Ship breaker
by Paolo Bacigalupi
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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.
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Recycling (Waste), Science fiction, Ocean, Oil, Young adult fiction, Conduct of life, Juvenile fiction, Recycling (Waste, etc.), Fiction, Dystopias, Children's fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Recycling (waste, etc.), fiction, YOUNG ADULT FICTION, Fantasy, Nature & the Natural World, Environment, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION, People & Places, Hispanic & Latino, RecyclingPlaces
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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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