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The problem is dystopian fiction is nowadays focused on aesthetics instead of logic because of trend chasing.

the famous gemstone "coal"

It's funny how the testing tried to parody a real thing but ended up falling into the same pitfalls as the thing it was trying to mock

My dream is to write a book and have James Tullos rip it to shreds

You know what i hate about many dystopian novels is that protagonists are almost always teens or very young PPL . I want more dystopian novels where protagonists are old veterans or just generally middle aged washed up dad . It be fun

ngl this series is singlehandedly making me confident in being a writer because i get to be like "you know, my worldbuilding may be flawed, but at least i'm not the one making racist hunger games"

What I'm super sick of is a setting where it's meant to be post-apocalyptic but there's either plenty of a normally scarce resource like gasoline, or there's plenty of resources to still have a decadent aristocratic society at the top. Never mind that in real life, decadent aristocracies were only ever enabled by vast trade networks or empires, and times of relative world peace providing them with stability. "The world is an irradiated desert, but it's also still Versailles somehow" is the lazy starting point for dozens of cheap, bad YA dystopias.

For people who don't get the scale between Mexico and Ecuador, is about the same between Seatle and Houston. Putting Aztec people in the Ecuatorian Amazon Forest is incredibly ignorant.

7:48 Black people and dark South Asians actually suffer a higher rate of melanoma related fatalities because it's just literally harder to see the cancer on them and doctors aren't taught to properly inspect darker skin. I think they also tend to actually experience more skin cancers in general because not burning as easily means they're less likely to wear sunscreen as religiously as say, very white people

The problem with the Testing is that if the goal is to create more—and more talented—doctors, engineers, etc., limiting it to a select number of students who get top grades and can survive this insane test is the worst possible way to go about it. The more barriers there are to becoming an engineer, the fewer engineers you're going to get, and the less talent is going to end up in the field. And flat out killing a massive portion of your brightest students just takes even more potentially skilled workers out of play.

> Lightlark
> Main character is called Isla (Island in Spanish).
> The story is about going to an island.

Truly a literary work deserving of a Pulitzer.

“I had never been tear-gassed by the police.”

Care to share with the class?

I've always found illnesses/supernatural events that conveniently kill adults and spare the book's target demographic to be contrived.  Not that those stories aren't enjoyable; it's just not a worldbuilding choice I would make.

The best part about the coal thing is that jet exists. You know, the stone the color "jet black" is named after? It even is a type of coal, if you want to stick to that theme so badly (why), except it is an actual gem.
The things you can learn with 5 minutes of Google.

Aztecs living on Ecuador.

If they're Inca/Quechua I could let that pass, because the Inca Empire reached Ecuador during their expansion era. The capital of Ecuador, Quito was built during that era, being the oldest capital on the Americas.

To be fair to "racist hunger games" I'm decently sure the author intended it to be anti racist by reversing the situation, but ended up completely failing.

OK but how do the starlings keep their reproduction at a sustainable replacement level? Making sure each woman has 2 kids before 25 would be hard. And who is raising all these kids if their parents all die mid twenties?

Can we talk about how weird the Battlefield Earth cover is? Like the guy is just standing there with a blank expression on his face firing lasers in random directions. No indication who he's fighting if at all. And what the hell is the gun in his right hand doing? His arm is pointed down and facing us but the gun is firing completely to the side? When I look at this, I don't think "Action packed dystopia", I think "Get that high tech weaponry away from that crackhead before he hurts someone".

I have science issues with the first book. 1: skin cancer is already very curable with modern day medicine and in a lot of the world, skin cancer is not a death sentence but more of an inconvenience. 2: idk when this book was written but the ozone layer is not being depleted at the moment, it's healing