Okay, lately I’ve been the worst blogger ever. This is partly excusable because I’m working hard on Extras, but it’s been almost three weeks since my last post, and that’s a bit ridiculous. I’m also very behind on fan mail, for which I apologize to you all.
So in the interest of killing two birds with one blog (blogging two birds with one stone? killing two blogs with one bird?) I am going make like Meg Cabot and blog my mailbag.
That’s right, questions asked in fan mail will now be answered here, eventually providing a comprehensive list of answers so that I never have to think again!
Of course, I will still try to get back to you all personally. It may take a while, however. Not because I don’t love you all, but simply because you outnumber me.
And now for my first questions. Some classics mixed up with some new and unfamiliar ones.
Where does Uglies series take place?
This question has been asked and answered many places, but here’s the official word:
The unnamed city where Tally lives is roughly where Seattle is now. (So the Rusty Ruins are the ruins of Seattle.) The ocean that Tally travels along is thus the Pacific, and the Smoke is somewhere up in the Canadian Rockies. As many of you have realized, Diego is descended from modern-day San Diego.
Here’s a news flash: Extras will take place in what we now call Japan!
What started your career in writing?
In the early 90s I worked for MacMillan/McGraw-Hill, which I’m sure many of you know as school textbook publishers. I was in charge of their NYC technology office, designing educational software and other cool stuff.
One lucky day in 1995, they decided to move their technology departments up to Connecticut, and offered me the choice of severance (that is, money) or moving out of NYC. I thought about this for about ten seconds and then said, “Give me my check and color me gone. I’m off to be a writer.”
Five adult books later, I got the idea for Midnighters. With its teenage heroes and gothic high school setting, this was clearly a teen book. So I became a teen writer.
Some people ask why I decided to become a teen writer. But it didn’t happen in the abstract. I simply got an idea that was YA-ish, and then had so much fun writing for teens that I haven’t (yet) gone back.
What with Wii, Tivo, and those internets I keep hearing about, do you ever worry that teens will stop reading?
Despite all the competition for their time—TV, movies, social networking sites—teens still read a lot more than older age groups. I think that’s because when you’re young, you read more intensely; a book can completely change your way of looking at the world. Once you’ve discovered that magic, it’s hard to give up.
It’s adults I worry about.*
*According to this NEA study, only about 57% of adults in the US read any book at all in 2002. Children’s book sales, on the other hand, have been screaming upward for the last ten years. So nyah.
Random Update: Those of you who get the NY Times should check out page 18, the children’s paperback list. w00t.
i think my just burst of reading changed my thinking in the last 2 years
I have been reading 2 or 3 books a week for the past, umm, 3 years? I would read differant books, becasue I am the most picky reader ever. But then I get Midnighters and I havn’t read anything but Scott’s book for like, 2 months (and reading a book every 2 days, I have read the Uglies and Midnighters Trilogies at least 13 ((mwahaha)) times each).
So, yeah. I can see why Scott thinks teens read more than adults.
I understand that you have no plans to do so but I wish you would do some adult books as well. I quite liked your last pair and was looking forward to more of the same. I have your YA books but, as a 35 year old guy, it isn’t quite the same. 🙂
Yes! Another point for Seattle! I could be living in the spot where Smoke will someday exist! Lol! If we just knocked out a few houses and roads, maybe a few stores, I think it could be possible…! 😀
Well, if smoke were only closer to Seattle that is!
omg!!!! i can’t beleive that extras takes place in JAPAN!!!!! that’s like, totally far away!!! then again maybe not with all of the technology. anyway, that’s so cool! i can’t wait for extras to come out. if only it was sooner. and if only you would write another midnighters book. -sigh- jk.
Question…
Will there be any more Midnighters books?
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JAPAN…! Does this mean that they’re going to be even more high-tech than the other societies? Or less so because they had so much technology in the past, it kind of entirely blew up on them once the bateria hit, and made it harder for them to recover? Stats say Japan is the #3 consumer of oil in the world… Which is a big deal since only the U.S. and China are ahead of them, and both countries are considerably larger. So that means when the bacteria came, the destruction was HUGE! Or so I think. Uhhhh. I think I am reading too much into this.
