Boxed Set + Dry Ice!

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In my post-tour slumber, I forgot to mention that the boxed set of the Uglies trilogy came out yesterday! You can buy it for about $26, and a little over $17 at Amazon. In addition to the delicious slip cover, it includes one special feature: a glossary of ugly slang and bubble-speak written by me.

But check this out: Justine and I went up to the Bronx today and met some awesome kids from the Gear Up program. On our way back, we ran into a dry ice spill on St. Mark’s Street!

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Some delivery truck had dropped a bunch of frozen carbon dioxide (aka dry ice) cubes into the gutter, setting the rain water bubbling and boiling.

People should do this sort of thing more often.

98 thoughts on “Boxed Set + Dry Ice!”

  2. Am I first? Wh00t! Scott, I lovs ya. I got Extras the day it came out. It was fawesome! (fawesome = effin’ awesome.)

  4. Fourth!
    Isn’t that illegal?
    >:
    When I was little I lived near a fountain and people put laundry soap in it, so it was bubbly! (Not pretty-talk, I mean really bubbly)

  11. woah! I think I am going to buy the boxed set just to own the glossary of ugly slang and bubbly talk! Even though I already own paperpack Pretties and hardcover Specials…but the boxed set is just soo cool!!

    Dry ice! I only see that in wedding when they use it for that dreamy effects…

  12. I just notice ashley ‘s comment about the BBC news article…woah! I agree. After reading it, it’s so much like UGLIES!!! So this might really really come true! OMG!

  17. Okay, that dry ice thing is cool.

    We did that in my class last month, but instead of the side of the road we did the ‘activity’ in the trailer. Hehehehehehhe.. it was pretty catastrophic but verrry cool!
    Uh, icy!

    :]

  19. sweet! Are you gonna write a 5th uglies book in Tally’s POV? (Nudge, nudge, hint hint) please???? Oh and any info on auditioning for Tally in the Uglies movie? Thanks

  20. totally kick dry ice! i once saw that stuff at a homeschool expo thingey….it smellt really bad!!!
    scott-la: i’ll see u tonight in fairfeld! my two younger sibs will be taggin along cause my dad cant make it to take care of them, but, oh well…..my older sis owns uglies and extras, but my mom got me pretties and specials!!! πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜† πŸ˜† :lol πŸ˜† πŸ˜†

  22. Hi Scott,

    I’m just wondering if you know of any other versions of the series will come out? Because while i think they look great individually, I don’t think they look nice as a set the way midnighters does, so I’m waitng for a nice cover set…

    Hoping i won’t be waiting forever though.

  23. that is so kool i have been looking for a set .. i own the first and second but i want to buy them again in a set … i am so weird like that .. pluss my sis can have my single books…. these are truely books i will read over and over … like i will sit around and all of the sudden poof it hits me .. go read the uglies series again !! lol well seriously i will do that … soo dry ice kool …. if you pour dry ice on the ground then it makes like a cloud thing ( its circular) and then disapears…. pretty kool stuff.
    I am currently reading extras it is soo good so far .. my friend tells me that tally comes in at like page 160 or somthin … cant wait

  25. i was in a science catalouge once and i did a big thing with dry ice for the picture cuz it was some kind of vent thing.

    random, i ttly drew some random melissa fanart today. she’s stuck in the coincidentally prison-like bixby high school cafeteria. maybe i’ll send it to scott-la or post it somewhere. it came out pretty good.

    i’m gonna finish my bixby high sweatshirt today—i finally got the graphic perfect. bixby high school, a thirteen pointed star, and bixby, oklahoma. it’s very awesome. red on black.

  27. hey scott-la, you might have missed it all in your tour-haze, but we’re rioting. we demand a fourth midnighters. with darkling werewolves. if peeps and uglies get quasi-different-protag-sequels, why not midnighters, the one that REALLY NEEDED A SEQUEL? please……………come on, there’s total room for more in that world there. especially if, say, there were DARKLING WEREWOLVES. CHASING PEOPLE. AT MIDNIGHT.
    think about it, author-man.

