Extras

Three years after the cure, the world has traded beauty for fame. Fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse wants to climb the face rank and chases the Sly Girls, mag-lev surfers. With them she finds a secret room full of metal cylinders, which her friend Ren works out is a mass driver that could attack the city. Aya breaks the story, gets famous and receives a warning from Tally: run. Tally, Shay and Fausto show up, and the group is captured by strange beings. They call themselves Extras, mine metal to slow human expansion and build rockets. In the end, Aya, Frizz, Hiro and Ren are global celebrities, and the book stops before the party's exploding cake.

1. Behind the scenesA satire of fame

   James Hynes, in The New York Times, called Extras a brilliant parody of the modern obsession with fame. Aya's face rank goes from 451,369 to 3 over the book.

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2. Behind the scenesWhere the title comes from

   Extras comes from the movie extras of the Rusty era. In the book, the word picks up a second meaning, short for extraterrestrial.

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