Pills and Starships (Paperback)

from photonegative

I have pretty mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I really enjoyed the concept, and I thought it did a great job of creating a future that could become all too real given our current environmental state. I didn't enjoy the narrative style though-- while I don't mind the conceit of th...

from photonegative

I have pretty mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I really enjoyed the concept, and I thought it did a great job of creating a future that could become all too real given our current environmental state. I didn't enjoy the narrative style though-- while I don't mind the conceit of th...

from photonegative

I have pretty mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I really enjoyed the concept, and I thought it did a great job of creating a future that could become all too real given our current environmental state. I didn't enjoy the narrative style though-- while I don't mind the conceit of th...

from doggonelaura

Because I work in a high school library, I end up reading a lot of dystopian and post apocalyptic young adult fiction. This book has a lot of wonderful moments and some really interesting concepts but just didn't quite make it for me. Like in Orson Scott Card's pre-Formic series, Corporations are...

from EKAnderson

I suppose we've all glimpsed a future -- either in fiction or in our imaginations -- in which the Earth is completely destroyed. That is not a new story, and Lydia Millet has no intention to sell it as such. What is new about her debut YA, PILLS AND STARSHIPS, is the solution that the government ...