{"id":1681,"date":"2013-01-30T19:32:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T19:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2015-04-04T19:35:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T19:35:26","slug":"leviathan-by-scott-westerfeld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Leviathan\"<\/p>\n

In this alternate history of World War I, the German forces [called Clankers] used steam-powered war machines like tanks and the Allied forces [called Darwinists] utilized living creatures as war machines.\u00a0 The Leviathan, for example, was an airship made from a living whale-like creature.\u00a0 Though it looked much like a Zeppelin, it was MUCH cooler because it depended on a complex ecosystem in which the waste-products of smaller organisms [living inside]\u00a0 provided the helium-like substance that made it float.\u00a0 Add that to the fact that people were walking around inside the beast\/ship, and it\u2019s not hard to understand why a science geek like me was just as enthralled by the Darwinists\u2019 creations as I was with the whole rest of the story!\u00a0 If you like action and adventure, and you\u2019re not opposed to possibly learning something about world history, this is a book you should probably read.\u00a0 (Just be sure to check out the author\u2019s note in which Westerfeld explains which events\/facts were true to history and which he created for the sake of his story.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this alternate history of World War I, the German forces [called Clankers] used steam-powered war machines like tanks and the Allied forces [called Darwinists] utilized living creatures as war machines.\u00a0 The Leviathan, for example, was an airship made from a living whale-like creature.\u00a0 Though it looked much like a Zeppelin, it was MUCH cooler … Continue reading Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}