A brilliant fantasy set aboard a huge ship in which the elites live on the top decks while the Filthies toil below. Col's safe, civilized world on the upper decks of the Worldshaker, a huge ship 3/5(6). Worldshaker tells the story of the first crack in the Age of Imperialism. On board the British juggernaut, called WORLDSHAKER, the Filthies rise up against their tyrannical masters. The leaders of the revolution are the girl Filthy, Riff, and Colbert Porpentine, a boy from a elite family. Richard Harland is an accomplished Australian author. He has written in fantasy, horror, SF and crime fiction. He is the author of four series of novels and many more short stories. Richard writes easily across genres and for diverse audience, producing novels for adults, young adults, and the even younger.
Worldshaker by Richard Harland is a young adult fiction book. This book is about a boy named Col, who is a very wealthy child and is well respected among everyone else. All of his knowledge disappears when he meets a quick and clever filthy named Riff. Filthies are known to be dumb,slow, and stupid. Harland's steampunk alternate history is filled with oppression, class struggle, and war, showing their devastation on a personal level through Col's privileged eyes. Like the behemoth Worldshaker itself, there's little subtlety in Harland's portrayal of a stuffy, imperial upper class subjugating a noble, abused underclass (complete with a. Worldshaker by Richard Harland is a book like that. The Story: After a catastrophic war with an alternate Napoleon, Europe is now a polluted wasteland and the former Empires of Europe have abandoned it, but the age of imperialism is far from over as these empires now inhabit massive, city-sized ships called juggernauts that travel over the land.
Worldshaker by Richard Harland - Col is a wealthy child of privilege. Raised to succeed his grandfather as the Supreme Commander of the juggernaut Worldshake. A brilliant fantasy set aboard a huge ship in which the elites live on the top decks while the Filthies toil below. Col's safe, civilized world on the upper decks of the Worldshaker, a huge ship. WorldShaker by Richard Harland Worldshaker is my first taste of the recently new and popular genre, steampunk. Steampunk is defined as a sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy that incorporates advanced Victorian technology.
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