Why the sizzling new dystopian novel The Loop could be your next YA obsession
BEN OLIVER:came from a lot of different places. The main idea came from my slight technophobia. Technology can be an amazing thing, especially in the field of medical science, but it’s also insidious and addictive and dangerous.
This is a YA work tackling very sobering, important topics. Can you talk about that balance, between the demands of the genre and the kinds of ideas and messages you wanted to explore?, my goal was to write an entertaining, action-packed story. The themes and underlying messages really came out during the second and third drafts.
This being a debut, how would you pitch this book to a new potential reader? What’s going to hook them?is a dystopian sci-fi set in a young-offenders death row prison. The prison is run by artificial intelligence which runs like clockwork … then things start to go wrong: The government issued rain stops falling, there are rumors of a war in the outside world, and then people start mindlessly killing each other.
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