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M.T. Anderson


Born
in Stow, Massachusetts, The United States
November 04, 1968

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Matthew Tobin Anderson (M. T. Anderson), (1968- ) is an author, primarily of picture books for children and novels for young adults. Anderson lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

His picture books include Handel Who Knew What He Liked; Strange Mr. Satie; The Serpent Came to Gloucester; and Me, All Alone, at the End of the World. He has written such young adult books as Thirsty, Burger Wuss, Feed, The Game of Sunken Places, and Octavian Nothing. For middle grader readers, his novels include Whales on Stilts: M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales and its sequel, The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen.
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Average rating: 3.64 · 146,208 ratings · 21,475 reviews · 36 distinct worksSimilar authors
Feed

3.55 avg rating — 67,818 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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The Pox Party (The Astonish...

3.55 avg rating — 16,041 ratings — published 2006
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Symphony for the City of th...

4.35 avg rating — 6,435 ratings — published 2015 — 17 editions
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The Daughters of Ys

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3.83 avg rating — 7,222 ratings — published 2020 — 12 editions
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The Assassination of Brangw...

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4.11 avg rating — 4,238 ratings — published 2018 — 18 editions
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Nicked

3.62 avg rating — 4,386 ratings — published 2024 — 9 editions
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Landscape with Invisible Hand

3.56 avg rating — 4,237 ratings — published 2017 — 17 editions
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The Kingdom on the Waves (T...

3.73 avg rating — 3,992 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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Thirsty

3.24 avg rating — 4,313 ratings — published 1997 — 21 editions
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Elf Dog and Owl Head

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3.89 avg rating — 2,112 ratings — published 2023 — 12 editions
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The Pox Party The Kingdom on the Waves
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3.59 avg rating — 20,033 ratings

Whales on Stilts The Clue of the Linoleum Le... Jasper Dash and the Flame-P... Agent Q, or The Smell of Da... Zombie Mommy He Laughed with His Other M...
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3.72 avg rating — 3,317 ratings

The Game of Sunken Places The Suburb Beyond the Stars Empire of Gut and Bone The Chamber in the Sky
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3.45 avg rating — 1,811 ratings

Quotes by M.T. Anderson  (?)
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“There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.”
M.T. Anderson, Whales on Stilts: M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales

“We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”
M. T. Anderson, Feed

“We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.”
M. T. Anderson, Feed

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Vote on a book to discuss in January. As always, read as soon as you want, and we'll begin discussing on the first of January. I'd recommend putting a library hold now on any books that appeal to you. Please vote only if you'll return to discuss if your choice wins. Happy voting!
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Ashfall by Mike Mullin
YA, supervolcano
2011, 476 pages, 3.97 rating
$7.99 Kindle, used paperback from $7.68



"Under the bubbling hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone National Park is a supervolcano. Most people don't know it's there. The caldera is so large that it can only be seen from a plane or satellite. It just could be overdue for an eruption, which would change the landscape and climate of our planet.

For Alex, being left alone for the weekend means having the freedom to play computer games and hang out with his friends without hassle from his mother. Then the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, plunging his hometown into a nightmare of darkness, ash, and violence. Alex begins a harrowing trek to search for his family and finds help in Darla, a travel partner he meets along the way. Together they must find the strength and skills to survive and outlast an epic disaster."
 
  20 votes, 30.3%

When the English Fall by David Williams
2017, 242 pages, 3.71 stars
$9.04 Kindle, cheap used paperback, at library



"When a catastrophic solar storm brings about the collapse of modern civilization, an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath. Once-bright skies are now dark. Planes have plummeted to the ground. The systems of modern life have crumbled. With their stocked larders and stores of supplies, the Amish are unaffected at first. But as the English (the Amish name for all non-Amish people) become more and more desperate, they begin to invade Amish farms, taking whatever they want and unleashing unthinkable violence on the peaceable community.

Seen through the diary of an Amish farmer named Jacob as he tries to protect his family and his way of life, When the English Fall examines the idea of peace in the face of deadly chaos: Should members of a nonviolent society defy their beliefs and take up arms to defend themselves? And if they don’t, can they survive?

David Williams’s debut novel is a thoroughly engrossing look into the closed world of the Amish, as well as a thought-provoking examination of “civilization” and what remains if the center cannot hold."
 
  17 votes, 25.8%

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
1935, 380 pages, 3.77 stars
$1.99 Kindle, cheap used, at libraries



"The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression when America was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a President who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, rampant promiscuity, crime, and a liberal press. Now finally back in print, It Can't Happen Here remains uniquely important, a shockingly prescient novel that's as fresh and contemporary as today's news."
 
  12 votes, 18.2%

Severance by Ling Ma
2018, 304 pages, 3.71 stars
$13.99 Kindle, from $17 for paper, might be at larger library



"An offbeat office novel turns apocalyptic satire as a young woman transforms from orphan to worker bee to survivor

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend.

So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies halt operations. The subways squeak to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.

Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?

A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive."
 
  9 votes, 13.6%

Feed by M.T. Anderson
2004, 308 pages, 3.54 stars
$7.99 Kindle, cheap used, at some libraries



"Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains.

For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world — and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now."
 
  8 votes, 12.1%

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