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[[Category:Dystopian Fiction|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Seven Second Delay|author=Tom Easton|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summaryisbn=In the future, the difference between West and East are greater than ever. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)U, linked by a bridge, and immigrants risk everything to pass from the third world of the latter to the first world of the former. Mila has made it across, but the danger is not over, and as she falls into the hands of the Agents, she realises the real price of freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewB0DB64PYV5|title=Mutant CityThe White Rose|author=Steve FeaseyDave Baines

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=After In 2033, a devastating chemical war, superstorm known as the White Rose devastates the world is slowly rebuilding itselfNorthern Hemisphere. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers andAnd it's not a storm that gathers, when they re-emergedwreaks havoc, built six cities in which the genetically pure live in luxury and comfortthen dissipates. But outside Instead, it hovers across half the city wallsEarth with its octopus-like tentacles, everything is very differentnot giving up and never going away. The survivors there are mutants, fighting for survival in degrading, impoverished circumstances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RiotKay Chronister|authortitle=Sarah MussiDesert Creatures|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=It With a world that is 2018 and Britain is still in recessionbecoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Years of austerity have devastated the country. Banks are going under. Unemployment Whether it is rising. The cost a robotic takeover, a world devoid of welfare water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is soaring. Prisons are overflowinga way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. And the population ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is still rising. Something has to give. The solution? Forced sterilisation a new work of all schoolpost-leavers without a secured place in higher education or a guarantee apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of employment. The programme has started with prisoners but the legislation to roll it out across the population is about to go through parliamentfears that exist for humanity today. Unsurprisingly, there It is a growing popular protest against itshocking novel that still manages to find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreview|title=The Giver|author=Lois Lowry|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Jonas lives Set in a world were sameness has prevailed over individuality. There are rulesthe near-distant future, so many rules, which are adhered to, and which allow society to live without pain, suffering or conflict. These rules are rarely questioned, merely accepted. When they turn twelve, children in this a world are assigned their future role in society by on the Eldersverge of climate collapse, and start training for itBritain is in great peril. These assignments are based on years of observation of their characters and aptitudes, and whether they are assigned to be The British Isles desperately needs a nurturer of the young hero (or a caregiver of the elderly, a labourer who keeps several) to save the streets clean or someone who prepares day and provides food, they are usually a good match for the personrescue what little remains. At the assignment ceremony, Jonas is not given a typical role, however. He is selected to be the Receiver What no-one expected was that one of Memory, a position given out only once every few generations. He will receive and store all the memories Knights of the past which Round Table would answer 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 enforcementcall.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>0356518523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF|title=GoddessJust Looking|author=Laura PowellMatthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction|summary=After an economic collapse, Britain is close to breaking point. Citizens are going hungry It was the summer of 2035 and there are riots. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as on a handmaiden cruise ship in the Cult of Artemis. In this BritainMarseilles, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the beliefs end of the Ancient Greeks persevere and are followed by millions his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the cult sits side same sentence by side with Christianity as a mainstream religion. Auraman! He's thoughts aren't taken up by the suffering outside watching the sanctuary though tornado - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite to take over more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the position of head priestess when Opis retires. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=ZOMcruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-B Mission|author=Darren Shan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=OkPierre, a French journalist in his thirties. Have an obligatory warning about possible spoilers He writes for a relatively new paper, the series so far. If you donright-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and he's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France't want any, then run along and read our review of 'the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]]French'. Otherwise His partner, Helen, who's English and Jewish, read this review at your own riskkeeps him in check to some extent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Snowpiercer Vol.2 - The ExplorersSusi Holliday |authortitle=Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc RochetteThe Last Resort |rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsThrillers|summary=All A group of humankind is living strangers gather on a single trainprivate island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. Oh sorryThe group includes a games designer, as this is the sequelsocial media influencer, make gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that two trainsmakes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. Launched on We follow the same tracks group as they explore the original Snowpiercerisland, but clearly at and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a slight removedark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, was and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a second mile-long behemoth of gilded cage. In a trainrace against time, designed with the latest high tech Amelia must struggle to be completely self-sustaining as it travelled ceaselessly on uncover the tracks encircling a frozen Earth, waiting reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the time guests from the world was inhabitable once moreincreasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}} {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop|rating= 3. But 5|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the high tech on board, complete with lemon farms, and differing qualities aftermath of virtual holidays depending on cost and class a Third World War where methods of customerpunishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machines, has not put paid to one aspect of society – and in fact The Loop follows the sole aspect precarious existence of society not featured in [[Snowpiercer Voladolescent Luka Kane.1 - The Escape by Jacques Lob In a world of Have and Jean-Marc Rochette|the first bookHave Nots where Alts [cyborgs]] – religionhave power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. Some people are fearing A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the guards who can end time, when the Icebreaker crashes into the original Snowpiercerhis life with one squeeze. Some believe they're duped into the whole train idea, Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and are 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 fact despair. His prison is based on a spacecraft. Some people know something else – the rare few explorers who get model of an infinity loop designed to go outside make its inmates suffer. With the train into only glimmers of hope being the world beyond, rumours of rebellion outside and see glimpses the visits of what came before…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>1782761365</amazonuk>1912626551

