Science fiction has a way of amplifying the consequences of the misuse of our planet. Authors create prophetic futuristic worlds filled with all the possible devastating scenarios that can be born from people’s indifference to our environment. These stories can act as a warning for our present time and place.
Our oceans are choked with plastic waste. We chop and burn our trees, the lungs of our planet. All this has pushed us to the cusp of irreversible climate-change.
We add to global warming by spilling chemicals and nuclear waste, turning fertile land into barren dirt which then leads to increased mortality rates.
As we become immune to the live saving effects of antibiotics we open the floodgates to super bug pandemics. Even more sinister than this is investment by militant governments in creating chemical weapons, chemical warfare that threatens us with extinction.
There is no time like the present to learn from the mistakes written of possible futures.
Reader Group: Young adult 15+
Our compiled book list is geared for young readers aged 15+. We know this age group isn’t one to identify with the category of prolific bibliophile. You hover in cyber-reality and are addicted to the immediacy of Youtube which is speckled with short memes and vines. Your imaginations have been influenced by the limitlessness of online sites and games where they can create futuristic, intergalactic, time-dimensional realities and scenarios.
If you are to be tempted by any literary forms it needs to be coated in science-fiction or fantasy styled stories. We have also noted that graphics are important to your hardened visual feastings. All these requirements have been factored into the selection of every book, making it difficult for you to stop at just one.
Book List Collection
Young adult - graphic novel
Young adult - fiction
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