<![CDATA[io9: Ya]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: Ya]]> http://io9.com/tag/ya http://io9.com/tag/ya <![CDATA[Why the Wall Street Journal is Wrong about Young Adult Books]]> It feels like every blogger and YA writer online has already commented on the Wall Street Journal article that sparked a Twitter upheaval (#YAsaves). If you need a run-down of it, Bookshelves of Doom (in a post appropriately titled "Another Day, Another Ill-informed Article About YA") has a summary. My favorite part was this: More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5809588&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[D.J. Caruso Is Filming James Frey's Sexy High School Alien Novel]]> Piss off, Twilight — the new teenagers in hiding are aliens. Gawker intern/novelist James Frey's series I Am Number Four is being turned into a movie by D.J. Caruso and Michael Bay. Huzzah, something new to spray ab muscles onto. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5453196&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA["It Causes Me Pain To Classify My Post-Apocalyptic YA Romance As Science Fiction"]]> How easy is it to nail down the genre of a novel you're working on? Agent Nathan Bransford polled the readers of his blog about the genres they're writing, and it turned into a free-for-all about the terror of genres. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5342085&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Japanese Scifi Smackdown! Power-Armor Warriors Vs. Alien Dirt-Eaters]]> The last 25 years has seen a huge swell of interest by English-speaking audiences in manga, partly thanks to Viz Media. Now Viz is publishing translations of two prose novels, about alien invasion, time travel and power-armor smackdowns. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5320912&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Brits Win the Space Race in "Empress of Mars"]]> In the closing years of the 23rd Century, the British Arean Company, a private corporation, establishes first human colony on Mars. How do the Brits get there first? Find out in Kage Baker's new novel. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5251448&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[In "Zoë's Tale," It's Hard to Be a Teenage Messiah]]> Zoë's Tale, the last book in the Old Man's War sequence by John Scalzi, has just been nominated a Hugo for best novel. It deals with the harrowing complications of interstellar politics and teenage girls. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5181304&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Are Adults More Ignored Than Children In SF Lit?]]> They've published books, linked to and even interviewed each other, but now authors Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi are collectively wondering whether anyone is paying attention to their most recent books, and just what is the most under-appreciated genre of literature: Young Adult or Regular Science Fiction? More »
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