M的读者.T. Anderson and Ben Oliver will likely appreciate Sacha Wunsch’s recent release, Lies My Memory Told Me. This dystopian thriller follows the story of quiet, sixteen-year-old Nova Reynolds and her friends Andi and Kade as they work to solve the mystery of what Experion Enterprises is attempting with their new technology called Enhanced Memories. Enhanced Memories (EM) are originally created to be “nothing but good,” a magical solution to 安全ly giving people access to experiences to enhance their quality of life: travel without the expense, a lived experience that delivers empathy and nuances of living another life, and ultrarealistic entrainment without the risk阅读更多→

Given the coronavirus pandemic currently sweeping the world, Katharyn Blair‘s novel Unchosen is eerily relevant. 苏珊娜·柯林斯的粉丝, 斯科特Westerfeld, 奔驰马屁精, and Brandon Sanderson will also cheer for the strong female characters and appreciate the engaging and action-packed story. 在布莱尔的反乌托邦中, someone has knowingly or inadvertently unleashed the Crimson, a virus-like curse that causes the end of the world as we know it. 而不是戴口罩, people wear blindfolds because looking into the wrong eyes is a death sentence. When infected, a person’s irises turn from their natural color to purple and then to red. 那个人只有一个阅读更多→

Living in a world where books are thought to clutter the mind and technology is shunned in favor of a photographic memory called 知道, Samara Archiva wants to heal the 知道 with Forgetting so that the 知道 can find peace.  没有忘记, 痛苦是永恒的, and many commit suicide to escape the process of reliving excruciating memories that never fade.   知道, 这意味着记住太多了吗, 没有想象和梦想的空间, 从很小的时候开始, the 知道 are taught the importance of concealing emotion and for caching memories.   Caching, a special privilege of the 知道, involves阅读更多→

Maximum racing is dangerous; one out of ten cars doesn’t make it to the finish line.  But race car driver Cassica Hayle is fast, flighty, and full of fierce life.  拥有令人上瘾的, restle ss energy and delighted by chaos and speed, Cassica craves life in the fast lane and wants to escape Coppermouth,  勉强生存, backwater town where the stars at night are actually “restless orbital weapons moving steadily, left over from the Omniwar”(30) when death machines  “destroyed whole cities with lances of fire from space” (31). 现在, 在Coppermouth ,  人们死于尘肺, a respiratory affliction resulting from dust blowing阅读更多→

像所有优秀的反乌托邦小说一样,M. P. Kozlowsky begins with a social question that has currency and relevance and then exaggerates the answer to warn society of what could happen if we don’t take the appropriate actions or proceed with caution.  Kozlowsky’s plot revolves around wishes for everlasting life–for human immortality–and Dr. Alex Simmelfore has found an answer: Create a robot and download human consciousness to a chip that can be planted into the robot.  These improved robot beings will have human instinct, 人类的思想, and human complexity combined with a body that won’t age, 磨损, 或者屈服于疾病. 读者可能会怀疑,阅读更多→

当冰盖崩塌,低地被洪水淹没, 地球一片混乱, 人类的生存处于危险之中, 人们越来越绝望.   Out of this chaos grew two superpowers that seized the few resources remaining.  These actions led to civil wars and to international breakdown.   在经济崩溃的石油禁运期间, 许多地球人逃到了月球基地, “a beacon of humanity for the glory of science” (47). 通过麻木的宣传, not unlike that spewed in 1984 by George Orwell, lunar citizens recite a National Anthem and other political slogans that brainwash them into believing untruths about security, 生活的必需品, 就业, 以及社区联系.  组织得很像阅读更多→

几十年后, the long-standing gender selection of choosing boy children over girls will result in a 5 to 1 ratio of boys to girls across India and violence will erupt as the availability of this scarce resource (eligible, healthy young women) dries up and people realize the mistake they and their government have made for far too long.  一小群有权势的人, forward-thinking women promise a respite: a new country within the boundaries of India, 封锁, 安全, 也是有女儿的家庭的天堂, Koyanagar.  People from across the country flock to the emergent nation, hopes buoyed by the promise of阅读更多→

What a fun, imaginative book Philip Webb‘s Where the Rock Splits the Sky is! 好吧, 也许“乐趣”这个词并不完全正确, as there is nothing fun about the adventure Megan, 路易斯, 和凯利.  基本上, aliens have stopped the world from spinning on its axis, thereby plunging its surviving zones back in time about 100 years. Megan is on a quest to find her father, and learn the secrets of what is to come. 梅根很勇敢, 路易斯很忠诚, 凯利是一个伟大的“离开水的鱼”。, 人物很有趣, 这个前提很好. 我把这本书读熟了阅读更多→

18 years after a seemingly harmless virus was introduced at a theme park, all that remains of the United States east of the Mississippi River is a desolate, 被称为“野性地带”的废弃荒地.  No one knows what happened to anyone who was unlucky enough to have either been infected by the Ferae virus or left behind in the mass exodus West since a great wall separates The West from the Feral Zone, although rumors do circulate about exiled criminals, 可怕的事件, 还有其他可怕的生物. 17 year old Lane, who has lived her entire life in the West, is mildly curious about what’s阅读更多→