Cinder

Which brings us to section four, rewriting the myths, cyborgs, curses, and lost civilizations.

We are looking at Marissa Meyer's Cinder and A.T. Emerald's Under the Iron Sky.

Right.

These authors take foundational narratives like fairy tales and myths and run them through a science fiction filter.

Let's start with Cinder.

Cinder is a direct reimagining of Cinderella.

But instead of a soot-covered girl in a village, Cinder is a teenage cyborg mechanic.

Living in New Beijing, a futuristic city.

We are messy, violent, and completely contradictory, and that conflict between human messiness and artificial innocence is the perfect bridge into our next two books, which deal with the societal oppression of artificial beings.

We have Cassandra Rose Clarke's The Mad Scientist's Daughter and Marissa Meyer's Cinder.

These two novels take the concept of artificial life out of the laboratory and place it squarely into the geopolitical and social arenas.

But they connect via the theme of forbidden love under political pressure, just on entirely different scales.

It's incredibly personal.

Now, take that exact same theme, the societal rejection of the artificial, and scale the conflict up to an intergalactic level.

That is Marissa Meyer's Cinder.

Cinder is basically Star Wars meets Cinderella.

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Cinder, and then I can't remember what book two is.

I actually really enjoyed them.

And-

... story, but it's, like, all in the same universe.

Yeah.

Um, and the first one, obviously Cinder, it kind of is a Cinderella retelling-

Mm-hmm

A boundary widely supported by critical consensus.

The second highly controversial inclusion is Marissa Meyer's 2012 debut, Cinder.

This represents a radical tonal departure.

It really does.

It's essentially a cyberpunk retelling of the Cinderella fairy tale.

Our protagonist, Cinder, is a teenage cyborg mechanic living in New Beijing.

A very cool concept.

Oh, yeah.

Have either of you read that one?

I have read Marissa Meyer's, her other, Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, and then fell off on Winter.

But I do like her writing style, and hers, that's a series that I've always intended to get back to.

She's cool.

And I got to meet her at a book signing once, and you know, she's great.

She's really awesome.

What I thought was so cool about those Cinder books is that she wrote those as part of NaNoWriMo.

Oh, that's right.

It's been done for a long time.

But if you're looking for just a fun take on the fairy tale, but also dystopian, in the future, it's still a semblance of our geography and our countries and stuff, because there's still... a version of America and just you know it's an alternative reality basically that the main girl is Cinderella but she's a cyborg and it's just a really fun story you get to go on these adventures and each book follows a different character or adds a different character however you still are connected with your original Cinder she's the main person you know what I mean

yeah i noticed that she pops up in the um like little blurbs

yeah she she is the main character of this story um but each one kind of gains a new person and a new um pov throughout the book so i really liked it and it is young adult so it is appropriate for your younger readers out there But as a 32 year old, it's still very much an enjoyable read.

So, yeah, that's mine.

Oh, I never said the author.

It's the Lunar Chronicles Cinder by Marissa Meyer.

Nice.