I found this book to be a little hard to follow. You literally have to learn the vocabulary of this futuristic world in order to understand what is going on.
The story was set in the future (a thousand years from now), in the city called the Urb. The Earth had been through the major earthquake and that completely changed the world, turning it into a dark place full of gangs, poverty, hunger and drugs (called mindprobes). The people that lived in the Urb city were called "normals". The city was run by gang lords, who enforced their rules on the population. If you weren’t a part of a gang, you might as well be dead. To be able to escape the pain of the reality and experience the world that once existed, people stuck the needle in their brain and let it rip. Mindprobes replaced all real experiences that the humans were once exposed to: books, TV, video games, etc.
On the other side of the world in the city of Eden lived genetically improved humans called “proovs”, who had everything that the humans should have. The thing was though, that "proovs" could never mix with “normals”, and “normals” could never live in Eden.
Spaz, the main character of the story, who was abandoned by his adoptive parents, set off to find his little foster sister, Bean. He wanted to visit her even if it was the last time. Would he be able to find her? What would his journey be like? Was he going to survive? Read the book to find out.
I thought it was a good example of a science-fiction book; it had all the attributes of the genre: the futuristic society, a major disaster, special vocabulary, etc. It had an unusual plot and some interesting themes. Some of the themes include: environment, reading, prejudice and human nature, tolerance, drugs and violence. One theme that was brought up in the book was the theme of judging others based on their looks or their socioeconomic situation. The characters through their journey learned that despite their differences, they happen to have a lot of similarities, desires and hopes. If I were to compare this book to “The Giver” by L. Laury, I would say that it was not nearly as good; “the Giver” for me was the masterpiece in that genre
The story was set in the future (a thousand years from now), in the city called the Urb. The Earth had been through the major earthquake and that completely changed the world, turning it into a dark place full of gangs, poverty, hunger and drugs (called mindprobes). The people that lived in the Urb city were called "normals". The city was run by gang lords, who enforced their rules on the population. If you weren’t a part of a gang, you might as well be dead. To be able to escape the pain of the reality and experience the world that once existed, people stuck the needle in their brain and let it rip. Mindprobes replaced all real experiences that the humans were once exposed to: books, TV, video games, etc.
On the other side of the world in the city of Eden lived genetically improved humans called “proovs”, who had everything that the humans should have. The thing was though, that "proovs" could never mix with “normals”, and “normals” could never live in Eden.
Spaz, the main character of the story, who was abandoned by his adoptive parents, set off to find his little foster sister, Bean. He wanted to visit her even if it was the last time. Would he be able to find her? What would his journey be like? Was he going to survive? Read the book to find out.
I thought it was a good example of a science-fiction book; it had all the attributes of the genre: the futuristic society, a major disaster, special vocabulary, etc. It had an unusual plot and some interesting themes. Some of the themes include: environment, reading, prejudice and human nature, tolerance, drugs and violence. One theme that was brought up in the book was the theme of judging others based on their looks or their socioeconomic situation. The characters through their journey learned that despite their differences, they happen to have a lot of similarities, desires and hopes. If I were to compare this book to “The Giver” by L. Laury, I would say that it was not nearly as good; “the Giver” for me was the masterpiece in that genre
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