What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. Cryo frozen on a spaceship to escape an asteroid hitting Earth? [s]
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I think it might be a little later than Lawrence, but I could be wrong!
OK, the author has her own website with plot summaries (find it on Google), but just wanted to check to eliminate. It's the sort of thing she might write (slightly depressing!) but she is a young adult fiction author from around that time.
Yeah I had a look through there and its none of them. Thankyou though
Trying this search on worldcat.orgSearch results for 'kw:asteroid earth space' > '1970..2005' > 'Book' > 'Fiction' > 'English' > 'Juvenile'
Asteroid alert
Author: Elaine Raphael; Don Bolognese
Publisher: New York : Scholastic, 2000.
Series: 2050, voyage of the Starseeker, bk. 1.
In 2050 Noah, Sera, and Jiji experience both excitement and fear as they embark on their assignment aboard Starseeker, a space station designed to find and destroy large asteroids endangering the Earth.
Breakdown
Author: Katherine Applegate
Publisher: New York : Scholastic, ©2002.
Escaping earth's destruction by an asteroid, the Remnants find themselves captive on a ship controlled by a computer called Mother who wants them to battle it's enemies, but who is the real enemy?
The island of One
Author: Eve Bunting; Duane Krych
Publisher: [Mankato, MN] : Child's World ; Chicago : Distributed to schools and libraries in the U.S. by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp., ©1992.
Series: Science fiction (Mankato, Minn.)
When an asteroid threatens to destroy their space island, the sole survivors of the destruction of Earth must find a new place to go.
Begin again
Author: Katherine Applegate
Publisher: New York : Scholastic, [2003]
Edition/Format: Book : Elementary and junior high school : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Database: WorldCat
Summary:
Jobs and the remaining survivors of the asteroid that struck Earth are trying to find a habitable place on the planet, which has been plunged back into the Stone Age, where they can live in peace. The end of the world has come and gone, leaving only ruins, and the Remnants. This is the final chapter in their saga.
The Mayflower project
Author: Katherine Applegate
Publisher: New York : Scholastic, 2001.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Database: WorldCat
Summary:
From the best-selling author of "Animorphs" and "Everworld" comes a dark and powerful new series that begins in 2011 when the Earth is about to be destroyed. In a desperate attempt to survive, a handful of people aboard a revamped space shuttle are placed into suspended animation. Light years from home and all alone some 500 years later, they awake to find that the very future of the human race is in their hands.
From that it is probably the Remnants series by Katherine Applegate.
I agree that it's almost definitely Remnants. I'm reading the series right now and every detail fits.
Wow! Thanks so much guys it is indeed the Remnants opener. I can sleep now! Thanks again
The book is set maybe a few hundred years into the future. The synopsis is that a giant asteroid is heading for Earth, and a young guy and a few of his friends manage to get aboard a spaceship leaving the planet (I distinctly remember a scrappy side-kick with a knack for maths and a love of skating, and a love interest who dies when the asteroid hits)
The kids are frozen on the ship and sleep for thousands of years as the ship travels through space, eventually crash landing on an unknown planet.
Some specifics: I remember a few quotes - the sidekick rides a chair lift up a mountain to skate or ride back down, and he looks down and sees seagulls flying below him "He was above the birds now."; when the rocket takes off there are hundreds of people on the tarmack trying to get on board and they are "instantly incinerated" by the jet engines; the love interest is impaled by a 2-by-4 - "she looked down, shuddered and died"; some of the passengers are eaten by some kind of parasitic worm during transit, and the survivers' clothes have decayed when they wake up; finally I remember the sidekick doing quick math when converting a timer that only counts in minutes into years, months and weeks, thus figuring out how long the ship has been travelling.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!