by Scott Westerfeld
In this future world, high school students are required to attend Scarcity class. For the final project, the students are supposed to "embody" some form of ancient lameness, spending two weeks being blind or whatever. This is supposed to teach them what things were really like in "the old days." B...
In need of a quick read between edits for Deprogrammed, I stumbled upon Stupid Perfect World. I wasn't entirely sure what to expect as I'd never read anything by Scott Westerfeld, but I really ended up enjoying it.Telling a story in fifty-five pages isn't easy, yet Westerfeld does it no problem. I f...
I think this could have been fleshed out into a full novel, and perhaps not made a bit more subtle? It felt rushed and a bit preachy and simplistic.
Scott Westerfeld has done it again. In a very short space he has created a world in which I would like to go visit again. We meet Kieran & Maria two kids in a "scarcity" class. A class studying the past in which humans had to deal with things such as sleep, illnesses, disease, etc. Kieran choos...
Isn't this part of an already published anthology?
It's a cute story about two teenagers growing up in a perfect world. The characters have the Internet in their head, they teleport across the solar system on a regular basis and apparently they never go outside. Part of a required class is to spend two weeks afflicted with a "disease" their ancestor...
Different little dystopian novella. Loved how our current lives were looked at.
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