Evergreen Young Adult Book Award Karin Lowachee's debut novel is the engrossing story of a young boy's coming of age amid interstellar war, a riveting saga in the tradition of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.
The merchant ship Mukudori encompasses the whole of eight-year-old Jos's world, until a notorious pirate destroys the ship, slaughters the adults, and enslaves the children.
Thus begins a desperate odyssey of terror and escape that takes Jos beyond known space to the home of the strits, Earth's alien enemies.
To survive, the boy must become a living weapon and a master spy.
But no training will protect Jos in a war where every hope might be a deadly lie, and every friendship might hide a lethal betrayal.
And all the while he will face the most grueling trial of his life.
becoming his own man.
About the Author: Karin Lowachee was born in Guyana, South America and moved to Toronto, Canada when she was two.
Before her foray into fantasy, she wrote three highly-acclaimed science fiction novels - Warchild, Burndive, and Cagebird.
Warchild won the Warner Aspect First Novel Award and Cagebird won the 2006 Gaylactic Spectrum Award and the Prix Aurora Award and was a finalist for the 2002 Philip K.
Dick Award.
She currently resides in Ontario, Canada.
