Price, Lissa
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author of a Young Adult Dystopia, Starters (2012), set in a Near Future America devastated by a "genocide spore" that has killed off anyone not vaccinated; as only children and old people were vaccinated in time, the survivors occupy a world whose operational heart has been evacuated. Teenagers are induced to rent their bodies for short periods – through a form of Identity Transfer – to their increasingly infirm elders. The psychological costs of this procedure prove unsurprisingly enormous, and it also is clear that the young protagonist's suspicions about a sinister conspiracy will prove, in the expected sequel, anything but Paranoid. [JC]
Lissa Price
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Starters
- Starters (New York: Delacorte Press, 2012) [Starters: hb/]
- Starters (New York: Random House/Ember, 2013) [coll: one story added to the above: Starters: hb/]
- Enders (New York: Delacorte Press, 2014) [Starters: hb/]
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