So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her. Or maybe its his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken his father is emotionally distant his brother killed himself and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers. Pure'by Julianna Baggott ( see our review)īlurb:'Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before.
But is she brave enough to believe this mysterious boy? This is a tense and utterly compelling story about a society behind a wall, and the way in which two young people seize the chance to break free. She is quietly accepting of her fate until, one day, a new inmate arrives. Like all Surpluses, Anna is living in a Surplus Hall and learning how to make amends for the selfish act her parents committed in having her.
In a society in which ageing is no longer feared, and death is no longer an inevitability, children are an abomination. The Declarationby Gemma Malley ( see our review)īlurb: Anna Covey is a Surplus.
Below is a list of a range of classic and contemporary fiction that deal with dystopias. A perennial favourite of the sci-fi genre, dystopian themes are now becoming increasingly prevalent in young adult fiction.
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