By the end of "The Hunger Games", a trilogy of dystopian novels, the main character-a country girl in a post-apocalyptic America-has survived a state-run reality tv show in which children must hunt and kill each other, and joined a rebellion against the autocrats of the "Capitol", an elite enclave that runs the rest of the country as a collection of colonies. On finishing the final volume, Amanda Robbins, a pillar of the Florida Federation of Teenage Republicans, fired up her computer and excitedly asked: "Is this author a conservative?" A "ton" of pages were debating this very question, Miss Robbins found.
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