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Time Travel

The Future of Us

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  • 2011 first published
  • 370 pages
  • ★ 4.0 (5 ratings)
  • 4 editions
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Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler's The Future of Us (2011) is a time-travel fiction novel. Readers will find themes of Internet, friendship, high schools and schools.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, and 24 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 4 editions.

At about 370 pages, most readers finish it in 6–7 hours.

About The Future of Us

It's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long—at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL CD in the mail, his mom makes him bring it over so that Emma can install it on her new computer. When they sign on, they're automatically logged onto their Facebook pages. But Facebook hasn't been invented yet. And they're looking at themselves fifteen years in the future. By refreshing their pages, they learn that making different decisions now will affect the outcome of their lives later. And as they grapple with the ups and downs of what their futures hold, they're forced to confront what they're doing right—and wrong—in the present.
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Themes, setting & tropes

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  • Internet
  • Friendship
  • High schools
  • Children's fiction
  • Schools
  • Time travel

Quick answers

Who wrote The Future of Us?

The Future of Us was written by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler and first published in 2011.

What genre is The Future of Us?

It is usually shelved as Time Travel.

How long is The Future of Us?

The median edition has 370 pages, about 6–7 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Future of Us?

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