Theme # 13 : Young Adult Sci-Fi Novels
A couple of days early.... it's NEW THEME TIME!!! With your help, I picked 22 main characters from YA sci-fi novels for you to be stamped as. The theme is almost the same as the TV themes application, so feel free to cut & paste the parts that are the same!
Also, please note that are are 2 Matts for this theme, so please be specific when you vote. There's also a Tom and a Thomas, so don't get confused.
Application
application
Name:
Previously stamped as:
Would you prefer a [ ] female [ ] male [ ] don’t care or [ ] both stamps?
all about you
Positive characteristics:
Negative characteristics:
Neutral characteristics:
Likes:
Dislikes:
Personality test types that fit you well:
this or that
Abstract or Concrete:
Adventurous or Homey:
Agreeable or Distant:
Cheerful or Melancholy:
Clever or Pretty:
Concise or Wordy:
Creative or Traditional:
Emotional or Logical:
Extroverted or Introverted:
Fighter or Lover:
Flexible or Stubborn:
Free-spirited or Practical:
Goody-two-shoes or Naughty:
Helpless or Independent:
Impulsive or Planner:
Mental or Physical:
Modest or Vain:
Subdued or Vivacious:
a bit more
Have you read any of these books? If yes, which ones?
If yes, Did you like any of them? What was your favorite part of each?
Is there any character that you feel is absolutely nothing like you?
Anything else?
Please list 4 new people that you have voted for!
1.
2.
3.
4.
Alternately, check this box [ ] if you’ve voted for everyone who needs votes.
[Voters, the options for this theme are located http://community.livejournal.com/magic_machines/85942.html">here.]
Stamps, Synopses, & Descriptions
Airborn - Matt Cruse
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
Artemis Fowl - Artemis Fowl II
Artemis Fowl, the main character, is a ruthless and extremely intelligent young criminal whose main goal is the acquisition of money through a variety of often illegal schemes.
Colfer describes Artemis’ personality at the beginning of the series as being difficult. A description of the twelve-year-old Artemis in The Artemis Fowl Files finds that “he may isolate himself completely from anyone wishing to be his friend and, ultimately, from his family too”. However, Artemis also reveals in the same text that Butler is his best friend.
Artemis Fowl - Holly Short
Holly Short is a talkative and sarcastic elf with an auburn crew cut and hazel eyes, as well as the pointy ears and nut-brown skin typical of her species.
Dragonriders of Pern - F'lar
The Dragonriders of Pern is an extensive science fiction series of novels and short stories primarily written by Anne McCaffrey.
F'lar was the weyrleader of Benden Weyr and the rider of bronze Mnementh. F'lar was born Fallarnon and was a champion of justice.
Ender's Game - Andrew "Ender" Wiggin
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, age six, an expert at simulated war games, believes that he's engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's complete destruction.
Feed - Titus
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Titus is the teenage son of an upper middle class family. Though glimmers of curiosity and creativity can be seen from time to time throughout the story, Titus, for the most part, is content with his consumerist lifestyle.
Feed - Violet Durn
Violet remains Titus' girlfriend for most of the book. She was raised by her eccentric father, and was homeschooled. She possesses views at odds with what Titus has known all his life. She is significantly less well off than Titus, which often leads her to criticize Titus and his friends.
The Giver - Jonas
The Giver is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan which has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of "Receiver of Memory," the person who stores all the memories of the time before Sameness, in case they are ever needed to aid in decisions that others lack the experience to make. When Jonas meets the Giver, he is confused in many ways.
The Host - Melanie "Mel" Stryder
The novel introduces an alien race, called Souls, which takes over the Earth and its inhabitants. The book describes one Soul's predicament when the mind of its human host refuses to cooperate with her takeover.
Melanie is a 20-year-old human who managed to escape capture by the invading souls for years, living on the run. Eventually she is captured, and a soul known as Wanderer is implanted in Mel's body. Mel continues to fight after Wanderer is implanted in her body, speaking to Wanderer and feeding her memories of the people she loves in hopes that Wanderer will one day lead her back to them. Mel likes the feeling of being physically strong and berates Wanderer for neglecting to keep her that way. She has a temper and may be considered volatile compared to docile Wanderer.
