Today we are thrilled to be a part of the blog tour celebrating the release of The Drowned Cities, Paolo Bacigalupi’s follow-up to the Printz-winning Ship Breaker (one of Thea’s favorite books of 2010). Paolo Bacigalupi needs no introduction…
Paolo Bacigalupi
Welcome everyone, to The Book Smugglers’ Nebula Readathon 2011! In honor of the annual Nebula Awards, we will be hosting an interwebs readathon, in which we will attempt to read all of the titles on the Best Novel and…
Title: Ship Breaker Author: Paolo Bacigalupi Genre: Post-apocalyptic/Dystopian, Young Adult, Speculative Fiction Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publication Date: May 2010 Hardcover: 336 pages In America’s Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down…
Hello everybody! We have a few bits and pieces to share (including the newest Internet brouhaha) and giveaway winners to declare before we talk about what we will be reading this week. First up are our giveaways winners. Giveaway…
Steampunk Week – Book Review: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Title: The Windup Girl Author: Paolo Bacigalupi Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopia Publisher: Night Shade Books Publication Date: September 2009 Hardcover: 300 pages What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces…
For the past few months, we have been including an βOn our Radarβ section in our weekly stash for books that have caught our eye; books we heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular…