Crudrat

In the far future in a space-port the size of a city, Crudrats scrape out a meager living cleaning great machines of the pollution generated by converting dark energy into usable power. Only children can safely traverse the cramped tunnels, filled with mechanical perils–grow too tall or too broad, and they’ll get caught on a blade and killed, or worse. Like rats, they scurry frenetically on their daily errands to clean the crud so their city can maintain orbit, only to face expulsion when they reach puberty.
Meet Maura. Orphan. Outcast. Crudrat. Grown too tall, alone in a space-port with no use for her, doomed to starve. With only her crud-eating murmel and an alien monster to help, she must find a way to survive, or escape, before they catch her and blow what’s left of her life, and her companions, out into space.
Gail Carriger’s Crudrat brings golden age-style science fiction adventure into the 21st century, stuffs it full of heart, and gives it a finely polished, gleaming edge.
==Crudrat on Kickstarter==
Crudrat is Gail's YA science fiction novel. Because of its unique tone Gail and her producer wanted to make it into a full cast audiobook. A successful Kickstarter made this dream a reality. Also they made short story audio stretch goals!
See the Crudrat website for FAQ, information about the Kickstarter campaign, and more!
Crudrat was printed as a limited run, numbered, special edition, signed, hard cover book. This was available only to specific Kickstarter backers as a reward. It is not for sale to the general public. 
== Crudrat in Print ==
Gail made the move from audio to print in 2022. On April 1, Crudrat became available in both print and digital formats. With the re-release came a new cover. 
== Covers ==
File:CrudratCover.jpg|Original Crudrat Cover
File:CRUDRAT2022.jpeg|2022 Updated Crudrat Cover
== Extras ==
* Crash Course Astronomy: Dark Matter from Slate.
* Gail announces that Audible Now Offers Crudrat and A Carriger Quartet 
* Pinterest Character Board for Crudrat. 
* All Gail's Books
== Quotes ==
* "The Wheel turns and true scions sit its blades lightly - and close to the center. But those without implants ride far to the edge where it is easy to fall of." - From Claudicix's Advice to Young ProgenetorsCrudrat, Chapter 1
* "Tinkers only know why some citizen implants don't take, but the fact remains that once every thousand or so they don't. Love your child late or not at all, too early and you'll both suffer the loss." - From Claudicix's Advice to Young ProgenetorsCrudrat, Chapter 2
* "To be a citizen is everything. Rejects are no better than aliens, both being equally contemptible in the eyes of the Wheel." - Excerpt from The Wheel in Motion by C. VenderseepCrudrat, Chapter 3
* "It's not the vast reaches of nothingness that drive the spaceborn mad. It's the vast loneliness therein." - ProverbCrudrat, Chapter 4
* "The only thing less friendly than spaceborn folk is spaceborn talk." - ProverbCrudrat, Chapter 5
* "Shopping: a progenetor's last great duty to the Wheel." - From Claudicix's Advice to Young ProgenetorsCrudrat, Chapter 6
* "When enhancers triggered their first trait, the progenetors knew they'd found the way to track their own, for the great families have always appreciated a proper accounting of what rightfully belongs to them, and now they could mark the generations that followed, forever and ever." - Excerpt from The Wheel in Motion by C. VenderseepCrudrat, Chapter 7
* "And the first Tinkers took themselves unto space to grapple with the void. There they found pathways between the stars. They also found a nothingness filled with something. Then they made the greatest discovery of them all - that something could be used." - Introduction to The Application of Dark Matter Theory, A Primer by T.L. ProzzerCrudrat, Chapter 8
* "There is truth in open space." - ProverbCrudrat, Chapter 9
* "As soon as humans entered space they determined how best to fight in it." - ProverbCrudrat, Chapter 10
* "With the harvesting of dark matter came the understanding of light and its purpose. From there it was only a short time before humans determined how to hurl matter across space. It has yet to be determined if this was a good idea." - Introduction to The Application of Dark Matter Theory, A Primer by T.L. ProzzerCrudrat, Chapter 11
*"They say the first Tinkers got everything right, all the aliens and pure bloods, right up and down from the time of Manufacture to Seeding. But those who like to contradict, claim that they really messed up with the Kill'ki." - On the Civilizing of Worlds by J. Kilsen SlliurpCrudrat, Chapter 12
*"When the Tinkers came to the end of all things and went - for just that moment - entirely mad, only then was it possible to dream-up the Jakaa Nova." - On the Civilizing of the Worlds by J. Kilsen SlliurpCrudrat, Chapter 13
*"Galactic Common is the amoeba of languages, subsuming the useful bits of all others it encounters. It hasn't a unique bone in its body. To be fair, it hasn't any bones or any body to contain them, either." - On the Civilizing of Worlds by J. Kilsen SlliurpCrudrat, Chapter 14
*"When the first humans, pure and unmodified, took to the stars they found that the universe was empty but for themselves." - On the Civilizing of Worlds by J. Kilsen SlliurpCrudrat, Chapter 15
*"The once holy trinity of civilization was the Builders, theTinkers, and the Tailors. They did not work alone, but they always worked best." - On the Civilizing of Worlds by J. Kilsen SlliurpCrudrat, Chapter 16
*"Kill'ki always carry. The Jakaa Nova don't have to. That's what we call 'an advantage.'" - Coalition ProverbCrudrat, Chapter 17
*"Want sympathy? Go to your bonded. Want help? Got to your gens. Doctors are for healing." - Coalition ProverbCrudrat, Chapter 18
*"Worth is a measurement of value against use. Although weapons are good too." - Coalition ProverbCrudrat, Chapter 19
*"When there is nothing else, countervail." - Coalition ProverbCrudrat, Chapter 20
== References ==
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