In Uglies (2005), Tally explains it like this, as she looks out at New Pretty Town: “Asymmmetries, deformities: the faces here were a far cry from the regularity of the Compounds. In Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam series, Glenn is startled by the faces he sees when Crake takes him out of the Compounds for the first time: The actual epigraph to the first part of Uglies is from Yang Yuan” “Is it not good to make society full of beautiful people?”
It has swelled to four volumes (as well as two graphic novels, a handbook, and a book of essays), and introduces an assembly cast which sprawls and burrows as readers turn the pages. This is true not only when it comes to the reasons that authors write, but readers experience a similar sense of weaving with Westerfeld’s series. One story inspired by another one story nests within another. At the beginning of the novel, where an epigraph might appear, is a note from the author, explaining that Uglies was shaped by a series of email exchanges between Scott Westerfeld and author Ted Chiang about his story “Liking What You See: A Documentary”.Īt the end of Ted Chiang’s collection Stories of Your Life, the author explains that he was inspired by a study conducted by psychologists, who “left” a college application in an airport and discovered that people were more likely to mail in the “forgotten” application if the photo included was of an attractive person.
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