[8] 100 things challenge : Books!!
It's been a while since I've done this, but I'm back with my very first foray into science-fiction.
It's a YA book and I can't recall whereas it was a book we had to read for class or if I ended up buying it on my own.
It's the story of Charley who discovers, on his birthday that he really is CHARLEy, an experiment created to test the ability of human under duress. So he runs from the Factory, the only house he has ever known. He runs into a container and soon enough, he wakes up on Vulcain, the garbage planet. There, on the soft dusty cushion around one of the volcan that exist on the planet, he meets the girl collecting recyclables in the bin he arrived in.
She introduces him to the society of the planet, divided between rich people living on a island far from where the containers are unloaded, and the others, who are making a living by going up the volcanoes hills to get every scrap they can get from the containers.
There's the hero's girlfriend getting an uncurable malignant disease, there's the hero being chased by his owners, there's the hero giving them the finger and meeting the son of the top guy of the island, and there are some blackmail and selfless sacrifice. And the fluffiest, cutest piece of bio engineering.
It's a very environmentally driven piece of scifi, and a good way to introduce sceptic readers of the genre, like me, into the world of soft scifi.
Also, the drawings are really good.
It's a YA book and I can't recall whereas it was a book we had to read for class or if I ended up buying it on my own.
It's the story of Charley who discovers, on his birthday that he really is CHARLEy, an experiment created to test the ability of human under duress. So he runs from the Factory, the only house he has ever known. He runs into a container and soon enough, he wakes up on Vulcain, the garbage planet. There, on the soft dusty cushion around one of the volcan that exist on the planet, he meets the girl collecting recyclables in the bin he arrived in.
She introduces him to the society of the planet, divided between rich people living on a island far from where the containers are unloaded, and the others, who are making a living by going up the volcanoes hills to get every scrap they can get from the containers.
There's the hero's girlfriend getting an uncurable malignant disease, there's the hero being chased by his owners, there's the hero giving them the finger and meeting the son of the top guy of the island, and there are some blackmail and selfless sacrifice. And the fluffiest, cutest piece of bio engineering.
It's a very environmentally driven piece of scifi, and a good way to introduce sceptic readers of the genre, like me, into the world of soft scifi.
Also, the drawings are really good.