3.5
Ship Breaker
ByPublisher Description
In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life....
In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his companion novels
and
.
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3.5
“Read this as part of a curriculum review for potential inclusion in a speculative fiction unit with connections to climate change. The world building was interesting and felt far too possible, the characters were engaging, and the plot was action-packed. It’s a good middle grades novel: would probably recommend for readers 12-16.”
BelievableChange and growDiverse representationLikeableMultilayeredRelatableAction-packedAddictiveGripping/excitingPredictable but satisfyingSatisfying conclusionSlow start, strong finishSuspensefulTwistyAtmosphericBleakDarkDystopianGrittyHarshSetting fits the storyUnique locationClunkyEasy to readOriginalSimplisticStraightforwardAbuseChild abuseDeathDomestic violenceMurderSubstance abuseViolence
“Makes extensive use of climate doomerism in order to provide a setting one to two centuries from now.
The main character is a hard edged uneducated yet carefully portrayed individual who has logically consistent reasons for being heroic even though he had no such upbringing of his own.
Mom is gone and dad is an evil meth head, I won't spoil the story beyond that except to say that I kept waiting for the book to fall over in the middle or at the end (as so many books do when authors get nervous) but this one sticks the landing and makes sure you have a movie Worthy starting and ending.”
Morally ambiguousAction-packedAddictiveClever plottingFast-pacedGripping/excitingSatisfying conclusionSteady pacingSuspensefulBleakDarkDystopianEvocative imageryFuturisticGrittyHarshImmersive world-buildingRusticSetting fits the storyVivid descriptionsStraightforwardChild abuseDeathDomestic violenceGriefMurderSubstance abuse
About Paolo Bacigalupi
is the author of the highly acclaimed
,
,
and
, a
bestseller, Michael L. Printz Award winner, and National Book Award finalist. He is also the author of the Edgar Awards nominee
a novel for younger readers,
and two bestselling adult novels for adults,
and
His first work of collected short fiction was
. He co-wrote
with Tobias S. Buckell. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, John W. Campbell Memorial, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards, he lives in western Colorado with his wife and son. The author invites you to visit his website at windupstories.com.
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