a Love Out Of Time. A Spaceship Built Of Secrets And Murder.
seventeen-year-old Amy Joins Her Parents As Frozen Cargo Aboard The Vast Spaceship Godspeed And Expects To Awaken On A New Planet, Three Hundred Years In The Future. Never Could She Have Known That Her Frozen Slumber Would Come To An End Fifty Years Too Soon And That She Would Be Thrust Into The Brave New World Of A Spaceship That Lives By Its Own Rules.
amy Quickly Realizes That Her Awakening Was No Mere Computer Malfunction. Someone-one Of The Few Thousand Inhabitants Of The Spaceship-tried To Kill Her. And If Amy Doesn't Do Something Soon, Her Parents Will Be Next.
now Amy Must Race To Unlock Godspeed's Hidden Secrets. But Out Of Her List Of Murder Suspects, There's Only One Who Matters: Elder, The Future Leader Of The Ship And The Love She Could Never Have Seen Coming.
publishers Weekly
this Competent And Gripping First Novel Recycles One Of Science Fiction's Oldest Motifs: The Starship Sent To Colonize A New World But Gone Badly Astray. Amy, The Teenage Daughter Of Two Of The Colony's Future Leaders, Was A Passenger, And Was Supposed To Stay In Cryogenic Suspension For 300 Years Until The Godspeed Neared Its Target World Of Centauri-earth, But She Is Awakened 50 Years Early--in What Looks To Be The First In A String Of Attempted Murders Of The Frozen Colonists. There Has Been A Plague Among The Crew Who, Generation After Generation, Were Supposed To Keep The Ship Running, And Much Essential Information Has Been Lost. The Starship Is Now Ruled By Eldest, A Tyrannical Old Man Assisted By Teenage Elder, Who Will Eventually Replace Him. Neither Knows Why Amy Was Awakened, But In The Monoethnic And Heavily Sedated Society Of Godspeed, She Represents Difference--something Eldest Will Not Tolerate, But Which Captivates Elder. Revis's Tale Hits All Of The Standard Dystopian Notes, While Presenting A Believable Romance And A Series Of Tantalizing Mysteries That Will Hold Readers' Attention. Ages 12 Up. (jan.)
Categories:
- Teen & Young Adult
- Romance
- Science Fiction & Dystopian
- Romance
Publisher : Razorbill
Author : Revis, Beth
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2011-01-11
Number Of Pages : 416
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1595143971
ISBN-13 : 9781595143976
Item weight : 0.6 lb
Dimensions : 1.5 in x 6.3 in x 9.1 in
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