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fjtorres · 01-27-2014, 05:23 PM

Well, it's not as if YA books have to carry a seal or something. Or that they didn't exist until some marketting drone started targetting everything at that demographic.

A common theme in YA SF&F is coming of age in strange worlds/times/cultures.
Well, this series fits there--in the second half of the first volume and more so the second.
The videogaming references aren't in there to appeal to baby boomers, after all, and the teenagers don't get the lion's share of the attention by accident; Ringo is working a classic blueprint for SF juveniles that dates back to the 50's.

01-27-2014, 05:23 PM	#25
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	Well, it's not as if YA books have to carry a seal or something. Or that they didn't exist until some marketting drone started targetting everything at that demographic. A common theme in YA SF&F is coming of age in strange worlds/times/cultures. Well, this series fits there--in the second half of the first volume and more so the second. The videogaming references aren't in there to appeal to baby boomers, after all, and the teenagers don't get the lion's share of the attention by accident; Ringo is working a classic blueprint for SF juveniles that dates back to the 50's.