Diverse Energies

Author: Paolo Bacigalupi
Secondary Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN: 9781600608872

"No one can doubt that the wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men. No one can doubt that cooperation in the pursuit of knowledge must lead to freedom of the mind and freedom of the soul."—President John F. Kennedy, from a speech at University of California, March 23, 1962In a world gone wrong, heroes and villains are not always easy to distinguish and every individual has the ability to contribute something powerful. In this stunning collection of original and rediscovered stories of tragedy and hope, the stars are a diverse group of students, street kids, good girls, kidnappers, and child laborers pitted against their environments, their governments, differing cultures, and sometimes one another as they seek answers in their dystopian worlds. Take a journey through time from a nuclear nightmare of the past to society's far future beyond Earth with these eleven stories by m

Publisher: Tu Books
Publish Date: 2012

Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories, Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction, Juvenile Fiction / Dystopian

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Fiction)