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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] {{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie BlackmanB0DB64PYV5|title=Noble ConflictThe White Rose|author=Dave Baines|rating=54|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Kaspar believes in the Alliance with In 2033, a whole heart. Who wouldn't? In superstorm known as the face of terrorist attacks from White Rose devastates the Crusader Insurgency, the AllianceNorthern Hemisphere. And it's response is non-fatal. Its security forces are equipped with stun guns and captured insurgents are not killeda storm that gathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. They're incapacitatedInstead, given medical treatment and imprisoned. Guardians it hovers across half the Earth with its octopus-like Kaspar are trained to defend themselves against these unprovoked attacks in the least violent way possible. And considering the Crusaders destroyed their own country before attacking Kaspar'stentacles, you can see how measured not giving up and ethical the Alliance's response seemsnever going away. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385610424</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingKay Chronister|title=SilverDesert Creatures|rating=54|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary='Silver' has With a large ant with silver circuits on the cover, and while there are no actual ants in this book, the illustration world that is very well suited. This books puts a unique twist on the ever popular zombie genre. Instead of living corpsesbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, we have nanobots which post-apocalyptic fiction can turn humans into machinesbecome an almost masochistic thrill. They possess Whether it is a swarm intelligence similar to ants. This sounds far fetched but robotic takeover, a great deal world devoid of progress has been made in research currently being conducted with just water or a nuclear holocaust, this in mind - to create nanobots with swarm intelligence - a phenomenon well known in the natural sciences in which a less intelligent organism genre is capable of highly intelligent behaviour through a hive mind. It would be impossible way for scientists humans to control hundreds or thousands cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of nanobots independently post- so apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the idea fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to control a few and have these control the rest. Of course there would always be safeguards on this type of technology and there were safeguards in the book as well - they just didn't workfind hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407124285</amazonuk>1803364998
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
{{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOMSet in the near-B Angels|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Okdistant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. I'm going The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to do this for all books in this series except save the first day and rescue what little remains. What no-one. Before we begin. If you haven't read expected was that one of the first book in this series, DON'T read this review. It contains spoilers. Read my review Knights of the first book, read Round Table would answer the first book itself, then come back. If you don't, you'll be sorry..call. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077643</amazonuk>0356518523
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lily HerneB0BQXSYYTF|title=DeadlandsJust Looking|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=I It was hesitant to choose this book. I love the summer of 2035 and on a good dystopian future book. The problem iscruise ship in Marseilles, I donJim 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't define very many of them as good. I have read far too many zombie books s watching the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that really don't offer anything differents keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierre, plenty of blood, gore, and damsels a French journalist in distress, but not enough character development, or logical thoughthis thirties. Psychological horror can be ever so much more chilling than blood and gutsHe writes for a relatively new paper, but it is also much more difficult to pull off. Sarah the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and Savannah Lotz, he's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the mother difference between 'France' and daughter team 'the French'. His partner, Helen, who have written this book under the pen name Lily Herne's English and Jewish, have managed keeps him in check to do this perfectlysome extent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100905</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma PassSusi Holliday |title=ACIDThe Last Resort |rating=3.5 |genre=TeensThrillers|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 UK 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 now a mystery. We follow the IRB - Independent Republic of Britain. Itgroup as they explore the island, and each other's no longer run by elected politicianshistories 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, who were completely discredited after and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a catastrophic financial crashgilded cage. InsteadIn 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|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the IRB is aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a police statehorrific level by machines, led by ACIDThe Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a fearsomely authoritarian organisationliving hell with no chance of escape. Marriage A detonator has been abandoned in favour of ''life partnering'' - sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the state tells you guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to live with his memories and whether or not you can have relentlessly drained of energy through a childgruelling daily torture ritual. Contact with the outside world Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is forbiddenin despair. Society His prison is divided, with a tiny wealthy elite and a huge mass based on the model of an underclass living in poverty infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and shortage.the 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 loop?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552566144</amazonuk>1912626551
