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A review by hollowspine
Diverse Energies by Tobias S. Buckell, Joe Monti
5.0
If you, like me, are tired of the same old thing, the dystopian futures, the fights against zombies or authoritarian governments waged by white teenaged girls, then this book is for you.
Diverse Energies features stories where the characters are as diverse as the worlds they inhabit. The plots are engaging and absorbing, the writers are superb, and the only problem is that they end too soon, they leave the reader wanting more.
Some of these worlds took place in the far future, some in a world only a few steps from our own, and all contained ideas both familiar and alien that created an interesting blend that fully satisfied me, in a way that I'm not sure I believed the genre ever would.
There is something for everyone in the book, all people from diverse cultures, backgrounds religions and creeds can find heroes and heroines here. But nothing is forced, everything flows with no more noble purpose (nor less) than telling the story, giving readers a taste of what life is like and what happened to these people living here. It is perfect.
If you only read one Teen Dystopian novel, this is the one you want. It blows everything else out of the water.
Diverse Energies features stories where the characters are as diverse as the worlds they inhabit. The plots are engaging and absorbing, the writers are superb, and the only problem is that they end too soon, they leave the reader wanting more.
Some of these worlds took place in the far future, some in a world only a few steps from our own, and all contained ideas both familiar and alien that created an interesting blend that fully satisfied me, in a way that I'm not sure I believed the genre ever would.
There is something for everyone in the book, all people from diverse cultures, backgrounds religions and creeds can find heroes and heroines here. But nothing is forced, everything flows with no more noble purpose (nor less) than telling the story, giving readers a taste of what life is like and what happened to these people living here. It is perfect.
If you only read one Teen Dystopian novel, this is the one you want. It blows everything else out of the water.