On the whole, I like a bit of a dystopia, but it's become so prevalent in books for older children and young adults that I can't help feeling that this is what we authors are saying to them:
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Dark Futures
Posted by Philip Reeve at 16:36
I've written a short piece for School Library Journal on the current trend for dystopian futures in Young Adult fiction, which you can find here.
On the whole, I like a bit of a dystopia, but it's become so prevalent in books for older children and young adults that I can't help feeling that this is what we authors are saying to them:
On the whole, I like a bit of a dystopia, but it's become so prevalent in books for older children and young adults that I can't help feeling that this is what we authors are saying to them:
