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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonia HoneywellKay Chronister|title=The ShipDesert Creatures|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Sixteen year old Lalla has spent her life in London – mostly inside her family home. Because this With a world that is not the London of todaybecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, or any other daypost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. When Lalla was seven, the apocalypse arrived; banks crashed, flood defences failed, power failed – and the world could only focus on survival. Now the Nazareth Act Whether it is in force and without your identity card, you don’t exist – literally, as you will be shot if you don't produce it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297871498</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Suarez|title=Influx|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=We are told to never judge a book by its cover and that certainly includes any quotes that should adorn the front. Since his debut novelrobotic takeover, all the Daniel Suarez books I have read had a quote suggesting that he was the legitimate heir to Michael Crichton. To compare your work with one world devoid of the best techno thriller writers of all time is never going to be easy and time after timewater or a nuclear holocaust, Suarez fell short. That this genre is until Influx, a book that finally puts Suarez in the same illustrious company as Crichtonway for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557951</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Thompson Walker|title=The Age of Miracles|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=''The Age of MiraclesDesert Creatures'' was one by Kay Chronister is a new work of those muchpost-talked about books apocalyptic fiction that I never got aligns many of the time to read on its first go around. I'm not sure how I managed fears that, but I didexist for humanity today. Anyway, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it has dystopian themes, so it It is right 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 a YA market and even happier shocking novel that they decided still manages to send me a copyfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreview|author=Peyton Marshall |title=Goodhouse|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=There have been times Set in the near-distant future, in history when governments have thought they knew who a world on the criminal underclass wasverge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. This did not lead The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to anything good under save the Nazis day and rescue what little remains. What no-one expected was that one of the same can be said Knights 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 isRound Table would answer the call.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085752190X</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leanne HallB0BQXSYYTF|title=This is ShynessJust Looking|author=Matthew Tree

|summary=A week is It was the summer of 2035 and on a long time cruise ship in politicsMarseilles, but it feels infinitely longer Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a zombie apocalypse. man! He's watching the tornado - they'The Remainingre more common in Europe these days - that'' started s keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, a new series of books that followed trained military expert Captain Lee Harden and French journalist in his mission to rebuild America should the undead hit the fanthirties. As an introductionHe writes for a relatively new paper, [[The Remaining by D J Molles|The Remaining]] did the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if a great job in creating little wordy on subjects such as the world difference between 'France' and exploring Harden’s tenacity to stick to 'the mission, but it ended so abruptlyFrench'. His partner, Helen, who''The Remaining: Aftermath'' picks up moments later s English and continues the taleJewish, but does it still deliver a week into his mission?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650347X</amazonuk>keeps him in check to some extent.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeSusi Holliday |title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)The Last Resort |rating=3.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=The city has A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been rebuilt for warinvited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The waves group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of cyborg attacks 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 just the beginning – what follows revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is more devastatingreally a gilded cage. Not only 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 but also befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the flood precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of refugees surging in daily Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is as much trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a problem as 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 resourcegruelling daily torture ritual. Actually in one or two cases the word 'problem' Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a bit guinea pig for Alts in place of an understatementexecution] after Delay he is in despair. In His prison is based on the middle model of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best to fight and survive, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have infinity loop designed to go into make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the enemy's hive rumours of rebellion outside and bring the battle to visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the cyborgs.loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>1912626551

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SandMargaret Atwood|authortitle=Hugh HoweyThe Testaments|rating=4.5

|summary=World building in science fiction is easier said than doneFinally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. How can I don't want to tell you design too much about the plot because it's a completely foreign place and explain novel that is entirely plot driven. Suffice it all to your readersay that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, whilst still writing fifteen years after Offred gets into a compelling narrative? If you are an author such as Hugh Howeyvan, not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, the answer who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a girl brought up in Gilead with consummate ease. Howey has already got the fabulous ‘Wool’ trilogy under his belt expectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and following this up was always going to be its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the difficult second album syndromestore owned by her parents.. Well, be prepared to be sucked quickly into ‘Sand’, his new novel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780893183</amazonuk>1784742325

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Seven Second Delay1789018870|author=Tom Easton|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=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 Something 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>}} {{newreview|title=Mutant CityTell You|author=Steve FeaseyDavid Edwards