  28. you know, there’s a secret meaning to the world trilogy us midnighters fans would like to inform you of. you see, it does not apply just to uglies.
    goth kids in oklahoma deserve sequelage too.
    they’re looking disapproving. and you DO NOT want melissa mad at you. or dess. or rex. especially not darklingy rex. in fact, the darklings themselves are mad. and madeline. and jessica. and jonathan.
    they’re coming for you……unless there’s a fourth in the works. click my name. there’s lots of us.
    *eerie chanting* fourth midnighters. darkling werewolves. fourth midnighters. darkling werewolves.

  45. So cool! I love dry ice! I got to play around with it in junior high. Fawesome stuff.

    And so cool about the uglies boxed set! I remember hearing about that a while ago. I’m going to ask for it for christmas. πŸ™‚

  47. Yay! I love boxed sets. Especially when they have special stuff in them. =)

    I went to a doctor who used dry ice and a really long q-tip to remove a wart on my finger. When he was done, he took the cup of dry ice and threw it out on the floor in the hallway. It kind of blew up when it hit the carpet, smoked all over the place for a bit, and then it was gone and there was no evidence of its having been there. It was so cool!

    ~Mary

  48. A box set that is soo cool! πŸ™‚ I have Uglies, and Pretties in paperback but I want Specials in paperback and that bonus thingy.

    Dry ice is cool too. My friend put it under the punch bowl at her Halloween party last year. Then she called the punch witches brew. Thats when it was a little over the top.

  50. AHH, i am on the 2 midnighter and it is totally pretty-makeing! (see i dont need the stupid list of words i have them right here (wow parentheses in parentheses but to my point im pointing to my head) and it is usefull) Well i finished my hw, YEAH, i mean, uhhh, awwww. No but the midnighters in so good, i like rex better in the second book. MAJOR BIG TIME SPOILER (YES, THAT INCLUDES YOU STEPH-LA, I NO YOU TO WELL) Those ppl are weird and hello, talk about, stalker! I would be so scared if i were her and is it just me or does it seem as if Melissa and Rex have a little somthin somthin goin on? Well, im kinda glad they havent talked much about dess, shes, weird, polymath! And i still love uglies and Zane, And Johnathon, and…….. OK so i love it all, you rock Scott-la!

  52. ok, now THAT is icy ❗

    i REALLY want that box set now cause a that fawesome glossary! but i already own all three and they are all signed and i already am broke and owe my mom $73 for all the books ive been buying this month! UUUUUUHHHHGGGGGG! cant you just post the glossary Scott-la?! PLEEEEEEEEAASSSSSSSEEEE!

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! πŸ˜›

  53. thanx for the warning bran-la i am proud πŸ™‚
    i did not look at the spoiler what page r u on bran-la ❓

  54. i am soooo exsited about touching darkness ❗
    ❗ ❗ ❗
    the first one was soooo good ❗ 😈

  57. i agree the dry ice is sooooo happy making i love the fog that is kick but liquid nitrogen is waaaaaaay cool (literaly) πŸ˜†
    i am bumed that my :heart: thing didn’t work πŸ˜₯

  60. i love to use the smilies
    l-o-l-o-l-o-l-o-v-e
    that song is way old ❗
    the first midnighters is way kick ❗

  61. man why is no one talking to me:?:
    my sis is cheating on her bf with the group that sings the numa numa song they are romanian their name ia o-zone
    my sis is a block head 😈 ❗

  62. i post wayyyyyyyyyy too much don’t i πŸ˜†
    PLEASE TALK TO ME ❗ MY “RAMBLINGS” ARE DRIVING ME NUTZ ❗ 😈

  63. good by to all ttfn (if you read any of my ean posts then you know what that means)

