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Book 1 in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Gallactica and Passengers !
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SURVIVE ABOARD A SPACESHIP FUELED BY LIES?
Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship Godspeed . She has left her boyfriend, friends--and planet--behind to join her parents as a member of Project Ark Ship. Amy and her parents believe they will wake on a new planet, Centauri-Earth, three hundred years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed 's scheduled landing, cryo chamber 42 is mysteriously unplugged, and Amy is violently woken from her frozen slumber.
Someone tried to murder her.
Now, Amy is caught inside an enclosed world where nothing makes sense. Godspeed 's 2,312 passengers have forfeited all control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader. And Elder, Eldest's rebellious teenage heir, is both fascinated with Amy and eager to discover whether he has what it takes to lead.
Amy desperately wants to trust Elder. But should she put her faith in a boy who has never seen life outside the ship's cold metal walls? All Amy knows is that she and Elder must race to unlock Godspeed 's hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again.
Author Notes
Beth Revis is the author of science fiction and fantasy novels for young adults. Her debut novel, Across the Universe, was published in 2011. Her other books include the Across the Universe trilogy and A World Without You.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 10 Up-Imagine leaving everything behind in order to be with the people you love, only to be left with nothing. Amy and her parents have been cryogenically frozen to be awakened in 300 years when their spaceship reaches the planet they will colonize. Unfortunately, Amy is unfrozen 50 years too soon. Her parents are too critical to the colony to awaken early, so by the time she sees them again, she will be older than they are. The culture on the spaceship is unfamiliar and everyone Amy meets is either an emotionless drone or lives in the mental ward. But there is little time for her to grieve the loss of her former life, because someone is thawing other colonists and leaving them to die. In order to find the murderer, Amy must join forces with Elder, the teenage future leader of the ship. But all of the inhabitants onboard have been told lies, and there are secrets that even Elder doesn't know. This compelling novel is told in alternating chapters from Amy's and Elder's points of view. Amy is a contemporary character in a fish-out-of-water situation, and her grief and fear are realistically depicted. And as Elder learns the truth behind the ship, he begins to experience a coming-of-age that is convincingly written. The mystery will propel readers along, and the budding romance between Amy and Elder set against the backdrop of a dystopian society will appeal even to readers who don't enjoy science fiction. Revis's thrilling debut novel hints at more great books to come.-Heather M. Campbell, formerly at Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
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.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
The wrenching opening scene of Amy witnessing her parents being cryogenically frozen for a three-hundred-year trip through space to a new colony sets the stage for her agonizing decision: to give up everything she's ever known and join her parents in frozen sleep, or to bid farewell to them forever. Amy chooses to go with them, but when she's accidentally awakened centuries later, planetfall -- and her parents' scheduled reanimation -- is still fifty years away. The current generation of passengers views her with suspicion, all except for the boy named Elder, leader-presumptive of the passengers under the geriatric Eldest. With other sleepers being killed by an unknown saboteur, Amy and Elder try to figure out the pattern of deaths before Amy's parents become the next victims. Revis establishes the setting and the narrative constraints in such a pressing way that readers truly feel the characters' plight: the claustrophobia of shipboard life, the inescapability of Amy's situation, the vast, ungovernable reaches of space and time. Taut, urgent prose sustains tension right up through an unsettling resolution that pits knowledge and freedom against survival and safety, leaving readers with plenty to think about and discuss long after the book is closed. anita l. burkam (c) Copyright 2011. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Godspeed completes its 300-year journey to a new planet. But en route, in space, Amy's cryo-wires are unplugged earlyalmost lethally. She wakes to meet Elder, another teen, named for his leader-in-training position. Ironhanded commander Eldest refuses to teach Elder the critical details for running Godspeed, and in scrutinizing the deadly mystery of who's unplugging the frozens, Elder and Amy uncover generations of devastating lies underpinning Godspeed's on-board society. From the ship's windowless metal walls and recycled-air full-farming ecosystem to the people's carnal and oddly synchronized breeding Season, Revis' extraordinary setting is credible and palpably claustrophobic. The two teens' alternating viewpoints, both in first person, divulge information to readers bit by tension-filled bit. Wherever the series goes from here, this opener leaves an indelible imprint. (Science fiction. 14 up)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Revis charges into the something's-wrong-aboard-this-spaceship genre with this cunningly executed thriller. Sixteen-year-old Elder (so named because he will replace Eldest as the ship's leader once Eldest has died) has his isolated world rocked when he discovers a lower level containing dozens of frozen humans set to be defrosted when the ship, Godspeed, completes its 300-year journey to a new planet. One human has been removed prematurely 17-year-old Amy, who alternates narration with Elder and she is devastated to have been awakened decades before schedule. Amy is plunged into the hermetic weirdness of Godspeed, where each of the ship's 2,312 passengers (or inmates?) is categorized Brave New World-style. With Amy acting as catalyst, Elder begins digging through the lies covering up the crushing truth of their mission. The story occasionally strains credibility (a few locked doors would've effectively shut down the plot), but Revis' headlong brio mostly cancels out these deficits, resulting in a compulsively readable crowd-pleaser. Librarian bonus: the reversible jacket pitches the book to either romance or sci-fi fans, both of whom should have a blast.--Kraus, Daniel Copyright 2010 Booklist