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The New World (Chaos Walking 0.5)
by
Patrick Ness
In this dramatic prequel to the award-winning Chaos Walking Trilogy, author Patrick Ness gives us a short story of Viola's journey to the New World.
Kindle Edition, 24 pages
Published
September 27th 2010
by Candlewick Press
(first published August 24th 2009)
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last quickie, i promise...
after this, i will stay for breakfast and all that. meet the folks.
this is a tiny story, filling in the gaps of viola's life before crash-landing in the swamp, meeting todd, and having terrible and wonderful adventures. it's kind of heartbreaking, seeing her here, and knowing what lies ahead for her, you know? it's nice to get a sense of her family dynamic before she is so roughly removed from it, but i can't help myself from wanting a whole lot more from these characte...more
after this, i will stay for breakfast and all that. meet the folks.
this is a tiny story, filling in the gaps of viola's life before crash-landing in the swamp, meeting todd, and having terrible and wonderful adventures. it's kind of heartbreaking, seeing her here, and knowing what lies ahead for her, you know? it's nice to get a sense of her family dynamic before she is so roughly removed from it, but i can't help myself from wanting a whole lot more from these characte...more
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I read the first book of the Chaos Walking series and too bad I did not like it. When I saw the free e-book in Barnes and Noble I did not hesitate to download it because I want to read it again, give it a chance it deserves. So far, I like how Viola Eade survive before their adventure begun. It was a great mystery in the beginning of the book and this answered everything I need to know about Viola.
I did not like Will Todd and how he approach the whole journey, I don't know how he survive by hidi...more
I did not like Will Todd and how he approach the whole journey, I don't know how he survive by hidi...more
Somehow, I missed the memo that Patrick Ness wrote a short story prequel for his Chaos Walking Trilogy. I didn't hear about it until this week, when a former co-worker mentioned that she'd picked up the books, hoping they'd continue the story about Viola's life on a generation ship. As you might know, generation ships are a subject near and dear to my heart. I'd also been somewhat frustrated by Viola's sparse characterization in The Knife of Never Letting Go (admittedly, the only Chaos Walking b...more
Oct 23, 2010
Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!*
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Shelves:
dystopia,
5-star-books,
free-books,
on-my-kindle,
young-adult,
made-me-cry,
sci-fi,
futuristic
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This short story is about Viola's trip until she landed on New World.
I didn't think it was going to be like that, it's amazing!
Although i think it would've been better if it was a little bit more extended just to see more of Viola's version of the beginning.
But it was pretty fabulous, to complement the trilogy.
I didn't think it was going to be like that, it's amazing!
Although i think it would've been better if it was a little bit more extended just to see more of Viola's version of the beginning.
But it was pretty fabulous, to complement the trilogy.
Although short, Patrick Ness was able to deliver a cornucopia of emotions in thus short story. A great short story about Viola and it is as if Ness knew me personally or something, he was able to get the setting exactly the way I imagined it. Bravo and hats-off again to one of my favourite author.
Set before the events of The Chaos Walking Trilogy, The New World is a fabulous short story that makes for a great introduction to the series. I loved Chaos Walking Trilogy. I don't think I've ever read a better YA trilogy. EVER.
Patrick Ness is a wonderful storyteller. His writing is electrifying and insanely compelling. I recommend this short story, as well as The Chaos Walking Trilogy, to not only every YA fan out there, but to everyone who enjoys great books, filled with well-drawn character...more
Patrick Ness is a wonderful storyteller. His writing is electrifying and insanely compelling. I recommend this short story, as well as The Chaos Walking Trilogy, to not only every YA fan out there, but to everyone who enjoys great books, filled with well-drawn character...more
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Oct 05, 2010
I'm Your Ramen Eating Mate ~~~~ The Rogue
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Anyone over the age of 12
Recommended to I'm Your Ramen Eating Mate ~~~~ by:
My Goodread Buddies XD
Shelves:
2010-read
This is a short story of how Viola Eade arrived at New World.
It was really cute and short but everything that happened was anything but cute. I was really sad but not quite depressed.
I'll try not to spoil.
Ok
The part in the first book where Todd describes Violas parents deaths and how they just lay there. To be honest, I could care less. But after reading that part from Viola's point of view, it was astonishing. I mean, how would you feel if you've just entered a different PLANET and just saw you...more
It was really cute and short but everything that happened was anything but cute. I was really sad but not quite depressed.