Are you researching Japanese culture?
Can you tell my excitement over this?
😀 Ohmygod.
Weird..I just said you hadn’t blogged in a while yesterday, and then today you blogged! Well that sucks that you’re working really hard..I hate working hard! So more power to you!
Hey, how do you send fan mail to Scott? Does he answer all of it. Oh, and yeah, I’ve been one of those freaks who reads 4 or 5 books at a time for as long as I could read. Go Geeks! We should start a club or something…
Scott is IN THE BUILDING.
lol.
Omygosh. I absolutely love Japan!
so it better be good ~
Seattle will now be even more tourist ridden than ever! (With Uglies fans!)Yay! But really… the ruins of Seattle? Now I feel sad… luckily, I don’t live on the westside. Bwah ha ha!
Muahaha!!! I was BORN in Seattle!!! I beast you all. Born in Uglyville. How cool can it get???
I mean really. Just shame I didn’t stay there until my sixteenth bday.
So, Scott, would you be willing to do another one school, one book project??? And come???
Email me at elena_s@verizon.net, thanks.
And if you were working on Extras, I forgive you your bad blogging.
(And if I get to be in it, I might even forgive you certain characters’ deaths in Specials )
And the tidbit about Japan is very bubbly-making. I have a friend who was born THERE, and I was born in Seattle…huh.
Scott-la, you need to change the tagline on new copies of Specials. Because Specials is no longer the final volume.
Finally, Specials can have a better tagline than “The final volume of the Uglies trilogy”. Never did like that.
Would you come to PhilDel???
(yes, I did abbreviate my city. But I’m sure you can decipher it.)
Way to post a bajillion times, whoaz.
But I agree, coming down to Philly would be most excellent. But I also know you must be invited :/. I don’t live in Philly, but I’m only 20 minutes away by speedline!
i have been emailing him practicly every day to come to philly 🙂 but i dont know if hes going to 🙁 *tear* he better though or i will be sad. PLEASE COME!!!!!!! and philidelphia has 12 letters and so does pennsylvania (wow its sad when you cant even spell where you live) AHHHHHHHHHHHH talk about darkling yo must come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please? *begs*
o and thanks for finally blogging. i missed you. i thought you disappeared or gotten attacked by zombies or something. i would have been like nooooooooooooooooooooo *gasps for breath* ooooooooooo…oooooooooooooooooooo. wow no more scott?!?!?! how sad-making.
Hey guys long time no see ive been sick with the stomack flue it so bad and its going around like you wouldnt beleive there were fifty kids gone when I was sick and i was sick for a week now i think there are about 69 kids gone we barly had any people in class today well TTYL see ya.
Finally another post! I have been checking the blog everyday for the past forever awaiting you write another post. Though, I do forgive you for the past THREE weeks of not posting because you are writing a 4th to my favorite series that I thought I would never see agian. Japan sounds super awesome too. Also, I was totally almost right about the location of uglyville. But, why would you want your book to come out in october. I mean october is right at the begining of the boring, long school year. Why not December or even November. I guess the sooner the better. Oh, well that gives me a jump start to my AR goal, anyway. Answer more questions online. I thought it was pretty cool.
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It’s not that I’m not phsyced about Extras, I am. It’s just that Midnighters is my favorite of the two series.
So please give a little hint of an answer before I break my legs in anticipation.
(It could happen.)
Loej, for there to be another Midnighters book Scott would have to buy the rights to the series from the publisher. So… yeah.
Seattle… I just can’t get over it. My friends thought it was cool, though. Our city turning to rusty ruins. With rust. And a rollercoaster? I must search for one around here…
Scott, you should have told this to us Seattleites when you came to visit us! It would have given us major bragging rights! We would have beaten out all other Scott Westerfeld Loving towns everywhere! Oh well. Too late.
i thought it was NYC because of the rollercoaster but i was wrong (how sad makeing but not surpriseing) midnighters was my favorit of his books.but i realy liked peeps and how every other chapter is about parisites. does anyone live in vancouver (portland) WA (OR) that would be cool
IminlovewithJonathan!, Let me put this in a form you’ll understand.