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Shattered (Slated Trilogy) Margaret Atwood|authortitle=Teri TerryThe Testaments

|summary=Kyla - or is she Lucy? or Rain? or Riley? - was Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid'slateds Tale]]. I don't want to tell you too much about the plot because it' as s a teen criminal in Lorder-run Britainnovel that is entirely plot driven. All memory of her past life was erased and she was sent Suffice it to live with say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a new foster familyvan, controlled not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a wrist bracelet that could kill her if girl brought up in Gilead with the expectation she stepped out of line. But that was some time ago. Since thenwill marry a commander; Daisy, some a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Kyla's memories have resurfaced Gilead only from school lessons and she has discovered that she isn't a run-of-its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the-mill Slatedstore owned by her parents.. Used as a weapon by an anti-Lorder terrorist group, Kyla's brain has been messed with in more than one way.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408319500</amazonuk>1784742325

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789018870|title=Snowpiercer Vol.1 - The EscapeSomething to Tell You|author=Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc RochetteDavid Edwards

|genre=Graphic NovelsDystopian Fiction |summary=All of humankind is living on Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a single trainlong time. I know British commuters feel that way Bert was Sam's boss at timesCERN, but this is a much different circumstance – it is a train miles longnever seemed to affect the way that the families got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, running nonfifteen-stop as a selfyear-contained unit across tracks circling olds Allie and Josh, went to a desolately frozen Earthprivate boarding school, moving on endlessly untilbut at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, perhaps some time in the distant future, the planet can recover from the cataclysm that froze itLiam and Hannah. ItSam's certainly been going on long enough for it to have a culture – a hierarchical society from the rich and leisured classes near the frontwife, through the orgiastsBriony, past the useful carriages set aside was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for producing foodall eight of them, to until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the underclass rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the endearth had risen exponentially. It's all set in its routine, set in motion. But there are two fishes out enough of water – a man from problem for Sam and Bert to drag the rear who escapedhead of CERN, and Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a middle-class woman working family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with civil rights campaignersa plant called Lily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782761330</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789550149|title=The One Safe PlacePoster Boy|author=Tania UnsworthN J Crosskey

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Devin lives on I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a farm with his grandfather, away from long time in the rest 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 worlddate. He knows Crosskey hasn't put a little about date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it – how the gap between rich and poor is would not be as far wider than the world we live in, and how many children now live on the street, scavenging for scraps to say alivefuture are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. But If she had, he’s never been that concernedI suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. On the farm the life A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is a simple one, but they can grow enough food to get by, and they’re happyalready happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. When tragedy strikesIn the blurb, Devin is forced Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to leave his home and venture turn its fiction into the city for the first timereality".|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk> My only response to that is: too late!

 {{newreview|title=Warm Bodies|author=Isaac Marion|rating=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.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>}} {{newreview0241349176|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm BodiesLast|author=Isaac MarionHanna Jameson

