<P> Noughts & Crosses is a series by English author Malorie Blackman of young adult novels , including two novellas , set in a fictional dystopia . The series describes an alternative history of human evolution in which African people had gained a technological and organisational advantage over the European people , rather than the other way around , with Africans having made Europeans their slaves . The series takes place in an alternate 21st - century Britain . </P>
<P> Noughts & Crosses is a series by English author Malorie Blackman of young adult novels , including two novellas , set in a fictional dystopia . The series describes an alternative history of human evolution in which African people had gained a technological and organisational advantage over the European people , rather than the other way around , with Africans having made Europeans their slaves . The series takes place in an alternate 21st - century Britain . </P>
where is the book noughts and crosses set
where is the book noughts and crosses set
a fictional dystopia
a fictional dystopia