The World Lost

an amazing voice on July 1 of this year.  Walter Dean Myers went Home.  On a Clear Day comes out in September and so it will be the first Myers book published after his passing.  That sounds odd, I mean, it has to be the last one as well, right? But there is rumor that there are more Myers books out there, and that they will be published posthumously also.  I can't find where I read that, but I swear I did!
Myers once said, "I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head."
On a Clear Day was a tough book for me.  I just couldn't really get into it.  I mean, it was well written and it was full of good stuff and thought-provoking stuff.  It is set in the near future, but man, I think that a lot of the bad guys in this book, the multi-national corporations who really run the world and run it with their bottom line as the only thing of any importance, I think that they are more real than we would dare to believe.  Yes, yes, yes, I am a big conspiracy theorist.  But I do think that money makes folks do evil things. And I do think that greed corrupts and so I found this book not to hard to believe.
I didn't really like any of the characters though, but I think that if this was going to be a series, I would have read the next one.  It was just too intriguing not to.
Ah...but now WDM is gone...so I don't think that will be happening.  But it is something I will want to ask him about for sure.