Leviathan(ingles)

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LEVIATHAN

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LEVIATHAN
Written by

MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD
Illustrated by Mr. Keith Thompson

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names,characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author‘s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

SIMON PULSE An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children‘s Publishing Division 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 [http://SimonandSchuster.com] SimonandSchuster.com First Simon Pulse hardcover edition October 2009Copyright © 2009 by Scott Westerfeld All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. SIMON PULSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or business@simonandschuster.com. The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau canbring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at [http://www.simonspeakers.com] www.simonspeakers.com. Designed by Mike Rosamilia The text of this book was set in Hoefler Text. Manufactured in the United States of America 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PublicationData Westerfeld, Scott. Leviathan / by Scott Westerfeld ; illustrated by Keith Thompson. — 1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed. p. cm. Summary: In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn, who, disguised as a boy to join the British AirService, is learning to fly genetically engineered beasts. ISBN 978-1-4169-7173-3 (hardcover) [1. Science fiction. 2. Imaginary creatures—Fiction. 3. Princes—Fiction. 4. War—Fiction. 5. Genetic engineering—Fiction.] I. Thompson, Keith, 1982– ill. II. Title. PZ7.W5197Lev 2009 [Fic] —dc22 2009000881 ISBN 978-1-4169-8706-2 (eBook)

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ONEThe Austrian horses glinted in the moonlight, their riders standing tall in the saddle, swords raised. Behind them two ranks of diesel-powered walking machines stood ready to fire, cannon aimed over the heads of the cavalry. A zeppelin scouted no-man‘s-land at the center of the battlefield, its metal skin sparkling. The French and British infantry crouched behind their fortifications—a letteropener, an ink jar, and a line of fountain pens—knowing they stood no chance against the might of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But a row of Darwinist monsters loomed behind them, ready to devour any who dared retreat. The attack had almost begun when Prince Aleksandar thought he heard someone outside his door… . He took a guilty step toward his bed—then froze in place, listening hard. Trees stirred ina soft breeze outside, but otherwise the night was silent. Mother and Father were in Sarajevo, after all. The servants wouldn‘t dare disturb his sleep.

Alek turned back to his desk and began to move the cavalry forward, grinning as the battle neared its climax. The Austrian walkers had completed their bombardment, and it was time for the tin horses to finish off the woefully outnumbered French.It had taken all night to set up the attack, using an imperial tactics manual borrowed from Father‘s study. It seemed only fair that Alek have some fun while his parents were off watching military maneuvers. He‘d begged to be taken along, to see the mustered ranks of soldiers striding past in real life, to feel the rumble of massed fighting machines through the soles of his boots. It was...
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