From Printz Award winner and National Book Award finalist Paolo Bacigalupi comes the third companion novel in the dystopic Ship Breaker universe. Set in a future swamped by rising seas, depleted resources, corporate government, and civil war, this novel stars the most provocative, most talked-about, most controversial character from Paolo Bacigalupi's highly acclaimed books Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities, and pulls no punches in exploring the gray areas between what it means to be human--and animal.An attack on the Drowned Cities leaves Tool, a part-human, part-animal super-soldier with heightened physical abilities, on the run. His pack of compatriots is destroyed, and his only allies are humans whom he can't afford to trust. But now he must resist his bioengineered impulse of loyalty toward his masters and embark on an all-out war against those who have enslaved him.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Paolo Bacigalupi
EAN: 9780316220811
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 330 g
HEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Little, Brown & Company
DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-09-27
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GENRE: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Boys & Men, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Science & Nature / Environment, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Science Fiction / General
WIDTH: 138 cm
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Interest age: from c 13 years, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Science fiction
Praise for Ship BreakerMichael L. Printz Award Winner, 2011A New York Times BestsellerNational Book Award Finalist, 2010A VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers BookA Rolling Stone 40 Best YA Novels BookA Washington Post Best Book for Young Readers, 2012Green Earth Book Award Young Adult Fiction Honor Book, 2011YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2010Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books, 2010ALSC Notable Children's Books, 2011 "Bacigalupi's future earth is brilliantly imagined and its genesis anchored in contemporary issues...The characters are layered and complex, and their almost unthinkable actions and choices seem totally credible. Vivid, brutal, and thematically rich, this captivating title is sure to win teen fans for the award-winning Bacigalupi." --Booklist (starred review) "A stellar YA debut...the book's message never overshadows the storytelling, action-packed pacing, or intricate world-building." --Publishers Weekly (starred review), *"A strong, entertaining continuation of Bacigalupi's postapocalyptic series."--School Library Journal, starred review, *"Bacigalupi's environmentally ravaged world remains both richly described and terrifying, his characters diverse and complex. Through Tool, he explores free will and the consequences of humans playing at being gods. ...Well worth the wait."--Publishers Weekly, starred review, *"Tool is at center stage at last as readers move through Bacigalupi's exploration of the intricate relationships connecting hunter and prey, master and enslaved, human and monster. Masterful."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review, "A cleverly described, intricate, and equally desolate world. Fans of the series will love it, and...new readers will quickly understand the world."--BCCB
Paolo Bacigalupi is the author of the highly acclaimed The Drowned Cities, Tool of War, and Ship Breaker, a New York Times bestseller, Michael L. Printz Award winner, and National Book Award finalist. He is also the author of the Edgar Awards nominee The Doubt Factory; a novel for younger readers, Zombie Baseball Beatdown; and two bestselling adult novels for adults, The Water Knife and The Windup Girl. His first work of collected short fiction was Pump Six and Other Stories. He co-wrote The Tangled Lands 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.
