Category: Dystopian
What Have We Done — JT Lawrence
Hedon — Jason Werbeloff
If dystopia is your thing then this is right up your alley. It’s dirty, violent, extremely sexually graphic — and the ending.
Definitely not for children.
Also available in Uprising: 12 Dystopian Futures.
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Code Breakers: Beta — Colin F. Barnes
Basically, it’s more of the same as Prequel and Alpha, which is all quite good and keeps one rivetted and moving along at a very good pace but, and here’s the thing, i just can’t handle diving into Gamma at the moment, it’s all become a bit too much.
Yeah, for now at least, i’ve totally overloaded all of my data banks and overheated my CPU’s with all this hacking, AI’s, post apocalypse chaos, everyone wanting to kill each other and take over the world, etc., etc..
So i’m off for some quiter paced reading for a while and maybe i’ll get back to reading Gamma and finishing the series sometime in the future, maybe not.
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Code Breakers: Alpha — Colin F. Barnes
After the super lively prequel i was wondering if this could keep up, and i have to say that it more than matched my hopes. This is all rather full on stuff, it just doesn’t stop steaming along full tilt. I can’t remember the last time i read a book so fast, just didn’t want to put it down.
Back are our two wonderful protagonists from the prequel and this time they’re joined by Jerry. Jerry’s lead a rather sheltered life in a nice big, clean, domed city, that is, until it all goes wrong one day and he has to leave and run off into the wasteland outside.
There’s also lots of other great characters added to the mix with lots of cyberpunky, post-apocalyptic, dystopian shenanigans to go along with them. Yes, folks, we loves any kind of shenanigans at Kindle Worm HQ and this ones got several different kinds.
Full steam ahead into Beta: don’t go away, i’ll be back soon.
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Code Breakers: Prequel — Colin F. Barnes
A quick and lively prequel for the main series, which i have dived eagerly straight into without a pause.
Characters are really well written and perfectly suited for this nuked out, post apocalyptic wasteland that the world has become. I am so hoping the rest of the series holds up to what’s been suggested here because it looks like it’s going to be a rather good read.
Next up: Code Breakers: Alpha.
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The Broken Bubble — Philip K. Dick
The Girl in the Machine — Philip Harris
The Girl in the Wilderness — Philip Harris
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom — Cory Doctorow
Published a year after Altered Carbon this book takes a lot of the re-sleeving ideas from Richard’s book and instead of placing them into the realm of super warriors, criminals, etc.; Cory puts them into a future Disney Land theme park in an alternative dystopian future.
Having very much enjoyed Altered Carbon, i was left quite disappointed by the sequels, especially Woken Furies, and so it was rather nice to find a story like Cory’s that took some of the best ideas of Altered Carbon and spun them into a new Earth-side future that we can all begin to relate to because we’ve all heard of these real places.
No, this isn’t the blood and gore fest that Altered Carbon was, and neither does it have the amazing future-sex-drugs thing — they’re still smoking crack from crack pipes FFS. 
But it does have the murder mystery and the loss of the intervening memories between back up and re-sleeving that Altered Carbon does, all wrapped around who gets to control various Disney Land attractions.
So yeah, if you’ve read any other Cory Doctorow books and enjoyed them then do give this a go, and also, if you enjoyed Altered Carbon, i’d bet a few pennies that you’ll enjoy this also, albeit a very much tamed down version.
There’s also a follow up novella: Truncat.