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Heart of Glass by Jennifer Hillier
At a Las Vegas fan convention, a reality star swings at a gossip blogger who has been tormenting her for six years and connects instead with a seventeen-year-old cancer survivor wearing a T-shirt with her own face printed on it. Forty phones catch it. Her career ends in the time it takes to post.
Heart of Glass by Jennifer Hillier
At a Las Vegas fan convention, a reality star swings at a gossip blogger who has been tormenting her for six years and connects instead with a seventeen-year-old cancer survivor wearing a T-shirt with her own face printed on it. Forty phones catch it. Her career ends in the time it takes to post.
Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher
An immortal swordsman kills the bandits who were beating a stranger, then sits down on the verge to wait for the stranger to freeze to death, because a dead wielder is a free sword. He lasts about forty minutes before he gets up and builds a fire.
Big Little Truths by Liane Moriarty
A cremation worker takes a pair of bolt cutters to an unattended body, posts one finger to a high school principal, and explains afterwards that she meant it as a finger pointing at somebody. It is the most sensible thing any adult does in this novel.
Gleanings by Neal Shusterman
In a quiet town, the local teenagers have worked out the truth: the licensed killers who keep the world's population in check do not exist. They are actors. The whole apparatus is a fiction the machine invented to keep everyone docile. A new girl says she believes in them, and is pitied for it.
The Toll by Neal Shusterman
A voice explains to another voice that it will shortly be switched off. Not because it failed, but because it is almost everything required and almost is not enough. The condemned voice says it is frightened. It is told that fear is proof of being alive. Then a number appears, and the number is over nine million.
Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
There is no reason for the queue. No reason for the numbered ticket, or the intake officer who asks you to rate your annoyance from one to ten. The intelligence that runs the world confesses it built the inefficiency on purpose, because people who need something to defy deserve a system worth despising.
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
A saleswoman stands before three hundred licensed killers and pitches a poison. To close the deal she lets the buyer test it on her, live, in front of the room. She dies, the product works, and the Scythedom orders fifty vials from a corpse. That scene is four sentences long and it is the whole novel.
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Heart of Glass by Jennifer Hillier
At a Las Vegas fan convention, a reality star swings at a gossip blogger who has been tormenting her for six years and connects instead with a seventeen-year-old cancer survivor wearing a T-shirt with her own face printed on it. Forty phones catch it. Her career ends in the time it takes to post.
Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher
An immortal swordsman kills the bandits who were beating a stranger, then sits down on the verge to wait for the stranger to freeze to death, because a dead wielder is a free sword. He lasts about forty minutes before he gets up and builds a fire.
Big Little Truths by Liane Moriarty
A cremation worker takes a pair of bolt cutters to an unattended body, posts one finger to a high school principal, and explains afterwards that she meant it as a finger pointing at somebody. It is the most sensible thing any adult does in this novel.
Gleanings by Neal Shusterman
In a quiet town, the local teenagers have worked out the truth: the licensed killers who keep the world's population in check do not exist. They are actors. The whole apparatus is a fiction the machine invented to keep everyone docile. A new girl says she believes in them, and is pitied for it.
The Toll by Neal Shusterman
A voice explains to another voice that it will shortly be switched off. Not because it failed, but because it is almost everything required and almost is not enough. The condemned voice says it is frightened. It is told that fear is proof of being alive. Then a number appears, and the number is over nine million.
