Neal Shusterman redefines dystopian fiction with his 'Arc of the Scythe' series

If there is one person who has shaped the landscape of young adult pop culture, it's Neal Shusterman.

The prolific author, perhaps best known for the Unwind Dystology and The Accelerati Triligoy, has been writing for a variety of mediums — books, film, TV, and games — since the '80s, including writing for the Goosebumps and Animorphs TV series and the Disney channel original movie Pixel Perfect.

Now Shusterman is back, and this time he's turning dystopian literature on its head with his new Arc of the Scythe series.

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The Arc of the Scythe series dives into a utopian world where death has been defeated. In this perfect world, a governing body called the Scythes decides who dies "but everyone accepts it because everybody knows that this order is made up of the most compassionate humans in the world."  Read more...

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