SteamBoyz: Airborn

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Snippet from review...

Book: Airborn
Series: Airborn Book 1
Author: Kenneth Oppel

As you all know Lexie is the reader of this twosome--I don't have much time (or space) for books and they tend to really just clutter up a berth. However a mate of mine wrote about his adventures aboard the airship Aurora after a fateful encounter with a dying ballonist.

So I thought why not give it a whirl?

Matt is a cabin boy--basically he does everything and anything he's told to by the crew, but more importantly he's what's known in the skies as an 'Airborn'. He's been born, raised and living in the skies since he first came into the world and nothing but the skies make him feel safe. That's something I understand; I'm not an 'Airborn' myself, but I might as well be. Land is just too restive.

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SteamBoyz: Aurora

Here's a report on another adventure in the sky...

Airborn
by Kenneth Oppel
Description from the amazon:
Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked to be smooth going all the way back to Lionsgate City. Like riding a cloud. . . .

Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt's always wanted; convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist's granddaughter that he realizes that the man's ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious.

In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies.

Series:
Airborn
Skybreaker
Starclimber

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