![]() “I thought, 'What if I never have another huge series?' This was my chance to take the leverage I had earned with Uglies and do something with it.” “It's completely nutty, but this story pushed most of my buttons-steampunk, airships, military history,” Westerfeld says. It imagines a WWI fought with hybrid creatures, living products of Charles Darwin's 19th-century discoveries about DNA and bioengineering.īecause Westerfeld wanted the finished book to have the period feel of the era in which the story is set, S&S is using 70-pound paper, full-color endpapers depicting an allegorical map of Europe, and 50 interior illustrations-lavish bookmaking financed in large part by Westerfeld himself. ![]() ![]() Leviathan will be published by Simon & Schuster in October, first in a planned four-book series (three novels and a heavily illustrated “manual of aeronautics”). ![]()
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