Gone, by Michael Grant

Mar 11, 2013 12:56

A sleepy California town is enclosed in a mysterious barrier at the same instant that, pop! Everyone over the age of 14 vanishes. And some kids get psychic powers. (Actually, some got their powers several months before the pop - no word yet on why.) And animals mutate ( Read more... )

author: grant michael, apocalypse: confusing, genre: young adult, genre: psychic kids, genre: chaotic dystopia

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jinian March 11 2013, 20:20:20 UTC
Ha ha ha! I guess she's some kind of precognitive? I am shocked, shocked that this was written by a dude.

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rachelmanija March 11 2013, 20:42:41 UTC
I seriously thought when I read it, "She has the power to sense who's the protagonist?"

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lnhammer March 11 2013, 22:13:30 UTC
I've seen at least one manga where someone has had the power to, in effect, detect the protagonist -- and had this lampshaded.

---L.

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marfisa March 12 2013, 07:11:35 UTC
In the misleadingly-titled webcomic "Footloose," Keti, the part-faery, part-human heroine winds up being unwillingly exiled, along with her parents, to the faery realm (where her pugnacious mother's old comrade-in-arms is both the de facto ruler and the headmistress of a very eccentric dojo) partly because she's been magically diagnosed as suffering from Primary Protagonist Syndrome. I.e., all sorts of disruptive events and adventures will be generated by her mere presence, which renders her something of a danger to herself and those around her. Hence the need for her and anyone likely to be hanging out with her to be trained in self-defense and other methods of dealing with dangerous situations.

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jinian March 13 2013, 17:54:44 UTC
I'm glad my embarrassing moment of misandry was helpful to you. :)

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