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Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.

Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.

Lucas says:
"Revis has written a novel that makes philosophical issues such as the consequences of
monoethnicity, human colonization of space, & the effects of totalitarian rule accessible
& understandable for a young adult audience. Not to mention it's a REALLY GREAT READ!
This is some of the best young adult literature I've read."

Jackie says:
"This is a chunky book--416 pages. It only contains the BEGINNING of the story, actually. It is the story of Godspeed, an enormous spacecraft that houses somewhere between 700 and 800 people who manage its farms, do its research, maintain its integrity. And then, in a hidden level at the bottom of the ship, there are 100 cryogenically frozen people--specialists from modern day Earth--who will be thawed out, when the ship reaches its destination 350 years from the day of launch, to help colonized the new planet. At least that was what was supposed to happen, until someone unplugged 16 year old Amy (250 years into the voyage), showing us the first thread in the complex web of lies that Godspeed has become. This is the story of Amy and Elder and how they find the truth, and each other. It moves at a breathless pace as layer after layer of intrigue is revealed. Murder, friendship, betrayal, love, lies, genetic manipulation, megalomania--it's all here, and more. This is the first book in a planned trilogy, and it has already captured teens fascination everywhere. Jump aboard The Godspeed--it's
one heck of a ride!"