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I normally review Jon Keller is in a book within a day or two of finishing it. I couldn't with this one. I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied with hotel in Switzerland in the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequel, and most of remote countryside when the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''world ends. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing styleHe has no idea if his family is alive, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the authorhe has no idea what's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed going on in the ending. It isn't after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)|author=Emmy Laybourne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We left our supermarket kids when they split up at the end of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]. Nikonearest city, Alex and six others were taking or if the school bus to try to save Brayden who had nearest city has been shot and to find the US military evacuation teamobliterated. DeanShocked, Astrid and three of the little ones had stayed behind - it was too risky to take pregnant Astrid into amid the poisoned outside. And when we say poisoned, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left the air toxic in different ways to different people, depending on their blood group. Nobody knows where Jake is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Trap|author=Andrew Fukuda|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''The Trap'' is the third mass hysteria and final book in this sequence about a world in which vampires rule and humans are hepersexodus, eaten almost Jon decides to extinction. We left Gene and Sissy, along with Epap and David, on the train that delivers hepers from stay at the Mission hotel rather than attempt to the City, destined for the Ruler's feast table. Gene now knows that he and Sissy form the Origin, the cure that will return Duskers get to humans formulated by Gene's missing scientist father. But is that all there is to it? Where did the Duskers come from? Can Gene airport and Sissy end their plague? Will they all make it out alive? And what of Ashley June, newly turned to Dusker? What does she know that Gene and Sissy don't?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BORD2RG</amazonuk>}} {{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 architectshome. LarkHe's post-apocalyptic world runs on magic and there isn't enough of it about. So Renewables - people whose magic will replenish after it is drained - are in demand - not as alone, twenty other people but as also stay and gradually form a resourcesmall community. But One day, when helping the architects have made Lark different. She can drain hotel manager, Jon finds the magic body of others and use it herself. We last saw Lark when she escaped a girl deemed to have been killed before the Iron Wood and went in search of her missing brother Basilworld ended. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565571</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)|author=Catherine Fisher|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Letcommunity descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's catch you up. Jake's father is still lost in time. Venn's wife is still dead. Summer, killer and finding 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 truth about what is that he's trying to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and possibly the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likelylast community on earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473203287|title=Resist (Breathe)Summerland|author=Sarah CrossanHannu Rajaniemi

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Resist'' carries on where [[Breathe by Sarah Crossan|Breathe]] left off. To catch you up: deforestation has resulted in environmental catastrophe and the Imagine a world is a ravaged place in which there isn't enough oxygen death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to fully sustain human life. A corporation, BreatheAfter the discovery of the afterlife, runs the Pod, whose inhabitants are divided British Empire has extended its reach into Premiums (plenty of oxygen) and Auxiliaries (barely enough). OutsideSummerland, drifters struggle to survivethe Big Smoke for the recently deceased. With one alternative to In 1938 the Pod - The Grove - destroyed by British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the Pod Ministryheart of Summerland. When Rachel White, Alinaan ambitious SIS agent, Bea and Quinnbecomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, our three central characters, set out on separate, but equally perilous, journeys she must decide how far she is willing to find the other, Sequoia. And back in the Pod, Ronan go and how much she is rethinking willing to risk to uncover the world he thought he lived in but didn'ttruth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827204</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683690613|title=The Waking World Garrison Girl (The Future KingAttack on Titan)|author=Tom HuddlestonRachel Aaron

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Many tales have been told of You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the boy who became our greatest king. Very few have spoken of the future..walls where it's safe, but that's an illusion.So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''

Aran is In the son dystopian world of one Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the Island's wealthiest Lawsenemies outside. He lives in the underground farmstead of Hawk's Cross. He wants for nothing. But Aran is not entirely happy. Rumours Known as titans, these enemies are everywhere impossibly tall human-like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and the Island is under threatregenerative powers. Bands of fierce men known as Marauders are beginning Difficult to attack further kill and further inlandinnumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, burning homes and taking slaves. Aran wants to join whilst the fight against walls have always kept them but out, that task has been given begun to his older brother. Aran's future lies in overseeing the farmstead and it's not a future he wants. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085756045X</amazonuk>change…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Maberry1444944525|title=Fire & AshThe Survival Game|author=Nicky Singer

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=ALERT! Spoilers for early books in Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Rot & Ruin series are scattered throughout this reviewIsle of Arran. So if you havenBut Mhairi't read the others, get thee over to my words about [[Rot & Ruin s world has been ravaged by Jonathan Maberry|book one]]. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Last Man Standing|author=Davide Longo climate change and Silvester Mazzarella|rating=3|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I've read countless dystopian fiction accounts the mass movement of a world changed overnight people and it is one defined by everything from man eating plantsborders, to nuclear war, plague, or zombiescheckpoints and soldiers with guns. This is the first Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to present a complete meltdown of society as the result of economic crises, but this does hold far greater credibility than the average vampire or zombie plague. The main protagonist, Leonardo, is not a hero. He is Heathrow a very ordinary middle aged man with many flaws. He has no super human strength or abilities of any kind - the only thing that gives him the courage to continue which is his love more than can be said for his estranged daughter, who suddenly reappears in his life, along with a deeply disturbed stepbrother, early in the crisis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857051229</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=More Than This|author=Patrick Ness|rating=4Muma and Papa.5|genre=Teens|summary=She''Here is s even made it out of the detention centre at the boy, drowningairport.'' And Seth does drown. He is alone; taken by the seaduring this journey, arms Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else 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 heavy, confusing blur until… he awakens and finds himself in a desolate, shattered world; naked, alone, starving and aliveyou can't allow anyone else to rely on you. 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 life. It is as if the whole place was simply abandoned one day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=North_84K|title=The 10084K|author=Kass MorganClaire North

