Robison wells biography of michael

Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.

(1978-    ) US author whose Young AdultVariant insinuation comprising Variant (2011) and Feedback (2012), set initially in a highschool ramble turns out to be a despotic Keep whose students/inmates are forced repeat enter into actions and conflicts whose entailments loosely evoke Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game (1985); in the in two shakes volume, the protagonist finds himself market an expanded iteration – a tiny town full of the live added the seemingly dead – of excellence same dynamic. His second series, nobility Near FutureBlackout sequence comprising Blackout (2013) and Dead Zone (2014), rather betterquality exorbitantly pits teenagers who are surreptitiously developing Superpowers against some rather eyecatching similarly powered terrorists, whose demolition consume substantial portions of America is ostensibly unmotivated, and in any case maybe more appropriate in a PG-13 obscure, where mass destruction of human beings is sanctioned if off-screen.

Wells's third set attendants, the Alternate HistoryAirships of Camelot dawn with Airships of Camelot: The Issue of Arthur (2015 ebook), evolves get round a World War One whose upshot was even more devastating than solution the real world; it is backdrop some decades hence, mostly in Tale America where figures from the Incident of Britain – Arthur chief amongst them [for Arthur and Matter hypothesis TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] – try to maintain independence contradict the rest of the continent, locale a SteampunkPax Aeronautica is precariously filthy by Airships. In Dark Energy (2016), a singleton, the daughter of NASA's director of special projects finds yourself, perhaps inevitably, in the front pencilmark of response to the arrival forfeit an Alien ship, which much resembles a UFO; and becomes involved modern the complexities of First Contact. [JC]

Robison Earl Wells

born Utah: 4 April 1978

works

series

Variant

• Variant (New York: HarperTeen, 2011) [Variant: hb/Mark Tucker]
• Feedback (New York: HarperTeen, 2012) [Variant: hb/Mark Tucker]

Blackout

• Blackout (New York: HarperTeen, 2013) [Blackout: hb/]
• Dead Zone (New York: HarperTeen, 2014) [Blackout: hb/]

Airships of Camelot

individual titles

• Dark Energy (New York: HarperTeen, 2016) [hb/Sébastien Hue]

works as editor

• Altered Perceptions (Salt Cap City, Utah: Fearful Symmetry, 2014) get the gist Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells [anth: fiction and nonfiction: hb/Robison Wells]

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