I'll try not to spoil.
Ok
The part in the first book where Todd describes Violas parents deaths and how they just lay there. To be honest, I could care less. But after reading that part from Viola's point of view, it was astonishing. I mean, how would you feel if you've just entered a different PLANET and just saw you...more
All that I wanted to know about Viola's and her parents' life before crashing on the alien planet (New world). At the end you are kept wondering about Viola's situation. But the story was too short :( I want MORE!
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This was a free audiobook on Audible. Only about 45 minutes long.
The story was interesting. I'm looking forward to finishing the series.
The story was interesting. I'm looking forward to finishing the series.
This is one of relatively few free shorts aimed as prequels that I have read that actually really made me want to read the first book in the series. Preferably quite soon.
Only part of that is due to the things lest unresolved - otherwise . . . I really did get to know Viola, and very well, for such a short span of pages that also let me know so much about her world and her family.
Viola is a very believable young woman (not quite a teenager, but definitely showing those years are coming) who not...more
Only part of that is due to the things lest unresolved - otherwise . . . I really did get to know Viola, and very well, for such a short span of pages that also let me know so much about her world and her family.
Viola is a very believable young woman (not quite a teenager, but definitely showing those years are coming) who not...more
Shamefully enough, I've never read the Chaos Walking series. It's on the list - very high up the list - so I will get to it, but that means that this is my first taste of this story.
Other reviews have complained that this is too short a glimpse of Viola's world prior to The Knife Of Never Letting Go. That may be the case - it certainly is a very short story - but personally, having never been exposed to these characters or this world, this worked perfectly as a prologue for me. I can understand...more
Other reviews have complained that this is too short a glimpse of Viola's world prior to The Knife Of Never Letting Go. That may be the case - it certainly is a very short story - but personally, having never been exposed to these characters or this world, this worked perfectly as a prologue for me. I can understand...more
Patrick Ness is a new author to me. I "bought" this book via Kindle for free. Kind of a great price, since I didn't know if I'd enjoy it. I did, though.
The story follows a family (mum, dad, daughter) as they are scouting a new planet for their people to inhabit. Daughter doesn't want to go, mostly because she's a teenager and unfathomably pessimistic about most things, as teens are wont to be. As they land, there are some problems, resulting in daughter being alone on the new planet with nothin...more
The story follows a family (mum, dad, daughter) as they are scouting a new planet for their people to inhabit. Daughter doesn't want to go, mostly because she's a teenager and unfathomably pessimistic about most things, as teens are wont to be. As they land, there are some problems, resulting in daughter being alone on the new planet with nothin...more
This is a prequel that will leave you rapidly turning pages and immediately wanting more. After generations of space travel, a family takes a first look at the world that their ancestors had set out to settle. Why did the original settlers never contact their home world? Are they down on the planet? What will they find when they get there? This has me itching for an answer to what's on the new planet as much as A Million Suns has me longing to see the new planet in the upcoming Shades of Earth....more
I didn't realize this free short story was part of a series. I just got it because I was looking for something quick to read.
It is based on many, many years in the future. A spaceship carries generations of families. Some were born on the ship and many had died on the ship from living a full life. They are on route to a new world and it is up to the main character, Viola, and her parents to scope out the new land before anyone else. Viola doesn’t seem happy about the idea but there is nothing sh...more
It is based on many, many years in the future. A spaceship carries generations of families. Some were born on the ship and many had died on the ship from living a full life. They are on route to a new world and it is up to the main character, Viola, and her parents to scope out the new land before anyone else. Viola doesn’t seem happy about the idea but there is nothing sh...more
An interesting prequel. It gave me a whole different idea of where this series is about than from reading the blurb of the first book and now I am wonderign whether this prequel is meant to be read before the first book or not. Well nothing I can do about now.
We get a short overview of what the world is, what the past is and at the end we still have no clue what's going to happen. It did picked my interest and I am looking forward to reading the first book. Although there was one thing that got...more
We get a short overview of what the world is, what the past is and at the end we still have no clue what's going to happen. It did picked my interest and I am looking forward to reading the first book. Although there was one thing that got...more
This was super, super short and really wasn't anything terribly exciting. Yes it explained a little bit more about Viola and her ship but when I say a little I really mean a little. Other than that there just wasn't a whole lot going on.