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Nuclear war has rendered Theo can, he calculates the Earth uninhabitable for centuries. The remains worth of human society, a colony of people that managed each person to escape the cataclysmpenny. ''The Company'' own everything and everyone, live including handing out their lives on massive city-like spaceshipspunishments for crime. Unfortunately, Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the spaceships are becoming unsustainable and as resources begin Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to run outavoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the Council is forced to introduce strict new plans and measures in an attempt to protect cost of the remaining populationcrimes filling his inbox. With options running outThey are variables on a spreadsheet, a dangerous mission is conceived as a desperate roll simple mathematical equation, the expense of solving the dice: one hundred juvenile delinquents are sent crime added to how much the Earth victim would have contributed to test if the planet can once more sustain lifetheir community. There is no telling what the remaining radiation will do to the teenagers, but Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this hardened world pay their debt to society, this is a risk worth takingin cold hard cash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444766880</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0356510700|title=Split SecondEverything About You|author=Sophie McKenzieHeather Child|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Nat In the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up to date with your friends and Charlie are connected long before they meetfulfils your wishes. They were both there 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 day information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a terrorist bomb decimated personality to guide her. The problem is that the marketplacepersonality on the glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. Nat was trying Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to find his brother and stop him because he's pretty sure Lucas is using them or at the bombervery least to reset them to a different personality. Charlie was sulking because her mother wouldnBut Freya just can't let do this. Hearing her get a tattoo. And the bomb went off. Charliesister's mother died. Natvoice again is like she's brother was left in a coma. In right there, and although she knows this Britain of the near-futureis just Ruby's data, beset by an endless cycle part of more and more austerityFreya can't believe that it can be this accurate, 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 worseit can't be this Ruby. But Is it did. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115976</amazonuk>just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wilson_Extinction|title=1Q84: The Complete TrilogyExtinction Trials|author=Haruki MurakamiSM Wilson|rating=54|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=The ''1Q84'' trilogy isStorm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, without doubt, an impressive booka continent ruined by overpopulation. 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 Space is almost completely baffling if taken in isolation. It does, though, demand a degree of dedication, scarce and if the prospect of a 1300 page novel in which not a huge amount happens in terms of plot energy and in which there food are rationed. Education is a significant level of repetition leaves you coldminimal and mostly focused around searching for new, then this might not be the best entry point into the wonderful world of Haruki Murakamiefficient food sources. As often with Murakami thoughStorm's mother has died and she never knew her father, itso she lives in one of Earthasia's possible overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to read this book at school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a number of levelsjob. On the surface itLincoln's a love story set in a slightly fantastical setting with a little bit of crime thrown in. At a deeper level, sister is dying from the blistering disease and he explores has no access to the thin lines between imagination and reality, life and death and what you might call yin and yanghealthcare that could save her. It's a novel where balance mean, desperate existence for them both and vacuums play so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a big partnew mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. It seems counter-intuitive The aim is to call retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a book virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of this magnitude 'delicate', but that's just how Earthasia will have access to the story appearsspace and abundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578077</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Curtis_Water|title=BloodtideWater & Glass|author=Melvin BurgessAbi Curtis

|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Set in a world only a book could inhabit - half in a post-apocalyptic futureSomething has happened, half in the mists of the myths of the past - ''Bloodtide'' retells part of the Volsunga saga - Icelandic tales of gods something very nasty and heroes and villains. Civilisation has long abandoned London to its criminals and its gang wars, going so far as to surround its borders with released ''halfmen'', genetically manipulated creatures with on a lust for violence. With the population trapped inside the city walls, Val Volson has risen to submarine a position pregnant elephant is one of power. Only King Conor is left standing in his way. But Val wants peace. He wants unity so that his people can break out only a handful of animals living below the city and prosperwaves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Night Witches|author=LJ Adlington|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Rain Aranoza comes from Rodina. It's We follow Nerissa Crane, a nation of science and rationality. It holds no truck with superstition and religion. Andvet, in the tradition of all authoritarian societiesas she remembers recent events, it is ruthless in stamping out traces of looks after the Old World animals and its belief in witches. Rodina is controlled by falls into a network known as Aura and Aura encourages denunciations. Control is enforced by the Scrutiners and Aura instructs citizens in even the minutiae world of their daily livesintrigue. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Blinded by the Light|author=Joe Kipling|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Some time in a near-future Britain, things look very different. The Sandman virus wiped out most of the population. The fortunate few live in one of three Neighbourhoods, each protected by the Boundary. Beyond the Boundary It is Outside - a wasteland populated with infected feral Echoesdifficult to properly review this book without giving too much away. Luckily for MaryAnn, she lives in There will be mild spoilers throughout this right from the Neighbourhood that was once known as Manchester. And she's a rich and privileged Alpha. Although her parents aren't celebrities - which MaryAnn would like, because then she'd be invited start but I will try to cooler parties - they are influential in the Light, avoid the Neighbourhood's leadership. So MaryAnn has designer clothes, servants, and nothing more to worry about than bagging a date with peer group kudosmain ones. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909776009</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Beckett_America|title=The Testing America City|author=Joelle CharbonneauChris Beckett

