Matt is disappointed to learn that the Junior Sailmaker position he was promised has been given to the fleet's owner's heir, Bruce Lunardi. Despite loving his mother and sisters dearly, Matt is relieved to be in the air where he feels closest to his father - a former sailmaker who died in an accident aboard the Aurora. One year later, Matt leaves his home in Lionsgate City to accompany the Aurora on its voyage to Sydney, Australia. Malloy rambles about "beautiful creatures" and dies shortly after being taken aboard. The Aurora's crew mount a rescue operation to save the man, whose name is later said to be Benjamin Malloy. While on lookout duty, he spots a damaged balloon carrying an unconscious old man. The main characters are Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries.įourteen-year-old Matt Cruse is a cabin boy for the Aurora, an airship that stays afloat using a gas called "hydrium".
And they did.Airborn is the first book in the Matt Cruse series by Kenneth Oppel. I got a letter from them, saying they wanted to take me on, and try to sell my story. I never heard back from Roald Dahl directly, but he read my story, and liked it enough to pass on to his own literary agent. We had a family friend who knew Roald Dahl - one of my favourite authors - and this friend offered to show Dahl my story. It turned out to be quite a long story, really a short novel, and I rewrote it the next summer.
I started out writing sci-fi epics (my Star Wars phase) then went on to swords and sorcery tales (my Dungeons and Dragons phase) and then, during the summer holiday when I was fourteen, started on a humorous story about a boy addicted to video games (written, of course, during my video game phase). and on the opposite coast, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.At around twelve I decided I wanted to be a writer (this came after deciding I wanted to be a scientist, and then an architect). I was born in 1967 in Port Alberni, a mill town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia but spent the bulk of my childhood in Victoria, B.C.
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