![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, I do leave this book thinking more about its big theme –the ties that bind people together– into families (genetic and impromptu), gangs, corporations, and the nature of loyalty, and what we do with all those things when everything else breaks down. Indeed, shorts like 'Pop Squad', 'The People of Sand and Slag' and 'Pump Six' will stick with me longer than anything in Ship Breaker. If you too are looking for more of that, you're better off reading and re-reading Bacigalupi's short story collection Pump Six. I read that Ship Breaker was set in the same dystopian future of WindUp Girl and wanted more of that. I read WindUp Girl less than a month ago, and then proceeded to DEVOUR everything else published by the author over the last few weeks. There's too little of that here for me, but if you liked Bacigalupi's The Alchemist, I think you'll be happy with Ship Breaker. There are elements here reminiscent of RLS' Treasure Island (without being derivative), but I picked this up because I wanted to know more about the world I saw in The WindUp Girl. Also, I'm not a YA reader, for whom this book is intended. The characters in Ship Breaker are fine and appropriately likable/hatable, but Bacigalupi has engaged me more deeply with less time and words in previous work. ![]()
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