Alek knows nothing of this until his tutor, Wildcount Volger and his master of mechaniks, Otto Klopp spirit him away in the middle of the night. On the run from his own people, Alek who is the sole heir to the throne, must try to make for the safety of neutral Switzerland.
Deryn Sharp is a girl disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. When a routine training run with a "Huxley ascender" - a genetically altered hydrogen breather, goes awry, Deryn ends up on the Leviathan, a giant living airship on a secret mission to the Ottoman Empire.
A series of catastrophes for both Alek and Deryn brings them together and they find they must work to help one another against a mutual enemy. Each is hiding a secret from the other but each has to trust the other in order to survive.
Discussion
Scott Westerfeld has created an intriguing alternate history adventure with the backdrop of WWI. The conflict is between the Germans, known as the mechanistic "Clankers" and the master geneticists, the "Darwinists" who are British.
This story is filled with fantastical machines and beasts; the elephantine, talking lizards and the books namesake, the Leviathan - a great hydrogen breathing whale "fabricated to rival the kaiser's zeppelins" pitted against the Star Wars-like Cycklop Stormwalkers and eight-legged Herkules landships.
Leviathan is an imaginative alternate history novel set in a steampunk world with many weird animals and equipment. What helps readers are the lovely, detailed illustrations by Keith Thompson which enhance the storytelling. The next installment, Behemoth will be published in October 2010.
Book Details:
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Simon Pulse 2010
434 pp.
Scott Westerfeld has created an intriguing alternate history adventure with the backdrop of WWI. The conflict is between the Germans, known as the mechanistic "Clankers" and the master geneticists, the "Darwinists" who are British.
This story is filled with fantastical machines and beasts; the elephantine, talking lizards and the books namesake, the Leviathan - a great hydrogen breathing whale "fabricated to rival the kaiser's zeppelins" pitted against the Star Wars-like Cycklop Stormwalkers and eight-legged Herkules landships.
Leviathan is an imaginative alternate history novel set in a steampunk world with many weird animals and equipment. What helps readers are the lovely, detailed illustrations by Keith Thompson which enhance the storytelling. The next installment, Behemoth will be published in October 2010.
Book Details:
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Simon Pulse 2010
434 pp.
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