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I was thinking about books and marketing (as one does), and wondering why Scholastic chose to market The Hunger Games for a young adult audience. My default assumption is that it's because the protagonist is in that same age range. (Collins has written for children before, however. I don't know how much input she had for how these books were marketed.) The series is based around a fairly 'adult' concept.
That's about as far as my thoughts went before getting sidetracked to other recent books with interesting female protagonists. The Passage, by Justin Cronin, is sort of the Torchwood: Children of Earth of novels. They're both centered around world-changing events caused by things that we normally see in our nightmares. Also governments keeping secrets. And interesting female characters. Cronin's book has several women that I might qualify as larger than life, and T:CoE rarely pushed anyone into that role. Gwen maybe. Not enough to stretch plausibility much, considering her background.
T:CoE was meant to be more gritty and realistic, though, and The Passage is all about EPIC, and really delving into a post-apocalyptic world. One thing both media did well was draw out the full revelation of the 'monsters' over time.
I started thinking about how The Passage would be an ideal fandom for Yuletide, and sure enough, someone nominated it! Argh, I can't put in a request now. Why didn't I notice it before the sign-up period was over? I want stories about Alicia and Amy and fighting! And then I went looking to see if there were any stories already--on LJ, because AO3 is balky right now. But there's nothing. Alas.
Oooh, just got AO3 to show me the list of book fandoms and no stories there yet either. WHAT?!?
Also, it looks like the listing for The Passage has some information mixed in from a 1994 movie called Safe Passage. Can't tell right now if that's the case on the final listing, though, 'cause AO3 won't let me look at that.
Oh well. If Wikipedia is to be believed, Cronin will be writing two more novels set in the same universe as The Passage, so I may get more stories eventually. In 2012 and 2014.
gimme gimme gimme NOW
That's about as far as my thoughts went before getting sidetracked to other recent books with interesting female protagonists. The Passage, by Justin Cronin, is sort of the Torchwood: Children of Earth of novels. They're both centered around world-changing events caused by things that we normally see in our nightmares. Also governments keeping secrets. And interesting female characters. Cronin's book has several women that I might qualify as larger than life, and T:CoE rarely pushed anyone into that role. Gwen maybe. Not enough to stretch plausibility much, considering her background.
T:CoE was meant to be more gritty and realistic, though, and The Passage is all about EPIC, and really delving into a post-apocalyptic world. One thing both media did well was draw out the full revelation of the 'monsters' over time.
I started thinking about how The Passage would be an ideal fandom for Yuletide, and sure enough, someone nominated it! Argh, I can't put in a request now. Why didn't I notice it before the sign-up period was over? I want stories about Alicia and Amy and fighting! And then I went looking to see if there were any stories already--on LJ, because AO3 is balky right now. But there's nothing. Alas.
Oooh, just got AO3 to show me the list of book fandoms and no stories there yet either. WHAT?!?
Also, it looks like the listing for The Passage has some information mixed in from a 1994 movie called Safe Passage. Can't tell right now if that's the case on the final listing, though, 'cause AO3 won't let me look at that.
Oh well. If Wikipedia is to be believed, Cronin will be writing two more novels set in the same universe as The Passage, so I may get more stories eventually. In 2012 and 2014.
gimme gimme gimme NOW