    STEPH-LA OVER+OUT ❗ 😈

  64. i dont no i dont have the book next to me steph-la but ill look later o and when are you gonna post the hiro point of view or w\e its called on your blog! it sounds so intresting so dont take to long i want to read it before i forget about it, o and Scott-la, i think you should stop writeing that book yor writing right now and start writing the next uglies and midnghters book! O and im sure i have alot of misspellings because im typing fast and i didnt look back1

  65. Steph-la you have got to stop commenting so much! i leave for five minutes and when i come back theres ten comments. all from you! its kinda annoying. just turn it down like, two notches.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! πŸ˜›

  68. online pool is sooo fun grab.com is a great website 😈
    ok the random posting starts after this one i promise ❗ πŸ˜†

  74. i will ab stain from posting 4 10 min. so dont talk to me startiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg NOW ❗ :TWISTED: (I LOVE THAT ONE)

  82. Hey Scott! It’s Olivia from the Fairfield reading today. I’m the one who asked how you got your 1st book published. You know how you said I might be too young to be looking for a literary agent? Well, I’m actually trying to get my 1st novel published. I’m sending my novel to an interested agent tomorrow. I meant to say that when you signed my book, but I forgot. Anyway, it was great seeing you and you were really awesome in person.

    Olivia

    PS. When I said what your picture looked like, I didn’t mean it in a bad way!!! I just meant that, well, it looks all mad and depressed, and you didn’t seem that way in person. SO sorry if it sounded offensive or anything. :\

    PPS. Say hi to Scooter for me. :]

  83. dude! a box set? that’s sick! i want it it! πŸ™‚

    oooh. a dry ice spill. people DEFINITLY should that more often FOR SURE

  86. hey all check this out from Publishers’ Weekly!

    And might those youngsters have the chance to read a fifth Uglies caper? Ò€œThere are no plans for more Uglies books now,Ò€ responds Westerfeld, who has begun writing a trilogy set in what he calls Ò€œan Edwardian alternate history.Ò€ But Uglies devotees should not despair. He is clearly leaving the narrative door open a crack when he states, Ò€œItÒ€ℒs possible that IÒ€ℒll do another sequel like ExtrasÒ€”in a new city, from a new point of view.Ò€

    That was said by Scott himself! w00t! We all must pester him to KEEP WRITING!

    ~Jason-wa

  87. Jason-la. i think its Jason-la. but if you like Jason-wa, i’ll call you that. just say the word!

    and Olivia-wa. how old are you? whats the book about. must be pretty good if an agent is “interested”.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! πŸ˜†

  88. yeah olivia wanting to hear about a book…. im writing one to but like so not done…. you said somebodies interested….how come…what agent….yueah

  89. ooh i forgot im gonna be a “S”pecial for Halloween so im gonna put some pics up so yeah

    does anyone noe how i can get some photos up

  92. i’d read that interview before. and i say jason-wa, because everyone seems to be using la. no one likes the wa.

    and i agree. like steph-la and people, i leave for two hours and there’s a million posts that are just like “gtg” and stuff. i don’t need to know that! it makes it all hard to scroll through and catch up! i know i sorta did that above, but it was different there. but taking a ten minute break doesn’t matter when i’m just reading through it later and there’s a million consecutive posts asking if anyone’s here. people would be posting if they were here! they don’t reply!

    forgive the rambling. i’m gonna go do schoolwork now.

  93. oooh, i want a box set!!! *sigh* cept i already own every Uglies book… but box sets are so fun! the only box sets i have are The Chronicles of Narnia and a bunch of tv show seasons on DVD πŸ™‚

    dry ice! oooh, i need some! lol i can only imagine what i would do if i had dry ice…

  94. Lizzy-wa, you are my new hero for calling me Olivia-wa. Ever since I read ‘Pretties’ I’ve wanted someone to call me that. πŸ˜†

    I’m 13. But I think I’m mature for my age. (And modest for my age too. :lol:)

  98. Not to sound slow, lol…is the bookset only in paperback form? I want the hardcovers in a bookset! I can’t complain. xD Oh, anyone heard anything about casting for Uglies? Hope it’s open to the public!

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