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more about #littlebrother TheGreenRanger: ray bradbury did the halloween tree, loved that movie as a kid, sadly, never got a hold of the actual book. #youngadultsciencefiction more » seitzk002: This list is really heavy on the white, straight, male authors and heroes, and thus propounds a skewed world-view for any prospective sci-fi-loving YA... more » ulanej: There's more than Clarke/Heinlein/Bradbury/Asimov out there. I just started my son on reading the Tripod Trilogy and I'm a big fan of John Christopher... more » firstanointed: Brave New World is both fantastic and prophetic, but it has some fairly graphic content. 17+ at least. I recently read The Martian Chronicles after a... more » Migg: "House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer. In a dystopian future, a nation between the US and Mexican borders is run by a drug lord who keeps clones of ... more » mselorin: I'm surprised to see only one mention of Heinlein, as I picked up the Rolling Stones in 4th grade and devoured voraciously from then on. My parents ke... more » disatess: I`ve watched so many teens try and read hitchiker`s guide and say " I don`t get it " . My child read "war of the worlds " was quite impressed by it... more » bookwench: I'd say... add in Lois McMaster Bujold's "The Warrior's Apprentice" for softer sci-fi with amazing humanitarian insights, Asimov's "Lucky Starr" s... more » Peppermint_m: I was started early on Verne by my father, I watched plenty of SF films with him too (10 years old and watching The Fifth Element and Twleve Monkeys? ... more » birdtongue: i'd also go with the Wrinkle in Time series. as for McCaffrey's stuff, she has plenty of series that are more overtly scifi than Dragonriders: Pegasus... more » Roklimber: Ahh.... I have very fond memories of reading the adventures of Miguel Ardan, Captain Nichols and Mr. Barbicane, in Vernes' "From the Earth to the Moon... more » Lassus: The thing about this list is that to me it's pretty fuzzy and across the board. Whereas you don't want to hand "Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said" o... more » franklinshepard: I went through a Daniel Pinkwater phase HARD when I was younger - I read Lizard Music and then devoured his other books. Dear io9, can you do an arti... more » MonkeyT: I would also introduce them to Asimov via the easily digested Caves of Steel before throwing them into the more conceptual Foundation series. Though ... more » Ydnam: Aren't the Pern books just as much scifi as the Pit Dragon books? Set on another planet, in the future, with dragons holds true for both, doesn't it? ... more » ArthurByronCover: A nit, because that's all it is. I mean, a list is a very personal thing, even if it does leave out A Princess of Mars. The Dragonriders of Pern is m... more » MonkeyT: I would include Little Fuzzy and Fuzzy Sapiens, a gentle introduction to treating alien cultures as more than foils for invasion stories. #youngadul... more » Gallagher1454: A lot of classic sci-fi novels are like sci-fi tv and movies.. they didn't age all that well. Classic they may be, but I don't that Wells or Verne li... more » Sunshineyness: This is a good starter list. I'd also add "The Girl With the Silver Eyes" on to that list. It's a fine title that falls into the "girls with psychic p... more » Ricky Cruz: I would include "Flowers for Algernon" for High School students because it would help open frank discussions about abuse and people with disabilities.... more » -
#booklist
Where To Start With Young Adult Science Fiction
Where's the best place to start your kids with reading Science Fiction? Here's a booklist of some of the best Sci-Fi for the discerning young adult, because it's never too early to teach them about the dangers of dystopian societies.
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#awards
How Many Awards Does A Book Have To Win Before It Gets A Book Deal?
Congrats to Ian R. MacLeod and Cory Doctorow for sharing this year's Campbell Award, for Song Of Time and Little Brother respectively. But is it really true that U.S. publishers have been balking at publishing MacLeod's book? More » -
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Cory Doctorow's Little Brother Is The Best Libertarian SF Book Of 2009
Cory Doctorow's Little Brother showed the dangers of a police state run amuck, and showed how public-spirited techies fight back. Now the Libertarian Futurist Society has given Little Brother the 2009 Prometheus Award for libertarian SF. Image by Richard Wilkinson. -
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It's Like The Outsiders, Only With xBoxes And Culture-Jamming
Cory Doctorow's Hugo-nominated story of teen hackers thwarting a paranoid surveillance state, Little Brother, has been optioned by producer Don Murphy (Natural Born Killers, From Hell.) Assuming it actually happens, which teen actor would you want to play Marcus? -
#bookreview
Doctorow's Little Brother Shows The Genesis Of Dystopia
Young-adult authors have conquered science fiction with a mixture of angst, romance, and the discovery that adults are wrong. But Cory Doctorow's Hugo/Nebula-nominated Little Brother puts a geeky, subversive spin on that formula. Spoilers! More »
