Scott Westerfeld, Author . Tor $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0850-4
After Westerfeld's excellent first installment, The Risen Empire (2003), in which a far-future empire of 80 worlds depends on its ruler's ability to give his most loyal subjects immortality, this concluding sequel comes as something of a...
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Scott Westerfeld. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-338-15151-0
Set in the futuristic world of Westerfeld’s Uglies books, this action-packed series starter barely pauses to take a breath. Frey and Rafi are 16-year-old twin sisters, but the people of Shreve don’t know that. Rafi is the self-possessed face of...
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Scott Westerfeld. Scholastic, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-545-91677-6
This first book in the Horizon multiplatform series, which incorporates a digital game for desktop and mobile devices, begins as an airplane carrying four members of a Brooklyn robotics team—Javi, Molly, Anna, and Oliver—crashes over the Arctic...
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Scott Westerfeld. Simon Pulse, $19.99 (608p) ISBN 978-1-4814-2234-5
During National Novel Writing Month, Darcy Patel, 18, pounds out a “Hindu paranormal romance” that earns her an advance hefty enough to fund a college education. Alas, Darcy has other ideas, moving to Manhattan to do rewrites and deferring admission
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Scott Westerfeld, Author Running Press Book Publishers $15.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56858-149-1
In the context of this novel, ""Evolution's Darling"" is a phrase used by people who envy sentient AIs (Artificial Intuitions) ""because they could evolve... within the span of a lifetime, while biologicals were trapped on that slow wheel of...
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Scott Westerfeld, Author . HarperEos $6.99 (439p) ISBN 978-0-06-051956-8
This follow-up to The Secret Hour
continues the tale of four teens who were born at nearly the exact stroke of midnight, giving them the ability to experience the 25th hour of each day. Ages 12-up. (Mar.)
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Scott Westerfeld, Author . Penguin/Razorbill $16.99 (312p) ISBN 978-1-59514-031-9
As with So Yesterday
, Westerfeld creates an engaging conspiracy set in New York City, filling his novel with provocative facts, this time about parasites. Right after Cal Thompson moves from Texas to New York for college, he loses his virginity and
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Scott Westerfeld, Author . Penguin/Razorbill $7.99 (225p) ISBN 978-1-59514-032-6
A teenage male Trendsetter (one who spots trends and makes them "cool") for a shoe company wants to introduce an Innovator (one who invents trends) peer to his boss—but the boss has disappeared and foul play is suspected. PW
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Scott Westerfeld, Author . HarperEos $6.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-051953-7
According to PW
, this launch title in a planned trilogy about a group of high school students born at midnight (giving them the ability to experience the 25th hour of each day), is "an inventive contemporary fantasy." Ages 12-up. (Mar.)
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Scott Westerfeld, Author . Simon Pulse $6.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-689-86538-1
In this launch title of a planned trilogy, teenager Tally Youngblood is living an unexamined life in a world unlike ours, hundreds of years from now. She's impatiently awaiting her birthday because in her town, Uglyville, everybody gets the same
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Scott Westerfeld, Author . Penguin/Razorbill $16.99 (225p) ISBN 978-1-59514-000-5
Aptly-named Hunter spots street trends for "a certain shoe company named after a certain Greek god." When he meets Jen, he notices her unique shoelaces, and realizes she is an Innovator, a person who invents trends (he's a Trendsetter,...
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Scott Westerfeld, Author . HarperCollins/Eos $15.99 (297p) ISBN 978-0-06-051951-3
Westerfeld (The Risen Empire
) begins this inventive contemporary fantasy—first in a planned trilogy—as a new-kid-in-high-school story; he quickly introduces a few surreal bits and then begins revealing his secrets in careful increments.
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Scott Westerfeld, Author . Tor $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0555-8
Westerfeld's (Evolution's Darling) exceptionally smart and empathetic novel, the first of two in a series, confirms the buzz that space opera is one of the most exciting branches of current SF. In an interstellar empire of 80 human worlds,...
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Scott Westerfeld, illus. by Keith Thompson, Simon Pulse, $18.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-4169-7175-7
The action is nonstop in Westerfeld's thrilling sequel to last year's Leviathan—fans of that book won't be disappointed. It's 1914 in the author's alternate world, the great powers are moving toward full-scale war, and Deryn, still posing as a boy,...
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Scott Westerfeld, Devlin Grayson, and Steve Cummings. Del Rey, $10.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-345-52722-6
The story of Westerfeld’s bestselling YA dystopia, Uglies, retold from the point of view of recurring frenemy Shay, this original graphic novel is set in a time when we are remembered only as the long-vanished “Rusties,” a future time when discord...
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Scott Westerfeld, illus. by Alex Puvilland. First Second, $22.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-59643-936-8
After losing her parents to the Spill Zone, an inexplicable force that has possessed Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Addison assumes care of her younger sister, Lexa, who witnessed the spill. Although the area is quarantined, Addison frequently risks her life...
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Scott Westerfeld, read by Heather Lind and Sheetal Seth. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 14 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-7246-7
This novel is really two books in one, told in alternating chapters. The first is a realistic fiction piece about Darcy, an 18-year-old whose novel is being published. She puts off college, moves to New York, deals with the stress of deadlines and...
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Scott Westerfeld, Author, Keith Thompson, Illustrator , illus. by Keith Thompson. Simon Pulse $19.99 (440p) ISBN 978-1-4169-7173-3
Launching a planned four-book series, Westerfeld (the Uglies series) explores an alternate 1914 divided between Darwinists, who advocate advanced biotechnology, and Clankers, masters of retrofuturistic mechanical engineering. Austria-Hungary's...
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Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti. S&S/Simon Pulse, $19.99 (560p) ISBN 978-1-4814-4336-4
Westerfeld (Afterworlds), Lanagan (Yellowcake), and Biancotti (Bad Power) weave a sprawling adventure about a group of superpowered teenagers who call themselves Zeroes. When one of their number, named Scam for his ability to tell people exactly...
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Melissa Marr, Author, Scott Westerfeld, Author, Justine Larbalestier, Author et al. HarperTeen $16.99 (263p) ISBN 978-0-06-144304-6
Supernatural romance is the well-chosen theme of five original stories by as many authors. After her family moves into a house where a boy was murdered, Laurie Faria Stolarz’s protagonist finds herself falling in love with his ghost; Gabrielle
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Scott Westerfeld, illus. by Jessica Lanan. Roaring Brook, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-250-79932-6
The interconnections between self and the universe star in this poetic, science-based work. Making eloquent links (“Before you were here,/ you were waiting...// everywhere”), Westerfeld, making his picture book debut, references the human body’s...
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