Sean Beaudoin's books include You Killed Wesley Payne, Going Nowhere Faster, which was nominated as one of YALSA's "Best Books for Young Adults," Fade to Blue, which was called "Infinite Jest for teens" by Booklist, and The Infects. His short stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications.Beaudoin's new novel is Wise Young Fool.
One of ten books that changed his life before he could drive, as told to Teen Librarian's Toolbox:
Neuromancer by William Gibson -- a book that foresaw the Internet a full ten years before the Internet, the mix of Asian-Read about the other books on the list.inflected sci fi, tech commerce, and Blade Runner-style apocalyptic doom was startlingly original and well written.
Neuromancer made Chris Kluwe's list of six favorite books, Inglis-Arkell's list of ten of the best bars in science fiction, PopCrunch's list of the sixteen best dystopian books of all time and Annalee Newitz's lists of ten great American dystopias and thirteen books that will change the way you look at robots.
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My Book, The Movie: Wise Young Fool.
The Page 69 Test: Wise Young Fool.
--Marshal Zeringue