Chaos Walking is a young adult science fiction series written by Patrick Ness. It is set in a dystopian world where all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise. The three novels feature two adolescents, Todd Hewitt and Viola Eade, who encounter various moral issues and high stakes as the planet around them erupts into war.
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Chaos Walking is a young adult science fiction series written by Patrick Ness. It is set in a dystopian world where all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise. The three novels feature two adolescents, Todd Hewitt and Viola Eade, who encounter various moral issues and high stakes as the planet around them erupts into war. The series has won almost every major children’s fiction award in the UK, including the 2008 Guardian award, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and the Costa Children’s Book Award. Ness claims that the idea for Chaos Walking came from how information overload affects youth, and how most fictional talking dogs \”never actually talk like… I think dogs would actually talk\”. Ness planned the series as a trilogy from the start, deciding to theme Knife about flight, Ask about tyranny and Monsters about war. In the final book of the trilogy, a world-ending war erupts as three armies march into New Prentisstown. Ness has published three short stories set in the world of Chaos Walking: The New World, The Wide, Wide, and Snowscape.
Each story is intended to be read as a companion piece to the novels: The Knife of Never Letting Go; The Wide Of The Sea; The Ask and the Answer; and The Return. The short stories were included in the 2013 UK editions of the novels, and are a prequel to the events that led up to the trilogy. The novels have been praised for its handling of themes such as gender politics, redemption, the meaning of war and the unclear distinction between good and evil, all threaded through its complex, fast-paced narrative. The first novel is narrated entirely by Todd, the second is told through the viewpoints of both Todd and viola and the third book is narrated byTodd, Viola and The return. The trilogy was first published as a free download on 29 June 2009; The wide of the sea was published for free online on 16 May 2013; The Answer and the Wide Wide Sea were published online for free on June 16 2013. The Return was published as an online free download in June 2013.
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