THE LAST DAY AND THE FIRST by Tim Lebbon PS Publishing, HC, £15.00 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan The end of the world as we know it has been hypothesised in many ways, drowning, burning, consumed by war or alien invasion, hammered by asteroids, disease or a poisoned atmosphere. Civilisation dies… Read More »The last day
Moths by Jane Hennigan, Angry Robot, paperback, £9.99 Reviewed by Stephen Frame If you like a dystopian thriller, Moths is your next read. This is a read-it-in-four-big-gulps book. A sit-up-until-4am-on-a-school-night book. Let’s start with the basics. A pandemic spread by mutated moths has killed half the male population of the… Read More »Moths
The Finery by Rachel Grosvenor from @fly_press #BookReview #Dystopia #DystopianFiction The Finery by Rachel Grosvenor Fly on The Wall Press, ebook, £4.79 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming The Finery are here to help you. To make your life easier. They control who has access to certain materials from the library, so… Read More »The Finery
World Running Down by Al Hess from @angryrobotbooks #BookReview #Futuristic #Dystopia World Running Down by Al Hess Angry Robot Books, £9.99 Reviewed by Nadya Mercik World Running Down is a story both layered and simple. On the one hand, it is a road journey with a mission to accomplish. It… Read More »World Running Down
WAYWARD by Chuck Wendig from Del Ray #BookReview #dystopian #horror #thriller WAYWARD by Chuck Wendig Del Rey, Hardback, £22 Reviewed by Stephen Frame Wayward is the sequel to Wanderers, Chuck Wendig’s novel about a world-ending pandemic. Like Wanderers, Wayward is part techno-thriller, part dystopian SF, and part horror story, told… Read More »
Burrowed by Mary Baader Kaley Angry Robot Books, £9.99 Reviewed by Nadya Mercik When I read the blurb of the book, I was quite intrigued. A genetic plague as a premise for the world, the main character with low life expectancy and slim chances for a good life, a terrifying… Read More »Burrowed by Mary Baader Kaley from @angryrobotbooks
Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky Pan Macmillan, HB, £16.59 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming Liff’s grandfather was the captain of the ark spaceship Enkidu, one of the large ships that carried thousands of people from Earth when the planet died. The ship travelled for centuries before reaching Imir, a world… Read More »Available for Pre-Order, Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky from @panmacmillan
THE SOMEBODY PEOPLE By Bob Proehl Titan Books, s/b, £9.99 Reviewed by Matthew Johns The sequel to The Nobody People takes up the story of those with extraordinary abilities who had been persecuted by those with none and transposed their roles. In the first novel, the people with fantastic powers… Read More »THE SOMEBODY PEOPLE By Bob Proehl from @TitanBooks
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings MacMillan, pb, £7.91 Reviewed by Melody Bowles The Women Could Fly is narrated by Josephine, who lives in a world where people still accuse women of being witches. Josephine is twenty-eight years old and really ought to be married now. As she is… Read More »The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings from @panmacmillan
Negalyod The God Network by Vincent Perriot, Florence Breton, Montana Kan and Lauren Bowes Titan Comics, hb, £27.59 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming Negalyod is a post-apocalyptic dystopia where humans live in mega-cities and are monitored by the Network. The city, Station 3703, is divided with most of the population crammed… Read More »Negalyod The God Network by Vincent Perriot, Florence Breton, Montana Kan and Lauren Bowes from Titan Comics