![]() There Titus meets home-schooled Violet, who thinks for herself, searches out news and asserts that "Everything we've grown up with-the stories on the feed, the games, all of that-it's all streamlining our personalities so we're easier to sell to." Without exposition, Anderson deftly combines elements of today's teen scene, including parties and shopping malls, with imaginative and disturbing fantasy twists. But everything changes when he and his pals travel to the moon for spring break. Teen narrator Titus never questions his world, in which parents select their babies' attributes in the conceptionarium, corporations dominate the information stream, and kids learn to employ the feed more efficiently in Schoolâ„¢. ![]() ![]() In this chilling novel, Anderson ( Burger Wuss Thirsty) imagines a society dominated by the feed-a next-generation Internet/television hybrid that is directly hardwired into the brain. ![]()
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