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Ship Breaker
Written by Paolo Bacigalupi
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Average Score:
85(6)
In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, 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 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, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future.
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Book Details
Young Adult
Fantasy
Hardcover,
336 Pages
Published
by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers on May 01, 2010
ISBN-10 0316056219
ISBN-13 978-0316056212
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Reviews
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SF Signal
| John DeNardo
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Review Rating: 100
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Great world building, interesting characters, engaging plot...an outstanding story on all counts!
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The Zone
| Jonathan McCalmont
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Review Rating: 100
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Exquisitely paced, fearsomely intelligent, beautifully imagined and colourfully characterised, Ship Breaker proves that as well as being able to handle powerful harmonic themes and ideas, Bacigalupi can now produce exactly the kind of soaring narrative melodies that were so sadly absent from The Windup Girl.
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Fantasy Book Critic
| Cindy Hannikman
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Review Rating: 80
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...an amazingly detailed, thought provoking, action packed YA novel that really stands out from the rest of the books on the shelf.
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SF Reviews
| Thomas M. Wagner
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Review Rating: 80
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Through his storytelling art, [Paolo Bacigalupi] simply allows readers to become immersed in a dangerous and yet thrilling near-future that we can still, hopefully, avoid, assuming we ever stop being too stupid to work together in our species' best long-term interests.
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SFRevu
| Ernest Lilley
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Review Rating: 80
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...thoughtful but engaging fiction about the post-petro future full of young protagonists and old conflicts.
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Fantasy Literature
| Stefan Raets
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Review Rating: 70
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...a good novel with a likable protagonist, a gripping story, and a vision of the future that's sadly becoming more probable by the day.
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