Are you neutralise thousands of dollars in therapy unravel your dreaded upbringing ? Check out 10 science fiction ledger about kids who really had it rough , and put your issue into proportion . It ’ll be cheaper !
Germain from A Game of Universe by Eric Nylund :
Germain ’s lifetime is n’t that not bad now – he ’s an bravo who absorbs the personalities of his victims , until they all take up battle for ascendence of his body – but it thump his puerility . He was bear on a unholy satellite , and then his beginner kill his mother and whored his brother out to miner . ( He was too youthful to join his brother at the time . ) And then he accidentally killed his crony , who was in the middle of trying to rape him . Later , he freaks out over a misunderstanding and kills his wise man by mistake . Oops .
Bean in Ender ’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card :
Okay , you imagine Ender Wiggin had it bad , but what about Bean ? He was genetically enhanced to give him genial powers , but the sweetening , via “ Anton ’s Key , ” means he ’ll die at age twenty . He gets kidnapped but escapes , and becomes a street urchin on the streets of Rotterdam , where he falls in with a rough crew . And then the muscle they recruit for their mob stamp out the crowd ’s drawing card . Bean end up going to Battle School , where he ’s sucked into the fight against the Buggers .
Bertran and Nela in Sideshow by Sheri S. Tepper :
Ack ! Maria and Lesky are so desperate to have baby , she takes an unseasoned fertility drug … which leaves her with a pair of conjoined twins , who are both intersexed . ( bear with equivocal genitals . ) But Lesky is determined that at least one of his kid will be a boy , because the Virgin Mary tell him so . At Lesky ’s insistence , the doctors give one of the twins a penis and the other one a vagina , meaning that they ’ll be joined together but opposte sexes . Emeritus surgeons from the medical shoal get enroll to do the workplace , on the possibility that they ’ll be long move back or dead by the clip anybody gets around to suing . So whenever pop desire to take Bertran sportfishing or to a sports game , Nela is n’t up for it . Not to observe the fuss over which bathroom and locker way to use . Lesky realizes , far too late , that the twins are genetically identical , which means make one a boy and the other a fille was kind of a weird idea . you may read the whole thinghere .
Thorby in Citizen Of The Galaxy by Robert Heinlein :
First he ’s sold into slavery , then he ’s sold off to a blind beggar who ’s missing an weapon and a leg . But the beggar , Baslim , turns out to be a superintendent - spy , who put Thorby to work … until Baslim gets captured and kill himself before he can be interrogated . Then Thorby is ship off to a Free Trade ship , where he has to check the ropes the unvoiced way .
David Rice in Jumper by Stephen Gould :
His dad baffle his mom so hard , she wind up in the infirmary and then runs away . Leaving Davy along with his alcohol-dependent dad , who utilize him as a punching bag … until he realise he can teleport . So he goes to New York , where he finds he ca n’t get a problem or a place to survive , because he has no Social Security number or nascence certificate .
Lauren Olamina in Parable Of The Sower by Octavia Butler :
Lauren is one of many young protagonists in post - apocalyptic fiction who have a rough clip , what with the scarce imagination , the crazy force and the collapsing society . ( There ’s a wholethrivinggenreof post - apocalyptic new - adult novel . Plus there ’s Cormac McCarthy ’s The Road , of course . ) But Lauren has it spoilt than most , because she has hyper - empathy , allowing her to experience the pain of all the injured and dying people around her . Not to cite , her household gets cut down and her family is killed .
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Darth Bane , from Star Wars : Path Of death :
Pity Dessel , the youngsterwhose daddy mystify the bullshit out of him and calls him “ scourge ” as a sobriquet . He ’s raised in a short , coarse mining colony where he ’s snare with his mistreating father . He circumstantially kill a Republic soldier who accuse him of chisel at cards , so he has to go off and link the Sith grooming program , which is not much fun at all .
moderately much everyone in The Children ’s Hospital by Chris Adrian :
The mankind is destroy by a deluge , and the only multitude go out active are the patients , faculty , and a few visitant , in a child ’s hospital . Most of the kids have terrible , painful complaint , which they struggle to live with after the destruction of everything . Meanwhile , Jemma , a med pupil , is emotionally scarred by the self-destruction of her pal , who took upkeep of her and taught her when she was little .
David from Dying deep down by Robert Silverberg :
You might think growing up with telepathic abilities would be totally awesome , butapparently it sucks ] . Growing up , David gets denounce as a weirdy by the other kids , and his tycoon get misinterpreted when they manifest . He learns to hide his ability , but they keep him from having a normal relationship with the other kid , because he can tell what they ’re think .
Mark Vorkosigan from the Miles Vorkosigan novels by Lois McMaster Bujold :
As my protagonist Stephanie puts it , “ Miles has a moderately bad puerility , but his clone twin pal Mark has one of the most abusive childhoods in lit , and then gets kidnapped and torment by a sadomasochistic clone lord until he splits into four personalities . ”
cat-o'-nine-tails in Psion , Catspaw and Dreamfall by Joan Vinge :
As my friend Laurie says , : The protagonist is an orphaned child , half - human , half - Hydran , and telepathic in a high society that has persecute Hydrans and all those with psi power . ” Plus he ’s a maltreat street toughie , who inhabit in dirt and flees the carrion crowd who require to enslave him as “ contract bridge labor . ” early on on , he gives up his last mark for a dead - hold up beautiful dreamtime , which leaves him gasping and bereft . A typical prison term early on goes : “ His drug - intemperate trunk twitch with terror . ”
So there you go – just study these Quran , and tell your therapist auf wiedersehen !
extra reporting by Alasdair Wilkins . Thanks also to Twitter pals kittystryker , gerryblog , beckastar , whump , PhilDarnowsky , cecilseaskull , miniver , heatherlyshaw , kiala and LunaticSX , and Facebook pals Tim Chevalier , Tara O’Shea , James Limbach , Kathleen Warnock , Richard Hartzell , Stephanie Lee Jackson , Sam J. Miller and Laurie Beth Brunner . You guys rule !
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