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media type="custom" key="7802511" __ Extras __ The book extras was written by Scott Westerfeld and the book left me hanging at the end of ever chapter. This book takes place in the far future and it astonished me with all the high tech, futuristic things that he thought of. This book is the fourth of the series and I have read all four. I am upset that the series is finally over. Extras is about a girl named Aya Fuse, she lives in a world where the most important thing is to be famous, or so she thinks. Her city is full of hovercams gathering the gossip, kickers putting all the new stories on the national feeds, and tech heads creating new technologies every day. Her world is about face rank and hers is a lousy 49,942, the closer you can get to #1, the more famous you are. Aya thinks she is stuck in the background forever until she witnesses five girls surfing on one of the fastest trains ever created, if she could kick them, she would be famous. The girls she sees on the train are the Sly girls. They pull amazing tricks and take crazy risks, but all as a secret. Aya becomes one of them, but knowing the whole time she will betray them and kick their precious little tricks. And she does. Little does she know that this could get her into a heap of trouble. You will have to read the book to find out what happens next. Scott Westerfeld has created a whole new world in the future and it always compels me to keep reading. his characters are always easy to connect to, and his writing is always intriguing. The world that we live in now is also mentioned in the book. They call us the Rusties, people who lived in a peaceful world with happy families and a controlled government. According to the history books we eventually overpopulated and destroyed each other city by city. To keep from that disaster happening again, they began to wash peoples brains and keep them stupid so the world would never be overtaken again. One thing that I loved about this book is that everything is different. There are so many things that you learn in this book,and it gives you a picture of what the world could be like in the future. My favorite invention that he thought up was the hover board. You could jump on it and go anywhere you wanted. Like a miniature car. Another invention that I loved was the hover cam. It followed you everywhere and took pictures and videos of whatever you wanted it to. When the book starts you can tell that Aya is shy and insecure, but as the book goes on she becomes more confident. After she meets the Sly Girls she becomes more brave and accepts more and more risky challenges. There are many reasons that this book is the one to read, but the main one is that it makes you think. You start thinking of inventions and different ways to handle society so that we dont turn into the Rusties. Also, the book was so filled with action that I had fun reading it, but there were other times where you could really connect with the main character. I think that this book was great and I would definitely reccomend it to anyone who is looking for a good scinece fiction book, or any book in general! I loved this book and I think you will too.