Losing Normal - Softcover

Moss, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1732791023 ISBN 13: 9781732791022

Publisher: Encelia Press, 2018

Synopsis

Winner of the 2019 Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators SPARK award!
Everyone we love, everything we know, is going away... and only an autistic boy can stop it. Alex knows exactly how many steps it takes to get from his home to Mason Middle School. This is normal.
Alex knows the answers in AP math before his teacher does, which is also normal.
Alex knows that something bad is coming out of the big screen in his special needs class. It's pushing images into his head, hurting him, making him forget. Alex pushes back, the screen explodes, and nothing is normal any more.
Giant screen televisions appear all over the city. The programming is addictive. People have to watch, but Alex cannot.
Sophie, the sentient machine behind all this, sees the millions and millions of eyeballs glued to her and calls it love. To Sophie, kids like Alex are defective. Defectives are to be fixed...or eliminated.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

"In this novel by former TV writer Moss, a teenager with Asperger's syndrome exposes a devastating corporate technology secret... Moss, who wrote for such TV shows as Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and She-Ra: Princess of Power, employs a first-person voice that's very close to that of the narrator of Mark Haddon's 2003 novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The author's attentiveness to technical details brings to mind Ernest Cline's Ready Player One (2011), although the dystopia in this novel is more fascist in tone. The story's overall pace is fast and focused...
A well plotted story that gives a voice to an offbeat protagonist."
--Kirkus Reviews
 
"LOSING NORMAL is a thrilling, fast-paced, action-packed book made even better by the fact that it is also thoughtful, provocative, fully-contemporary and funny. You will enjoy reading it, as much as I did."
--Francisco X. Stork, Author of Marcelo in the Real World
 
"LOSING NORMAL by Francis Moss is an entertaining dystopian novel that takes on the timely topics of what it means to be 'normal,' screen addiction, and the hidden perils of needing to be liked at any cost."
--Dave Sosnowski, winner of the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize & author of Happy Doomsday & Vamped
 
"Veteran scribe Francis Moss knows how to weave a page-turning tale with engaging characters, novel dangers and great imagination."--Brooks Wachtel, Emmy award-winning television writer and author of Lady Sherlock

"In Losing Normal, Francis Moss has done his research in helping the reader see strange events in the eyes of a child on the Asperger spectrum. We're taken on a thrilling adventure in a world morphing into the abnormal. Aside from a good adventure, it also helps the reader better understand those who see the world in a different perspective."
--Douglas Van Dyke, Jr., author of The Earthrin Stones trilogy

From the Back Cover

"LOSING NORMAL is superbly executed and will keep you turning the pages late into the night."
--David Estes, #1 Amazon bestselling author of Fatemarked and Slip
 
"A well plotted story that gives a voice to an offbeat protagonist."
--Kirkus Reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: Encelia Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1732791023
• ISBN 13: 9781732791022
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 264