Today as part of the Academic Track at Worldcon 2009, I am giving the presentation "Anticipating Worlds Gone Wrong: Contemporary Young Adult Dystopias." For those attendees and others who may be interested, I am posting the bibliography of primary and secondary sources used to prepare my talk.
(Note added 2/21/10: This is no longer the most recent version of this list. If you follow/bookmark this link, you'll always be directed to the most recent iteration of the list.)
( --Primary Sources: Fifty Years of English-Language Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, With Links )
( --Secondary Sources Relating to Young Adult Dystopias, A Select Bibliography )
I will be posting additional reports from WorldCon 2009 soon! Thank you for reading.
"How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made."
- Lois Lowry, The Giver
(Note added 2/21/10: This is no longer the most recent version of this list. If you follow/bookmark this link, you'll always be directed to the most recent iteration of the list.)
( --Primary Sources: Fifty Years of English-Language Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, With Links )
( --Secondary Sources Relating to Young Adult Dystopias, A Select Bibliography )
I will be posting additional reports from WorldCon 2009 soon! Thank you for reading.
"How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made."
- Lois Lowry, The Giver