Raiders' ransom

By Emily Diamand

Subjects: Environmental degradation, Kidnapping, fiction, Science fiction, Adventure stories, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Computers, fiction, Kidnapping, Fiction, Computers, Cats, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Pirates, Adventure and adventurers, Cats

Description: In 22nd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, the piratical Reavers kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom.