Sentences with phrase «dystopian books like»

Not exact matches

He likes reading military thrillers and history books; I like cookbooks and dystopian novels.

I'm into most video games (seriously ask, I've probably beaten it) I like most action Anime I like high fantasy, syfi, or dystopian books I also enjoy all the good fandoms IE: Dr.. Who, Supernatural, Starwars, Firefly, etc...

Though the more futuristic stuff isn't too distracting considering Hollywood's current obsession with dystopian sci - fi films like «The Hunger Games,» the decision to cast a 24 - year - old actor in the lead role (playing a 16 - year - old instead of the 12 - year - old that appears in the book) feels wrong for a number of reasons.

«Logan» is a comic - book movie that feels more like a dystopian sci - fi Western starring a guy and a girl who just happen to be able to turn their hands into cutlery.

The books envision a dystopian, futuristic United States - like country called Panem that's divided into 12 districts, with a Capitol that rules them, and the terrible game of bloodsport the Capitol makes those districts take part in.

I burn through books like the dystopian government in Fahrenheit 451.

Or, like me, have you ever tried to write in copycat genres dictated by agents (like steampunk or apocalyptic dystopian) instead of the book you really want to write?

Like all good dystopian fiction, this book was at its best when it took certain current trends to a plausible, terrifying conclusion.

Fire Country swept me away with the strength of the main character, Siena, the imaginative dystopian setting based on different tribes, and the language and slang used within the book to demonstrate the cult - like, tribal setting of the Heaters of Fire Country.

Although to date I've only published one book, Modified, I do like the dark, futuristic, dystopian Blue Lights which I hope to finish just as soon as I've finished Modified 2.

I like Zarr's work because no matter how many dystopian / post - apocalyptic / paranormal YA books I read — my heart will always be with realistic contemporary stories filled which characters in a world that I recognize.

Anyhow, I'm thrilled that so many have enjoyed my entry into the dystopian / post-apocalyptic genre, and am especially delighted that authors like Hugh Howey, Steven Konkoly, Tom Abrahams, Toby Neal, and Nicholas Sansbury Smith said such amazingly positive things about the book

23 Science Books That Are So Exciting They Read Like Genre Fiction by Annalee Newitz (great material for all writers with a dystopian bend)

Like the adult book market, YA fiction has countless varieties and popularity waxes and wanes — coming of age in a distinct time and / or culture (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill A Mockingbird); drugs and gangs (Go Ask Alice, Rumblefish, The Outsiders), vampires and paranormal (the Twilight series), dystopian (the Hunger Games and Divergent series), contemporary (The Fault in Our Stars, Eleanor & Park).

We all know about misery memoir, chick - lit, sick lit, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, dystopian romance, nostalgia fiction, new adult, adult, space opera etc etc and that amorphous beast we just call «literature», into which falls any book we like but we can't really pair with an obvious partner.

EM Going back to technology, science fiction and speculative fiction seem to be enjoying a recent surge in popular interest — to say nothing of the dystopian films and books that have followed disasters like global warming or the rise of Trump.

Carried through its softly dystopian prose are characters like Bonky, Eggie and Bubs who's opinion on the book are given in its accompanying blurb: «If he'd read it Bonky would call it «an I - scream - landic saga complete with raging sea hags and bullshitting Beowulfs.»

The other dystopian thing is that Facebook owns Oculus one of the main big VR environments — with regards to the book, it'd be like not only did the bad guys win — they get to set up the OASIS (the VR environment) in the first place.