Impostors: Scott Westerfeld

Impostors updates the dystopia of the Uglies series for a modern audience. Instead of focusing purely on beauty standards, it focuses on the rise of the surveillance state. Walls, checkpoints, and biometric scanning are rampant. The book critiques how governments use fear (of the "uncivilized" outside world) to justify total control over citizens.

Set several years after the "mind-rain" (the events of the Uglies series that ended the Prettytime), the world is no longer a utopia. Cities are fortresses, and the wilderness between them is dangerous. impostors scott westerfeld

The story follows Frey and Rafi, identical twin sisters who live in the city-state of Shreve. While Rafi was raised to be the perfect, charming daughter and heir to their tyrannical father’s empire, Frey is a ghost . Impostors updates the dystopia of the Uglies series