Utopian/Dystopian Fiction

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 		Moxyland by Lauren Beukes, Reviewed
Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow and Walter Jon Williams are name-checked, but the influences of the Lucky Strike parties and other South African stories are equally strong.
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Reviewed
Marcus Yallow - aka W1n5t0n or M1k3y - becomes a teenage victim of his government's War on Terror after a terrorist attack on San Francisco in this fine YA novel from Tor
The Holy Machine by Chris Beckett
The Holy Machine shares themes with several Beckett shorts; La Macchina from which it took its central idea, Valour, The Turing Test, Perimeter and Piccadilly Circus
The Inferior
This debut novel has the stunning tag-line THERE IS BUT ONE LAW: EAT OR BE EATEN, and is more reminiscent of Golding's Lord of the Flies than Tarzan or The Truman Show.
Burn
Burn is the Nebula Award winning novella by James Patrick Kelly from Tachyon Books; an Asimov's regular, Kelly's magnificent novella is set on the colony planet Walden.
The Guardener's Tale
The new novel by Pushcart Prize, Rhysling, and Stoker award-winning Bruce Boston is The Guardener's Tale, a dark story from Sam's Dot Publishing set in a future dystopia