Pills and Starships [Paperback]

Winner of the 2015 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People

Named a 2015 Green Earth Honor Book by the Nature Generation

Pills and Starships, the first young adult novel by Lydia Millet, offers one thrillingly scary scenario...There is much here to enjoy.
--Washington Post

Named a Best Book of 2014 byTeaching for Change

One ofThe Independent's Best Books for Children This Christmas

A deep read, but fast; it lingers in your mind long after it's been read.
--New York Journal of Books

In the remaining wilderness of the Big Island, though, lurk people and terrain that may or may not spell constructive revolution and optimism for Sam, Nat and the planet's leftovers. Risk-takers both, they have decisions to make.
--Center for Fiction, Junior edition

Named a Book that Buzzed at ALA byLibrary Journal's Barbara Hoffert

One ofThe Airship/Black Balloon Publishing's 50 Must-Reads for Summer!

One ofMissoulian/Corridor's Summer Reading Guide picks!

Millet's dense novel has more in common with philosophy than with fantasy...Millet, never a writer to settle into predictable patterns, manages to find beauty in ugly places...this is the best thing about Millet's work: it makes you notice the small details of the natural world, makes you recognize those details as holy.
--The Rumpus

Lydia Millet offers a brilliant dystopian novel that eclipses all others written for Young Adults with this beautifully written, dark but ultimately hopeful tale.
--The Buffalo News

If your summer goal is to start taking better care of the environment (a goal inspired, perhaps, by a trip to one of New York's trash-laden beaches), grab a book that explores a world devastated by global warming:Pills and Starshipsby Lydia Millet.
--The Airship/Blacklă5