House of the Scorpio

Overview of the novel House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer: The novel House of the Scorpion is a recipient of the Newbery Honor Award, as the best science fiction novel, exciting and breathtaking. "Matt" belongs to a powerful family that controls drug farms located between the United States and Mexico previously. But he is different; he is cloned in a dangerous world. Things fall apart when Matt discovers the true reason behind his cloning, leading to a terrifying escape to a promising world, even if it is frightening and unsafe. With all the elements of a modern classic work, the novel "House of the Scorpion" is shocking and exciting at the same time, especially because it points to a very possible future. Matt is a brave and beloved character, but his violent outbursts, similar to El Patron's rages, who took his genes from them, leave a sweet and bitter taste amid his good intentions. A novel that embodies true genius in science fiction. The novel is a mix of practical imagination and pure realism, with a fluent language in which Nancy Farmer played on human contradictions and society, in a story of a drug cartel conflict and a boy resulting from a cloning process.