Sunday, March 30, 2014

Free Choice/Sci-fi: The 100 1

So I'm not really sure about this one. It hasn't been on my Amazon list for all that long, which is usually how I find out more about books. I cruise the list, see what's on there, make a couple of attempts to get it online or at the library over months or years and accumulate information in the process. What I do know is that it sounds like a kind of cross between the typical YA adventure and Ender's Game meets Wall-E type sci-fi. 100 juvenile delinquents are sent to recolonize Earth after it was abandoned. From the summary style, the book will probably switch perspectives, maybe in first person, maybe in third, between several of the adventurers, including one who managed to sneak back onto the ship before being sent to Earth. I'm wondering what kind of nasty secrets she'll uncover- after all, the fugitive can sometimes get top-secret information because no one expects them to be where they are.Is it going to be one of those (again, Wall-E) plot lines where they all went into space purely because a company persuaded them to do so? Or was it some collective decision of society? And how could they trust the delinquents to report truthfully and complete their mission? Hard to tell, but we shall see.

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