{"id":3844,"date":"2018-09-01T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?page_id=3844"},"modified":"2019-07-12T10:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:22:42","slug":"the-human-values-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?page_id=3844","title":{"rendered":"The Human Values Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Human Values Trilogy is a YA sci-fi book trilogy available on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used to be a regular on Reddit. I’ve since closed my account because conversations on there seemed to drift into the same left\/right standoffs Facebook is known for. Why am I talking about Reddit at all when I should be telling you about this YA sci-fi book? Because the idea from this book came from a thread discussion about sci-fi books on Reddit. I posted asking if anyone would be interested in a sci-fi book discussing humanity’s value to aliens as a “rare animal” commodity. Some Redditors thought it was interesting, and some thought it was stupid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought it was interesting enough to expand the premise (after sharing the first chapter on Reddit) into three books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trilogy starts off with the premise of a nerdy teenage girl just trying to survive after her neighborhood is attacked by an alien entity. Where it goes from there is different than a lot of other YA books. Sure, there’s a romance subplot, BFFs that betray (or did they?), and so on, but where most YA novels don’t<\/em> go are discussions of race, ecological impact, moral concepts, and most unusually: the economics of alien species compete in a marketplace unbound by time and traditional (human) market forces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, a YA novel about space economics. I went there. Which is probably why I can’t get any young adults to go there yet when my competition is Dystopian Hunger Games Knock-Off of the Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m also going against the Kindle writers code of only generating content for one genre or audience. The hardcore military sci-fi readers of The Filter Trap would not be able to pick this one up without re-adjusting their expectations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But maybe since you’re here you’re ready. Give it a read. There are interesting bits of science, action, and humanity for every age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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