by Will Carver — An intelligent speculative global-epidemic thriller that blurs the lines between fiction and reality.
Tag: dystopia
Briefly Very Beautiful
by Roz Dineen — Conveys an aching sadness for a lost world, and the exhaustion of daily struggling in a hostile environment.
Toxxic
by Jane Hennigan — 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
by Natasha Calder — 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
by Claire Fuller — 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
by Carole Hailey — A gripping feminist novel of ideas about cults, power politics, female empowerment and utilitarianism: does the end really justify the means?
How We End
by LM Juniper — UK-based zombie apocalypse. Exciting, action-packed story with a group of interesting characters, and fun twists on the genre.
The Splendid City
by Karen Heuler — 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
by Susannah Wise — 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
by Rhiannon Frater — As The World Dies Book 1. Great story, characterization and dialogue, tense plotting and emotional impact… and the best ever opening scene.
Devolution
by Max Brooks — Experts may warn us and small outbreaks may scare us, yet we still manage to convince ourselves that nothing will go wrong. Till it does.
The Wasteland Saga
by Nick Cole — Introspective, melancholy but ultimately uplifting exploration of the human condition after the apocalypse.
The Truth Machine
by James L. Halperin — More relevant than ever. Imagine if we could wipe out Fake News and lying, scumbag politicians thanks to a reliable lie detector?
When the Lights Go Out
by Carys Bray — The impact of climate change on one family: constant rain, unemployment and the stress of trying to live as though life was still ‘normal’.
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047
by Lionel Shriver — An intelligent, beautifully written and brutally observed dystopian novel about an economic crash and the effect of money on people.
Finished With Life
by Scott Bartlett — A novel of ideas including climate change, multiverses, freedom, family ties and family responsibility, artificial intelligence and more…
Dead South
by David Brinson — Zombie apocalypse in London. Nobody has a gun so the fight gets hand-to-hand dirty really soon. Action-packed, gripping, funny and tense.
Day By Day Armageddon
by J.L. Bourne — Generates a fervent wish that the protagonist (hell, the writer) would get eaten by zombies. A bloody mess of a book.
Cell
by Stephen King — A virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. Within hours, those receiving calls would be infected.
Autumn
by David Moody — Virtually the entire population of the planet has died in less than 24 hours. For the few survivors, things are about to get much worse.