Way Down Dark - Australia: Book 1

@2@@20@***SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD***@21@@3@@2@ Imagine a nightmare from which there is no escape. Seventeen-year-old Chan's ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search of a new home. They never found one.@3@@2@ This is a hell where no one can hide. The only life that Chan's ever known is one of violence, of fighting. Of trying to survive.@3@@2@ This is a ship of death, of murderers and cults and gangs. But there might be a way to escape. In order to find it, Chan must head way down into the darkness - a place of buried secrets, long-forgotten lies, and the abandoned bodies of the dead.@3@@2@ This is @18@Australia. @19@Seventeen-year-old Chan, fiercely independent and self-sufficient, keeps her head down and lives quietly, careful not to draw attention to herself amidst the violence and disorder. Until the day she makes an extraordinary discovery - a way to return the @18@Australia@19@ to Earth. But doing so would bring her to the attention of the fanatics and the murderers who control life aboard the ship, putting her and everyone she loves in terrible danger. @3@@2@And a safe return to Earth is by no means certain.@3@

Product details

• Authors: James P. Smythe, Smythe James P.
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 16
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2016
• EAN: 9781444796339
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-9633-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 18 mm
• Series: The Australia Trilogy; The Australia Trilogy
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Science Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera, Science fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Science fiction