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Wasteland (Operation Galton Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Terry Tyler (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 102
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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 second book in the Operation Galton series, and Terry Tyler's twenty-first publication. A third book, Megacity, is also now available.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B087JZ2DT5
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 22, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3469 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 477 pages
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Terry Tyler is the author of twenty-seven books available from Amazon, the latest being the SFV-1 rage virus trilogy: Infected, Darkness and Reset. Other recent publications include 'Where There's Doubt', the story of a romance scammer and his prey, and 'Megacity', the final book in the dystopian Operation Galton trilogy. Happy to be independently published, Terry is an avid reader and book reviewer, and a member of Rosie Amber's Book Review Team.

Terry is a Walking Dead addict, and has a great interest in history (particularly Saxon, Plantagenet and Tudor), along with books and documentaries on sociological/cultural/anthropological subject matter. She loves South Park, the sea, and going for long walks in quiet places where there are lots of trees. She lives in the north east of England with her husband.

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Vmp
5.0 out of 5 stars Both ominous and inspiring
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2020
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I've just finished Wasteland. Like nearly all Terry Tyler's books, I found it very hard to put down, so engrossed did I become in her characters and the story. I wouldn't personally call it the sequel to Hope as there is a thirty odd year gap between the two books, and in that sense, I'm glad I read it as a stand-alone – I actually didn't want to compare the two. Some of the 'old' Hope characters play a role, but they are not central to the story.

I will be honest and say I found the start of Wasteland a bit slow with its 'filling in the years' section, but as soon as the real story began, I forgot all my reservations and became hooked. Wasteland presents a chilling view of what our future could be if we allow ourselves to be manipulated and controlled by a social-media and technology-steered world. As one of the characters says 'every time we accept' what we are told to feel or think is right through media campaigns and popular group think, we are being primed to be controlled in other areas of our lives. Even worse, in such a world as Wasteland presents, anyone who chooses not to conform is a 'rat', unworthy of consideration or respect. The UK in which the book is set is bleakly ominous and those who govern it are looking for solutions that none of us wants to contemplate, but we have been warned. Through Rae, Dylan and Ginevra, we find out what life could be if we continue on our current path.

Setting that aside, the book is also a thrilling action story of ducking and diving. In a nail biting adventure, Rae and her travelling companion, Ace, ride across country on an ancient motorbike avoiding detection and pursuit. Along the way, it tells of family love and disappointment, of powerful relationships, and of great loyalty and bravery. It is also very inspiring. As for the ending, well, what a fantastic twist that was. I loved it.

Wasteland is finely crafted and beautifully written. It is also Terry Tyler through and through. Her ability to write real, believable characters means that every time, you want to remain in their lives, like friends and observers. This book is terrific read and a worthy follow-up to Hope, but it is a different book entirely that stands extremely well on its own.
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Cynthia Harrison
5.0 out of 5 stars Great escape reading that also makes you think
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2020
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As usual, Terry Tyler does not disappoint. Since the pandemic, I’ve been stuck on reading British historical romance from the Regency era. Tyler is British, but that’s all she’s got in common with my escape reading these days. Really, I hesitated to read it for awhile. Then I didn’t type out a review right away. (Back into Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer instead of real world problems.) Sorry for the belated review as this is a book you need to rush out and read. Even if it is in a grim future world. Even if these dystopias seem a bit too close to reality. Tyler is that good. She made me forget our own cruel world with the comfort of knowing this particular scary scenario has not happened IRL...yet.
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Christine B
4.0 out of 5 stars amazingly realistic
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2022
Wasteland by Terry Tyler, book two in the Operation Galton Series, is amazingly realistic and as you read you get drawn into this futuristic world even though it is decades away.
Although this is the second book in this series it seemed adequate as a read-alone book. Characters are fully developed from the beginning of the story so you can relate to them entirely through the plotline.
I am not usually a reader of dystopian futuristic work but Terry Tyler has changed my mind altogether. This story is read in a present tense in the year 2061, in the UK. Tyler has pulled into this book a storyline of residents who now live either in functioning Megacities or as outcasts in lost, barren, and dilapidated Wastelands. In the Megacities citizens are monitored completely and are kept happy and healthy. If rules are not followed, residents may be sent to the Hope Villages as a result, an awful result, but not as bad as the Wastelands. Rae is a girl who seems to have a well structured life within the Megacity and goes throughout her day without incident, contrary to her boyfriend Nash who takes life less seriously. Rae finds out that she was born into a real family and decides to disobey the law and try to find her family.
What caught my interest the most and kept me wanting to read more was the realistic connections Tyler made between current day ideas and how a government may shape a new world to iron out all of the problems our world is presented with in the 2020’s. It is like a modern day version of 1984, which is actually mentioned in the story. Although all of the ideas are not made to be significant in the story they are mentioned throughout. For example, when it is pointed out if a certain young man could be Rae’s brother she says there is no way because she is white and he is black. This however would not be acceptable in the Megacity because it would be considered racist to bring up any such topic. Also touched upon is the changes the LGBTQ society has gone through since our current day social opinions.
I give this story four out of five stars for its believability, readability and overall well structured story line. It is the type of story that you might want to go back and reread just to see if you may have missed something in the earlier pages as so many important topics arise throughout. The only reason I did not give it five stars is I felt that some of the chapters were a little too long, making it feel like some situations became overemphasized. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book!
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nabriverhouse
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Read
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2021
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I liked this book because of the subject. Some of the passages were not written very well, but overall it captured and held my attention throughout the book.
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Karen R.
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2021
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Elizabeth Perrat
4.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing, Entertaining & Thought-Provoking
Reviewed in France on August 15, 2020
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Like Hope (Operation Galton Book 1), Wasteland (Operation Galton Book 2), set in the year 2061, is a frighteningly-realistic depiction of a dystopian future. Despite its disturbing subject matter – disturbing because this bleak future is all too easy to believe, the way our world is heading, I found this a very entertaining read.
People in the UK are now living in Megacities, run by a large and all-powerful family, where nobody is free to do or say what they want. Punishment for breaking the rules is severe, the worst being sent away to a homeless community: the Hope Villages, which Terry Tyler explores in Book 1. And which are anything but filled with hope. While these two stories are standalones, I was glad I’d read Hope first, to set the stage for Wasteland.
Some people, however, are trying to survive outside of the Hope Villages and the Megacities, and live in the Wasteland as “rats”. They may be able to exist as individual, thinking people, clutching onto some degree of hope in their shattered world, but in these communities, the people must work just to receive the basic needs of life.

