![]() ![]() Although there are hints all throughout The Drowned Cities that this world is same one in which Ship Breaker took place, the half-drowned remains of America’s capital city is an environment unlike anything Bacigalupi has tackled before and he paints it with such a degree of detail that you’ll wonder if he’s been to our future himself. His talent for using a few carefully chosen words to bring his setting to life is simply unrivaled by most other authors I’ve read. Set in the same unspecified future point in which Ship Breaker took place-a future where resources have become scarce, governments have collapsed, and the gap between the rich and the poor has become almost insurmountably wide- The Drowned Cities focuses on a young girl named Mahlia and a young boy called Mouse in the waterlogged ruins of Washington, D.C.Īs he did in his previous novels, Bacigalupi proves to be a master of setting. ![]() ![]() Although The Drowned Cities is marketed as a sequel to Ship Breaker, it can stand as a completely independent novel, with only one character from Ship Breaker appearing again in The Drowned Cities. ![]()
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