Ship Breaker
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About the Book
Set in a post climate collapse future, complete with underwater cities, super capitalists and gene hacked slave workers,
this is the story of a boy and his crew working in shipbreaking - recycling metal, oil and food from shipwrecks.
One day he gets a chance to "get lucky" - a chance to leave the stink of oil and poverty behind, if he s both lucky AND smart.
An amazing thriller, an easy to read adventure novel, this is essentially a meditation on smartness, values, luck, fate and love.
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Ship breaker
1st ed.
by Paolo Bacigalupi
Published
2010
by
Little, Brown
in
New York
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Written in English.
About the Book
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Classifications
Dewey Decimal Class |
[Fic] |
Library of Congress |
PZ7.B132185 Sh 2010 |
The Physical Object
Pagination |
326 p. ; |
Number of pages |
326 |
ID Numbers
Open Library |
OL24408274M |
ISBN 13 |
9780316056212 |
LC Control Number |
2009034424 |
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| November 9, 2010 | Created by ImportBot | initial import |