These city-states were established after 98% of the human population was killed by a bacteria epidemic. The one that Tally lives in is located somewhere in what used to be southern California. In this version of reality, there is a new society of independently run city-states scattered helter-skelter across the seven continents. On first glance this doesn’t seem all that strange-what girl doesn’t anxiously await her sixteenth birthday? However, then Westerfeld shows us the details of the setting of the dystopia Tally lives in. Here we are introduced to the protagonist: Tally, a 15-year-old girl anxiously awaiting her sixteenth birthday. The first novel in The Uglies series shares this title and was originally published back in 2005. Perhaps most famous of all of his series, however, is also one of his oldest and, perhaps, the most fiercely dystopian: The Uglies series. Over the years, Scott Westerfeld has more than made a name for himself in the genre of Young Adult (YA) novels, most recently with the Leviathan trilogy, which is essentially a steampunk retelling of World War I-complete with piloting large walking machines and living airships!
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