As a result, dogs can also be taught to do so much more.
Thanks to technological advancements, the vocalizations and behaviors of dogs can be translated into human language, allowing communication between the two species. This book was just too darn cute!īilled as The Incredible Journey set in space, the story follows a team of four scrappy and adorable canine Barkonauts as they travel aboard the colonization ship Laika as companions and specially trained helpers to the human crew. Won't hold the interest of high school readers, but a great choice for upper-elementary and middle schoolers looking to get on the Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic Bandwagons.Middle Grade fiction isn’t an age category I typically go for, but I’m a big fan of Greg Van Eekhout and when I saw the premise of Voyage of the Dogs I just couldn’t resist. It's mostly an adventure story-lots of battles and scrapes and that sort of thing as Fisher navigates across the former United States-but it's an adventure through a post-apocalyptic world that has reinvented itself to be nearly unrecognizable-boundaries have changed, earthquakes have altered the topography, the Mississippi river is a hundred miles shorter than it used to be. However, those safeguards are all failing and Fisher's ark is destroyed, and his only hope for survival is in finding another ark with other people. Luckily (I guess) the humans knew they were on their way out, and preserved samples of most existing animals (including humans) in suspended animation tanks on giant arks, with robotic "custodians" and guards to keep them safe. The journey to find any other humans will require Fisher to outsmart robots, evade the deadly gadgets, and win over a colony of warrior prairie dogs-all in a world that has been completely destroyed.ĭefinitely a post-apocalyptic adventure, as all of humanity has been destroyed-and with it much of the earth.
These are the things Fisher knows immediately on waking up, on being born from the survival pod ages after all the other humans have died.
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