An intelligent speculative global-epidemic thriller that blurs the lines between fiction and reality.
Tag: dystopia
Briefly Very Beautiful
Briefly Very Beautiful conveys an aching sadness for a lost world, and the exhaustion of daily struggling in a hostile environment.
Toxxic
A matriarchal world damaged by and struggling to move on from its patriarchal, violent past. A moving novel and a painful read.
Whether Violent or Natural
A good premise (a world where antibiotics don’t work anymore) marred by overblown prose, lack of clarity and weirdness (not good-weird).
The Memory of Animals
A group of young people are trapped in hospital during a pandemic that wipes through the population, leaving just them, alone and isolated.
The Silence Project
A gripping feminist novel of ideas about cults, power politics, female empowerment and utilitarianism: does the end really justify the means?
How We End
UK-based zombie apocalypse. Exciting, action-packed story with a group of interesting characters, and fun twists on the genre.
The Splendid City
The Splendid City is set in a alternative reality. It’s loads of fun but also a serious satire of a world becoming ever more dystopian.
This Fragile Earth
A dystopian novel and an implicit plea to take care of our precious, fragile planet. We’ll be sorry when we lose it.
The First Days
As The World Dies Book 1. Great story, characterization and dialogue, tense plotting and emotional impact… and the best ever opening scene.