Leviathan (2009) – Scott Westerfeld (Keith Thompson, illustrator)
(Leviathan #1)
Simon Pulse, 440 pages, ISBN 9781416971733
(photo credit: www.goodreads.com)
AWARDS:
Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book, 2010
An ALA Notable Children’s Book for Older Readers, 2010
Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards Nominee for Young Adult Book Award, 2010
Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction, 2009
Aurealis Award for Young Adult Novel, 2009
Annotation: Two groups, the machine-driven Clankers and the Darwinists, who develop new species with the aid of technology, clash in this action-filled adventure set during World War I.
Booktalk: World War I has just begun. Your parents, the most powerful people in 1914 Austria, have been assassinated, leaving you an orphan on the run from your parents’ political enemies, people you don’t even know. But at least you have loyal servants (or do you?), ready to help you flee to safety inside a Cyklop Stormwalker war machine.
You have no idea what awaits you and nothing you can imagine can prepare you for an encounter with the enemy’s massive airship Leviathan: part whale, part machine, completely deadly. You once thought you knew you were on the right side, that the machine-driven Clankers would win out over the nature-altering Darwinists. But you’ve discovered something that makes you wonder if you’ve been on the wrong side all this time.
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