If You Like… is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love. This week’s post features recommendations for books, movies, tv shows, and music related to The Adoration of Jenna Fox and The Fox Inheritance by Mary Pearson. If you like [...]

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Mary Pearson’s The Adoration of Jenna Fox is a brave exploration of bioethics. In an age of rapid technology development, Pearson’s follow-up novel, The Fox Inheritance, similarly forces readers to stop and wonder how far is too far when science is used to save or replace people. The details of Jenna need not be fresh [...]

Tags: bioethics, friendship, identity, science fiction
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Tom Harvey’s head is cracked open by an iPhone that was dropped from a 30th floor window. While doctors are able to remove most of the phone from his head, small fragments remain implanted in his brain. When Tom wakes up from a coma, he discovers that his brain has the capabilities of a smartphone….and [...]

Tags: friendship, gangs, rape, science fiction, secrets, superhero, technology
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It’s ten years from now and the United States is running out of gas and oil. It costs too much to make most products, and shipping food and other items is expensive, so the stores are quickly going empty, while the black market is going strong. Few people can afford to drive or fly anywhere. [...]

Tags: activism, nature, science fiction, social classes
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After her sister Athena’s tragic death, it’s obvious that grief-stricken Persephone “Phe” Archer no longer belongs in Los Angeles. Hoping to make sense of her sister’s sudden demise and the cryptic dreams following it, Phe abandons her bubbly LA life to attend an uptight East Coast preparatory school in Shadow Hills, MA — a school [...]

Tags: boarding schools, mystery, mythology, romance, science fiction, secrets, supernatural
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