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=After Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a devastating chemical warlong time. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the world is slowly rebuilding itselffamilies got on. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie andJosh, went to a private boarding school, when but at weekends they re-emergedwere great friends with Sam's two children, built six cities in which the genetically pure live in luxury Liam and comfortHannah. But outside the city walls Sam's wife, Briony, everything is very differentwas head of product research at Nestlé. The survivors there are mutants Life was good for all eight of them, fighting until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. It's enough of a problem for survival in degradingSam and Bert to drag the head of CERN, impoverished circumstancesProf Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=RiotPoster Boy|author=Sarah MussiN J Crosskey|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It is 2018 came and Britain is still in recessionwent quickly enough. Years Some of austerity us may have devastated 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 countrydate. Banks Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the future are going under1984 was when I first read Orwell. Unemployment is rising If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. The cost A lot of welfare what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is soaring. Prisons are overflowingalready happening. And the population is still rising Sadly. Something has to giveFrighteningly. 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 In the legislation to roll blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it out across the population is about far from anyone who might be tempted to go through parliamentturn its fiction into reality". Unsurprisingly, there My only response to that is a growing popular protest against it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>: too late!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=The GiverLast|author=Lois LowryHanna Jameson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Jonas lives Jon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world were sameness ends. He has prevailed over individuality. There are rulesno idea if his family is alive, so many rules, which are adhered tohe has no idea what's going on in the nearest city, and which allow society to live without pain, suffering or conflictif the nearest city has been obliterated. These rules are rarely questionedShocked, merely accepted. When they turn twelve, children in this world are assigned their future role in society by amid the Elders, and start training for it. These assignments are based on years of observation of their characters mass hysteria and aptitudesexodus, and whether they are assigned Jon decides to be a nurturer of stay at the young or a caregiver of hotel rather than attempt to get to the elderlyairport and home. He's not alone, a labourer who keeps the streets clean or someone who prepares twenty other people also stay and provides food, they are usually gradually form a good match for the personsmall community. At One day, when helping the assignment ceremonyhotel manager, Jonas is not given Jon finds the body of a typical role, however. He is selected girl deemed to be have been killed before the Receiver of Memory, world ended. The community descends into a position given out only once every few generations. He will receive deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and store all finding the memories of truth about what is possibly the past which the rest of society are no longer burdened with, but which may be needed from time to time to aid in decision making and law enforcementlast community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473203287|title=GoddessSummerland|author=Laura PowellHannu Rajaniemi

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After an economic collapsethe discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, Britain the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is close to breaking point. Citizens are going hungry caught up in a race against Soviet spies and there are riots. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as dealing with a handmaiden mole buried deep in the Cult heart of ArtemisSummerland. In this BritainWhen Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks persevere potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and are followed by millions - the cult sits side by side with Christianity as a mainstream religion. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up by the suffering outside the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite how much she is willing to risk to take over uncover the position of head priestess when Opis retirestruth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=ZOM-B MissionFrontpage|authorisbn=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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1683690613|title=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The Explorers|author=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=All of humankind is living on a single train. Oh sorry, as this is the sequel, make that two trains. Launched on the same tracks as the original Snowpiercer, but clearly at a slight remove, 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 the world was inhabitable once more. But the 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 Garrison Girl (Attack on a spacecraft. 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>}} {{newreview|title=Shattered (Slated TrilogyTitan) |author=Teri TerryRachel Aaron

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Kyla - or is she Lucy? or Rain? or Riley? - was ''slatedYou want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it'' as a teen criminal in Lorder-run Britain. All memory of her past life was erased and she was sent to live with a new foster familys safe, controlled by a wrist bracelet that could kill her if she stepped out of line. But but that was some time ago. Since then, some of Kyla's memories have resurfaced and she has discovered that she isn't a run-of-the-mill Slatedan illusion. Used So long as a weapon by an anti-Lorder terrorist group, Kylathere are titans out there… no one is safe''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 and Jean-Marc Rochette|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=All In the dystopian world of humankind is living Attack on a single trainTitan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. I know British commuters feel that way at timesKnown as titans, but this is a much different circumstance – it is a train miles long, running non-stop as a selfthese enemies are impossibly tall human-contained unit across tracks circling a desolately frozen Earthlike creatures, moving on endlessly until, perhaps some time in the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze itwith sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. It's certainly been going on long enough for it Difficult to have a culture – a hierarchical society from the rich kill and leisured classes near innumerable they roam the front, through the orgiasts, past the useful carriages set aside Earth looking for producing foodprey, to and whilst the underclass at the end. It's all set in its routine, set in motion. But there are two fishes walls have always kept them out of water – a man from the rear who escaped, and a middle-class woman working with civil rights campaigners.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>that has begun to change…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1444944525|title=The One Safe PlaceSurvival Game|author=Tania UnsworthNicky Singer

