The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Review).

Where the divide of society is those who have all the luxiries of good food and pleasant amenities and those that struggle to make ends meet. We find society at the Capital of Panem (previously known as North America), a thriving society that takes delight in the common members of other districts watching them compete, the winners inside an arena consisting of 2 competitors from each district, fight within the arena to the death. The irony in all of this is to consider the rich civilized, and the poor struggling to make it need to compete for the former's amusement. Peeta (the baker's son) and Katniss (the coalminer's daughter) have been selected from District 12 to compete in the arena.  What start's out as a romance and a competition, fighting for survival against another 22 tributes from various districts. Together they pool their survival resources and abilities. Disliking the whole-thing from the beginning. Winning promises the same fate that those have already established themselves in this world. The gamemakers make the rules, and allow (at first) for there to be 2 winners in the arena, and later to be revoked of this rule, the two manage to take out the other tributes in various methods of sabotage and trickery. As winners they find themself covering each other up and goind along with what the "civilized" observers conceive as a good story. Finds to be an enjoyable read all around. There's not a hint of the old stereotype of traditional North America, but a modern anomaly worth delving into of priceless Science Fiction.

The Necronaut by Michael R. Pilinski (Review).

From a tragic accident the antagonist Justin and Leah, skydiving one-day... What starts out as Justin being held under life-support at a conventional hospital, Doctors Luthor and Diana Cain solicit Leah and offers Justin an alternative to conventional life-support. Leah reluctantly agreeing to let the Cain's experiment with her husband, they proceed to put them into their scientific experiement through a procedure called "biostatis", where a computer system with a wordly capacity gathers Justin's conscious state inside a torus, with all of the encoding mechanisms and hyper-scientific lingo involved, while his body is maintained in a frozen state (time stood still), this Electro-Conscious Entity could be transferred between torus's and manipulated by scientist assuming they have the same "copied" technology. The Cain's were able to acquire the necessary equipment through the National Security Agency, and as conspiracies unfold, the death of Luthor, Leah's desire to be with her husband again, and the transformation of Justin's Electro-conscious existence made the Science Fiction read incredibly complicated on many levels, but in a very strange sort of way believable to the science fiction imagination. Mr. Pilinski makes fiction look believable within this book, you would have to read between the lines, and have some kind of quantum-electro and psychological background to prove that this story is truly fiction, separating the believable from the unbelievable. Hard to follow at times, lost in the psycho-technical babble, but still a delightful story and a suitable ending.