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Grease Monkey
Contributor(s): Eldred, Tim (Author)

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ISBN: 076531326X     ISBN-13: 9780765313263
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
OUR PRICE: $16.14  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2008
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Annotation: Praise for "Grease Monkey"
" Believable characters, good writing, humor and excitement. Who could ask for more?"
--Trina Robbins
" Delightful science fiction with a sense of humor, "Grease Monkey" is an all-ages series that doesn' t write down to its readership--and that' s much more rare than it should be."
--"Comic Shop News"
" What snuck up on me over the years was just how much is actually going on in this series. What I thought of as a loose string of stories--almost a sitcom set on a space station--was turning out more and more to be a single work, more ambitious, more structured and deeper than I'd realized. This wasn't a series, it was a novel--an episodic novel, to be sure, but a novel nonetheless."
--Kurt Busiek, author of "Astro"" ""City"
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction - General
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 12-17
Grade Level: 7-12
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 7.07" W x 9.9" L (1.64 lbs) 352 pages
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 108241
Reading Level: 2.9   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 5.0
 
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Publisher Description:

Caught in the crossfire of an interstellar war, our Earth was bombed to flinders--and then repaired. The mysterious alien Benefactors who healed the planet also offered uplift to our dolphins and gorillas. The dolphins turned them down. The gorillas said yes. As a result, we're now sharing our world with language-using, tool-making simians. Tensions are inevitable, in both directions, but it's gradually working out.

Decades later, teenage cadet Robin Plotnik has been assigned to Fist of Earth, a defense station high above Earth, keeping watch against further attacks by the interstellar Horde. Robin's a spacecraft mechanic-in-training, apprenticed to Chief Mac Gimbensky, a cranky but basically benign gorilla with issues of his own.

Fist of Earth is a challenging place to grow up. Robin and Mac maintain fighter craft for the all-woman Barbarian Squadron, which constantly competes for prestige with the other squadrons based on Fist of Earth. Robin's trying to romance a young librarian, and he's far from sure he knows what he's doing. Most of all, he's constantly struggling to figure out his moody, mercurial boss.

Then he and his best friend become entangled in a burgeoning scandal over betting on the squadrons' standings. And just when things look like they've hit rock bottom, the worst thing imaginable arrives at Fist of Earth: an efficiency expert from Earth, determined to reorganize Robin's hard-won life, and the whole squadron system, out of existence.

Fresh and engaging, crammed with likeable characters and science-fictional inventiveness, Grease Monkey is like a classic Heinlein juvenile in sequential-art mode.

Introduction by Kurt Busiek, author of Astro City


Contributor Bio(s): Eldred, Tim: - Author and artist Tim Eldred lives in San Diego, California. His books include Grease Monkey.
 
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