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Scott Westerfeld
FameIt's a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. Without those strict roles and rules, the world is in a complete cultural renaissance. "Tech-heads" flaunt their latest gadgets, "kickers" spread gossip and trends, and "surge monkeys" are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. And it's all monitored on a bazillion different cameras. The world is like a gigantic game of "American Idol." Whoever is getting the most buzz gets the most votes. Popularity rules. As if being fifteen doesn't suck enough, Aya Fuse's rank of 451,369 is so low, she's a total nobody. An extra. But Aya doesn't care; she just wants to lie low with her drone, Moggle. And maybe kick a good story for herself.Then Aya meets a clique of girls who pull crazy tricks, yet are deeply secretive of it. Aya wants desperately to kick their story, to show everyone how intensely cool the Sly Girls are. But doing so would propel her out of extra-land and into the world of fame, celebrity...and extreme danger. A world she's not prepared for.
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Author
Scott Westerfeld
Pages
417
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2007-10-02
ISBN
1416951172 9781416951179
Ratings
Google: 4
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"I know a lot of people don't really count this book as part of the series (since it's kind of a trilogy with this book as an add-on) but I really love this book :) I might even like it better than Specials, but it's hard for me to pick favorites. I love the way that Aya's city changed after the mind-rain. What if that was our world? Face-ranks and stuff would be pretty interesting. And I really wish I had a pet hovercam. That would be sweet :) I love how this book is written, in a futuristic Japanese culture. It is unlike anything I've read before and gives a very different view on dystopian futures and societies. The way that Scott Westerfeld writes, as if the book is in Japanese, and Aya and her friends struggle for the English words is also pretty cool and creative. The characters in this book are so real yet so different from other characters. Tally and Aya are similar, but different. Both of them when starting out were very selfish, and while Tally took awhile to learn how not to be, I feel like Aya learns much faster and is more mature at her age. Tally too, has grown up a lot and is pretty amazing for rewiring herself so many times (and moving on to David again after Zane). I like the new technological advances introduced I. this book, like hoverball-rigs and mag-lev trains. I love mag-lev trains a lot and I wish I could surf them with hoverboards too :) As for the 'freaks' and their plan to kill to birds with one stone, I find to be a little confusing. I understand the part about lack-of-metal slowing expansion down, but not the other part about launching it into orbit. I really loved this book the first time, even more the second, and I'm glad it's there to tie up loose ends left over from the trilogy :)"
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