ninjalibrarian

Hi Allie, I don't actually have a question yet - I'm just relaying on a message.

A bunch of people from the forum want me to thank you for being awesome and creating it, so "Thanks for being awesome and creating the forum!"

Alot of them aren't redditors, so it took it upon myself to relay on their gratitude.

Edit: Apparently I lied, some are making accounts just for you.

My questions are for Mr. Doctorow. I heard you speak at the dystopia panel at the ALA Conference. Two of your points were that one of the things laid bare by dystopia is a deeper truth and that at their best, dystopias are about how people are good.

Do you think those are something that most authors who write in the dystopia genre are aware of as their writing, or do you think it comes about as more of a realization after a work is completed?

Also, what do you think of Patrick Ness' "Five Big Questions" for dystopia that he talked about at the conference?

• Why is it so popular?

• What does it accomplish?

• How useful is the label when writing for teens?

• Why not utopia?

• What's the future of dystopia?