Tagged: 4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Young Adult. Leave a comment Ashe is a teenage girl wandering a dystopian landscape all alone. Before she was even born, an alien race appeared from another dimension and wiped out nearly the entire planet. To combat the alien ...
new books lack imaginationC. writers can often surprise readersD. readers are willing to give comments2. What do we know about Maggot Moon?A. It is not a dystopian novel.B. It is entirely new and interesting.C. It is an excellent historical novel.D. It is Gardner's most famous novel...
Set in a present-day dystopian alternate United States, this ambitious epic presumes that the U.S. Civil War never really ended and there was constant contention between various factions – until a comet hit the center of the country. At the same time, two prophecies were declared and now ...
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret AtwoodThis dystopian novel about a society in which women are stripped of their rights and freedoms is a great way to encourage women to think about gender equality and the human condition. 4. “The Power of Now” by Eckhart TolleThis spiritual book abou...
beyond specific fan accounts, twitter has also been the breeding ground where young adults are using hashtag rhetoric, like the nonprofit harry potter alliance's #myhungergames economic inequality awareness campaign, to synthesize their own realities with those in dystopian fiction. once used to ...
SeptentrionbyJean Raspailis a dystopian novel set in the year 2041. Itʼs a story of beauty and sadness, a story of the ugly things that happen in the world, and the courage of an elect few who happen, against all odds, to hold a line, to preserve a culture, a civilization, a ...
(Edward Abbey’s 1975The Monkey Wrench Gang), and the earth-conscious read for kids and teens has been rapidly evolving (Carl Hiaasen’s 2002Hoot). The hyper-popular YA dystopian novel is even incorporating elements of eco-awareness: from the coal mines ofThe Hunger Games’District 12 to ...
Shea Balik has a new MM paranormal dystopian romance out in eBook and audio formats: Mating the Enemy. Siberian Tiger shifter, Aleksi Rykov, is amused to watch the enemy chasing one of their own, psy, Seth Tilton, until he realizes it’s his mate. Rescuing his mate isn’t difficult for...
The previous year I had had a similar experience with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, another dystopian masterpiece. These were both school English texts (and given that I also read Day of the Triffids in Year 10 I wonder what on earth the English teachers were trying to prepare us for...
That sort of thing. Well, as hard as the dystopian stories will be to bring to the movies without a NR-17 rating or worse,Gregortrumps that. Human beings fighting with much-larger-than-life rats, a feature of each novel, and graphic death handed out by 12 year olds wrapped up in a...