Feed

Titus is a typical teenager, living in a futuristic world where everyone has built-in Internet inside their heads. Titus can text/chat with his friends next to him instead of speaking. Based on what Titus is looking at, thinking, or who he is talking to, the built-in feed bombards him with consumer products. Everyone is covered in lesions because of pollution, so most people escape Earth and hang out on the moon. It’s on a trip to the moon that Titus meets Violet, a beautiful girl who doesn’t seem pulled in by the consumer feed inside her head. Violet tries to change the way Titus and his friends think and view the world around them.

If you are a fan of George Orwell, or any other dystopian writer, you will be a fan of Feed. You will be ashamed and horrified at the future the M.T. Anderson creates, mainly because it seems entirely plausible.

Chapter 6: Fiction Genres for Adolescents

Fantasy and Science Fiction

These genres are all about escapism. M.T. Anderson creates a new future based on the role technology and consumerism plays in our lives now. A good Fantasy/Sci-fi writer creates a world where the readers can easily insert themselves.  

Anderson, M. (2002). Feed. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press.