If You Like ‘Landscape with invisible HAND’ yOU shOULD add These To Your TBR

When sci-fi and comedy come together it’s almost always a good time. Even though the concepts may be far-fetched, creativity is what makes it worth the watch. It’s interesting to see the concepts come alive on screen. Audiences imagine things that writers create and then filmmakers push that boundary.

Maude Garrett has read Landscape with Invisible Hand by M.T. Anderson and it’s a young adult sci-fi novel that will capture the hearts of many. Now that it has been adapted for the big screen, many are able to turn to the book for more imagination and creativity.

 

When an occupying alien species’ bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leave most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families futures.


If you have read Landscape with Invisible Hand by M.T. Anderson or have watched the movie here are the five books we recommend!

The books on the list below are rich in history for their characters and the world the authors have created. The adventures in young adult novels are wild and fun, but the lessons to be learned are by far more important.

The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson

Turner Falls is a small tourist town nestled in the hills of western Oregon, the kind of town you escape to for a vacation. When an inexplicable outbreak rapidly develops, this idyllic town becomes the epicentre of an epidemic of violence as the teenaged children of several executives from the local biotech firm become ill and aggressively murderous. Suddenly the town is on edge, and Lucy and her friends must do everything it takes just to fight through the night.


Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell

Magic is a con game.

Kellen is moments away from facing his first mage’s duel and the start of four trials that will make him a spellcaster. There’s just one problem: his magic is gone. As his sixteenth birthday approaches, Kellen falls back on his cunning in a bid to avoid total disgrace. But when a daring strager arrives in town, she challenges Kellen to take a different path. Ferius Parfax is one of the mysterious Argosi - a traveller who lives by her wits and the three decks of cards she carries. She’s difficult and unpredictable, but she may be Kellen’s only hope…


Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future, this book charts an innocent’s education when Billy is sent to live in the company of 30 Nobel laureates and he is asked to decipher transmissions from outer space.


Wilder Girls by Rory Power

It has been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her.

It started slow. First, the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don’t dare wander outside the school’s fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.


The Carls just appeared.

Roaming through New York City at three AM, twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship — like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armour — April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world — from Beijing to Buenos Aires — and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight.

 

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