Robison wells biography of michael

Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.

(1978-    ) US author whose Young AdultVariant sequence comprising Variant (2011) and Feedback (2012), set initially in a highschool that turns out to be a coercive Keep whose students/inmates are forced to enter into actions and conflicts whose entailments loosely evoke Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game (1985); in the second volume, the protagonist finds himself in an expanded iteration – a small town full of the live and the seemingly dead – of the same dynamic.

His second series, the Near FutureBlackout sequence comprising Blackout (2013) and Dead Zone (2014), rather more exorbitantly pits teenagers who are mysteriously developing Superpowers against some rather attractive similarly powered terrorists, whose demolition of substantial portions of America is seemingly unmotivated, and in any case perhaps more appropriate in a PG-13 movie, where mass destruction of human beings is