Book Dreaming: Diverse Energies edited by Buckell and Monti

Book Dreaming is just that. It’s a feature to highlight those books that make you dreamy or possibly just end up making you dream about them. It could be anything from newly released books to one’s that are already out that I can’t get out of my head to those I can’t seem to get my hands on soon enough!

Today’s Book Dreaming pick is Diverse Energies edited by Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti. This is a book I’ve been thrilled about ever since I saw it at ALA. It’s filled with incredible dystopian stories from some of the top authors out today and all of the stories feature brilliantly diverse characters. This has the potential to be a huge hit and I cannot wait to hear how much everyone loves it!

“No one can doubt that the wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men. No one can doubt that cooperation in the pursuit of knowledge must lead to freedom of the mind and freedom of the soul.”
—President John F. Kennedy, from a speech at University of California, March 23, 1962

In a world gone wrong, heroes and villains are not always easy to distinguish and every individual has the ability to contribute something powerful.

In this stunning collection of original and rediscovered stories of tragedy and hope, the stars are a diverse group of students, street kids, good girls, kidnappers, and child laborers pitted against their environments, their governments, differing cultures, and sometimes one another as they seek answers in their dystopian worlds. Take a journey through time from a nuclear nightmare of the past to society’s far future beyond Earth with these eleven stories by masters of speculative fiction. Includes stories by Paolo Bacigalupi, Greg Van Eekhout, Ursula K. Le Guin, Cindy Pon, Malinda Lo, Ellen Oh, Rahul Kanakia, K. Tempest Bradford, Ken Liu, Rajan Khanna and Daniel H. Wilson.

One of the fabulous authors involved in this wonderful project in Cindy Pon. While at ALA last month I just happened to stop by the Lee & Low Books booth as she was stopping by. First of all let me say I absolutely adore Lee & Low Books and it was especially nice to finally meet Hannah whom I’ve worked with for almost three years now. Cindy was also so incredibly wonderful and even signed my copy of Diverse Energies. Earlier this week she shared the full jacket image and I love it:

Pre-order Diverse Energies edited by Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti at the following spots (Release Date: October 1, 2012):

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Powell’s Books | Indiebound | Book Depository | Goodreads

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