P-H-I-L-A-D-E-L-P-H-I-A
Authors are insulted when their fans can’t spell while complimenting them. It’s like a blind person saying he loves your shoes.
Happy Spelling!
The Spelling Bee
Um, okay. Hey, scott, could you come to my school also? I live in NorCal, and I go to a school called Monte Vista. I know that a ton of the people I know would be psyched if you came, although I’ve read more of your books than any of them. Peeps, Uglies, Pretties, Specials, So yesterday, Midnighters 1,2,3, and I just bought Risen Empire and the Killing of worlds. I TOTALLY PONE! Anyway, you have my email on your archive, so if you don’t think I’m a total loser freak, send me some mail.
he has to be invited.
Laine-wa, way to post like … 50 times :p
But YAY I live close to what someday will be the Rusty Ruins :]
So how exactly does Tally get over to Japan? That sounds like a long trip by hovercar.
Speaking of taglines, Extras better have a -good- one, unlike Specials. Ooh, and the paperback version of Specials should definetly get a new one since it’s not longer the last in the series!
I can’t wait to get Extras.
What’s it mean that he has to be “invited.” People are inviting him to come, right? Hey, Scott, I invite you to come to the great town of Albion, Nebraska with only 2,000 people even though only about five people that I know of have read your books. I mean, Steven L. Layne is coming on the 22nd! So you should just join him! I’m inviting you to! There, it’s all settled!
Official invite.
What’s that supposed to mean? Like I have to talk to him in person and invite him?
Or do I have to send him an invitation, like how you send birthday party invites.
yeah, i always tried to figure out where tally’s city was…is…will one day be. and i agree with lauren-la, you really need a good tag for extras. the one for specials made me sad. i was re-reading (well re-skimming) uglies and pretties, and it made me kinda sad that tally, shay and zane we always drunk or had a hang over. so sad.
I almost wish the books were real sometimes..like they were actual people..maybe it’ll be true someday! That’d be sweet! I wish I could stick around for it!
No, to invite him you have to talk to a bookstore or library and tell them he’s fantastic and it’s not out of the question to do it… but there’s also author’s honorarium (I don’t really know how that rolls with Scott) and whatnot, so I don’t know if fundraising would be had or if they pay it all or what. Philly’s only like an hour and forty minutes or so from New York, so it’s not like there’ll be huge fees (rather than if he was flying to Texas) in order for him to get there. Hmm. There’s a Barnes and Noble right near Broad Street, isn’t there?
Us Seattleites lucked out with Scott already being there. And then having a nice little signing for us. Because we asked him. You just have to watch the little “Appearances” page and wait until he’s somewhere close by. Then you spring!
I mean…no! I’m not giving away top secret information on how to get Scott to sign your books. In your town. Noooo way.
Ha, sweet! But I don’t think Scott will ever be comin’ anywhere near Nebraska..so I don’t ever have much of a chance of him signin’ my books! NO SCHOOL today!..and the sad thing is I’m stuck with only ONE book at home!..and I’m halfway through it and it’s not very long either! This is so depressing.
And there’s no way to get out of my house to get another book since all the snow is piling up. Man, Nebraska really sucks! But we have Runza’s and no one else does! HA!
i totally thought tally’s city was in southern california. and i thought diego was in central america! i was so wrong.
Well its just me again and its hard for me to right because i dont have a fone right now cause we are in the prosses of moveing so if anyone wants to talk to me im on line weekdays around 7:00 or eight computor time see ya!!
8:33 to be exact!
