The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, a Riveting Science Fiction Fantasy Series

Suzanne Collins, an American screenwriter and author, has written amazing science fiction and suspense books like her New York Times best-selling series The Underland Chronicles. Lately she came up with a new series of sci-fi novels, The Hunger Games – the first instalment, The Hunger Games, was published in 2008 by Scholastic Books (American publishers of Harry Potter series.



The Hunger Games is compared to The Running Man, one of the early novels of Stephen King, for the story is based on a similar subject: a cruel reality show by penniless people to entertain the wealthy. The Hunger Games takes place in a distant future, after the fall of North America, in a nation called Panem which has a sumptuous Capitol and twelve seedy districts. Once the districts’ residents rebelled against the Capitol – as a revenge, in every year they have to send a girl and a boy, from the age group of 12-18, to the Capitol. The selected youngsters have to take part a bizarre reality show: they must fight in an arena until one of them dies.
This year Katniss, a girl of sixteen, is selected – her opponent is Peeta, a schoolmate of hers who once gave her bread when her family had nothing to eat. The girl trusts her hunting and outdoor abilities to survive. Both Katniss and Peeta can stay alive for an unusually long period of time and both of them won the sympathy of the audience, which is vital for their survival…

Hunger Games, the first volume of the series of the same name, was a New York Times best-seller. According to Time Magazine, Suzanne Collins is one of the 100 most influential persons of the world.