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Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker)
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Description for Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker)
Paperback. Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future. Series: Ship Breaker. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: YFC; YFG. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 126 x 195 x 29. Weight in Grams: 354.
In this exhilarating companion to Printz Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi brilliantly captures a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, driven by demagogues who recruit children to become soulless killing machines. Two refugees of these wars, Mahlia and Mouse, are known as 'war maggots': survivors who have barely managed to escape the unspeakable violence plaguing the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities. But their fragile safety is threatened when they discover a wounded half-man--a bioengineered war beast named Tool, who is hunted by a vengeful band of soldiers. When tragedy ... Read more
In this exhilarating companion to Printz Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi brilliantly captures a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, driven by demagogues who recruit children to become soulless killing machines. Two refugees of these wars, Mahlia and Mouse, are known as 'war maggots': survivors who have barely managed to escape the unspeakable violence plaguing the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities. But their fragile safety is threatened when they discover a wounded half-man--a bioengineered war beast named Tool, who is hunted by a vengeful band of soldiers. When tragedy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Ship Breaker
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907411113
SKU
V9781907411113
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Ref
99-10
About Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Bacigalupi's writing has been nominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards and his YA novel, SHIP BREAKER, was shortlisted for the National Book Award. He lives in Western Colorado with his wife and son.
Reviews for Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker)
Beautifully written, filled with high-octane action, and featuring badly damaged but fascinating and endearing characters, this fine novel tops its predecessor and can only increase the author's already strong reputation. Publishers Weekly Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the map with The Hunger Games...but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters. The Los Angeles Times Bacigalupi writes with ... Read more