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian CrossMargaret Atwood|title=After TomorrowThe Testaments|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid'We were looking at a long line of people trudging down a country roads Tale]]. They were loaded with bundles and backpacks and babies and they all looked miserable and exhausted. Refugees, I thought automatically. But they werendon't. They were people like us.want to tell you too much about the plot because it'' After ''Armageddon Monday'' - the collapse of all the major banks in the UK - life has become increasingly difficult for Matt and his family. Money is worthless. Food s a novel that is the main currencyentirely plot driven. People who have Suffice it are resented and hated. Theyto say that 're named and shamed on 'The Testaments'hoarder'takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a van, not knowing what will happen next. It' websites and subject to violent raids s told by those three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who don't. Matt's family has more food than most because they have an allotment and have set is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a girl brought up in Gilead with the expectation she will marry a trading networkcommander; Daisy, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the store owned by her parents. But the raiders don't care about ''how'' they got their food. They just want it. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756265</amazonuk>1784742325
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=SJ Griffin1789018870|title=The VanguardSomething to Tell You|author=David Edwards
|rating=4
|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Sorcha Blades Sam Murray and her four closest Bert Leinster had been friends do the best they can with what they havefor a long time. Living in a post-apocalyptic world Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, they are from but this never seemed to affect the wrong side of way that the tracksfamilies got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Unable Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, went to live easy and glittering lives like the elitea private boarding school, but at weekends they scam were great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and forage and hack their way to some degree Hannah. Sam's wife, Briony, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of comfort and still manage to avoid the them, until Sam - very unpleasant a particle physicist - state security apparatus for spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the most partearth had risen exponentially. Not that there It's much state left enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to drag the security apparatus to protecthead of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00904MC30</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teri Terry1789550149|title=FracturedPoster Boy|author=N J Crosskey
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=As a teen criminal I first read 1984 in Lorder-run Britainschool, Kyla was slated - her memories erased and her personality "reset". But Kyla wasn't in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the other Slateds - she retained tantalising memories of her previous lifefuture. ''Fractured'' picks up Kyla's story after she's lost Ben It came and just as went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a mysterious man from her past comes back into her life. It seems sigh of relief that KylaOrwell's memories represent more than just a failed slatingnightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the date. She has Crosskey hasn't put a role to play in the fight against date on the Lordersnightmare. But If she had, I suspect it's would not be as easy as thatfar in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. Is Kyla a victim? A freedom fighter? A terrorist? And can the end ever justify the means? The more Kyla learns about her history If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the more such questions burnfuture at all. And the more danger she finds herself A lot of what happens in''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly.Frighteningly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319489</amazonuk>In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: too late!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Mussi0241349176|title=SiegeThe Last|author=Hanna Jameson
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Leah Jackson Jon Keller is miserable and in detentiona hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends. This He has no idea if his family is particularly infuriating because the detention means shealive, he has no idea what's likely to be late for her ''fame going on in the nearest city, or if the nearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, amid the mass hysteria and fortune'' interviewexodus, one of Jon decides to stay at the few chances kids at YOP schools have hotel rather than attempt to get to make it into college the airport and to get a life worth havinghome. But LeahHe's worries are about to become muchnot alone, much more immediatetwenty other people also stay and gradually form a small community. Year 9 kids storm into One day, when helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the body of a girl deemed to have been killed before the roomworld ended. TheyThe community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl're armeds killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earth. And they're shooting}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473203287|title=Summerland|author=Hannu Rajaniemi|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. Leah escapes After the discovery of the melee by hauling herself up afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the roofspacerecently deceased. But only just. Kids are dead. Teachers are dead. Everyone else In 1938 the British Empire is rounded caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the gymheart of Summerland. Only Leah When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and Anton are free, but they are trapped above how much she is willing to risk to uncover the ceiling tilestruth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914847</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1683690613
|title=Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan)
|author=Rachel Aaron
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=''You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, but that's an illusion. So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''
{{newreview|author=Lauren Oliver|title=Requiem|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Out in In the Wildsdystopian world of Attack on Titan, Lena is now trying humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to cope with keep out the return of her first love Alex along with her feelings for Julianenemies outside. Known as titans, but these relationship issues take a backseat as life becomes very dangerous for herenemies are impossibly tall human-like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and everyone elseregenerative powers. Back in Portland, her friend Hana is set Difficult to marry kill and innumerable they roam the man who will become Mayor - a perfect pairingEarth looking for prey, surely? While both girls and whilst the walls have changed a lot since the start of book onealways kept them out, the biggest changes are still that has begun to come...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444722972</amazonuk>change…
