![]() ![]() ![]() He will be able to stay aloft forever, where he feels close to his dad and free from the confines of poverty and air-less cities. Someday, Matt dreams, he will be captain of his own ship. Matt’s plan is to work his way up the ranks and somehow earn enough money to support his widowed mother and younger sisters, and allow him to attend the new prestigious Airship Academy. Matt Cruse, the protagonist, is fortunate enough to work as a cabin boy aboard the massive luxury airship Aurora, captained by Samuel Walken. The social setting is reminiscent of the early decades of the 1900s. Airships are something like blimps: they rely on gas contained within huge sacs to keep themselves afloat in the world of Airborn, airplanes have not been invented. In the world of Ken Oppel’s Airborn, a gas called hydrium makes airships a main means of transportation. ![]()
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