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From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com (Lynn McGuire)
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by: Lynn McGuire - Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:16 UTC

"Flash Point" by Nancy Kress
https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Point-Nancy-Kress/dp/0142427462/

A standalone young adult science fiction book. I read the well printed
and well bound trade paperback published by Speak (Penguin) in 2013 that
I bought from Amazon back in 2014.

After the economic collapse of the USA in 2029 (known as The Collapse),
things got incredibly tough in the USA. The unemployment zoomed to 23
percent, social services like Social Security, food stamps, Medicare,
Medicaid, etc were halted. High Schools were converted to short terms
and made non-mandatory. And the age of adulthood was dropped to sixteen
across the country.

16 year old Amy got up at 4am and went downtown to the TV station to
apply for the new reality game show, TLN's "Who Knows People,
Baby--You?" with hundreds of other young people. Amy and five others
made the show which would make them rich, if they survived the making
the show.

The author has a website at:
https://nancykress.com/

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars (31 reviews)

Lynn

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by: D - Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:22 UTC

On Fri, 16 Feb 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:

> "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress
> https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Point-Nancy-Kress/dp/0142427462/
>
> A standalone young adult science fiction book. I read the well printed and

Adult science fiction? Didn't even know that was a thing. One learns
something new every day.

Best regards,
Daniel

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by: Cryptoengineer - Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:09 UTC

On 2/17/2024 6:22 AM, D wrote:
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> On Fri, 16 Feb 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>
>> "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress
>> https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Point-Nancy-Kress/dp/0142427462/
>>
>> A standalone young adult science fiction book. I read the well
>> printed and
>
> Adult science fiction? Didn't even know that was a thing. One learns
> something new every day.

Huh? "*Young* adult" is a well established publishing category,
for books aimed at a more-or-less early teen audience. They are
frequently coming of age stories, and sometimes include more
mature topics than you'll find in juveniles.

....or am I just missing some sarcasm?

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by: Mad Hamish - Sun, 18 Feb 2024 13:16 UTC

On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 12:22:15 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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>On Fri, 16 Feb 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>
>> "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress
>> https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Point-Nancy-Kress/dp/0142427462/
>>
>> A standalone young adult science fiction book. I read the well printed and
>
>Adult science fiction?

"young adult" a pretty standard publishing classification for a long
while

> Didn't even know that was a thing. One learns
>something new every day.

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by: Lynn McGuire - Tue, 20 Feb 2024 06:03 UTC

On 2/18/2024 7:16 AM, Mad Hamish wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 12:22:15 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Feb 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>
>>> "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress
>>> https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Point-Nancy-Kress/dp/0142427462/
>>>
>>> A standalone young adult science fiction book. I read the well printed and
>>
>> Adult science fiction?
>
> "young adult" a pretty standard publishing classification for a long
> while
>
>> Didn't even know that was a thing. One learns
>> something new every day.

"Young Adult" even has some qualifications such as the publishing format
is usually trade paperback size with mmpb paper (cheap) and the price is
$11 to $15. Books that fit in this category are "The Maze Runner", this
book, "The Hunger Games", "Divergent", "The Giver", "Ender's Game", "The
City Of Ember", "Gone", "Harry Potter And ...", "Twilight", etc.

Lynn

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by: Paul S Person - Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:25 UTC

On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:03:03 -0600, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 2/18/2024 7:16 AM, Mad Hamish wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 12:22:15 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 16 Feb 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress
>>>> https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Point-Nancy-Kress/dp/0142427462/
>>>>
>>>> A standalone young adult science fiction book. I read the well printed and
>>>
>>> Adult science fiction?
>>
>> "young adult" a pretty standard publishing classification for a long
>> while
>>
>>> Didn't even know that was a thing. One learns
>>> something new every day.
>
>"Young Adult" even has some qualifications such as the publishing format
>is usually trade paperback size with mmpb paper (cheap) and the price is
>$11 to $15. Books that fit in this category are "The Maze Runner", this
>book, "The Hunger Games", "Divergent", "The Giver", "Ender's Game", "The
>City Of Ember", "Gone", "Harry Potter And ...", "Twilight", etc.

The Potter series were also Hardcover.

I waited to years after the last one came out to get it in paperback
so it would match the other six on my shelf. The two or three before
that that I had to wait for only took a year to go to paperback., but
the last one was milked for all it was worth.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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by: Lynn McGuire - Tue, 20 Feb 2024 20:49 UTC

On 2/20/2024 11:25 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:03:03 -0600, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2/18/2024 7:16 AM, Mad Hamish wrote:
>>> On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 12:22:15 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 16 Feb 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress
>>>>> https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Point-Nancy-Kress/dp/0142427462/
>>>>>
>>>>> A standalone young adult science fiction book. I read the well printed and
>>>>
>>>> Adult science fiction?
>>>
>>> "young adult" a pretty standard publishing classification for a long
>>> while
>>>
>>>> Didn't even know that was a thing. One learns
>>>> something new every day.
>>
>> "Young Adult" even has some qualifications such as the publishing format
>> is usually trade paperback size with mmpb paper (cheap) and the price is
>> $11 to $15. Books that fit in this category are "The Maze Runner", this
>> book, "The Hunger Games", "Divergent", "The Giver", "Ender's Game", "The
>> City Of Ember", "Gone", "Harry Potter And ...", "Twilight", etc.
>
> The Potter series were also Hardcover.
>
> I waited to years after the last one came out to get it in paperback
> so it would match the other six on my shelf. The two or three before
> that that I had to wait for only took a year to go to paperback., but
> the last one was milked for all it was worth.

I have seen the Harry Potter series in every format under the sun. The
8.5x11 illustrated commemorative version at Sams's Club was the wildest.

Lynn

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by: Titus G - Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:48 UTC

On 18/02/24 00:22, D wrote:
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> On Fri, 16 Feb 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>
>> "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress
>> https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Point-Nancy-Kress/dp/0142427462/
>>
>> A standalone young adult science fiction book. I read the well
>> printed and
>
> Adult science fiction? Didn't even know that was a thing. One learns
> something new every day.
>
> Best regards, Daniel
>

Dimwire has problems with reading comprehension so prefers books written
for the elderly child or the young adult.

Subject	Author
"Flash Point" by Nancy Kress	Lynn McGuire
Re: "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress	D
Re: "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress	Cryptoengineer
Re: "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress	Mad Hamish
Re: "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress	Lynn McGuire
Re: "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress	Paul S Person
Re: "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress	Lynn McGuire
Re: "Flash Point" by Nancy Kress	Titus G