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Another Evergreen 2012 contender,
Leviatan is a steampuke novel occurring at the inception of The Great War, in Europe at 1914. Add the clanker- (war machine creators) defended prince whose parents were assassinated, and a girl pretending to be a boy to enlist in the Darwinist (mechanized animal) forces. Their separate stories of staying hidden and being disguised intercept. A great adventure! Two sequels are also very popular:
Behemoth and
Goliath.
ENDERS' Rating: ***** Scott Westerfeld's Website
Fever Crumb, an orphan in futuristic England is raised by an engineer in a think tank called, appropriately, the Order of Engineers, tisking emotions. But her adoptive father loans her out to assist an archaeologist, Kit Solent on a top-secret mission. Fever is well suited to assist, as she has memories that she cannot explain about hidden vaults of the city. Well, a new face with one blue and one brown eye sets off hysteria in London that Fever is a dreaded Scriven, probably a front runner to an invasion. In their mob mind set, they successful destroy the home base of the Order of Engineers, kill Solent leaving his children orphans, and torch London.
Unknown to the Londoners Fever’s mysterious Scriven mother has joined forces with the Movement and is their head technomancer, assisting their leader Quercus. The Movement uses the first power-hungry moving city, one thousand years before the Mortal Quartet novels, to intimidate and overtake London. In a horrific “modification” Solent is constructed into a stalker, a bionic fighting machine based on the remains of his body. The most touching scene of the entire book centers around this stalker. Reeve has created another dystopia that has a riveting storyline. More is promised about Fever in at least one sequel.
Say "steampuck" three times!
ENDERS' Rating: *****
Philip's Blog (An explanation of the photo is in his biography. He is the one on the right).
I have never had the author speak on my blog before, but Scott gives a great def of steampunk. (And I am still waiting for the 4th book of The Midnighters series!)
Scott Westerfeld | Borders Media
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