I am Princess X by Cherie Priest

I Am PRINCESS X
by Cherie Priest
227 pages








Once upon a time, two best friends created a princess together. Libby drew the pictures, May wrote the tales, and their heroine, Princess X, slayed all the dragons and scaled all the mountains their imaginations could conjure. 
A few years later, Libby was in the car with her mom, driving across the Ballard Bridge on a rainy night. When the car went over the side, Libby passed away, and Princess X died with her.
Now, May is sixteen and lonely, wandering the streets of Seattle, when she sees a sticker slapped in a corner window...... Princess X? 
When May looks around, she sees the Princess everywhere: stickers. patches and graffiti. There's an entire underground culture, focused around a webcomic at "IAmPrincessX.com". The more May explores the webcomic, the more she sees disturbing similarities between Libby's story and Princess X online. And that means that only one person could have started this phenomenon---her best friend, Libby, who lives.

What Should We Be Worried About? by John Brockman

What Should We Be Worried About?  by John Brockman  
published in 2014   478 pages
John Brockman is the publisher of  the website Edge.org and has compiled 150 essays by some of the smartest people in the world. These essays are about what worries scientists the most.

Is it the idea that with 3D games becoming more and more real, will young people have trouble telling if game reality is the real reality?
When, not if, machines become smarter than humanity who will serve whom?
With technology responding faster and faster, will we lose the capacity for patience?
Civilization as we know it depends on people to maintain it. With the population shrinking, will civilization implode?

Of these 150 worries, most will never happen. But which of these worries will be the ones that do happen?
A fun book that raises interesting questions.

Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow

Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow, 382 pages

Marcus Yallow is a seventeen-year old techno-wizard.  He also believes in the Bill of Rights and personal privacy, which lands him in a detention cell when San Francisco is attacked by terrorists and Marcus is in the wrong place at the wrong time.  This book is geared towards young adults, but adults will enjoy it, too.  Doctorow paints a future that is all too realistic.  I officially have a crush on his brain.