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It goes without saying that I’m not exactly the target audience for Charlie Jane Anders’s new YA trilogy, which begins with
Victories Greater Than Death. But, as I’ve argued before, there’s a huge overlap between YA and SF readers. A good deal of classic SF works perfectly well as YA, and some tropes are essentially the same in both genres: geek valorization, children with secret powers, nonconformist outsiders and conformist bullies, clueless teachers and dim authority figures. All a successful YA novel really needs to do, then, is turn its adult readers willingly into YA readers, and with SF readers that’s not a very tall order: it’s simply a matter of tweaking the protocols. In the case of
Outsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy.
Buckle up your seatbelt for a thrilling YA sci-fi adventure set against an intergalactic war read an excerpt from
Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders, available now from Tor Teen.
Tina never worries about being ‘ordinary’ she doesn’t have to, since she’s known practically
forever that she’s not just Tina Mains, average teenager and beloved daughter. She’s also the keeper of an interplanetary rescue beacon, and one day soon, it’s going to activate, and then her dreams of saving
all the worlds and adventuring among the stars will finally be possible. Tina’s legacy, after all, is intergalactic she is the hidden clone of a famed alien hero, left on Earth disguised as a human to give the universe another chance to defeat a terrible evil.
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