I always thought that the Rusty Ruins New York since it had tall buildings and all that and how the city was packed. But then I thought that it was quite aways for Tally to travel from New York to San Diego..so I was just totally lost there, but now it’s all cleared up.
ok first off i would like to say in my defence that i warned you all that i could not spell. second of all i have said that about every post i have written. i really cant spell to save my life. my spelling skills do not compare with my fawsome vocabulary. if you dont like my spelling then you should definitly(again with the spelling!)not ask me to spell the dreaded word(see midnighters spoilers)… probably, probobly, something like that.
Funny..I’m goin’ to the spelling bee this month!
I so thought that the rusty ruins near Tally’s city were todays New York City, but yet again I was wrong. I did catch on to were it was in the Specails though when they say they passed death valley.*sigh* I still really really really hope that you will answer my question about the system of Tally’s city. Here it goes(by the way this is the second time I have asked you this!) Ok so what would happed if say to uglies conoodled ( I think you know what I mean ) anyway what would happen if the Ugly became pregnant because this could happen I mean the are 15 years of age, so what would happen to the unborn child? would specail cirrcumstances wait until the baby was born to do the operation and then make them skip new pretty town and go strait to crumbly vll. or would the hav an abortion and kill the unborn child and go on like nothing happened, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, answer my question!!!
I have wondered this scinse the day I read page 1 of uglies so please answer me!!! I am just dieing to know the answer, I’m weird that way once I think of something that I don’t know about I need to know the answer. so please don’t let me down because you are the most awsomest (yes I know asomest isn’t a word but it sounds cool) like I said you are the most awsomest young adult writer, this is coming from a want to be author. I write all the time and love doing it as well as reading ( most of the time i’m reading your books)so plaese don’t leave my question unanswered!
-Dara
Alright i was laughing so hard at the part when you said give me my check and color me gone! Well anyway Japan huh interesting very very interesting.I’ve been talking about uglies and basically pimping your books out all over my high school.lol. I own the whole trilogy…if extras was out then i could own the fourlogy? No not fourlogy you pick a better word cause i’m spent now.lol. But yeah i was in Barnes and Nobles the other day and i was getting some new books and all i could think was ” I wish extras was out *tear*.” Oh and me and everyone of my nerdy friends threw a hissy fit at the end of Specials, killing Zane off was sooooo not bubbly-making. I was still thinking at the end of the book he’d come back and say “gotcha Tally-wa i thought it would be totally bubbly-making if i tricked everyone.” But i’ll get over it you know wipe away the tears and be a big girl. But at least we have David, right? Heck yeah we do! So how are Tally and David gonna play a role in Extras?
Wow. Only 57% of adults? Thats…really really sad. In 2002 I wasn’t an adult yet, but I think I’m the closest I’ve been yet! 😉 I’m 20 now, and still an avid reader. Reading is such escape, I couldn’t dare to think of leaving it. I can’t wait to read more of your works!
*sigh* Okay, Scott. We’ll pay your airfare…lol
okay, so it takes place in japan. isn’t that pretty far away from seattle? how do tally and david get their? i always figured they stayed in the rusty ruins. now i’m confused. you should come to utah for a book signing scott!!!
Okay, I’ve figured it out: my house is in the exact location of Tally’s house!:O
Lol, well at least I can go around telling people that, it’s not like they can PROVE me wrong, so there! Hehehe…
WoW!!!!! YAY!!!! So Kewl!!!! in JAPAN!!!! It must be a good book! I s the new character gunna be JAPANESE?!!! FREAKING OUT!!! AWSUM!!!! IV ALWAYS WANTED TO GO THERE!!! SWEET!!! NOW I CAN READ MY WAY BOUT IT MORR!!! PROPS 2 U!!!
That’s so cool! JAPAN!!!!!!!!! My grandma, mom, aunt and uncle all stayed their for about three years . . .in the fifties. . .
Lol. Love the 57% of adults that read fact….gotta love it when you have the chance of being smarter than your parents! Too bad my mom reads just as much as I do . . . a lot.
I think I know why the children and teens are reading more!
