![]() ![]() Since YA science fiction tends to be more accepting of overt politics than modern SF or “literary” fiction, it's also a natural fit for someone whose work is a vicious condemnation of inequality and self-interested blindness to suffering. ![]() ![]() For authors like Paolo Bacigalupi, who writes fiction in both YA and adult genres, it's a chance to pare down a huge idea (the entire world, destroyed by global warming) into something relatable. Good YA tends to present a relatively limited setting extremely well, focusing on a small set of characters on the cusp of adulthood. Every few years, critics wonder anew whether young adult (YA) fiction, particularly science fiction, has become “too dark.” If such a cultural shift actually happened, it was long before I learned to read, but there is something alluring about YA dystopias that persists even after one is beyond the age of perpetual angst. ![]()
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