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I'll break from my usual reviewing style 'America City'' tells the story of starting off Holly, an ambitious publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with a plot summary herehis Presidential campaign. Set in the 22nd century, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, for reasons which will shortly become obviouswhere the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, and just start the South, which is frequently ravaged by saying ''The Testing'' is an interesting dystopian readextreme weather. Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this, with a wonderful narrator, which I'd definitely recommendworking together on the plan they believe to be the solution to the problem of where to place the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating storms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776535</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Featherstone_Paradise|title=Winter DamageParadise Girl|author=Natasha CarthewPhill Featherstone|rating=3.5|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=''Kerryl lives far away from the urban twenty-first century on a remote Yorkshire farm. The moor farm is high up on a hill and all it had got was out there waiting for her in the dark's a family endeavour - grandparents, a cold rock thingmother, hard as nailsKerryl.There'' But Ennor doesn't see another choice. She has to go. The fourteen-year-old girl lives with her ailing father and autistic brother, Trip, in s a trailer on the frozen Cornish moor. Ennormarket town below but Kerryl's mother has been gone for years - after they lost family is concentrated on the farm and Ennor's father turned to drugsthe hard but beautiful living associated with it. Kerryl, though, is a fiercely bright girl - she turned to religion. And left. But now the country is falling to pieces. There are riots. There's no money to be earned. School has closed. Father is getting iller. They're behind on the rent won a place at Cambridge University and eviction is looming. The social are threatening looking forward to take Trip awaygoing. There's nothing else for itShe loves poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408835835</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Gordon SmithSutcliffe_See|title=The Fury: The Director's CutWe See Everything|author=William Sutcliffe

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=I chose The Fury expecting a zombie novel. It isn't Lex lives in what I was expecting at allused to be London. The official press release describes the Fury Today, it is a closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''a zombie book without zombiesThe Strip''. This book has several things Nobody comes in common with the zombie genre; a group of survivors, in this case all children struggling to survive against a world that wants to destroy them. Unlike the typical zombie book, those affected by the fury are not the mindless living dead. They are ordinary people who and nobody can go about ordinary lives with one exceptionout. When they get near one of these children they Drones are gripped by an uncontrollable urge to rip them aparta constant presence overhead, food is short and everyone on the planet, other than a very small group life is affectedhard. Parents murder their children, other children will kill their best friends But there's a girl he likes and total strangers will give she can make him forget almost anything. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him the job of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up everything to destroy themdo it, whatever his mother thinks. After they have killed themIt's fighting terrorism, they will go back to their ordinary livesafter all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the resistance organisation known as ''The world will continue unchanged - at least for nowCorps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. What makes these children different? Why does the whole world want them dead? Who is infected - and with what?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571303854</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bethany WigginsRoberts_Real|title=StungThe Real-Town Murders|author=Adam Roberts

|genre=TeensDystopian Fiction |summary=Fiona wakes up confused and disoriented. She's in her bedroom but her bedroom has never looked like If you had the choice would you live your life online? In the future, thismay be possible, with the development of fully realised virtual reality you may feel that the online world is more real than your own. It's filthy. And abandonedEven today we spend hours each day looking at phones or checking statuses. Where The only thing is her family? And how has she come that with most people online, some of us will have to stay in the real world to have deal with unexpected events – such as a strange tattoo on her hand? real town murder.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Merbeth_Raid|title=Raid|author=K S Merbeth|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction |amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>0802734189</amazonuk>A brutal road trip in a blighted landscape that pulls no punches. We travel with Clementine, a bounty hunter, in a world without heroes or hope.

{{newreview|author=Dan Wells|title=Fragments|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I didn't have much hope for this book - Move on the middle book in a series tends to be filler, and as [[Partials by Dan Wells|PartialsNewest Emerging Readers Reviews]] was so brilliant, I though it was going to be hard to top. I was very wrong. This book is mind-blowing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007465238</amazonuk>}}