. . . . THANK YOU HARRY POTTER!
ive never read harry potter but right now im reading scotts’ wives book its good so far magic or maddness
I read all the Harry Potter books in the number of days of the book..except for the 1st and 6th one..I read those in 2 days each. But I read the 3rd in 3 days, 4th in 4 days..and so on..and they’re are pretty good. But Scott is still better!
well, scott ny the looks of these posts here, you better out tally and david in extras for at least a mili-secound. or people will start throwing eggs at you randomly on the street. when your readers are unhappy, you are unhappy. so sad.
I won’t throw eggs, Scott. I have very bad aim.
All you people thinking New York because of tall buildings! Psh, Seattle has tall buildings! Cities in general have tall buildings… And if the ruins are Seattle, then right near the famous rollercoaster is the Space Needle! Woo!
SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!!! we have off today! whooooooooooo!!!!!!so here i am reading, blogging, and… erm… more blogging and reading? would you believe that there is absolutly nothing on tv?(not that i watch it much to begin with but im bored. my brootyer was on the computer) i cant wait till the fall. all the books i want to get are comming out(elipse-stephenie meyer, pendragon 8:the pilgrims of ryane(or something that sounds like rain but spelled with a y somewhere in it) and SPECIALS!!!!!!!!!! omg cant wait
oops i meant extras!!!!!!!!!! not SPECIALS!!!!! im stuck on special mode because i finished it last night. still mourning the end of specials. 🙁
snow pretty
Why does everyone hate the end of specials but me? Zane was annoying. But Tally still as a special was frickin awesome. Or fawesome, I guess, since I finished The Last Days.
me like Speacials!!!
I liked the ending, too, Joy. Zane was just… Zane-y. He was much better in Pretties because it wasn’t all “Zane looks like a withered old man” and all. So he got to seem more lively. So in the end of Specials I was very happy. Or… content.
I cannot believe that yall are saying that about Zane-la he was my favorite caractor besides Tally why did he have to die I never thought i would be so into a book that i would cry so much i think i have said this b-4 cause it sounds familiar any way im going to say it again i was in class and i was at that part where she was running through the hall and my teacher turns on some sad music and i just started crying well anyway i have to go ttyl
Nice sentence.
I liked Zane, as I said, but not enough to cry. Just because we like the end of the book does not mean we didn’t like Zane or anything. Not that you said that. Hunter beats him any day, though.
zane was ok when he died umm i kept reading un moved, im just soooooooo sensitive
Whoa! Japan! That’s crazy! And that’s so weird, I could have sworn the Smoke was in like Colorado or something. Odd. What’s the river, though? And Japan – I guess I could see that, because they’re really tech advanced and all. That’s cool. I wonder what kind of pretties they’d have there? Like, if they’d be Asian beauties? Or just the standard?
well i didnt meen for it to sound like that but im a girl and a very emotional one at that and that music i just couldnt help but cry but ya i guess its ok that Zane died cause now David and Tally may get back together, and I thought they were a sweet couple so just maybe they were ment to be.
im always upset when people die in books. it really made me sad because he died trying to make himself better for tally and now she has another thing on her conscience. wow shes going to be really messed up with all the stuff she caused and people she betrayed and all.
Luckily, she is not the center of this new book. So we won’t have to hear all of her conscience-y goodness rolling around in her head. Thank the Lord of Novels! Or, you know, Scott…
ya know, i’m still in shock over the whole extras-in-japan thing. 😯
if only their were more midnighters books. i know, your fans are relentless. 😉
Hey do you think if we liked Extras so much when it comes out, Scott will write like an Extras Extras!?
Well I dont know about that but he might come out with something like Routines or something, something different that fits with the story line.
Well today I havnt realy had a great day one of my friends has been mad at me for along time and I dont know why and today I told my friend something another friend told me and she told the friend that dosnt like me any more and she told the friend that told me and now he is mad at me and told that friend that its not true she b-lieved him and starts cussing at me and im trying to tell her what happend andshe wont listen then later on she calls me a tity baby for crying cause I dont know why she has to be so meen to me I never did anything to her and Im just so upset and I dont understand why the world has to be such a bad place sometimes I dont even know why I should stay alive since the guy i like dosnt seem to notice me and my friends all tern against me and people make fun of me and there realy isnt anything wrong with me i meen nobodys perfect. And to tell you the truth i realy dont think i can live this life much longer anyway TTYL.
