By Stephen Oram ** Publication Date 12 April 2019 ** I picked this one up because I had read Fluence by Stephen Oram. I was curious to see/read some other work by this author. Also, this is a book of short stories, so quick reads. I wasn’t disappointed. Stephen Oram has the ability to transport …
By C.L. Denault ** Publication Date 22 March 2019** Willow is a teenage girl with a special gift. She is what is considered a prodigy in this new dystopian world. In book two of this series, Willow is living in the Core and expected to conform to what it is to be a prodigy. But …
By Marie Darrieussecq *** Publication date 25 Oct 2018 *** I am a huge fan of dystopian novels, especially when they don’t initially appear dystopian. Our Life in the Forest is a tale of a world where people have spare parts. Spare parts in jars, spare parts in living, breathing humans. Viviane writes us a …
By Jessica Barksdale Inclan Prime takes us to a world covered in water. A future place where the ice caps are melting and the human race has been forced onto the high ground that’s left, or living in squalor in water-filled areas. It’s not such a stretch, if you believe in climate change. This YA …
by Nathan Shaker This is a book I’ve had in my “owned/to-read” collection for a while. I’m glad I finally got around to reading it. While both funny and tragic, it is a story focused on the end-days hype of 2012 and the self-fulfilling prophecies that befall society. Wilmer is a fabulous character. A …
by Stephen Oram A rather dystopian take on London in the future, Fluence introduces us to a society determined by your social media status. Pay Day is coming, and this once a year event uses an algorithm to determine your strata for the coming year. Will you move up? Or will you move down? …
by David VanDyke Second book in the Plague Wars series, this one picks up the story about Marine Sergeant Jill Repeth from the first book. The first few pages of this one repeat the exact story that was relayed in Book One, but continue along telling Jill’s story about what exactly happened on that cruise …
by David VanDyke Another one of those that I wonder how it ended up on my shelf. Somewhat sci-fi, somewhat dystopian, somewhat thriller. Initially I didn’t think I was going to enjoy this story, but it got better as the pages turned. Daniel Markis is a a veteran combat medic whose life gets turned upside …
by Kazuo Ishiguro Never in a million years did I anticipate that this would be dystopian fiction. I am not one to read reviews before I read a book for many reasons – don’t want to be tainted by someone else’s views, don’t want to accidentally read spoilers. Imagine my surprise when I figured out …
by Will Ross, Christopher Wiig, and Aaron Sailors (originally posted 4-July-2014) A different twist on zombie fiction. What I first found interesting is that this book was written by three people. There is a foreword from the leader of the “Zombie Research Society,” which I suppose is a glowing review from that sector. It’s a …