The Host - Wanda (Wanderer)
Wanderer is the invading soul that inhabits Melanie Stryder's body. She received her name due to the number of planets she has lived in, having never settled on one she truly liked. She is later nicknamed "Wanda" by Mel's Uncle Jeb and her brother, Jamie. Like all souls, she is naturally inclined to do good and is disgusted by violence. She feels incredibly guilty about the unrest her presence causes amongst Melanie's loved ones, and throughout the book she puts others before herself.
The House of the Scorpion - Maria Alacrán
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Matt’s only friend throughout the book. She treats him well even when no one else will. Matt is romantically attracted to her. Although in the beginning it is unclear if she feels the same way or merely treats him as she would treat her pet dog.
The House of the Scorpion - Matt (Alacrán)
Matt is one of eight clones of El Patrón (a former drug lord, ruler of Opium, which lies between the United States and Mexico [in the book called Aztlán]). He lives in a house with his caretaker, Celia, until he is found by the Alacrán children. After that he moved to El Patrón’s mansion. He is curious, a bit spoiled, sincere, and good.
The Hunger Games - Katniss Everdeen
The Hunger Games is a young-adult science fiction novel written by Suzanne Collins. It introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world where a powerful government called the Capitol has risen up after several devastating disasters. In the book, the Hunger Games are an annual televised event where the Capitol chooses one boy and one girl from each district to a fight. The purpose of the Hunger Games is to show how no one, including children, is above the Capitol's power.
Katniss is slender with black hair, gray eyes and olive skin. She is sixteen years old and attends a secondary school somewhere in Appalachia, known in the book as District 12, the coal mining sector. She is often quiet and is generally liked by District 12's residents, mostly because of her ability to provide highly-prized game for a community in which starvation is a constant threat. Katniss is an excellent hunter, archer, gatherer, and trapper, skilled just like her deceased father. She and her father shared singing ability, too.
Jumper - David "Davy" Rice
The sudden discovery of his teleportation ability rescues teenager David Rice from his abusive father. It also signals the beginning of a new life for the troubled him. Suspenseful, fast-paced science fiction with a little romance.
Maximum Ride - Maximum "Max" Ride
The series chronicles the lives of six human/avian fugitives. Bred in a science lab called 'The School', the 'Flock' endured scientific experiments that rendered them 98% human and 2% avian.
Maximum Ride, better known to her flock as 'Max', is 14 years old (15 in Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel) and is the oldest of the avian-human hybrids and the leader of the Flock. She has brown eyes and a wingspan of approximately 15 and a half feet. Her special powers include flying up to 250 miles per hour. She also has a voice in her head, aptly named 'The Voice', that gives her advice, usually cryptic. Another talent she has is that sometimes she can see visions of things
The Maze Runner - Thomas
Thomas arrives in the Glade having no memory of who he was or his life prior to waking up in an elevator (The Box) while on the way up to the Glade. He finds out the Glade is the center of an ever-changing maze which seems to have no exit, and which is populated by hybrid creature/robots known as "Grievers". The day after he arrives, the first and only girl ever sent to the Glade arrives with a message that she is the last one to be sent and that the end is near. She then lapses into a fitful coma. Thomas must try to figure out why she looks familiar and if there is a way out of the maze before everything completely falls apart in the Glade...They eventually have one final battle with the grievers, and find an exit. However at the end when they are all safe, you realize this book is just one of the many tests they will go through to find the best people so they can find a cure to a disease called the flare.
Mortal Engines - Tom NatsworthyThe book is set in a post-apocalyptic world, ravaged in ages past by a nuclear holocaust known as the "Sixty Minute War," which caused massive geological upheaval. To escape the earthquakes, volcanoes and other instabilities, Nikola Quercus designed a system known as Municipal Darwinism, where entire cities essentially become immense vehicles known as Traction Cities, and must consume one another in order to maintain themselves in a world deprived of most natural resources.
The main character of Mortal Engines is Tom Natsworthy, a fifteen-year old orphan and a third class apprentice in the Guild of Historians.
Turnabout - Amelia Hazelwood
"Melly" and Anny Beth both lived normal lives throughout the 20th century. But in 2000, when they are old and ready to die, they are selected to participate in Project Turnabout and are given an injection to make them grow younger.
Amelia and a friend, Anny Beth, decide to leave the nursing home and live their lives together and experience the world as they growing younger and younger. They find themselves constantly on the move, as with each year, their un-aging bodies prevent them from keeping the drug a secret. By the time Amelia, now called Melly, is sixteen and Anny Beth is eighteen, they become increasingly anxious that they will soon be unable to live on their own and become infants.
