@booklet {9079, title = {Scythe}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {448 pp.}, publisher = {Simon \& Schuster BFYR}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Young adult dystopia in which a very long-lived society has a cadre of people, the Scythe, who randomly chose people to be gleaned to keep the population in check. First volume of a series, followed by Thunderhead. Arc of a Scythe Book 2. New York: Simon \& Schuster BYFR, 2018. 512 pp., in which there are disputes over the morality of the gleaning and the Thunderhead, a virtually omniscient AI, is expected to intervene but doesn\’t; followed by The Toll: Arc of the Scythe Book 3. New York: Simon \& Schuster BFYR, 2019. 626 pp. where the Scythe has become a dictatorship with unrestricted gleaning and others struggle to overthrow the demagogue. Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe. New York: Simon \& Schuster BFYR, 2022 426 pp. collects stories and a poem by the author, his daughter and son, and others.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Neal Shusterman (b. 1962)} }