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Col lives on a ship. A city-sized airship called Worldshaker. His family is the most important on board: his grandfather is the supreme commander and Col himself has just been named successor. Col’s world is one of luxury and opulence, balls and tea parties and hidden plays for power. Deep in the bowels of Worldshaker lives another civilization Col’s people call the Filthies. They are a sub-human slave race that keeps the giant ship running. Or are they? When Riff, a young Filthy girl escapes into Col’s part of the ship, Col realizes that maybe the Filthies aren’t so different as he was lead to believe: maybe they aren’t actually any different at all. A steampunk study in revisionist history, Richard Harland drops a Victorian English society into a technologically advanced world and takes the reader through the chaos that must ensue. Col’s struggle to reconcile the world he thought he knew with the world that really exists is a prime teen-angst crisis; and Riff’s quick wit will keep both Col and the reader on their toes. |
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