Uglies - Tally Youngblood
It is set in a future post-scarcity dystopian world in which everyone is turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery upon reaching age 16. It tells the story of teenager Tally Youngblood who rebels against society's enforced conformity, after her new found friends Shay and David show her the downsides to becoming a "pretty."
Tally is nicknamed "Squint" because of her eyes.
A Wrinkle in Time - Calvin O'Keefe
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Calvin O'Keefe is the third oldest of Paddy and Branwen O'Keefe's eleven children, a tall, thin, red-haired 14-year-old[4] high school junior who plays on the school basketball team and is one of the popular boys in high school. Neglected by his own family, Calvin joyfully enters the lives of the Murry family, starting in Chapter Two. He also likes Meg Murry. He shows some signs of being able to communicate telepathically, the same power Charles Wallace seems to have, a technique referred to in later books as kything. He also feels as if he has been hiding his true self all his life, and likes the Murry family much more than his own, which is characterized by abuse and dysfunctional dynamics.
A Wrinkle in Time - Charles Wallace Murry
Charles Wallace Murry is the youngest Murry child, the most extraordinary and the most vulnerable of the novel's human characters, and the youngest to journey to Camazotz. Charles Wallace did not talk at all until he was nearly four years old, at which time he began to speak in complete sentences. Now five years old, Charles Wallace seldom speaks to anyone but his family, but can empathically or telepathically "read" certain people's thoughts and feelings, and has an extraordinary vocabulary. A biological "sport," he is intellectually curious, loving, and unfazed by extraordinary people and events.
A Wrinkle in Time - Meg Murry
Margaret "Meg" Murry is the outcast of the family and also the oldest child of scientists Alex and Kate Murry. Mathematically brilliant but less than adept at other subjects in school, Meg is "awkward", unpopular, and defensive around authority figures as well as her peers. Although she has the brains to accomplish difficult tasks, she rarely puts her strengths to use. She loves her family, especially her brother, Charles Wallace, and longs desperately for her missing father. Like many adolescent girls, Meg is unhappy with her physical appearance, particularly her mouse-brown, unruly hair, braces and glasses, and considers herself a "monster" in comparison with her mother.
I used book covers for the stamps, but if the cover didn't have good pictures, I used Corbis to find stock photos.
Also, please note that are are 2 Matts for this theme, so please be specific when you vote. There's also a Tom and a Thomas, so don't get confused.
- Please vote on everyone that needs your vote!
- Read the quick descriptions about the characters.
- Fill out your application.
- Tag your application with !needs votes and [ya sci-fi]
- Post!
Application
application
Name:
Previously stamped as:
Would you prefer a [ ] female [ ] male [ ] don’t care or [ ] both stamps?
all about you
Positive characteristics:
Negative characteristics:
Neutral characteristics:
Likes:
Dislikes:
Personality test types that fit you well:
this or that
Abstract or Concrete:
Adventurous or Homey:
Agreeable or Distant:
Cheerful or Melancholy:
Clever or Pretty:
Concise or Wordy:
Creative or Traditional:
Emotional or Logical:
Extroverted or Introverted:
Fighter or Lover:
Flexible or Stubborn:
Free-spirited or Practical:
Goody-two-shoes or Naughty:
Helpless or Independent:
Impulsive or Planner:
Mental or Physical:
Modest or Vain:
Subdued or Vivacious:
a bit more
Have you read any of these books? If yes, which ones?
If yes, Did you like any of them? What was your favorite part of each?
Is there any character that you feel is absolutely nothing like you?
Anything else?
Please list 4 new people that you have voted for!
1.
2.
3.
4.
Alternately, check this box [ ] if you’ve voted for everyone who needs votes.
[Voters, the options for this theme are located http://community.livejournal.com/magic_machines/85942.html">here.]
Stamps, Synopses, & Descriptions
Airborn - Matt Cruse
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
Artemis Fowl - Artemis Fowl II
Artemis Fowl, the main character, is a ruthless and extremely intelligent young criminal whose main goal is the acquisition of money through a variety of often illegal schemes.
Colfer describes Artemis’ personality at the beginning of the series as being difficult. A description of the twelve-year-old Artemis in The Artemis Fowl Files finds that “he may isolate himself completely from anyone wishing to be his friend and, ultimately, from his family too”. However, Artemis also reveals in the same text that Butler is his best friend.
