![]() ![]() And how anyone can be an instant celebrity.Ī Simon & Schuster audio production. ![]() ![]() The ratings of your feed (combined with how much the city interface overhears people talking about you) determines your social status-so everyone knows at all times how famous they are.Īs Scott Westerfeld explored the themes of extreme beauty in the first three Uglies books, now he takes on the world's obsession with fame and popularity. One of the features of the new world is that everyone has a "feed," which is basically their own blog/myspace/tv channel. Culture is splintering, the cities becoming radically different from each other as each makes its own way into this strange and unpredictable future. RT deannashumaker: STRIKE DISCOUNT THREAD (if you hear of discounts for WGA members, let me know or post here) So far: ROADSIDE TACO (right by Universal) is offering 25 off w/ membership card. Boundless human creativity, new technologies, and old dangers have been unleashed upon the world. The cure has spread from city to city, and the pretty regime that kept humanity in a state of bubbleheadedness has ended. Extras, the final book in the Uglies series, is set a couple of years after the "mind-rain," a few earth-shattering months in which the whole world woke up. ![]()
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