Booklog: Starclimber (Oppel)

Kenneth Oppel, Starclimber

Airship pilot trainee Matt Cruse never thought he'd be dodging terrorists during his summer job ferrying materials to and from the giant space elevator the French are building in Paris until a group of Babelites attempts to turn his tug into a flying bomb. He never dreamed he'd be invited to training camp for the world's first manned space-flight, either -- or that his girlfriend, the rich, unconventional, headstrong Kate DeVries, would become engaged to another man in return for the chance to travel on the same space-flight as its xenobiologist. Perhaps a love between people of two such different backgrounds was never meant to flourish, just as the Babelites insist that man was never meant to trespass in God's heaven ...

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Recommended, but consider reading the equally entertaining prequels Airborn and Skybreaker first.