Showing posts with label H. A. Swain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label H. A. Swain. Show all posts

Friday, January 03, 2025

Gifted

Gifted by H. A. Swain

A few decades in the future, one entity has bought up the rights to all music and attempts to enforce it. People can have surgery to make them performers - or lose all musical ability. Health care is also very regimented, with robots dictating visits and requiring payment before insurance will cover more. It is just a carrying out of some of the concerns of the day. To make it a YA novel, there are some young people associated with underground music and "the establishment" that are doing something to fight the system.

Friday, November 01, 2024

Hungry

Hungry by H. A. Swain

In a post-apocalyptic world, people just need to drink a fluid to get all their nourishment. A giant company controls all production of it and has in the process banned regular food. They have limited the number of children that can be had and curtailed sexual drive. A daughter of high-ranking company employees falls for a boy. They meet up the resistance, and try to bring back food. This does not make the parents or society happy. This all seems quite familiar. There does seem to be bits of attack on corporate dominance and global warming together with government/corporate collusion.