If we kill our children, who will be left? Children are the future of the human race. If humans aren't careful, we may blow ourselves into oblivion by wars, cruelty, the lust for power, and greed. It doesn't matter how young or old you are, the messages are the same. Originally aimed at teens aged twelve and up, the series quickly grabbed hold of everyone: twelve, thirteen, fourteen, twenty-five, thirty-five, fifty. While the first two books in the series focus on annual gladiatorial Hunger Games and then the Quarter Quell, the third book is essentially about war. In the real world, if a few people survive such an apocalypse, then there's only one way to completely obliterate the human race: The survivors must kill each other off.Įnter author Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games and its two sequels, Catching Fire and Mockingjay. Many of these scenarios are man-induced horrors: the nukes, biological and chemical wars, genetic engineering, global warming, pollution, corporate and government greed. In dystopian post-apocalyptic novels, a remnant of humanity survives against the odds in situations ranging from nuclear wars to environmental meltdowns invasions by aliens, zombies, and other monsters plagues chemicals genetics gone wild supermassive black holes that devour us earthquakes volcanoes and even human-eating plants.
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