num_pages: 458
description: Incarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber -- chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison -- a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, an imminent marriage she dreads. She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists. But there comes a moment when Finn, inside Incarceron, and Claudia, outside, simultaneously find a device -- a crystal key, through which they can talk to each other. And so the plan for Finn's escape is born ...
language: English
title: Incarceron
titlecomplete: Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
characters: Keiro, John Arlexa, Attia, Finn Abbott, Claudia
genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Adventure, Teen, Young Adult Fantasy, Steampunk, Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy, Mystery
ratings_count: 60452
series: Incarceron
awards: awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Children’s Literature, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Milwaukee County Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: CYBILS Award
category: Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Carnegie Medal
publisher: Hodder Children's Books