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I'm not sure, but Amazon does international shipping. You might be able to find it there! Here's a link (:
<em>Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe</em>. One of the most beautiful coming-of-age novels I've ever had the honor to experience.
Pretty easy to find. It’s on Amazon for $7 lol
I’d suggest Feed by Matthew Tobin Anderson. I haven’t read it yet tbh, but I heard that it’s got a similar vibe to Orwell’s books, and that it’s great.
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This makes me think of this book I read years ago. I think it was called Feed? They had these implants that would show advertising. Well one of the characters would visit random stores and do super random things to throw off the targeted advertising. When the implant started going wrong, the company that made the implant wouldn't fix the implant because the ad profile was not able to profit. Or something like that.
this is an example of science fiction becoming reality.
in the book called the feed you get an implant to connect you 24x7 to the internet. it costs lots of money... i think something like $ millions in today's money... if you can't monetize you... they take it back... and your life is usually destroyed because you are so hooked and your brain pathways and habits are soo intertwined.
in reality... you have the similar implant called android/iphone... and according to this post if youtube can't monetize you... then you lose your google account and your life is kind of destroyed.
lots of parallels.
While it's more comic satire than unsettling dystopia, every theme you are asking about is right here in M.T. Anderson's Feed. I teach this to freshmen in my English class.
If you'd rather get that same creepy vibe that you do with Black Mirror episodes, I would instead suggest anything by Philip K. Dick. Most will probably recommend Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but my personal favorite is The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
I’ve been teaching Feed to high schoolers for a few years now. It’s a dystopian novel taking place in the future in which all middle- and upper-class Americans are plugged into “the Feed” in which all advertisement, education, socializing, parenting, etc. must channel through its medium. The human race is gradually dumbed-down to the common denominator, and the environment begins to crumble beneath corporations desperate for resources. It’s marketed for YA, but there’s much more that lies beneath the surface. Every year I discover more complexities that Anderson has woven into this novel! I hope it’s what you’re looking for.
I don't know how much you pay for the discount hatchets so I can't tell what "cheap" means to you, but the paperbacks of Hatchet are only $5.99 on Amazon.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz is one of my all time favorite books of any genre.
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera is pretty unique. It's not as black and white in its storytelling as most teen fiction. It's kind of intense and uncomfortable at times, but it's also a quick fun read.
I don't have much to offer on what might happen longterm, but I believe you're referring to <em>Life as We Knew It</em> by Susan Pfeffer if anyone is curious. Good book.
http://www.amazon.com/Aristotle-Dante-Discover-Secrets-Universe/dp/1442408936
From Booklist When Aristotle and Dante meet, in the summer of 1987, they are 15-year-olds existing in “the universe between boys and men.” The two are opposites in most ways: Dante is sure of his place in the world, while Ari feels he may never know who he is or what he wants. But both are thoughtful about their feelings and interactions with others, and this title is primarily focused on the back-and-forth in their relationship over the course of a year. Family issues take center stage, as well as issues of Mexican identity, but the heart of the novel is Dante’s openness about his homosexuality and Ari’s suppression of his. Sáenz (Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood, 2004) writes toward the end of the novel that “to be careful with people and words was a rare and beautiful thing.” And that’s exactly what Sáenz does—he treats his characters carefully, giving them space and time to find their place in the world, and to find each other. This moves at a slower pace than many YA novels, but patient readers, and those struggling with their own sexuality, may find it to be a thought-provoking read. Grades 9-12. --Ann Kelley
Hero by Perry Moore. The protagonist is gay. It is a coming of age book.. with superpowers. It is the only book I have read with a gay protagonist, and I really enjoyed it :).
I don't think we know, since we don't have them. I wouldn't imagine them being a pill, exactly, but more like a more embeddedable version of google glass, kind of like in FEED.
I don't have a recommendation on a game system, but you might want to throw a few hours at Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. It's the story of a boy who finds himself alone in the open wasteland of northern Canada with no food or shelter. He suffers a lot as he deals with mosquitoes and other insects, wild animals, poison ivy, and other things. He learns to make fire on his own, how to hunt birds and small animals, and all kinds of things. It's a great story about survival and really gets to the heart of what you'll probably want to bring to your game. With a scenario like the one you want to write, you will probably want your players to react in a visceral way. The best way to do that is to evoke emotions in them like discomfort, hunger, panic, etc.
I really enjoyed Hero by Perry Moore it is a teen book and has a bit of a fantastical element to it but I enjoyed it. It's especially good for people who are into Comic books are just comic book characters.
Something along the lines of Hatchet might be a good place to start. The main character would be about your brother's age as I recall.
Not really a "children's" book but I read it in middle school I think, Say Goodnight, Gracie by Julie Reece Deaver gutted me so much. The most I remember crying over a book prior to Deathly Hallows.
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Its YA but still a very good, accurate account of what happens when an asteroid hits the moon and knocks it closer to earth. Scary shit.
I finished reading this last night: http://www.amazon.com/Mango-Shaped-Space-Wendy-Mass/dp/0316523887
It's a book about a young girl with synesthesia. It's geared for a younger reader, but is still very very interesting.
If you're stranded, the first priority is food and shelter- not keeping track of what date it is.
The only reason why people started keeping track of dates and things like solstices was because they started settling down and harvesting crops.
Being stranded from all civilization means that you've devolved past that back into the hunter-gatherer stage of existence. And until you build up a mass of people (ie civilization) enough to plant crops and settle in somewhere, there is no real need to keep track of such things.
And any damn fool can look around and realize which of the 4 seasons it is. You don't need a fancy watch to tell you that.
As far as survival in the wilderness goes, my favorite all time book about such things is The Hatchet. I've always felt that book was far more accurate/realistic than any sort of thing Hollywood could ever come up with.
Yes, it is young adult fiction. Yes, it is 20 years old. But if you've never read it, then you're missing out.
A Mango Shaped Space. Good book -- written for young adults but good for older ones too.