testaments|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=DaedalumFinally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's children have one collective ambitionTale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. They pray I don't want to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between tell you too much about the ages of ten and sixteen who will enter the labyrinth, find their way through plot because it to Alyssia, and become angels. Every child yearns to be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. Clara, our girl's best friend, a novel that is the most devout of everyoneentirely plot driven. She knows she is destined Suffice it to become an angel. Our girlsay that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, thoughfifteen years after Offred gets into a van, does not want to be chosenknowing what will happen next. In It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is secretly writing her societymemoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a girl brought up in Gilead with the expectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, this is such a badge rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of shame that she keeps silentGilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the store owned by her parents.. And, along with Clara, chosen she is.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>1784742325

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Mayo1789018870|title=BlameSomething to Tell You|author=David Edwards

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''A small hand in hersSam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was Sam'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothings boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the families got on. Bert'' These tender words show the situations wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Ant (a teenaged girl) Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and in Josh, went to a prison – HMP Londonprivate boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, no lessLiam and Hannah. Since the death of the EU and a huge, all-conquering recessionSam's wife, people are being imprisoned leftBriony, right and centre was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for the crimes all eight of their parents and their parents in turnthem, meaning anyone with any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that might have taken money away from the common good is having their children imprisonedrate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. And even though Ant It's enough of a problem for Sam and Mattie are ''legitimately'' in there, due Bert to their parents' activitiesdrag the head of CERN, they've since been adopted by people who have themselves been accused and imprisonedProf Ralph Moyeur, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as the worst criminal out of a family in Britainlunch. Surely, then, there's no hope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=Concentr8Poster Boy|author=William SutcliffeN J Crosskey

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=In I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a speculative near-long time in the future London, there. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's a new wonder drug nightmare had not (quite) come to treat ADHDpass. Concentr8 is cheap and effective. So effective Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the mayor has instituted date. Crosskey hasn't put a programme to identify children for earlydate 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, preventative treatmentI suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. Almost every troublesome teen A lot of what happens in London ''Poster Boy'' is taking it, often before they've actually become troublesomealready happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. But then an austerity drive sees In the program cut abruptly. Riots break outblurb, led by the unmedicated teensChristina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality".|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk> My only response to that is: too late!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Bird0241349176|title=The HuntLast|author=Hanna Jameson|rating=45|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=This Jon Keller is Britain after in a hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the Very Big Crashworld ends. Life He has no idea if his family is very differentalive, especially if you live he has no idea what's going on in one of the lower suburbs under nearest city, or if the Local Government's authoritynearest city has been obliterated. Cush lives in one such suburb. He works as a detective in Shocked, amid the floating Krawczyk building mass hysteria andexodus, though he thinks it himself, is pretty good Jon decides to stay at his job. His wife Samir doesn't work, even though she'd like the hotel rather than attempt to get to, the airport and spends her days at home reading those most antiquated of things: books. Their son Nim is sixteen He's not alone, twenty other people also stay and is obsessed with gradually form a video game called The Huntsmall community. Cush and Samir fall out constantly over their differing approaches One day, when helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the body of a girl deemed to Nimhave been killed before the world ended. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's obsessionkiller and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Martin1473203287|title=Doctor Who: Vengeance on VarosSummerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi

|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary=If only those critiquing ''Doctor Who'' had access Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to a time machine, they would be able aspire to temper all their responses. When Mary Whitehouse found the likes of [[Doctor Who and the Genesis of After the Daleks by Terrance Dicks|Genesis discovery of the Daleks]] to be too violentafterlife, 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 laughBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, 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>}}{{newreview|author=Yan Lianke|title=The Four Books|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The Four Books'' is a difficult, challenging novel and not Big Smoke for the feint hearted, or for someone looking for a page-turnerrecently deceased. It really challenges In 1938 the reader's perceptions and opens up a gateway to an era that British Empire is difficult to imagine for anyone brought caught up in a western culture. Set in Maoist China it tells the story of four protagonists race against Soviet spies and dealing with a memorable antagonist. The four, found guilty of anti-revolutionary crimes are undergoing re-education mole buried deep in a work camp governed by the childheart of Summerland. With an Orwellian feelWhen Rachel White, ''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 geniusambitious SIS agent, he's already at university studying advanced theorybecomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, but Cillian doesn't realise quite she must decide how above average he far she is until he's the sole survivor of a train explosion. With his father is dead willing to go 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=Nod|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=For anyone who has suffered from insomnia, the idea of a world with no sleep how much she is an unsettling place as it feels so real. The thought of having willing to drag yourself risk 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 is still living there, albeit in human form. Now married, and the father of several children, uncover the man/god struggles to cope when tragedy befalls his familytruth. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Carrington1683690613|title=Boy 23Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan)|author=Rachel Aaron

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Boy 23 isnYou want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it't in My Place any more. He can't see The Screens safe, he canbut that't hear The Voices an illusion. Boy 23 So long as there are titans out there… no one is alone.safe''

