Preliminary Reports on the YA Dystopia Read-for-Kids
There are some rather interesting discrepancies between the votes in general, and the votes of sponsors who are actually ponying up some cash. In overall totals, we have Bumped (teen pregnancy is bad) in the lead, followed by VI (Sexteen) (teenage girls having sex is bad), and then Divergent (basing society on a personality quiz is bad.)
However, I'm going to prioritize the requests from sponsors, and that breaks down as follows:
Sexteen in the lead, with six sponsors for a total of $ 100 in donations.
Across the Universe follows, with three sponsors and a total of $ 40 in donations.
Only one vote each for Wither ($25) and Bumped ($20).
Right now, it looks like it will be Sexteen. But it's not too late to either vote or comment with sponsorship! Sexteen advocates, sponsor to make sure your book stays in the lead! Advocates of other books, sponsor your favorites! The link below goes to the poll, which is still open.
Bounce: Newspapers have been banned and the government controls sadness.
ETA:
movingfinger suggested that Bumped (society encourages teen pregnancy) sounded like the sequel to Wither (everyone drops dead by 25.)
I wrote a little synopsis tying them all together into the ultimate teen dystopia!
There's not enough water to go around. First the government tries to solve this problem by banning love, in the hope that that will cause less sex and so reduce the population, so there'll be more water for the remaining people. But the Resistance resists. Then the government tries confiscating the resulting babies. When that doesn't work either, they all pile into a generation ship.
While the adults are in cold sleep, the teenage girls begin having sex, thus creating the first generation. But as we all know, generation ship societies get weird, and then end up basing society around personality quizzes. Then space radiation mutates everyone, so they all drop dead by 25. Solution? Encourage teen pregnancy!
Crossposted to http://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/926953.html. Comment here or there.
However, I'm going to prioritize the requests from sponsors, and that breaks down as follows:
Sexteen in the lead, with six sponsors for a total of $ 100 in donations.
Across the Universe follows, with three sponsors and a total of $ 40 in donations.
Only one vote each for Wither ($25) and Bumped ($20).
Right now, it looks like it will be Sexteen. But it's not too late to either vote or comment with sponsorship! Sexteen advocates, sponsor to make sure your book stays in the lead! Advocates of other books, sponsor your favorites! The link below goes to the poll, which is still open.
Bounce: Newspapers have been banned and the government controls sadness.
ETA:
movingfinger suggested that Bumped (society encourages teen pregnancy) sounded like the sequel to Wither (everyone drops dead by 25.)
I wrote a little synopsis tying them all together into the ultimate teen dystopia!
There's not enough water to go around. First the government tries to solve this problem by banning love, in the hope that that will cause less sex and so reduce the population, so there'll be more water for the remaining people. But the Resistance resists. Then the government tries confiscating the resulting babies. When that doesn't work either, they all pile into a generation ship.
While the adults are in cold sleep, the teenage girls begin having sex, thus creating the first generation. But as we all know, generation ship societies get weird, and then end up basing society around personality quizzes. Then space radiation mutates everyone, so they all drop dead by 25. Solution? Encourage teen pregnancy!
Crossposted to http://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/926953.html. Comment here or there.