Feed
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 George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson creates a not-so-brave new world—and a smart, savage satire ushering us into an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.
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What Hacker News says
- If this paragraph made you giggle, give "Feed" by MT Anderson a read.
- > I'm concerned about a future where we spend our time jacked into an AI-generated universe that is almost -- but not quite -- consistent and sensical. A dreamscape that becomes a nightmare.
Recommended new book: "Feed", by M.T. Anderson. That's the plot. It's not like "the Matrix". It's way too much like Facebook.
- If you want to read a really scary prescient fiction book in this vein, check out Feed by M.T. Anderson.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_(Anderson_novel)
Just chilling.
- Straight out of M.T. Anderson's Feed. Have you read it? Read it! (Or listen to it, there's a really great audio book of it)
- Does the algorithm ban the sex ed textbooks, or does the school only have the abstinence only books?
Also, the list of books that are actually banned is quite eye opening:
I'm a bit surprised that Ulysses by James Joyce didn't make the list, but maybe the AI couldn't get through it either.Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan Sold by Patricia McCormick A Court of Mist and Fury (series) by Sarah J. Maas Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson Tricks by Ellen Hopkins Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Beloved by Toni Morrison Looking for Alaska by John Green The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Crank by Ellen Hopkins Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser The Color Purple by Alice Walker Feed by M.T. Anderson Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - "Feed (2002) is a young adult dystopian novel of the cyberpunk subgenre written by M. T. Anderson. The novel focuses on issues such as corporate power, consumerism, information technology, data mining, and environmental decay, with a sometimes sardonic, sometimes somber tone.
From the first-person perspective of a teen boy, the book takes place in a near-futuristic American culture completely dominated by advertising and corporate exploitation, corresponding to the enormous popularity of internetworking brain implants."
