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Genre: SF
ISBN: 0763622591
Pages: 320 pages
Publisher: Candlewick
Price: 7.99
Reader Rating: 8 out of 10
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Feed by M. T. Anderson

Description: In this chilling novel, Anderson (Burger Wuss; Thirsty) imagines a society dominated by the feed, a next-generation Internet/television hybrid that is directly hardwired into the brain. Teen narrator Titus never questions his world, in which parents select their babies' attributes in the conceptionarium, corporations dominate the information stream, and kids learn to employ the feed more efficiently in School. But everything changes when he and his pals travel to the moon for spring break. There Titus meets home-schooled Violet, who thinks for herself, searches out news and asserts that "Everything we've grown up with, the stories on the feed, the games, all of that, it's all streamlining our personalities so we're easier to sell to." Without exposition, Anderson deftly combines elements of today's teen scene, including parties and shopping malls, with imaginative and disturbing fantasy twists. ... This satire offers a thought-provoking and scathing indictment that may prod readers to examine the more sinister possibilities of corporate- and media-dominated culture. (Publishers Weekly)