I’m with Judy i loved Zane i mean i loved David too but he was cute in that dangerous guy sort of way you know the unattainable kinda way but Zane was funny,sarcastic,and the best part attainable. I cried… Judy i cried i was still hoping it was like a cruel joke and he was coming back. I’m getting use to the idea that David and Tally live happily together. OH yeah and Amy is right Scott i will so throw eggs if Tally and David don’t make an appearance in a major way in Extras i have horrible aim but i’ll still try…kidding…not really. I want more Tally and David.
Oh wow Judy i just read your comment you left right above mine i’m kinda scared for you i know how you feel but things have to get better right?!? Heck yeah i’m right. The boy you like may not like you now but a lot of the time all boys need is someone else trying to take you then they are all over you. Or he might like you and be to shy to say anything well not shy all around but just scared i have a lot of guy friends and from what they tell me it is tramatizing when they are rejected after putting themselves out so they wait until they are positive you really like them back and they can’t read our smoke signals are those flirty laughs and stuff they can’t understand that sorry but true. So stay positive and keep hope alive! Seriously it WILL get better. You can e-mail me if you need to talk more.
rchscheerhunny08@yahoo.com! Okay
I thought that Uglies took place around where San Francisco now is! (Seattle I always ignored, since it was so far north….), and I also thought the Smoke was in washington or Oregon, but still in the Rockies….so my guess was somewhat close.
Also, I have a couple questions:
* How did you decide to have Uglies take place in where you did? was it form a trip to Seattle or something before you started writign it or something?
* Where did the idea for pretty-mindednes and the lesions come from? I’m asking this because I have something called Asperger’s Syndrome that makes me get kind of bubbly over the tiniest vlittle compulsions and stuff, and normal people never seemed to have this bubbliness and always seemed to be overly sarcastic and not caring about stuff (most normal people my age, I mean). For some reason, the idea of normal people having litle scars inside their brains kind of appeals to me….!
Those’re my questions.
well today has just been one of those day im in the middle of reading the uglies trilogy for the 3rd time and we took the TAKS test today so im just a little tired bnicki my e-mail is jmpink9_1@yahoo.com
well i guess no body has anything to say or is there a new entry
SPACE NEEDLE!! *smacks self in forehead* How could I forget?! I knew that was there! Oh, well. I honestly thought the really tall building was the Empire State. Not that I’ve seen either of those in person-er-building…
nippon! kakkoi deshou, minna? saikou!
This adult is still reading and quite happy to see that her students are reading as well. Your trilogy spread like wildfire through my middle school so I decided to join in. I’m very glad I did and even happier to see that you are using your blog to change the world as well.
Keep it up and I’ll do my best to get more people reading.
I think I just died a little.
That is so great beyond great.
Yeah, I read through the tril. a few times, and it took me the third time to realize the name of the city in which Tally is from is never named.
I can’t believe I didn’t notice that before. But I like that, that unnamed city. Something like that in a story I write is important to me, but I’m really glad you didn’t give it a name. I’m proud you were able to write a whole trilogy without saying it once. I would not be able to complete that task.
Of course, I couldn’t do half the stuff you did. This trilogy is amazing.
The New Smoke Lives.
oh, and I was referring to Extras being set up in Japan.
Though I’m really glad I finally found out where this was all taking place.
It seems more real.
I wish it was.
Well, you know, without all the disaster and stuff.
But that’s what makes it exciting!
OH MY GOD! Extras us really gonna take place in Japan?!?!? Thats WAY FOOL!!!!!! I LOve You Scott!! Oh, hey, on the subject of loveing you, I love you books SO SO much that at our art competition a few weeks ago I enter like 10 scuptures all inspired from either The Uglies series or The Midnighters series and every single one is moving on to region competition! YAY!
