Random Walk

by Alexandra Claire, Duca (Illustrator)

Set in 2035, a coastal city lies isolated from the outside world. Its hungry inhabitants scrape a living in a high-tech, low resource remnant of their former society. Oswald White oversees them all, controlling the behaviour of a critical mass with a sociological software model written decades before.

218 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2011

About the author

Alexandra Claire attended UCLA, earning a degree in English Literature. She has a deep love of learning and teaching, and created this series to gently introduce young children to their very first letters and numbers in a fun and interactive manner. She lives in Bonita, California, with her two young children, who are both avid readers and artists.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 1 out of 5]

A Welsh dystopian novel sounded intriguing, but alas no.

In the near future a coastal city in Wales, half-destroyed by a tsunami and rising sea levels, becomes cut off from the rest of the world. The city’s surviving inhabitants fall under the control of an organization using advanced sociological software, except for a couple of young rebels who win.

Does this makes much sense? Not to me - and unfortunately this amateurish and ill-conceived narrative is all that’s on offer. The result might do for a juvenile audience, if they were unusually undemanding, but my juvenile days are long over and it doesn't do for me.