Young Adults and Dystopian Fiction
By Bren MacDibble
Young adults are angry. They’re mad as hell at their “Olds” for screwing up the planet. It’s our own fault. We wanted them to be more aware of the world around them. We taught them to be more environmentally friendly than our generation. We let them on the Internet.
Now, by the time a child becomes a YA, they have absorbed so much information about the many ways our planet is being screwed up that they have grown a massive festering ganglion on their shoulders about it.
Remember a simpler time, when we were young? There was only one way to screw up the planet, someone in Russia or the US would accidentally let off an ICBM and the Cold War would suddenly turn hot and we’d be dead within a week. Ah, the good old days.