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I knew already that I liked Bacigalupi's work for adults, and had been intrigued by a Verge podcast with him about this book, so it's no surprise that I really liked this. The young protagonist Nailer and his friends are captivating, and the world they live in is all too believable. A ship breaker is a person who helps scavenge things from old abandoned ships (from our time), and those who do the work are used to abject poverty and to a life lived on the brink of disaster. Nailer's adventure is
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Nailer is part of a crew of who salvages metals from ships that are no longer useful in a world without fossil fuels. As he strips copper from the lines he falls through a weakened panel into a pool of oil where he struggles to live. When he finds a door opening into the sea, he is saved. A huge storm called a city-breaker scours the area and beaches a clipper, one of the current modes of transportation.
Nailer and Pima, his boss from the salvage crew, find a marooned clipper ship filled with dea ...more
Nailer and Pima, his boss from the salvage crew, find a marooned clipper ship filled with dea ...more
I liked this alot, surprisingly because it took me forever to pick it up. I love the difference in the world, a world that is still ours but opperates on different rules.
Aug 23, 2010
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