num_pages: 192
description: Jack knows who belongs out in the Black. And who doesn't -- until Kit comes walking into the pub and changes everything he believes about the Black, about the people who live there, about what it takes to be a human being. Margaret Bechard set out to write an adventure story with laser guns ad spaceships. Then, she says, "there was a big step and a long fall off a cliff while I realized that my characters didn't want to do the stuff I had in my mind; they had plans of their own." The a fast-paced space adventure and a short story about human feeling and growing up -- science fiction for those who love SF; riveting fiction for those who don't.
language: English
title: Spacer and Rat
titlecomplete: Spacer and Rat
genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Teen, Robots, Space, Fiction
ratings_count: 225
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Roaring Brook Press