Before being dumped alone in In the forest by The Voicedystopian world of Attack on Titan, Boy 23 - or Jesper, as we shall call him - has lived in a room entirely by himself. He has never met another human being or been humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. His only experience of the world has been through a few short video clipsKnown as titans, shown to him on his Screen by The Voice in My Place. Nowthese enemies are impossibly tall human-like creatures, he finds himself alone with only a bag full of survival equipment sharp hungry teeth and some brief words from The Voice: his life is in danger, people have been sent regenerative powers. Difficult to kill himand innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, he must head north west to and whilst the Low Countrieswalls have always kept them out, The Voice will meet him there and explain everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>that has begun to change…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kenneth Calhoun1444944525|title= Black MoonThe Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer|rating= 5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Do you ever have those nights when you hear every chime 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 clockmass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, when you watch the shadows move round the room painfully slowly as the moon crosses the sky? Thankfully I have very few of thosecheckpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow I know that the thing most likely to keep you awake - which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. She's even made it out of the worrying about detention centre at the fact airport. And during this journey, Mhairi has learned that youcan're not asleep, t rely on anyone else and I have distraction mechanisms for when I need themyou can't allow anyone else to rely on you...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Aldous HuxleyNorth_84K|title= After Many A Summer84K|author=Claire North|rating= 45|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= Like many of usTheo can, I suspect, I knew nothing he calculates the worth of Huxley other than each person to the "required reading" of penny. ''Brave New WorldThe 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. NaturallyDoing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on that basis alonea spreadsheet, he was pigeon-holed 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 my head under the heading ''Sci-fi - must check out further''cold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784870358</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul McAuley|title= Confluence|rating= 5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Yama is a foundling orphan adopted as a baby by the Aedile (chief civil servant) of a small city downriver of the mighty, ancient city of Ys, capital of the man-made world of Confluence. Longing to become a soldier and take his late brother's place in the long-running war against the heretics, 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 him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057511942X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ryan Graudin|title=The Walled City|rating= 4|genreisbn= Teens|summary= In the walled city 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 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 a brothel in the city and forced into sexual relations with the two-faced Ambassador Osamu, desperately seeks freedom. The three have just eighteen days to accomplish this, as the officials of Seng Ngoi plan to evict all residents of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton0356510700|title= The Just City|rating= 3.5|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary=Urged on by her brother Apollo, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – a city based on Plato’s republic. Filling it with an assortments of adults collected from throughout time, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one of whom is a disguised Apollo). Whilst the city flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove to be a fly in the ointment…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewEverything About You|author=Jon A Davidson|title=System: With his face in the sun|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Wallace Blair, like everyone else, is used to the benefits of a life guided by The System. After all, The System knows best. However he is somewhat dismayed when he wakes to a System message on his Commcuff informing him that his happy marriage is about to be dissolved and that's not his only concern. After being sent to retrieve papers from his grandfather's house, Wallace reflects on how long it's been since he's seen 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1511491094</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tommy Wallach|title=We All Looked Up|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter, Eliza, Andy and Anita are all about to graduate high school. They all have plans and expectations, even slacker Andy. But those expectations are about to be thrown into disarray. An asteroid is approaching Earth and there's a 66% chance of a collision and an extinction level event. There are just a few weeks before a possible, no a likely, end of the world. What will happen? How will they react? What will they ''do''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147112455X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catherine Chanter|title=The Well|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=The subject and title of Catherine Chanter's debut novel is a country idyll of which dreams are made: charmingly ramshackle, disarmingly verdant and heaving with fertile acreage. Ruth and Mark can barely believe their luck at finding this perfect retreat, an oasis from their tired and overwrought City existence. Several months down the road and with the entire nation brought to its knees by an almost apocalyptic drought, Ruth and Mark are beginning to question their good fortune in their ownership of The Well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782113606</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Mind GamesHeather Child

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Luna 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 to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a Refuser. In beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of her worldeyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a Refuser personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is a kind that of cross between a conscientious objector her missing and a Ludditepresumed dead sister. In Freya is thrown and unsettled by this post WW3 Britain, almost everyone has a brain implant which they use . Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very least to reset them to spend most of their lives in a virtual environmentdifferent personality. People donBut Freya just can't just play in the vast array of games: they work, they learn, they datedo this. Even hacking Hearing her sister's voice again is encouraged. And those who opt outlike she's right there, like Lunaand although she knows this is just Ruby's data, are shut out part of the best careers and viewed with suspicionFreya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia HoneywellWilson_Extinction|title=The ShipExtinction Trials|author=SM Wilson

