{"id":527,"date":"2011-01-27T20:23:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T00:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2015-04-08T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:07:35","slug":"ship-breaker-by-paolo-bacigalupi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The world has run out of oil, and global warming has melted the polar ice caps; this is certainly not the world as we know it. \u00a0Most people live in poverty and take whatever work they can find, no matter how dangerous, just so they can\u00a0survive. \u00a0Nailer has found work with a \u201clight crew,\u201d which means wriggling through the ductwork of beached tanker ships along the Gulf Coast to scavenge for scrap metals. \u00a0As long as he makes quota, and doesn\u2019t get too big to fit through the ducts, he can stay on the light crew. Nailer does his best to avoid his alcoholic\/druggie father, but still begs Sadna (his best friend Pima\u2019s mother) to save his dad as a violent hurricane blows through town. After the storm, Nailer and Pima cannot find their parents, but manage to stumble upon a shipwrecked clipper ship. The ship has enough scavenge to make them both filthy rich, but there\u2019s one problem \u2014 the \u201cswank\u201d girl trapped inside. Do they kill her to keep their claim on the ship, or do they rescue her and add to their burden?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world has run out of oil, and global warming has melted the polar ice caps; this is certainly not the world as we know it. \u00a0Most people live in poverty and take whatever work they can find, no matter how dangerous, just so they can\u00a0survive. \u00a0Nailer has found work with a \u201clight crew,\u201d which … Continue reading Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-527","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\/527","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}