Artemis Fowl - Holly Short
Holly Short is a talkative and sarcastic elf with an auburn crew cut and hazel eyes, as well as the pointy ears and nut-brown skin typical of her species.
Dragonriders of Pern - F'lar
The Dragonriders of Pern is an extensive science fiction series of novels and short stories primarily written by Anne McCaffrey.
F'lar was the weyrleader of Benden Weyr and the rider of bronze Mnementh. F'lar was born Fallarnon and was a champion of justice.
Ender's Game - Andrew "Ender" Wiggin
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, age six, an expert at simulated war games, believes that he's engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's complete destruction.
Feed - Titus
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Titus is the teenage son of an upper middle class family. Though glimmers of curiosity and creativity can be seen from time to time throughout the story, Titus, for the most part, is content with his consumerist lifestyle.
Feed - Violet Durn
Violet remains Titus' girlfriend for most of the book. She was raised by her eccentric father, and was homeschooled. She possesses views at odds with what Titus has known all his life. She is significantly less well off than Titus, which often leads her to criticize Titus and his friends.
The Giver - Jonas
The Giver is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan which has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of "Receiver of Memory," the person who stores all the memories of the time before Sameness, in case they are ever needed to aid in decisions that others lack the experience to make. When Jonas meets the Giver, he is confused in many ways.
The Host - Melanie "Mel" Stryder
The novel introduces an alien race, called Souls, which takes over the Earth and its inhabitants. The book describes one Soul's predicament when the mind of its human host refuses to cooperate with her takeover.
Melanie is a 20-year-old human who managed to escape capture by the invading souls for years, living on the run. Eventually she is captured, and a soul known as Wanderer is implanted in Mel's body. Mel continues to fight after Wanderer is implanted in her body, speaking to Wanderer and feeding her memories of the people she loves in hopes that Wanderer will one day lead her back to them. Mel likes the feeling of being physically strong and berates Wanderer for neglecting to keep her that way. She has a temper and may be considered volatile compared to docile Wanderer.
The Host - Wanda (Wanderer)
Wanderer is the invading soul that inhabits Melanie Stryder's body. She received her name due to the number of planets she has lived in, having never settled on one she truly liked. She is later nicknamed "Wanda" by Mel's Uncle Jeb and her brother, Jamie. Like all souls, she is naturally inclined to do good and is disgusted by violence. She feels incredibly guilty about the unrest her presence causes amongst Melanie's loved ones, and throughout the book she puts others before herself.
The House of the Scorpion - Maria Alacrán
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Matt’s only friend throughout the book. She treats him well even when no one else will. Matt is romantically attracted to her. Although in the beginning it is unclear if she feels the same way or merely treats him as she would treat her pet dog.
The House of the Scorpion - Matt (Alacrán)
Matt is one of eight clones of El Patrón (a former drug lord, ruler of Opium, which lies between the United States and Mexico [in the book called Aztlán]). He lives in a house with his caretaker, Celia, until he is found by the Alacrán children. After that he moved to El Patrón’s mansion. He is curious, a bit spoiled, sincere, and good.
The Hunger Games - Katniss Everdeen
The Hunger Games is a young-adult science fiction novel written by Suzanne Collins. It introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world where a powerful government called the Capitol has risen up after several devastating disasters. In the book, the Hunger Games are an annual televised event where the Capitol chooses one boy and one girl from each district to a fight. The purpose of the Hunger Games is to show how no one, including children, is above the Capitol's power.
Katniss is slender with black hair, gray eyes and olive skin. She is sixteen years old and attends a secondary school somewhere in Appalachia, known in the book as District 12, the coal mining sector. She is often quiet and is generally liked by District 12's residents, mostly because of her ability to provide highly-prized game for a community in which starvation is a constant threat. Katniss is an excellent hunter, archer, gatherer, and trapper, skilled just like her deceased father. She and her father shared singing ability, too.
Jumper - David "Davy" Rice
The sudden discovery of his teleportation ability rescues teenager David Rice from his abusive father. It also signals the beginning of a new life for the troubled him. Suspenseful, fast-paced science fiction with a little romance.
Maximum Ride - Maximum "Max" Ride
The series chronicles the lives of six human/avian fugitives. Bred in a science lab called 'The School', the 'Flock' endured scientific experiments that rendered them 98% human and 2% avian.