We meet Viola on her ship where she lives with other new settlers which include her parents. For some reason she's going through what is basically an adolescent tantrum stage where she hates her parents and the fact that they've been chosen to be on the scout sh...more
We meet Viola on her ship where she lives with other new settlers which include her parents. For some reason she's going through what is basically an adolescent tantrum stage where she hates her parents and the fact that they've been chosen to be on the scout sh...more
I really enjoyed this short story. I'll be honest, haven't read anything by Ness before including the series this prequel goes with. I picked it up to see if I liked his writing style to see if I should even consider reading the series. Went out and bought the first book for my Kindle minutes after finishing this story.
I enjoyed his style and how the story jumped between the present and past. I've read some authors who butchered this writing style, but Ness succeeded.
As a stand alone, I think th...more
I enjoyed his style and how the story jumped between the present and past. I've read some authors who butchered this writing style, but Ness succeeded.
As a stand alone, I think th...more
Viola's family, against expectation, are the first to be allowed to touch down on the New World. The first to see real land, the first to breath real air, the first to stand on static ground. For her parents, it's pure excitement, as they're a symbol of hope. For twelve-year-old Viola, though, the sentiment is not shared. She'll be taken away from her friends, her school, everything she's known. Even her thirteenth birthday will be spent alone.
And maybe Viola's concerns are worth listening to. B...more
And maybe Viola's concerns are worth listening to. B...more
As some of you know, I am a fan of Patrick Ness. He is one of my favourite authors and I even met him last summer at a book signing (See here).
For those of you who have NO IDEA who this man is. Well. He wrote the Chaos Walking trilogy, considering of The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer & Monsters of Men, which are all pretty big over here in the UK. He also recently penned A Monster Calls which was based on a plot summary by the late YA author, Siobhan Dowd, who died of can...more
For those of you who have NO IDEA who this man is. Well. He wrote the Chaos Walking trilogy, considering of The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer & Monsters of Men, which are all pretty big over here in the UK. He also recently penned A Monster Calls which was based on a plot summary by the late YA author, Siobhan Dowd, who died of can...more
Dramatic prequel to "The Knife of Letting Go" and the collective "Chaos Walking" Trilogy. This was my introduction to Patrick Ness some time ago when I downloaded this for free as an Amazon Kindle purchase. This short story tells of how Viola, one of the main characters in the Trilogy, arrives to the new world for the very first time, and the range of emotions and experiences she goes through during that time. It's quite sad, and I certainly felt for Viola's character even more when reading this...more
The New World
is a quick and short read, only 23 pages, and tells about the life of Viola and her parents before they landed in New World. I have only just recently explored the dystopian-fiction genre and so the futuristic theme takes quite a while getting used to, but the simple, engaging prose makes it easier for me to adapt to the “New World scene”.
I have grown to love Viola in The Knife and reading The New World , which is told through Viola’s voice, is very refreshing. The New World begi...more
I have grown to love Viola in The Knife and reading The New World , which is told through Viola’s voice, is very refreshing. The New World begi...more
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I read this free, short story because it's a prequel to a series I was considering to read. As I'm sure its' intent is to tease us into purchasing the rest, that isn't what it did for me.
I have read many prequels before and they truly were a tease and I would purchase the series with glee and excitement. The difference between them and this one is that the prequels I've read in the past have been books unto themselves. Even if you don't purchase the series, you've felt like you had a good read...more
I have read many prequels before and they truly were a tease and I would purchase the series with glee and excitement. The difference between them and this one is that the prequels I've read in the past have been books unto themselves. Even if you don't purchase the series, you've felt like you had a good read...more
First off, this is actually a short story which took me no time at all to devour. It came to my attention when it appeared on Amazon as a freebie (and in fact as I write is still free) The product description made it clear it's the prequel to a series but didn't hint that it's a sci-fi or a YA series.