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Sixteen year old Lalla 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 spent died and she never knew her life father, so she lives in London – mostly inside her family home. Because this is not the London one of todayEarthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', or any other goes to school for one dayper week and wrestles hay bales for a job. When Lalla was seven, Lincoln's sister is dying from the apocalypse arrived; banks crashed, flood defences failed, power failed – blistering disease and he has no access to the world healthcare that could only focus on survivalsave her. Now It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Nazareth Act Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is in force to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and without your identity card, you don’t exist – literally, as you the citizens of Earthasia will be shot if you don't produce ithave access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871498</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel SuarezCurtis_Water|title=InfluxWater & Glass|author=Abi Curtis

|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary=We are told to never judge Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a book by its cover and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn handful of animals living below the frontwaves. Since his debut novelWe follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, all looks after the Daniel Suarez books I have read had animals and falls into a quote suggesting that he was the legitimate heir world of intrigue. It is difficult to Michael Crichtonproperly review this book without giving too much away. To compare your work with one of There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the best techno thriller writers of all time is never going start but I will try to be easy and time after time, Suarez fell short. That is until Influx, a book that finally puts Suarez in avoid the same illustrious company as Crichtonmain ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen Thompson WalkerBeckett_America|title=The Age of MiraclesAmerica City|author=Chris Beckett

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=''The Age of MiraclesAmerica City'' was one tells the story of those much-talked about books that I never got Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the time to read on its first go aroundambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. I'm not sure how I managed thatSet in the 22nd century, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, but I did. Anywaywhere the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it has dystopian themesthe South, so it which is right up my alley frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and not Slaymaker hope to change this, working together on the plan they believe to be the solution to the sort problem of thing I'd usually miss. And so, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided where to reissue it for a YA market and even happier that they decided to send me a copyplace the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peyton Marshall Featherstone_Paradise|title=GoodhouseParadise Girl|author=Phill Featherstone

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=There have been times in history when governments have thought they knew who Kerryl lives far away from the criminal underclass wasurban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. This did not lead to anything good under 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 Nazis farm and the same can be said of the Goodhouse regimehard but beautiful living associated with it. If we knew that certain genetics led to an increased chance of criminalityKerryl, though, wouldn’t educating these people when they were young be is a good thing? Prevention is better than cure, but I am not sure if fascism fiercely bright girl - she's won a place at Cambridge University and islooking forward to going. She loves poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085752190X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leanne HallSutcliffe_See|title=This is Shyness|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''This is Shyness'' is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirl, two strangers who meet in a pub in the town of Shyness. The teenagers are drawn together, each adopting a different identity so for the night they can be anyone but themselves.|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 politics, but it feels infinitely longer in a zombie apocalypse. ''The Remaining'' started a new series of books that followed trained military expert Captain Lee Harden and his mission to rebuild America should the undead hit the fan. As an introduction, [[The Remaining by D J Molles|The Remaining]] did a great job in creating the world and exploring Harden’s tenacity to stick to the mission, but it ended so abruptly. ''The Remaining: Aftermath'' picks up moments later and continues the tale, but does it still deliver a week into his mission?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650347X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWe See Everything|author=Mark Lingane|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)William Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The city has been rebuilt for war. The waves of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – Lex lives in what follows is more devastatingused to be London. Not only that but also the flood of refugees surging in daily Today, it is as much of a problem closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are a resourceconstant presence overhead, food is short and life is hard. Actually in one or two cases the word But there'problem' is s a bit of an understatementgirl he likes and she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. In His talent as a gamer got him the middle job of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to fight and survivedo it, although survival doesnwhatever his mother thinks. It't look like an option once they realise they have to go into the enemys fighting terrorism, after all. Alan's hive and bring observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the battle to the cyborgsresistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=SandThe Real-Town Murders|author=Hugh HoweyAdam Roberts|rating=53|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=World building in science fiction is easier said than done. How can If you had the choice would you design a completely foreign place and explain it all to live your readerlife online? In the future, this may be possible, whilst still writing a compelling narrative? If with the development of fully realised virtual reality you are an author such as Hugh Howey, may feel that the answer 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 consummate ease. Howey has already got the fabulous ‘Wool’ trilogy under his belt and following this up was always going most people online, some of us will have to be stay in the difficult second album syndrome. Well, be prepared real world to be sucked quickly into ‘Sand’, his new noveldeal with unexpected events – such as a real town murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780893183</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Seven Second Delay|author=Tom Easton|rating=3.5|genreisbn=Teens|summary=In the future, the difference between West and East are greater than ever. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)U, linked by a bridge, and immigrants risk everything to pass from the third world of the latter to the first world of the former. Mila has made it across, but the danger is not over, and as she falls into the hands of the Agents, she realises the real price of freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMerbeth_Raid|title=Mutant CityRaid|author=Steve FeaseyK S Merbeth|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=After a devastating chemical war, the world is slowly rebuilding itself. A select group had hidden away brutal road trip in underground bunkers and, when they re-emerged, built six cities in which the genetically pure live in luxury and comforta blighted landscape that pulls no punches. But outside the city wallsWe travel with Clementine, everything is very different. The survivors there are mutantsa bounty hunter, fighting for survival in degrading, impoverished circumstancesa world without heroes or hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>