Maximum Ride, better known to her flock as 'Max', is 14 years old (15 in Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel) and is the oldest of the avian-human hybrids and the leader of the Flock. She has brown eyes and a wingspan of approximately 15 and a half feet. Her special powers include flying up to 250 miles per hour. She also has a voice in her head, aptly named 'The Voice', that gives her advice, usually cryptic. Another talent she has is that sometimes she can see visions of things
The Maze Runner - Thomas
Thomas arrives in the Glade having no memory of who he was or his life prior to waking up in an elevator (The Box) while on the way up to the Glade. He finds out the Glade is the center of an ever-changing maze which seems to have no exit, and which is populated by hybrid creature/robots known as "Grievers". The day after he arrives, the first and only girl ever sent to the Glade arrives with a message that she is the last one to be sent and that the end is near. She then lapses into a fitful coma. Thomas must try to figure out why she looks familiar and if there is a way out of the maze before everything completely falls apart in the Glade...They eventually have one final battle with the grievers, and find an exit. However at the end when they are all safe, you realize this book is just one of the many tests they will go through to find the best people so they can find a cure to a disease called the flare.
Mortal Engines - Tom NatsworthyThe book is set in a post-apocalyptic world, ravaged in ages past by a nuclear holocaust known as the "Sixty Minute War," which caused massive geological upheaval. To escape the earthquakes, volcanoes and other instabilities, Nikola Quercus designed a system known as Municipal Darwinism, where entire cities essentially become immense vehicles known as Traction Cities, and must consume one another in order to maintain themselves in a world deprived of most natural resources.
The main character of Mortal Engines is Tom Natsworthy, a fifteen-year old orphan and a third class apprentice in the Guild of Historians.
Turnabout - Amelia Hazelwood
"Melly" and Anny Beth both lived normal lives throughout the 20th century. But in 2000, when they are old and ready to die, they are selected to participate in Project Turnabout and are given an injection to make them grow younger.
Amelia and a friend, Anny Beth, decide to leave the nursing home and live their lives together and experience the world as they growing younger and younger. They find themselves constantly on the move, as with each year, their un-aging bodies prevent them from keeping the drug a secret. By the time Amelia, now called Melly, is sixteen and Anny Beth is eighteen, they become increasingly anxious that they will soon be unable to live on their own and become infants.
Uglies - Tally Youngblood
It is set in a future post-scarcity dystopian world in which everyone is turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery upon reaching age 16. It tells the story of teenager Tally Youngblood who rebels against society's enforced conformity, after her new found friends Shay and David show her the downsides to becoming a "pretty."
Tally is nicknamed "Squint" because of her eyes.
A Wrinkle in Time - Calvin O'Keefe
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Calvin O'Keefe is the third oldest of Paddy and Branwen O'Keefe's eleven children, a tall, thin, red-haired 14-year-old[4] high school junior who plays on the school basketball team and is one of the popular boys in high school. Neglected by his own family, Calvin joyfully enters the lives of the Murry family, starting in Chapter Two. He also likes Meg Murry. He shows some signs of being able to communicate telepathically, the same power Charles Wallace seems to have, a technique referred to in later books as kything. He also feels as if he has been hiding his true self all his life, and likes the Murry family much more than his own, which is characterized by abuse and dysfunctional dynamics.
A Wrinkle in Time - Charles Wallace Murry
Charles Wallace Murry is the youngest Murry child, the most extraordinary and the most vulnerable of the novel's human characters, and the youngest to journey to Camazotz. Charles Wallace did not talk at all until he was nearly four years old, at which time he began to speak in complete sentences. Now five years old, Charles Wallace seldom speaks to anyone but his family, but can empathically or telepathically "read" certain people's thoughts and feelings, and has an extraordinary vocabulary. A biological "sport," he is intellectually curious, loving, and unfazed by extraordinary people and events.
A Wrinkle in Time - Meg Murry
Margaret "Meg" Murry is the outcast of the family and also the oldest child of scientists Alex and Kate Murry. Mathematically brilliant but less than adept at other subjects in school, Meg is "awkward", unpopular, and defensive around authority figures as well as her peers. Although she has the brains to accomplish difficult tasks, she rarely puts her strengths to use. She loves her family, especially her brother, Charles Wallace, and longs desperately for her missing father. Like many adolescent girls, Meg is unhappy with her physical appearance, particularly her mouse-brown, unruly hair, braces and glasses, and considers herself a "monster" in comparison with her mother.
I used book covers for the stamps, but if the cover didn't have good pictures, I used Corbis to find stock photos.