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Eldonita de Terry Tyler.

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"Those who escape 'the system' are left to survive outside society. The fortunate find places in off-grid communities; the others disappear into the wasteland."

The year: 2061. In the new UK megacities, the government watches every move you make. Speech is no longer free—an 'offensive' word reaching the wrong ear means a social demerit and a hefty fine. One too many demerits? Job loss and eviction, with free transport to your nearest community for the homeless: the Hope Villages.

Rae Farrer is the ultimate megacity girl - tech-loving, hard-working, law-abiding and content - until a shocking discovery about her birth forces her to question every aspect of life in UK Megacity 12.

On the other side of the supposedly safe megacity walls, a few wastelanders suspect that their freedom cannot last forever...

Wasteland is the stand-alone sequel to 'Hope', the concluding book in the two-part Operation Galton series, and Terry …

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A brilliant sequel

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Hope, the brilliant first Operation Galton novel, was my Book Of The Month for January 2020 so I went into reading Wasteland with both high expectations for this sequel and a little trepidation in case it didn't hit the same lofty heights. I needn't have worried! Wasteland is just as exciting and I loved that Terry Tyler has plenty more social insights and prophecies up her sleeves to drive the story forward.

Wasteland is set just over three decades after Hope so, for the younger population at least, the drastic social changes experienced by their parents and grandparents are already losing relevance. Being told about other ways of living is no substitute for actually seeing it and the Megacity generation are unwittingly trapped within their own self-centered bubbles, too concerned with social standing and keeping up with their peers to realise that very little of what they strive for is …