Technology could be bad and it could be good but it never stops being cool. There, I said it. I like to read books set in the present because I can relate to the technological aspects mentioned in them. I like to read books set in the future because duh, new never-thought-of-before technology! Technology is one of the reasons I’m attracted towards sci-fi, dystopia and apocalyptic books. There’s just something so mesmerizing about the tech-heavy surroundings.
The tech-heavy surroundings of The Hunger Games cannot be missed out on! After all, there’s a whole district for its development! The weapons are technologically modified and that’s not the only thing! Remember the jabberjays, forcefields, holograms and of course, the hovercrafts? Just wow.
Simulation serum. Fear landscapes. Makes-you-a-robot serum. Dude, those are so freaking awesome! The technology in the headquarters of Dauntless and possibly Erudite are in a stark contrast to the untouched abandoned areas of Chicago. Go Divergent!
Provided that the technology is pretty much at a standstill in All These Things I’ve Done as the New York City faces a bleak future filled with crime, poverty and a severe lack of resources, the surroundings are tech-heavy where there is need and that is intriguing enough.
The technology in Pivot Point is advanced to the point that living in the human world is boring with the doorbells, phones and the zero action football games. It’s all very hush hush in the Compound so I’d love to know all the techy deets in the second book!
GenTex lab has made human-alien hybrid a reality by combining extraterrestrial DNA with human DNA and this is not even the coolest part in The Rules. There’s the chase, a mystery and major plot twist ahead.
While I wouldn’t ever want to live in the dystopian world of Matched, the concept of limited technology to humans is definitely one of a kind. Food, clothes, education, job; each and everything is predefined and carried out with the help of technology. Daunting.
Being a techno-thriller novel, Digital Fortress is full of gadgets, supercomputers and what not. It’s fast-paced, engrossing and so very techy!
In ExtraNormal, Mira is from Nreim which is a highly advanced planet that have overcome the flaw in genetics where humans failed to. There are electromagnetic fields, the ability to sense emotions of other people and the best of all, being able to stream with people back on Nreim through her mind. It’s all very innovative and engaging.
Spies and Prejudice is not exactly a techy-heavy book but it does make use of little technological inventions. It’s a spy story so that’s kind of a given anyway. I liked the use of the sunglasses doubling up as a spy camera.
Anti-matter? Anti-matter. When I was reading Angels and Demons and Dan Brown mentioned that there is opposite for everything out there then why not matter, I was speechless. It is pretty mind-blowing and scary! Imagine negative gravity or this gravity gun being real. I can’t even.
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I love your graphics XD I haven't read many of these, but Divergent and The Hunger Games were definitely amazing. I've always wanted to read Pivot Point too– it seems like such an interesting book! I only watched the movie of Angels and Demons, and I found it awesome, though people say the book was even better 🙂 Great list Sana!
I love Angels and Demons 🙂 It's one of my favorites from Brown. Divergent & THG are of course very good and I can't wait to read Pivot Point.
Mel@thedailyprophecy.
I love this original topic! So many great books listed!
Ooooh yes! I love tech settings! I always feel like I don't know how I'd live without the technology we have now!
That being said, I'm pretty sad to see I haven't read most of these. I've only read The Hunger Games and Divergent. I need to fix that! I've had my eye on Pivot Point for a while… this might be all I need to get my hands on it. (You're such a bad influence, haha 😉 )
Awesome list! The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Matched are some of my all-time favorites! 🙂
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Great list! I'm reading through Pivot Point right now and the technologies in the Compound sound pretty awesome!
Great list. Matched and The Hunger Games were great, and Angels and Demons was one of my favorites.
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I love your Top Ten Tuesday list for so many reasons!!! I love technology myself, I'm such a tech-geek and I love having the latest phones, latest anything tech/gadgets, secondly I love the books you mentioned and I love, love, love how you did the graphics, did you diy these? Are they hard to do?
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Thank you, and yes I'm a tech geek myself!
Yes, I did the graphics myself. It's pretty easy to do, converting the font into overlay on top of a book cover and ta-da!
Now you have to read Pivot Point! 😉
Great choices! I love a lot of the books on your list this week! 🙂
Wooo great topic and great book picks! I love Divergent, THG, Dan Brown… Have yet to read some others you listed. Great picks! 🙂
Ooh, this is a great topic and list – and love the graphics to go with it =) I love reading about technology in books too, it's always so exciting, especially when you think that we might have it one day. Although of course, there are some things we DON'T want from dystopian novels… D=
This is a cool idea, and something I definitely wouldn't have thought of doing by myself. I'm going to add Cinder to your list XD Mostly because it has some of the coolest technology I've read. It makes me want to be a cyborg. Then again, I've always wanted to be a robot-human hybrid…
Love THG and Divergent! Pivot Point has been on my TBR pile for a while- I really need to read it!
Sara at The Page Sage
What an unique setting! Definitely agree with you on Pivot Point and Divergent; they are both so techy! ;D
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Brilliant list! I've read a few of these, would be trying to read the rest if it weren't for all the unfinished books already on my plate.