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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- ChangePeris gets bigger on screen
In the book, Peris stays Pretty in the city and nearly drops out of the story. In the movie, he becomes a soldier, hunts Tally and dies when David throws him off a building.
source ↗ - ChangeWho kills David's father
In the book, Maddy reveals after the rescue that Az died at the city's hands. In the movie, Peris kills David's father during the raid on the Smoke.
source ↗ - ChangeOil in the book, orchids in the movie
In the book, the old world fell when a bacterium contaminated the oil. In the movie, resources ran out and the city runs on modified orchids that harm nature.
source ↗ - ChangeThe refusal switches sides
In the book, Shay turns down the cure and Tally volunteers out of guilt. In the movie, David's mother is the one who won't use the cure on Shay. The book ends with Tally asking to be made Pretty; the movie, with the scar still on her hand.
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- Behind the scenesA dictionary for the slang
Pretty slang like bubbly and bogus got its own guide in 2008: Bogus to Bubbly, an insider's manual to the Uglies world by Westerfeld himself.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe middle book split critics
Horn Book Magazine said Pretties has typical middle-book problems but praised the world and Tally. In 2014, The Guardian called it excellent.
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- Behind the scenesIt was meant to be the end
Uglies started as a trilogy, and Specials closed Tally's story. A year later, Westerfeld went back to that world with Extras.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe Cutters got a comic
In 2012, the Cutters clique got its own graphic novel, Uglies: Cutters, by Westerfeld with Devin Grayson and art by Steven Cummings.
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- 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.
source ↗ - 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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- Behind the scenesFour new books at once
In 2018, Westerfeld announced a new four-book series in the Uglies world. Impostors opened it, now from Scholastic Press.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesNew lead, same world
The series is set after Tally's revolution and follows Frey, raised as the body double of her twin, Rafi.
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- Behind the scenesA one-year wait
Shatter City came out in 2019, a year after Impostors, again from Scholastic Press, at 406 pages.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesNo translation yet
Unlike Impostors, Shatter City has no Portuguese or Spanish edition in the author's edition catalog, so the site keeps the original title.
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- Behind the scenesThe shortest of the series
At 336 pages, Mirror's Edge is the shortest of the four Impostors books. The others top 400.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe longest wait
Two years passed between Shatter City (2019) and Mirror's Edge (2021), the biggest gap in the series.
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- ReferenceThe title is her last name
Youngbloods echoes Tally Youngblood's last name. She comes back as a lead next to Frey, tying the two series together.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe longest Impostors book
At 422 pages, Youngbloods is the longest in the series and came out in 2022 from Scholastic Press.
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