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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- North -->|-B0DB64PYV5| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The White Rose[[image:North_84K.jpg|left|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356507378/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Dave Baines| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[84K by Claire North]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] Can you put summary=In 2033, a price on human life? Theo can, he calculates superstorm known as the worth of each person to White Rose devastates the pennyNorthern Hemisphere. The Company own everything and everyoneAnd it's not a storm that gathers, wreaks havoc, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Officethen dissipates. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotionInstead, it hovers across half the cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a spreadsheetEarth with its octopus-like tentacles, a simple mathematical equation, the expense of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to their communitynot giving up and never going away. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash. [[84K by Claire North|Full Review]]}}<!-- Child -->|-{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Kay Chronister[[image:0356510700.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356510700/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Desert Creatures| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[Everything About You by Heather Child]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] In the futuresummary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around youpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. It fills your fridge, Whether 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 beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever needrobotic takeover, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is that world devoid of her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them water or at the very least to reset them to a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right therenuclear holocaust, and although she knows this genre is just Rubya way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. 's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it canDesert Creatures't be this Ruby. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? [[Everything About You by Heather Child|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wilson_Extinction.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474927343?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474927343]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, Kay Chronister is a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare fears that could save herexist for humanity today. It's is a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so shocking novel that a virus still manages to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offersfind hope... [[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson|Full Review]]isbn=1803364998<br>}} <!-- Curtis -->{{Frontpage|-author=Thomas D Lee| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Perilous Times[[image:Curtis_Water.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0995465754?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0995465754]] 3| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Water & Glass by Abi Curtis]]genre===Fantasy[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]''Hate is the path of least resistance''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF|title=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Just Looking|author=Teri TerryMatthew Tree
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=It's not was the summer of 2035 and on a spoiler if I tell you that Callie dies because she does die cruise ship in Marseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and she dies the end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the first few pages of same sentence by a man! He's watching the tornado - they'Contagionre more common in Europe these days - that''. Callie s keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean- Calista - disappeared more than Pierre, a year agoFrench journalist in his thirties. Her brother Kai is still looking He writes for hera relatively new paper, hopeful that she will be found alive and well. But Callie isnthe right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise''t alive and well. Shehe's been taken to interesting if a secretive medical facility little wordy on subjects such as the island of Shetlanddifference between 'France' and 'the French'. His partner, experimented onHelen, who's English and then burned Jewish, keeps him in check to death. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal formsome extent. How?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen PhillipsSusi Holliday |title=The Beautiful BureaucratLast Resort |rating= 3.5 |genre= Thrillers|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=1912626551}}{{Frontpage|author=Margaret Atwood|title=The Testaments
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary=Meet Josephine. Married to Joseph JonesFinally! Almost forty years on, she has kept her maiden name we have a sequel to keep at least some character to her identity. As opposed to her new boss, who has no gender, no face, and horrid halitosis[[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. The job Josephine is forced I don't want to choose is a simple one, of taking a filetell you too much about the plot because it's paper contents, clicking up the subject on a huge database, entering a date newly printed on the sheet, and repeatingnovel that is entirely plot driven. Told Suffice it to obey strict secrecy rulessay that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, she starts to find unusual signs of malignance all over – a man in fifteen years after Offred gets into a grey sweatshirt following hervan, post redirected when nobody knows where Josephine and Joseph are even living from one month to the not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, and a husband missing from the marital bed more and more often… Is there a way for who is secretly writing her find memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a spark of happiness girl brought up in Gilead with the humdrum, windowless cell expectation she workswill marry a commander; Daisy, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the horrid housing that is all the couple can afford?store owned by her parents...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782273328</amazonuk>1784742325
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Toner1789018870|title= The Weight of the World (The Amaranthine Spectrum)Something to Tell You|author=David Edwards
|rating=4
|genre= Science Dystopian Fiction|summary= One thing great science fiction needs is solid world buildingSam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. When I pick up a book like Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but this, I need never seemed to imagine affect the way that the universe has existed before the plot has started families got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and will continue Josh, went to do so after: it needs a strong sense of history private boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and futureHannah. With this book Sam's wife, Briony, and serieswas head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of them, I feel like I have just 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 brief glimpse into something much larger. A great deal happens in problem for Sam and Bert to drag the plothead of CERN, but even more is happeningProf Ralph Moyeur, and has happened, across the Firmamentout of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473211395</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= G X Todd1789550149|title= DefenderPoster Boy|author=N J Crosskey|rating= 5|genre= Dystopian Fiction |summary= I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn'We have t put a date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all become strangers . A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: too late!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241349176|title=The Last|author=Hanna Jameson|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Jon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world ends. He has no idea if his family is alive, he has no idea what's going on in the nearest city, or if the nearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, amid the mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides to each stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and home. He's not alone, twenty other people also stay andgradually form a small community. One day, worse still: enemieswhen helping the hotel manager, Jon finds the body of a girl deemed to have been killed before the world ended. The human spirit community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earth.