Speculative/Dystopia Nominations

[pirate_nami]

Next Genre: Speculative/Dystopia

Please comment here with up to THREE Speculative/Dystopia novels of any type you would like to nominate for us to read.
(If you nominate more than 3 books, we will leave you a reminder note and screen your comment and you can comment again with your top 3)

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[ms_geekette]

[ms_geekette]

I don't know if we're still doing the "pimp your nominations" thing, but I just wanted to give a few deets on the books I chose.

All You Need Is Kill is the (loose, from what I understand) foundation for the movie Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt

High Rise is currently being made into a movie starring Tom Hiddleston and others

And The Girl with All the Gifts supposedly has a horror element for those of you that wanted to read that genre, too.

[eurii]

yes, we are still doing the pimp your nominations thing! :) Love it.

A book with horror elements?! SOLD! :)

[ms_geekette]

The Girl with All the Gifts has been getting a little bit of buzz, so hopefully it doesn't suck. XD

[ayashi]

I want to read All You Need Is Kill soooooooooooo bad XD whether or not book club reads it I am definitely going to read that one soon

[ms_geekette]

I probably will read it sooner or later, too, just b/c a friend of mine who has read it informs me that there is a female engineer in it, which is pretty darn rare. (She was not really impressed with the Cruise movie on some levels.)

Also, there is a manga, but I don't know which one came first or if there is any difference in the story between the book and the manga.

[ayashi]

I'm pretty sure the novel came first :)

[ms_geekette]

Yes, you are correct! (Looks like it's a direct adaptation of the book from reviewer comments.)
https://www.goodreads.com/series/130746-all-you-need-is-kill