Japan???!!! and yeah..you’ve been a pretty bad blogger l8ly no offense! I still cannot believe its gonna be in JAPAN! It’s kinda sad to me cause i’m learning how Japan destroyed China in WW2..thats sad! *sigh* I’m really excited tho besides the whole Japan thingy-ma-bobber..Well, i’m so happy *happy dance*. I cant wait for Oct 2 roll around..HOW BUBBLY!
Thanks for sharing more about how you became the really good YA author that you are.
FACT OR FICTION:
Is Uglies already being made into a movie, or is that bending of facts based on people’s (including me) saying we WISH it was a movie??
Pretty please anybody?
UGLIES is a great beginning of the series. I’d never heard of it before, but I was at a used book sale and I found your book UGLIES. It sounded interesting so I bought it. It took me two hours to read it, and I can’t wait to get my hands on the other two of the trilogy. My question, however, is about the helicopters that the rangers use. If all the oil had been infected and destroyed when it touched oxygen, then how was it they could fly the helicopters? I don’t know much about them, but I would guess they need oil for something. I mean, cars need oil, so why wouldn’t a helicopter need oil? Other than that, I loved the book. Thank you for sharing your mind with everyone who’s read your work.
Haddy-wa, I live in Vancouver (WA)!
I totally thought it took place in Southern California/Central America, too.
wow. i wish scott could come to my school….. but that would probably be pretty hard seeing that i live in the big TEXAS!!!!
tiara, the helicopters are using these lifting fans like the specials that come to the smoke the hovercars since their past the metal grid they need something else to run on. so I’m guessing that they run on solar power. or maybe a new energy source. I’m not sure though. it might have said something in the books but I’m really tired so
i don’t know.
Seattle?
Whaaaa?
I thought the Rusty Ruins were what we now call The Big Apple…
btw, lindsey-lay, totally agree with you.
But I live in NuJ…
I know that you’ve got to be busy and I don’t know how often you ckeck your website comments, still I have a question…
Why do you write?
Of course, you’re probably already annoyed with this question, as am I. I’m doing a report for school and no one in my class had ever heard of your books.
Needless to say I had to introduce them.
Please email me at chynna.e@hotmail.com.
THANK YOU
I just re-read the Uglies series, and I can totally see what you mean about Seattle. Or maybe that’s just me.
hey scott… mr. scott? um… mr. westerfeld…
oh great one..? well i am dying to read “evolution’s darling”, but i cant get a copy anywhere, do you have any idea how i could get my hands on a copy??
and why won’t you ever respond to e-mails??
Freaky, i live in Tacoma!! (30 min. away from Seattle. Yes, in WA)
Could it be possible new pretty town was in Seattle? lol, i highly doubt it.
Tally has been my favorite character. but now, hearing the new girls name is aya, thats different. i wondered if she was a normal united states girl. But then i found out she lives in china. thats amazing. mostly because its really spearing the story board from just united states to other places in the world. i dont have to wait long, but still the wait is too much. i highly doubt that any of the teens will stop reading. i have re-read the last few pages in specials so many times. “manifesto” i could almost recite every word. its amazing how it changed my veiw point. i thought it would be over – but you threw in, next time we meet it might get ugly. truely remarkable. Mostly your writting is what keeps me reading. but there arent many action books, and im an action junkie. so i love reading your books! keep up the amazing work!
-lauren
Hi. I think midnighters is awesome,and If Brad Kerns makes the midnighters tv show, I will cry and never stop. Who wants to see their favorite book ruined? NOT ME!!! Anyway…. SCOTT YOU MUST REBEL AGAINST BRAD KERNS,JOIN THE FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT!!!
Scott- You are the best writter EVER I love your books and I understand that thease are teen books and I am only 12 but I guess I DON’T CARE….. I love you and I hope you will e-mail me that would be the COOLEST thing in the whole world! I really wish that I could meet you! YOU ROCK!!!!!! I like BOOK 1 the best the uglies it inspires me so much. I have a couple of questions to ask you though 1. Is the book the Extras part of the triology I didn’t think that there was any more books after the specials. 2. Is the extras really taking place in Japan? I am page 161 of the pretties and so far so GREAT!!! I hope Tally and zane can excaop (with out breaking there thumbs of!!!!)
shout out 2 anyone who is completely in luv with scotts books!