I haven't really bought short stories and novellas in the past, maybe because in traditional tree book format I never really noticed them, but I'm trying to be more open and this is the second I've...more
I haven't really bought short stories and novellas in the past, maybe because in traditional tree book format I never really noticed them, but I'm trying to be more open and this is the second I've...more
Oct 03, 2010
Tina
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
fans of Chaos Walking series (duh), and people who are curious about the Chaos Walking series
Recommended to Tina by:
Aaron Vincent
Original post at One More Page
When Aaron tweeted about thisbook novella, I squealed inside the office. No joke. I immediately called my friend Jana from her workstation, who squealed too, and once again with me, when we found out it was free. This book was one of the reasons we disrupted the peace and quiet at the office that Friday afternoon.
It's no secret that I loved Patrick Ness' The Knife of Never Letting Go, and I was really looking forward to reading the next two books in the trilogy, es...more
When Aaron tweeted about this
It's no secret that I loved Patrick Ness' The Knife of Never Letting Go, and I was really looking forward to reading the next two books in the trilogy, es...more
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Patrick Ness wrote this short story as an introduction to his Chaos Walking series. What a wonderful way to be introduced to a new series.
The main character is Viola, 12, soon to be 13.
The scene is split between
recent past: Viola studying for her family's mission on a ship in space carrying "The Sleeping Settlers and Caretaker Families"
and current time: Viola who studied terrain for settlement purposes, her mother the best pilot in the convoy and her father an engineer, on a ship heading to t...more
The main character is Viola, 12, soon to be 13.
The scene is split between
recent past: Viola studying for her family's mission on a ship in space carrying "The Sleeping Settlers and Caretaker Families"
and current time: Viola who studied terrain for settlement purposes, her mother the best pilot in the convoy and her father an engineer, on a ship heading to t...more
Thirteen-year-old Viola has never seen a forest, a river, or the sea. As a second generation colonist and born-and-raised ship dweller, all she knows is vid, arts with Bradley, training pads and convoy life. But when her family’s chosen to be the first scouting party to land on New World, she’s torn between fear and hope. Fear because the previous settlers were never heard from again and hope because it’s all the future settlers have. What she doesn’t know is that the experience will be both hop...more
Title: "The New World"
Author: Patrick Ness
Download at: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/The-Ne...
Length: Too short! But I guess that is why it is a free ebook.
Liked: All the insight that comes in handy when you start to read the Chaos Walking Trilogy.
Disliked: The short length, but it definitely roped me into reading the rest of the series.
What empowered me: I like how intelligent the protagonist is. Even though she lives in a world of uncertainty, and faces the ultimate of challenges, she keeps u...more
Author: Patrick Ness
Download at: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/The-Ne...
Length: Too short! But I guess that is why it is a free ebook.
Liked: All the insight that comes in handy when you start to read the Chaos Walking Trilogy.
Disliked: The short length, but it definitely roped me into reading the rest of the series.
What empowered me: I like how intelligent the protagonist is. Even though she lives in a world of uncertainty, and faces the ultimate of challenges, she keeps u...more
I'm such a fan of Patrick Ness and this world he's created. This is a short, sad, peek into one of the main characters in "The Knife of Never Letting Go" before that novel begins, and I can't say what I'd think of it if I'd read this first before the book. I'm sure I'd still like it, but I don't think it'd be so heart breaking if I didn't know what was coming. And, I also like the surprise factor in "TKoNLG", and this give that away to some extent. I'd recommend reading this after the first nove...more
'The New World' is the prequel to the very popular 'Chaos Walking' Trilogy by Patrick Ness. 'The New World' tells the story of Viola and her journey to the New World (a planet which has been colonised by a small group of Christian settlers from the 'Old World') with her parents. Viola has spent her life on a spaceship where her parents are selected to return to the New World to get ready for the rest of the convoy. Viola is full of trepidation about the the trip and is very vocal with her opinio...more
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Patrick Ness, an award-winning novelist, has written for England’s Radio 4 and Sunday Telegraph and is a literary critic for The Guardian. He has written many books, including the Chaos Walking Trilogy, The Crash of Hennington, Topics About Which I Know Nothing, and A Monster Calls.
He has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and the Co...more
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He has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and the Co...more
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“The ability to make fire
at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth
against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured
vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what
eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to
start a new life on a New World.”
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at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth
against the cold, a tool to cook our food.’ He gestured
vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what
eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to
start a new life on a New World.”
“No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’
‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?”
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‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?”
