Search SFE    Search EoF

  Omit cross-reference entries  

Oppel, Kenneth

Entry updated 6 March 2023. Tagged: Author.

Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com

pic

(1967-    ) Canadian author most of whose early work, beginning with an adolescent fantasy, Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure (1985), comprises Young Adult fantasy series, including the Silverwing Universe sequence [not listed below] and the Matt Curse sequence beginning with Airborn (2004), a Steampunk sequence set in an Alternate History version of Victorian England dominated by Airships, at least one of them being a Ship of Fools. The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein sequence beginning with This Dark Endeavor (2011) recasts the early years of the Baron into Young Adult terms, romance elements being conspicuous. Of Oppel's nonseries titles, The Boundless (2014) features a Steampunk-inflected nineteenth-century Canadian landscape dominated by a nine-mile-long train (see Transportation). The Overthrow sequence beginning with Bloom (2020) follows the trials and tribulations of a group of Mutant teenagers who may become a Superhero team; but first they must cope with an Alien attempt to turn Earth into a plantation – Thomas M Disch's The Genocides (1966) may have provided a model here – as well as a Mad Scientist who runs the Keep in which they have been enclosed; fortunately, some of the aliens are opposed to genocide, and hope dawns. [JC]

Kenneth Oppel

born Port Alberni, British Columbia: 31 August 1967

works (selected)

series

Matt Cruse

  • Airborn (Toronto, Ontario: HarperCollins, 2004) [Matt Cruse: hb/]
  • Skybreaker (Toronto, Ontario: HarperCollins, 2006) [Matt Cruse: hb/David Gaadt]
  • Starclimber (Toronto, Ontario: HarperCollins, 2008) [Matt Cruse: hb/]

The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein

  • This Dark Endeavor (New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2011) [Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein: hb/]
  • Such Wicked Intent (New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2012) [Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein: hb/]

The Overthrow

  • Bloom (Toronto, Ontario: HarperCollins, 2020) [The Overthrow: hb/M S Corley]
  • Hatch (Toronto, Ontario: HarperCollins, 2020) [The Overthrow: hb/M S Corley]
  • Thrive (Toronto, Ontario: HarperCollins, 2021) [The Overthrow: hb/M S Corley]

individual titles

links

previous versions of this entry



x
This website uses cookies.  More information here. Accept Cookies