The Captain Lands in Paradise


Sarah Manguso - 2002
    The voice is consistently spare, honest, understated, and eccentric.

Invitation to the Game


Monica Hughes - 1991
    Lisse and her friends are unemployable after graduation, but the government gives them an abandoned warehouse in a bleak neighborhood to live in. Anxious to escape their dreary lives, the friends embrace The Game, which takes them to paradise. But is this world real or only a computer simulation?