}}{{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. After the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. 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 how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth.}}{{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 once tethered us together has now divided us 's an illusion. So long as surely as any ocean ever could.there are titans out there… no one is safe''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johanna Sinisalo and Lola Rogers (translator)North_84K|title= The Core of the Sun84K|author=Claire North|rating= 45|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= In a different worldTheo can, women are bred he calculates the worth of each person to be beautiful, man-serving the penny. ''The Company'' own everything and submissiveeveryone, little more than pretty faces on walking reproductive machinesincluding handing out punishments for crime. All Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the intelligentCriminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, independent women the cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are being removed from variables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, the expense of solving the crime added to how much the gene pool through forced sterilisation, compelled victim would have contributed to while away their days doing menial jobs until the blessed end comescommunity. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash. To }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=Everything About You|author=Heather Child|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=In the worldfuture, Vanna your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is one of the formerall around you. It fills your fridge, an eloi it keeps up to date with few rights your friends and of whom there are few expectations beyond being well groomed and keeping her man well fedfulfils your wishes. But she has a secret – she It is not dim at allalso stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. She Freya is one unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the clever oneslatest smart specs, who is playing dumb to further glasses which give her cause. In between her college courses in good housekeeping, (which all the information she's flunkingll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to perfection), she has guide her. The problem is that the personality on the small matter glasses is that of a drug addiction her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to feed, and stop using them or at the mystery of very least to reset them to a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her true-eloi sister's disappearance to solvevoice again is like she's right there, and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611855373</amazonuk>Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan GraudinWilson_Extinction|title=Blood for BloodThe Extinction Trials|author=SM Wilson
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction |summary=Second Storm and final book in sequence set Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a world where Germany won WW2 job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and Nazi experiments on Jewish children he has produced shapeshifting humansno access to the healthcare that could save her. It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. Can Yael defeat The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the Wehrmacht? Interesting, moving citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and absorbingabundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Curtis_Water|title=The CallWater & Glass|author=Peadar o GuilinAbi Curtis
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=The Aes Sidhe are back. And in their quest to win back Ireland from humankindSomething has happened, they have placed something very nasty and on a magical seal around submarine a pregnant elephant is one of only a handful of animals living below the entire island. Nobody can get in or outwaves. North? South? Doesn't matter any more. What does matter is ''The Call''. At some point during adolescenceWe follow Nerissa Crane, every teenager is transported to the Sidhe realma vet, that greyas she remembers recent events, colourless land looks after the animals and falls into a world of intrigue. It is difficult to which they were banished thousands of years beforeproperly review this book without giving too much away. If they can evade There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes in start but I will try to avoid the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilationsmain ones. Fewer than one in ten children survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adrian J WalkerBeckett_America|title=The End of the World Running ClubAmerica City|author=Chris Beckett
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction |summary=When ''America City'' tells the end story of Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the world as we know it comes, Edgar is totally unpreparedambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. Still slightly drunk from drowning his sorrows, and Set in a panicthe 22nd century, he throws random itemsthe novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, including his daughterwhere the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, down into his cellar, and then he and his family eke out a nightmarish existence in the dark until their supplies run outSouth, which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Fortunately they are luckyHolly and Slaymaker hope to change this, and they are rescued from working together on the cellar. As plan they emerge back into believe to be the world they see solution to the ruin and disaster around them, caused by hundreds problem of large asteroids hitting where to place the earth. Large areas thousands of the country Americans who have been destroyedmade homeless by devastating storms.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Featherstone_Paradise|title=Paradise Girl|author=Phill Featherstone|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Kerryl lives far away from the urban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. The farm is high up on a hill and it's a family endeavour - grandparents, mother, Kerryl. Groups of people left alive scavenge houses There's a market town below but Kerryl's family is concentrated on the farm and townsthe hard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, turning feralthough, trying to find whatis a fiercely bright girl - she's left won a place at Cambridge University and is looking forward to help them going. She loves poetry.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Sutcliffe_See|title=We See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=Lex lives in what used to survivebe London. EdgarToday, it is a closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''s family . Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are rescued by a small remaining army unitconstant presence overhead, but 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 wife and children become separated, and so begins Edgartime watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him the job of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's desperate race hyped up to reach do it, whatever his loved onesmother thinks. It's fighting terrorism, who are hundreds of miles away, before they leave on an evacuation ship for another countryafter all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785032666</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Roberts_Real|title=Children of IcarusThe Real-Town Murders|author=Caighlan SmithAdam Roberts|rating=43|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray to If you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, this may be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between possible, with the ages development of ten and sixteen who will enter fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the labyrinth, find their way through it to Alyssia, and become angels. Every child yearns to be chosenonline world is more real than your own. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosenEven today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. Clara, our girl's best friend, The only thing is the that with most devout people online, some of everyone. She knows she is destined us will have to stay in the real world to become an angeldeal with unexpected events – such as a real town murder. Our girl, though, does not want to be chosen}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=Raid|author=K S Merbeth|rating=4. In her society, this is such 5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |summary=A brutal road trip in a badge of shame blighted landscape that she keeps silentpulls no punches. AndWe travel with Clementine, along with Claraa bounty hunter, chosen she isin a world without heroes or hope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>
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