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Leviathan

By Scott Westerfeld
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The brilliant first book in the Leviathan steam-punk trilogy. Now a Netflix series! It is the cusp of World War 1, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British... Read More
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The brilliant first book in the Leviathan steam-punk trilogy. Now a Netflix series! It is the cusp of World War 1, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. The Leviathan is a living airship, the most formidable airbeast in the skies of Europe. Aleksandar Ferdinand, prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is on the run. His own people have turned against him. All he has is a small, loyal crew of men. Deryn Sharp is a commoner, a girl disguised as a boy in the British Air Services. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered. With the Great War brewing, Alek and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected way...

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ISBN: 9781761620973

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 November 2025

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 1.0mm

Height: 1.0mm

Weight: 1g

Pages: 448

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About the Author

Scott Westerfeld (Author) Scott Westerfeld spends his southern hemisphere summers in Sydney, Australia, and his northern hemisphere summers in New York City. He was born in Texas and has been a musician, software game designer and ghost-writer; but writing under his own name turned out to be the most fun. He is not nearly as cool as Hunter in So Yesterday (he says) which won the 2005 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, but his writing definitely is. His novels have been named New York Times Notable Books of the Year, made the Times' Essential Summer Reading List, and awarded the Philip K Dick Special Citation. He has contributed essays and stories to Scifi.com, Nerve.com, Nerve, and Book Forum. He has two series' Uglies and Midnighters which won the Aurealis award for Best Young Adult Fantasy and Penguin have also published So Yesterday and Peeps. Scott's steam-punk saga begins with Leviathan, continues in Behemoth and concludes with Goliath. Keith Thompson (Illustrator) Keith Thompson began his artistic journey in high school, doing the odd freelance job and working in a small animation production studio. In college he studied illustration then pursued his chosen career using the web widely to gain exposure and work. He has produced work as static art, for computer games (Borderlands), for movies (Nothing Safer) and as the illustrator for Scott Westerfeld's trio of books beginning with Leviathan; amongst other printed works (Keith Thompson's Book of the Dead).

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