![]() ![]() Spaz is a 14-year-old boy who cannot use mindprobes because of his epilepsy and whose adoptive family has abandoned him because they feared the symptoms of his illness. Eden is separated from the Urb by the "Forbidden Zone," a deadly and dangerous minefield. Genetically improved people, called "proovs," live in a city called Eden, with a beautiful society, food and water. ![]() They are analogous to hard drugs and enable users to temporarily escape their harsh lives through images like movies being played in their heads. These mind probes include variations such as "trendies" (mind probes about Eden). The Urb is plagued by poverty, thieves, gang warfare, and the use of mindprobes. The story is set in a post-disaster, dystopic future city, appearing to be somewhere in the United States, called the Urb, which has been disturbed by an earthquake known as "The Big Shake". Set in a cyberpunk dystopia, its protagonist and narrator is a teenage boy named Spaz who suffers from epilepsy. The Last Book in the Universe (2000) is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Rodman Philbrick. The Last Book In The Universe, Rodman Philbrick He and his wife divide their time between Maine and the Florida Keys. His recent novels for adults include 'Dark Matter', 'Coffins', and 'Taken'. Philbrick, a screenwriter as well as a novelist, is the author of a number of novels for young readers, including 'The Fire Pony', 'Max the Mighty', 'REM World', 'The Last Book In The Universe', 'The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds' and 'The Young Man And The Sea'. The book was adapted to the screen in 1998 as 'The Mighty', starring Sharon Stone, Gillian Anderson, James Gandolfini, Kieran Culkin, and Elden Henson. Inspired by the life of a boy who lived a few blocks away, he wrote 'Freak The Mighty', the award-winning young-adult novel, which has been translated into numerous languages and is now read in schools throughout the world. Dantz' he has explored the near-future worlds of genetic engineering and hi-tech brain control in books like 'Hunger', 'Pulse', 'The Seventh Sleeper'. The Private Eye Writers of America nominated two of his T.D.Stash series as best detective novel and then selected Philbrick's 'Brothers & Sinners' as Best Novel in 1993. For many years he wrote mysteries and detective novels. Rodman Philbrick grew up on the New England coast, where he worked as a longshoreman and boat builder. Includes exclusive bonus content!Īka William R Dantz, Chris Jordan, W.R. The Last Book in the Universe joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Fahrenheit 451 meets The Giver in this action-packed thriller from the author of the bestselling novel Freak the Mighty. The two set off to find Eden in the hopes of saving Spaz's dying sister, and together, seek to bring some good back to the world. There is a story of a promised land, rich in its bounties, that can cure any ailment and more beautiful than any place left in the desolate wasteland humanity calls home. ![]() But what sets him apart eventually becomes his salvation.After meeting an old man called Ryter, Spaz begins to learn about how the world used to be before the catastrophic earthquake that changed everything. Cruelly nicknamed "Spaz", he is subject to random seizures that make it impossible for him to use the brain-drain tech. Why bother, when you can just shoot all the images and excitement straight into your brain? I've heard of books, but they were long before I was born, in the backtimes before the Big Shake.In a world where people only use mindprobes for entertainment, a teenaged boy is one of the rare human beings who can see life for what is really is. Newbery Honor Author Rodman Philbrick is at his very best. This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed.
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