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Devin lives on a farm with his grandfather, away from the rest of the world. He knows a little about it – how the gap between rich Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and poor is far wider than the world we live in, and how many children now live on her way home to the street, scavenging for scraps to say aliveIsle of Arran. But, he’s never Mhairi's world has been that concerned. On ravaged by climate change and the farm the life mass movement of people and it is a simple one, but they can grow enough food to get defined byborders, checkpoints and they’re happysoldiers with guns. When tragedy strikes, Devin Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is forced to leave his home more than can be said for Muma and venture into Papa. She's even made it out of the city for detention centre at the first timeairport. 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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Warm Bodies|author=Isaac MarionFrontpage|ratingisbn=5|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 the power of thought than most, and Julie, a feisty and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about others. In short, R has far more humanity than the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more of the traits that I feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than the human race itself. Two other characters are important to this storyline, ''M'', R's best friend and Nora, Julie's closest friend and confidant. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNorth_84K|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies84K|author=Isaac MarionClaire North

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I normally review a book within a day or two of finishing it. I couldn't with this one. I loved this bookTheo can, but I did feel dissatisfied with he calculates the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequel, and most worth of each person to the readers will have already read 'penny. 'Warm Bodies'The Company'. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style, own everything and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it downeveryone, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre endingincluding handing out punishments for crime. It felt like half a book to meTheo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. So - in order Doing just enough work to review this fairly - I felt I had to read avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the author's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in cost of the endingcrimes filling his inbox. It isn't after all They are variables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, the end - it is just expense of solving the beginning of one of crime added to how much the best books I victim would have ever readcontributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)Everything About You|author=Emmy LaybourneHeather Child

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=We left our supermarket kids when they split up at In the end of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. NikoIt fills your fridge, Alex and six others were taking the school bus it keeps up to try to save Brayden who had been shot date with your friends and to find the US military evacuation teamfulfils your wishes. DeanIt is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, Astrid and three loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the little ones had stayed behind - latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it was too risky , complete with a personality to take pregnant Astrid into guide her. The problem is that the poisoned outsidepersonality on the glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. And when we say poisoned, we mean itFreya is thrown and unsettled by this. A bioweapons accident had left Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the air toxic in different ways very least to reset them to a different peoplepersonality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right there, depending on their blood group. Nobody and although she knows where Jake this isjust Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wilson_Extinction|title=The TrapExtinction Trials|author=Andrew FukudaSM Wilson

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''The Trap'' Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is the third scarce and final book in this sequence about a world in which vampires rule energy and humans food are hepersrationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, eaten almost to extinctionefficient food sources. We left Gene Storm's mother has died and Sissyshe never knew her father, along with Epap so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and David, on the train that delivers hepers wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the Mission blistering disease and he has no access to the Cityhealthcare that could save her. It's a mean, destined desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the RulerStipulators's feast table. Gene now knows that he and Sissy form trials for a new mission to the Origin, the cure that will return Duskers to humans formulated by Gene's missing scientist fatherneighbouring continent of Piloria. But The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that all there is a virus to it? Where did kill them can be engineered and the Duskers come from? Can Gene and Sissy end their plague? Will they all make it out alive? And what citizens of Ashley June, newly turned Earthasia will have access to Dusker? What does she know that Gene the space and Sissy don't?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BORD2RG</amazonuk>abundant food sources Piloria offers...

{{newreview|title=Shadowlark|author=Meagan Spooner|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lark escaped the city of her birth after being tortured and stripped of her magic by its architects. Lark's post-apocalyptic world runs on magic and there isn't enough of it aboutIt is difficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. So Renewables - people whose magic There will replenish after it is drained - are in demand - not as people be mild spoilers throughout this right from the start but as a resource. But the architects have made Lark different. She can drain the magic of others and use it herself. We last saw Lark when she escaped the Iron Wood and went in search of her missing brother Basil. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565571</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)|author=Catherine Fisher|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Let's catch you up. Jake's father is still lost in time. Venn's wife is still dead. Summer, the Queen of the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that he's trying I will try to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and avoid the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likelymain ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Beckett_America|title=Resist (Breathe)America City|author=Sarah CrossanChris Beckett

