Crudrat

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: J. Daniel Sawyer, full cast

Original score by Danny Schade

Welcome to Wheel: a perfect world without poverty, disease, or want. Tinkered and tuned in every way for maximum order by Rank and Spoke, every child knows her destiny - so long as she can take the neural implant.

The defective, whose bodies reject the implants, do not exist. Ghosts. Cyphers. Haunting the edges of society, living on scraps, killed for sport. A lucky few, the Crudrats, scrape out a perilous living cleaning the toxic wastes from the great machines that power the station.

Meet Maura. Cypher. Crudrat. Grown too tall, alone in a spaceport with no use for her, doomed to starve. With only her crud-eating murmel and an alien monster to help her, she must find a way to survive, or escape, before they catch her and blow what's left of her life, and her companions, into space.

From the pen of Gail Carriger, ArtisticWhispers Productions presents an unabridged full-cast young-adult adventure that brings golden age-style science-fiction into the 21st century, stuffs it full of heart and gives it a finely polished, gleaming edge.

©2009 Gail Carriger (P)2014 ArtisticWhispers Productions, Inc.

Love this author!

I particularly loved her Boarding School and Parasol Protectorate stories, but this one was much different. I thought it well worth buying.

Unexpectedly brilliant

I have been a fan of Gail Carriger since discovering the parasol protectorate, so didn't think twice about trying this audiobook. Although the full cast approach took some getting used to, it was a really enjoyable experience, and another fantastic story by this author. Please, please, please write a sequel soon!

Excellent

I enjoy most of this author's work. I gave this a try. The story is excellent. It's a world easy to visualize. The characters are great. A good space adventure.

wish more books would do this.

I loved how this book was read. the story is also fantastic. But a whole cast reading a book is my new favorite way to listen to one.

Overall opinion

I love this author. I have read all of her other series. I especially enjoyed this new story and look forward to the next in the series.