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Saci Lloyd1444944525|title=Quantum DropThe Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=We're in LondonMhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. The London thatBut Mhairi's left after world has been ravaged by climate change and the next financial crash devastates life for most mass movement of people right across the world. Money and it is hard to come one defined byborders, checkpoints and most people survive on black market credits, supplied by the Bettasoldiers with guns. Everyone either works Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be said for the Betta or borrows from themMuma and Papa. And when AnthonyShe's girlfriend gets on even made it out of the wrong side of detention centre at the Betta and is taken out in a gang hitairport. And during this journey, he must venture into the virtual world of the Drop if he is to find out who is responsible Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and how you can't allow anyone else to get justice. But the Drop is a dangerous, dangerous placerely on you...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144490082X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gemma MalleyNorth_84K|title=The Disappearances84K|author=Claire North
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Theo can, he calculates the worth of each person to the penny. ''The DisappearancesCompany'' opens a year after Evie own everything and Raffy escaped from the Cityeveryone, including handing out punishments for crime. They have begun a new Theo sleepwalks through life in keeping his head down whilst working for the Settlement - Raffy farms and Evie sews and this kibbutz-like living is like balm in comparison Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the cost of the ultra-controlledcrimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a spreadsheet, denunciation environment they left behind. But Raffy's jealousy won't leave him and it's threatening to ruin the couple's preciousa simple mathematical equation, new-found peace. Back in the City, Lucas is finding that switching off expense of solving the System hasn't been crime added to how much the panacea he thought it victim would behave contributed to their community. His people Prisons are lost without the rigid controls they had lived under for uneconomical so long. And criminals in this world pay their debt to make matters worse, the City's young people are disappearingsociety in cold hard cash. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00A4YZWJ6</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oisin McGann0356510700|title=Rat RunnersEverything About You|author=Heather Child
|rating=4
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Nimmo lives in a London of In the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It's not a great place fills your fridge, it keeps up to bedate with your friends and fulfils your wishes. Under constant surveillance by the WatchWorld network It is also stealing your jobs and its Robocop-style Safe-Guards, even possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the slightest transgression brings you into very unwelcome attention from latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the authoritiesinformation she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her. Life The problem is that the personality on the glasses is particularly difficult for Nimmothat of her missing and presumed dead sister. His parents are in prison Freya is thrown and he must live below unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the radar of WatchWorld, amid the city's underground criminalsvery least to reset them to a different personality. As you But Freya just can imagine, Nimmo has skills't do this. And this Hearing her sister's voice again is why gang boss Move-Easy calls him in when a case containing valuable black market credit cards goes missing. Nimmolike she's right there, together with sibling grifters Manikin and FXalthough she knows this is just Ruby's data, and teen geek Scopepart of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, are to find the case or face Move-Easyit can't be this Ruby. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's chief goons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552566209</amazonuk>data?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew FukudaWilson_Extinction|title=The PreyExtinction Trials|author=SM Wilson
|rating=4
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Having escaped the vampires hunting them Storm and Lincoln live on the boat left Earthasia, a continent ruined by the Scientists, Gene, Sissy overpopulation. Space is scarce and the boys make their way down the river energy and arrive at the Missionfood are rationed. Food Education is abundantminimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, the place is peacefulso she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and the Elders promise them wrestles hay bales for a trip on job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the next train blistering disease and he has no access to Civilisation. Gene and Sissy can hardly believe itthe healthcare that could save her. But itIt's soon apparent that the Mission is not all it seems a mean, desperate existence for them both and Gene begins so they are first to wonder if they havenvolunteer for the Stipulators't simply exchanged one hellhole trials for another. Although they find out a great deal more about new mission to the Scientist - he developed the Origin, neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a cure for vampirism - understanding his plans is as frustrating as ever. And with the vampires coming ever closer, even virus to the Mission itself, kill them can be engineered and the Elders making moves citizens of their own, time is running out Earthasia will have access to the space and Gene and Sissy must decide what to doabundant food sources Piloria offers... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075446</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Curtis_Water
|title=Water & Glass
|author=Abi Curtis
|rating=5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=Something has happened, something very nasty and on a submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the waves. We follow Nerissa Crane, a vet, as she remembers recent events, looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue.
