Candlewick Press MA</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>Identity crises?? consumerism?? and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains.</b><br><br>For Titus and his friends?? it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction?? sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet?? a beautiful?? brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of Ge"well?? Anthony Burgess?? and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.?? M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world ? and a smart?? savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>This brilliantly ironic satire is set in a future world where television  and computers are connected directly into people's brains when they are babies.  The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kids  are driven by fashion and shopping and the avid pursuit of silly  entertainment--even on trips to Mars and the moon--and by constant customized  murmurs in their brains of encouragement to buy?? buy?? buy. <p>  Anderson gives us this world through the voice of a boy who?? like everyone  around him?? is almost completely inarticulate?? whose vocabulary?? in a dead-on  parody of the worst teenspeak?? depends heavily on three words: "ng??" and the second most common English obscenity. He's even made th