SW: There was a part of the Tripods series, where when you turn 16 you get capped – you get this plate put in your head, which is supposedly a sign you’re a man or an adult, and of course it turns out to be a terrible thing – and I pretty much ripped that off from John Christopher in the Uglies. Were you inspired more by modern day things you wanted to take aim at, or did it come from that old love of dystopia? So I grew up with those and I think those were the first dystopian/post apocalyptic type of thing I read.īyrt: With the Uglies, you were taking on fun things in terms of modern culture – our obsession with celebrity and our obsession with beauty. Those were totally formative for me (it was the same kind of thing: civilization has fallen, there are evil alien overlords).
SW: I think the first kind of post-apocalyptic-y book I read – which is not the same as dystopian, but kind of the same – is the Tripods series by John Christopher. (But I should probably warn you – after four days of Comic-con-ing, my brain matter was virtually leaking out my ears, so I’m a bit of an idiot in this interview…)īyrt: Scott, you were writing dystopian before it really became the new hot thing, so how did you first discover it? When did you first fall in love with dystopian? Way back at Comic-con 2011, Scott Westerfeld graciously allowed me to corner him at the last possible moment – on the last day, after his last signing, literally minutes before they turned off the lights – to talk all things Uglies and more.
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