Feed - by M T Anderson (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A quarter-century after its initial publication, M.T. Anderson's futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains feels closer than ever. Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love star in a beloved National Book Award Finalist and LA Times Book Prize winner.

For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon -- a chance to party during spring break and play around with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who knows something about what it's like to live without the feed-and about resisting its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires.

Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a brave new world -- and a hilarious new lingo -- sure to appeal to anyone who appreciates smart satire, futuristic fiction laced with humor, or any story featuring skin lesions as a fashion statement.

Review Quotes

Subversive, vigorously conceived, painfully situated at the juncture where funny crosses into tragic, FEED demonstrates that young-adult novels are alive and well and able to deliver a jolt.
--New York Times

Another book that can be added to the list entitled 'YA Novels I'd Never Heard of But Which Turn Out to Be Modern Classics' and Feed may well turn out to be the best of the lot . . . Funny, serious, sad, superbly realized.
--Nick Hornby, The Believer

Surely one of the most prescient novels of last 20 years.
--Lev Grossman

M.T. Anderson has created the perfect device for an ingenious satire of corporate America and our present-day value system...Like those in a funhouse mirror, the reflections the novel shows us may be ugly and distorted, but they are undeniably ourselves.
--The Horn Book (starred review)

The crystalline realization of this wildly dystopic future carries in it obvious and enormous implications for today's readers -- satire at its finest.
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

This satire offers a thought-provoking and scathing indictment that may prod readers to examine the more sinister possibilities of corporate-and media-dominated culture.
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

What really puts the teeth in the bite...is Anderson's brilliant satiric vision in the seamless creation of this imagined but believable world. The writing is relentlessly funny, clever in its observations and characters....
--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)

A gripping, intriguing, and unique cautionary novel.
--School Library Journal

Many teens will feel a haunting familiarity about this future universe.
--Booklist

Both hilarious and disturbing.
--Booklist Editors' Choice

Disturbing yet wickedly funny, with as brilliant a use of decayed language as Russell Hoban's post-apocalyptic RIDDLEY WALKER.
--Horn Book Fanfare, The

Frightening in its realistic depiction of what is possible in a culture addicted to information, this novel is a guaranteed conversation-starter.
--Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year

The book is fast, shrewd, slang-filled and surprisingly engaging.
--New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year

This dystopic vision is dark but quite believable. Sad and strong and scary.
--Chicago Tribune

This wickedly funny and thought-provoking novel is written in a slang so hip it is spoken only by the characters in this book. Teens will want to read it at least twice.
--Miami Herald

A darkly comic satire that can be read as a promise or a warning.
--Detroit Free Press

It's exhilarating to decipher Anderson's futuristic adolescent slang, but his story is a serious one. He has an uncanny gift for depicting how teenagers see the world.
--BookPage

About the Author

M. T. Anderson is the author of the National Book Award winner The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party and Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves, which were both Michael L. Printz Honor Books; Elf Dog and Owl Head, a Newbery Medal winner; Symphony for the City of the Dead; Yvain: The Night of the Lion; Landscape with Invisible Hand; and many other books for children and young adults, including The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, cocreated with Eugene Yelchin, which was a National Book Award Finalist. M. T. Anderson lives near Boston, Massachusetts.