The story follows Rae, a young woman who has been brought up in MegaCity 12. Even as she is compliant with life there, as she knows no other, Rae is aware that she has a family out in the Wasteland, to which she is drawn.

I am a fan of all of Terry Tyler’s multi-genre books and, once again, in Wasteland, she uses her skill and talent to vividly depict people existing in this disturbing dystopian world. This book certainly provides much food for thought … and worry for our not-so-distant future, and I would highly recommend it not only for lovers of science fiction/dystopian books, but for readers seeking a realistic, multi-layered and thought-provoking story.
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Barb Taub
5.0 out of 5 stars Character-driven dystopian thriller
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2020
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In Wasteland, Terry Tyler’s latest volume set in 2061, she continues the tale two generations on from the initial story in Hope. As with her earlier dystopian series, there are sinister forces seeking control of society, in this case known as Project Galton. In the megacities, and for those willing to comply with restrictions on speech and personal freedom, life is safe, entertaining, and relatively easy. But deviation from the regulated norm is punished immediately and without appeal. Repeated deviation results in loss of everything and transfer to the antonymically-named Hope Villages.

Rae is a young woman who has been raised in a government creche to be the perfect megacity dweller. She’s happy enough with her job, vacuous boyfriend and friends, and willing to accept restrictions in exchange for her safe life. But when she discovers the truth about her past, Rae decides to risk everything to look in the Wasteland outside the city for the family she never knew she missed. That journey takes her out of her protected life as she meets first the curated Wasteland version orchestrated by the megacity, and then further escapes to the real thing.

[Quote] "There’s so much I want to find out, like why my parents couldn’t settle. About the world they knew before. What it was like to be able to just get in your car and travel where you want. To be able to eat pizza three nights running without some nasty little ping on your boss’s com. Most of all, though, to have the right to make decisions about your own life." [End Quote]

But as Rae comes to terms with the realities of life outside the cities, she realizes that a romanticized view of Wasteland’s rugged loners is no more accurate than the faked megacity version. The family she came to find is no exception, as her search leads to both joyful reunion and bitter disillusionment. It leads to the fragile beginnings of love and the realization of loss.

Even as Rae’s search plays out, however, events are unfolding with horrifying speed. In moves echoing both the nineteenth century’s heartbreaking “clearances” in rural Scotland and Ireland, and twentieth century Nazi Germany’s Final Solution, huge construction projects are underway in twenty-first century UK, and Wasteland residents rounded up with ominous intent.

On its own, Wasteland isn’t a perfect book. The beginning is slow world-building with a lot of Tell and not enough Show. That’s a pity, because very few writers can beat Terry Tyler’s ability to show an entire world by focusing on the tiny universe of one character. Luckily for readers, she soon swings into the character-driven mode in which she excels. Through Rae’s eyes and those of a few other characters, we see what happens when absolute power meets absolute entitlement. “Power is not a means; it is an end,” as George Orwell warned in dystopian trope-defining 1984. Or, as the cynically corrupt Uncle Caleb Bettencort puts it in Wasteland: "Let us drink to Operation Galton, and all who have been functional in her success—and remember that to the victors go the spoils!"

Wasteland is a rollercoaster. It starts slowly, climbing a steep slope only to plunge into an ever-increasing series of drops, fake-outs, and ascents. Sure, you could read this as a standalone. But you deserve more. As the last book of this little series and even more as the latest book of a story arc with disturbingly accurate echoes of current events, I want more too. I want to give it more than five stars. I want more stories. I want to know more about these characters. Just as we get satisfying bite-sized endings to the stories of characters from earlier books, I want to know what happens to Rae and to the family she’s both found and made.
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Rackman
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliantly bleak, sometimes horrifying rollercoaster ride into a believable future.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2020
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This is a great read and worthy follow-up to Hope, the author's first book in this trilogy.

