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THE WORLD OF UGLIES, SET IN OUR NOT-SO-DISTANT FUTURE,is a complex place filled with bubbly technology and lingo, yet bogus rules about status and appearance. That's why a guide to the world of uglies has been requisitioned from the hole in the wall. Inside you'll find:
A rundown on all the cliques, from Crims and Cutters to tech-heads and surge-monkeys
The complete history, starting with the destruction of the oil bug to the launch of Extras in space
How all those awesome gadgets came to be: hoverboards, eyescreens, skintennas, sneak suits...
PLUS an exclusive look at Scott Westerfeld's first draft of Extras -- starring Hiro, not Aya.
And so much more, it's mind-wrecking. |
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Bubbly and bogus drive some readers crazy.
Why do these two words get used so much in
Pretties? Well, bubbly means a lot of things to
pretties: the champagne they drink, the way
they act at parties, and how they feel when they like someone. Anything good, basically; and bogus means anything bad. It’s a lazy way to talk, but the pretties are lazy-brains, so I
thought it made sense for their world to fall
into two simple categories. Of course, when
Tally and Zane start to be cured, they start
using “bubbly” as their secret code for
“thinking clearly.”
Trivia: “bubbly” and “bogus” are used as slang in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies, about a rich, partying social group in the 1920s. The “pretty young things” in Waugh’s novel also use “shaming” and “nervous-making,” so I stole
those, too. |
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