Feed
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., National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson creates a not-so-brave new world—and a smart, savage satire ushering us into an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.
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A near-future America where almost everyone is born with a brain implant called the feed. On a moon spring break, teenager Titus meets a girl named Violet whose feed gets hacked and never quite recovers.
Multiple novels share this title. The most commonly searched is Feed by M.T. Anderson (2002), a YA dystopian novel about teens with internet feeds wired into their brains. Another widely searched is Feed by Mira Grant (2010), the first in her Newsflesh post-zombie trilogy.
M.T. Anderson's Feed is a YA novel about consumerism, teens, and brain-implanted internet. Mira Grant's Feed is an adult horror-political-thriller about bloggers covering a post-zombie America. They share only a title.
Feed is 299 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Feed takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
Feed is a standalone novel by M. T. Anderson, not part of a series.
Feed is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