Picking up decades after Hope in the year 2061, Britain is now a plastic, contrived social media theme park dominated by a dynastic corporate family. The so-called megacities provide corporate playgrounds for a shallow, facile population of wannabe social media stars doubling as feckless worker drones obsessed with productivity, health and well-being. Though safe and unthreatening on the surface, these cities are actually ruthless control structures, where the penalties for non-conformity can be severe.

Those who fail to live up to the demanding, controlled life in the megacity are relegated to Hope Villages - camp-like communities that resemble small workhouse towns, where people must work to receive basic food shelter and medical assistance. Guarded night and day, the Hope Village is dominated by criminal gangs and brutal regimes - the last place the megacity townies want to end up, creating a climate of fear and anxiety among the conformists, promoting informers and spies alike.

Outside both these structures lies the Wasteland, populated by the poor, wretched deviants known and feared as 'rats' - criminals, vagrants and ne'er-do-wells who scrape a miserable existence from the charity of the few organisations trying to provide a life outside the control of the megacities.

We are introduced to Rae, a young woman whose life in Mega-City 12 is typical - abandoned as a baby, she is a true ward of the state, brought up and indoctrinated into the corporate life and conformed to its tightly-controlled regulation. Yet she knows she has a family - mother, brother and sister, and believes they are alive and living somewhere out in the Wasteland, and feels drawn to them despite her relatively comfortable life.

What I really loved about this story is how quickly it slides from a familiar, almost comfortable lost child story into a dystopian nightmare. I started the story needing to warm up to Rae after really enjoying the journey of Hope with its likeable protagonist Lita. It looked like the story was about to take a predictable and possibly mawkish line down the 'family reunion' lane but about halfway through the wheels really come off and suddenly we're headlong into a genuine nightmare. I can only liken it to getting aboard 'It's a Small World' at Disneyland, only to find halfway through it turns into Schindler's List.

Don't really want to say more than that, other than this has all the Tyler ingredients - characters so real you can feel them, believable dialogue, nail-biting action, twists and turns, and of course the terrifying sense that all this really could happen as the roots of this dystopia are plain to see in our current culture.

Another winner and a great read yet again from Terry Tyler, which I have no hesitation recommending. Five stars across the board.
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5.0 out of 5 stars All too plausible. Treat yourself to a stunning read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 1, 2020
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The England of 2061 is a bleak place for those who have abandoned the megacities for the Wasteland. In the megacities, you have everything you need - medical care, excellent nutrition, a good standard of living, but the trade off is that you have little personal freedom and are subject to the control of Nutricorp, a Big Brother type organisation, who watches everything you do via a microchip. Those that choose to turn their backs on these enormous conglomerates and live in the Wasteland are termed 'rats' and are in every sense third class citizens eking out a subsistence in an impoverished landscape. When mega-city girl Rae decides to find her family, some of whom are 'out there' in the Wasteland, we know she will get more than she bargains for. First though, she has to escape her 'minders' from the megacity.

There are some devastating twists along the way, when she discovers her family are not who or what she thought they were, and we soon we learn that Nutricorp has sinister plans for the wasteland and its population. There is a everything in this book, even a little romance! I couldn't put this down. I'm a fan of Terry Tyler's books so I got this as soon as I heard it was out and it is yet another to add to my list of my favourite reads. I liked it even better than Hope, the first in the series, but I do suggest you read that one first, though you don't need to as there are helpful notes in the book for those that are new to this story world. If you want an escapist read, then this will keep you gripped and up all night and is very highly recommended.
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Whitey
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping, Thought-Provoking, Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2020
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This is the second book in the Operation Galton series but it’s not especially necessary to have read the first (Hope) to enjoy Wasteland.

This is a dystopian future, and by definition, it’s not pretty. But this is not sci-fi; we are given human stories and not just a futuristic setting. The characters are real people with hopes and disappointments and there are some real truths here: the basic human instinct which drives us to find out where we came from, the miscommunication between couples so skilfully summed up when Rae thinks of a barrier between her and Nash becoming higher because Nash can’t see it’s there.

Ms Tyler also demonstrates her skill as a writer by letting us get to know these characters and then confounding our expectations about where their stories might be heading.

If you’ve read Hope then you’ll be more aware that this dystopian scenario doesn’t appear overnight. It’s just one small step at a time, with freedoms being eroded so gradually that no one notices. The atrocities which follow can seem almost like a natural progression.

Human nature being what it is, it seems that we do not learn from history, assuming that history doesn’t repeat itself. But it can. And Ms Tyler chillingly shows how and why.

The twists and turns of a clever plot don’t let up, and this book is a remarkable blend of futuristic and realistic. We recognise the people, because they are drawn so well. And that is probably the most chilling thing of all: this could be you, it could be me.
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