{{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=Zom-B Underground |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Before we begin. If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first It is difficult to properly review this book]] in this series, DON'T read this reviewwithout giving too much away. It contains There will be mild spoilers. Read my review of throughout this right from the first book, read start but I will try to avoid the first book itself, then come back. If you don't, you'll be sorrymain ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077562</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J HarperBeckett_America|title=The DisappearedAmerica City|author=Chris Beckett
|rating=4
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Jackson is self-confident''America City'' tells the story of Holly, motivated and happyan ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. After allSet in the 22nd century, he attends one of the top Learning Communities and has an AEP score novel tells of 98.5. He is destined to become an important part incredibly disunited United States, where the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the Leadership some day. You affluent Northern States, and I might see Jackson as an insufferablethe South, pompous ass but, since he which is surrounded frequently ravaged by people like him, Jackson doesn't see it like thatextreme weatherBut then a seemingly random violent attack leaves Jackson battered Holly and bloody and his best friend Wilson dead. When police return him Slaymaker hope to change this, working together on the Learning Community, Jackson finds his teachers claim not plan they believe to recognise him and all his records wiped. Dumped in an Academy - a school purportedly for those with lower AEP scores - Jackson's life becomes a hell. Academy students are known as Specials. They're disciplined by electric shocks distributed by teachers in cages. They're fed slop through nozzles in slots. They're encouraged be the solution to fight. And they're kept in line by Reds - nominated Specials who get extra food and pride the problem of where to place in the violent Academy pecking orderthousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857076981</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sangu MandannaFeatherstone_Paradise|title=The Lost Paradise Girl|author=Phill Featherstone|rating=43.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Eva is an echoKerryl lives far away from the urban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. Woven at the Loom, she The farm is high up on a carbon copy of Amarra, hill and it's a girl loved by her parents so much that they can't bear the thought of losing her. Should anything ever happen to Amarra, Eva will take her place family endeavour - live in her homegrandparents, go to her schoolmother, even kiss her boyfriendKerryl. So EvaThere's young life a market town below but Kerryl's family is all about Amarra. She eats concentrated on the same foods, studies farm and the same subjectshard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, reads the same booksthough, watches the same films. When Amarra gets is a fiercely bright girl - she's won a tattoo, so must Eva. The Weavers impose many rules place at Cambridge University and if Eva breaks even one of them, her life is forfeitlooking forward to going. She loves poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849416176</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff NortonSutcliffe_See|title=The Dead are Rising (MetaWars)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jonah's father died in the battle for control of the Metasphere. He was a Guardian - a terrorist or freedom fighter, depending how you see things - and he had infiltrated himself into a position of trust with the Millenials, the group supporting the billionaire inventor who created and controlled an online world in which people living in a post peak-oil and devasted Earth spend most of their time. But before he died, Jason Delacroix's memories had been uploaded to the Metasphere as an avatar.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314606</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWe See Everything|author=Jonathan Maberry|title=Flesh & Bone (Rot & Ruin)William Sutcliffe
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Having escaped the horrors of Gameland at the dreadful cost of losing TomLex lives in what used to be London. Today, Bennyit is a closed-off, Nixbombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are a constant presence overhead, Lilah food is short and life is hard. But there's a girl he likes and Chong must journey through the Rot & Ruin without she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his warrior smartstime watching The Strip. They're in search His talent as a gamer got him the job of the jet they saw in the sky months agodrone pilot. They hope He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to find hopedo it, some remains of whatever his mother thinks. It's fighting terrorism, after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a civilisation lost after First Night, when man high up in the zombie virus spread through the population like wildfire. When life resistance organisation known as it was ceased to be. When the undead started to walk''The Corps''.Alan calls him #K622.But Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857079719</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kat ZhangRoberts_Real|title=What's Left Of MeThe Real-Town Murders|author=Adam Roberts|rating=53|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Addie and Eva are 15 year olds living somewhere in America. They have a motherIf you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, this may be possible, a father and a younger brotherwith the development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the online world is more real than your own. But Addie and Eva are not sisters, Even today we spend hours each day looking at phones or twinschecking statuses. The only thing is that with most people online, some of us will have to stay in the usual sensereal world to deal with unexpected events – such as a real town murder. They are two minds who share one body, and they are in trouble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007476817</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeyn RobertsMerbeth_Raid|title=Rage Within (Dark Inside)Raid|author=K S Merbeth|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=A brutal road trip in a blighted landscape that pulls no punches. We left Ariestravel with Clementine, Michaela bounty hunter, Clementine and Mason in a world they can barely recognise. After a series of devastating earthquakes many people changed. They became murderous monsters that the normal survivors called Baggers. There are few normal people left and they must hide in ruined cities, avoiding death at the hands of the Baggerswithout heroes or hope. And in ''Rage Within'', the battle for survival is about to get even tougher. The Baggers are organising themselves, clearing the streets of bodies and setting up worker camps for captured survivors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144721790X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|author=Neal Shusterman|genre=Dystopian Fiction|title=Unwind|rating=5|summary=A powerful, shocking, and intelligent novel about a future which practises retroactive abortion Move on troublesome teenagers, then uses their body parts for transplant. It's wonderful, wonderful stuff - but sensitive readers may be troubled by a shocking description of the process.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382312</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Emerging Readers Reviews]]