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''ResistAmerica City'' carries on where [[Breathe by Sarah Crossan|Breathe]] left off. To catch you up: deforestation has resulted in environmental catastrophe and tells the world is a ravaged place story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in which there isn't enough oxygen order to fully sustain human lifehelp the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. A corporationSet in the 22nd century, Breathe, runs the Pod, whose inhabitants are divided into Premiums (plenty novel tells of oxygen) and Auxiliaries (barely enough). Outsidean incredibly disunited United States, drifters struggle to survive. With one alternative to where the Pod - The Grove - destroyed by effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the Pod Ministryaffluent Northern States, Alinaand the South, Bea which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and Quinn, our three central charactersSlaymaker hope to change this, set out working together on separate, but equally perilous, journeys the plan they believe to find be the other, Sequoia. And back in solution to the Pod, Ronan is rethinking problem of where to place the world he thought he lived in but didn'tthousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827204</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Featherstone_Paradise|title=The Waking World (The Future King)Paradise Girl|author=Tom HuddlestonPhill Featherstone|rating=43.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Many tales have been told of Kerryl lives far away from the boy who became our greatest kingurban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. Very few have spoken of the future...'' Aran The farm is the son of one of the Islandhigh up on a hill and it's wealthiest Lawsa family endeavour - grandparents, mother, Kerryl. He lives in the underground farmstead of HawkThere's a market town below but Kerryl's Cross. He wants for nothing. But Aran family is not entirely happy. Rumours are everywhere and concentrated on the Island is under threat. Bands of fierce men known as Marauders are beginning to attack further and further inland, burning homes farm and taking slaves. Aran wants to join the fight against them hard but that task has been given to his older brotherbeautiful living associated with it. AranKerryl, though, is a fiercely bright girl - she's future lies in overseeing the farmstead won a place at Cambridge University and it's not a future he wantsis looking forward to going. She loves poetry. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085756045X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan MaberrySutcliffe_See|title=Fire & AshWe See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=ALERT! Spoilers for early books 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 Rot & Ruin series are scattered throughout this reviewjob of drone pilot. So if you havenHe hasn't read 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 others, get thee over to my words about [[Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry|book one]]resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=Last Man StandingThe Real-Town Murders|author=Davide Longo and Silvester MazzarellaAdam Roberts

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I've read countless dystopian fiction accounts of a world changed overnight by everything from man eating plantsIf you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, to nuclear warthis may be possible, plague, or zombies. This is with the first to present a complete meltdown development of society as fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the result of economic crises, but this does hold far greater credibility online world is more real than the average vampire your own. Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or zombie plaguechecking statuses. The main protagonist, Leonardo, only thing is not a hero. He is a very ordinary middle aged man that with many flaws. He has no super human strength or abilities most people online, some of any kind - us will have to stay in the only thing that gives him the courage real world to continue is his love for his estranged daughter, who suddenly reappears in his life, along deal with unexpected events – such as a deeply disturbed stepbrother, early in the crisisreal town murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051229</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=More Than ThisRaid|author=Patrick NessK S Merbeth

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Here is the boy, drowningA brutal road trip in a blighted landscape that pulls no punches.'' And Seth does drown. He is alone; taken by the seaWe travel with Clementine, arms and legs flailing and breaking, skull dashed against the rocks whilst the icy water constricts his muscles and breath. Seth is consciously aware of his final moments. His death consumes him with a heavybounty hunter, confusing blur until… he awakens and finds himself in a desolate, shattered world; naked, alone, starving and alive. This place looks familiar. It looks exactly like the English village where he spent his early childhood before his brother’s accident and his family’s move to America, but it is now overgrown and devoid of human lifewithout heroes or hope. It is as if the whole place was simply abandoned one day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=The 100|author=Kass Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Nuclear war has rendered the Earth uninhabitable for centuries. The remains of human society, a colony of people that managed to escape the cataclysm, live out their lives Move on massive city-like spaceships. Unfortunately, the spaceships are becoming unsustainable and as resources begin to run out, the Council is forced to introduce strict new plans and measures in an attempt to protect the remaining population. With options running out, a dangerous mission is conceived as a desperate roll of the dice: one hundred juvenile delinquents are sent to the Earth to test if the planet can once more sustain life. There is no telling what the remaining radiation will do to the teenagers, but in this hardened society, this is a risk worth taking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444766880</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Split Second|author=Sophie McKenzie|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Nat and Charlie are connected long before they meet. They were both there the day a terrorist bomb decimated the marketplace. Nat was trying to find his brother and stop him because he's pretty sure Lucas is the bomber. Charlie was sulking because her mother wouldn't let her get a tattoo. And the bomb went off. Charlie's mother died. Nat's brother was left in a coma. In this Britain of the near-future, beset by an endless cycle of more and more austerity, where people queue for free food handouts and racist extremist groups are increasingly dominating the public conversation, neither Charlie nor Nat had thought anything could get any worse. But it did. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115976</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=1Q84: The Complete Trilogy|author=Haruki Murakami|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The ''1Q84'' trilogy is, without doubt, an impressive book. In many ways, the trilogy almost has to be read in this way as the three component books make little sense on their own. The first book in the series in particular is almost completely baffling if taken in isolation. It does, though, demand a degree of dedication, and if the prospect of a 1300 page novel in which not a huge amount happens in terms of plot and in which there is a significant level of repetition leaves you cold, then this might not be the best entry point into the wonderful world of Haruki Murakami. As often with Murakami though, it's possible to read this book at a number of levels. On the surface it's a love story set in a slightly fantastical setting with a little bit of crime thrown in. At a deeper level, he explores the thin lines between imagination and reality, life and death and what you might call yin and yang. It's a novel where balance and vacuums play a big part. It seems counter-intuitive to call a book of this magnitude 'delicate', but that's just how the story appears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578077</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Emerging Readers Reviews]]