Peace
O ya, does anyone know if theres going 2 be a book after extras?
Peace
shout out 2 Seattle an Japan
Luv Ya
Peace
and* duh
Peace
wow no one seems to be commenting a lot here
*sigh*
i finished Extras and now i want to read So Yesterday but its on hold right now, so now im rlly bored
i wonder what going to happen when i run out of scott’s books
i cant bare to think about it
Peace
i need to know your favorite color.
what is your favorite color?
is it blue?
what are some of your favorite things?
Is there going to be another book based on PEEPS?
i think youre completely right about reading changing the way we look at our world. Especially for me now. things have been crazy, and changing so that its an opportune time for me to step back and look at how things are in a different light, or how they could be.
your books inspire me to question my culture…its a curiosity my parents installed in me at birth, but the uglies “trilogy” (roughly speaking, since i just finished reading extras) has reactivated that sort of curiosity.
ive always thought about being a writer, specifically a ya writer, but im not so sure that will ever happen. thats alright. im currently pondering the theory that everybody should have one unfulfilled ambition.
on a different note, i really liked the way Extras fit into the uglies series. i wasnt so sure it would when i read the…i dunno what it is, that little book review thingy on the inside of the front cover. but i bought it nonetheless, because you had me at hello. 🙂 it was inspiring though, because although it took a different turn then the other books did, you incorporated tally very well, not to mention showed what had become of the world that, essentially, the smoke conspiracy created…im not really into those happy endings that just wrap themselves up. did you read the harry potter books? they just suck one in, dont they? but that ending just…well thats not the way it works. not life. its not one individual story, and then the rest of your life is bubbly parties and happy families.
tally seems so real to me. she reminds me of myself, not necessarily because of her adventures, but because of her constant search for herself. even in this most recent book, as a general hero of the future earth, she still wasnt sure about herself. she couldnt easily describe her relationship with shay, come to terms with the loss of zane, or her feelings for david…its all so real.
which is good.
real speaks to me in sort of an avant garde way.
what! extra’s will be in JAPAN! and you have studied japanese?!!this is liek a dream come true!!!!! >w
I’m about halfway through Extras, and I already feel the need to praise you.
Extensive thanks for the incorporation of so many Japanese elements. It was so wonderful to see Japanese honorifics used outside of manga fan-fic…
I appreciate books that speak about the world and make a statement about what culture has become. You have my gratitude.
I’ve been thinking fairly radically lately. Even read Walden. If you look at the world with the eyes of a practical outsider… it’s not someplace you want to be. The media… everything.
Fortunately, I’m among the (possibly naive) who believe there’s something we can do about it. Maybe I’ll pull a Walden II sort of thing and start my own perfect society. We’ll see.
It seems you have quite a following, Mr. Westerfeld. Hopefully your books urge more of us to Question what we take so easily to be truth.
Watch the news from a foreign country, any and all of you. See what the US media doesn’t want you to see.
Again, many thanks for such a stimulating series.
-Todos
HA! I TOLD my friend that Extras was in Japan and she was all like “No the city is just weird and being all Japanese-ish” and I’m all like “What?!”
But anyways I was wondering where do you come up with all those names in Extras (specifically manga-heads, kickers and things like that- my friend and I call our other friend a manga-head since she is OBSESSED-my mom won’t let me touch manga books, she says that I’d read them too fast). Also what ARE pings, is it like phones in your head or more instant message like? And finally: Are the feeds supposed to remind me of youtube.com? Well thanks for the great books…
Tara
i think Scott Westerfeld should write more books to the Uglies trilogy… i’m new here…
luv, Shay-la
p.s. i loved the books but if he write more i think i might go crazy…
if he doesn’t write more