Kate, who is part of the women suffragettes, is chosen for her aerial zoological expertise to partake in the maiden voyage to outer space. In response to the attack, Canada’s Ministry of Air seeks to ensure Canada is the first nation to successfully reach space. Matt’s plans of spending the summer in Paris with Kate are suddenly dashed. Following the incident, Matt is disappointed to learn that his partner and romantic interest, Kate De Vries, is traveling back to Lionsgate City. In the process, Matt barely escapes a violent attack by the Babelites, a terrorist group intent on stopping human space travel. In order to finance his final year of training, boy pilot Matt Cruse helms an aerocrane for France’s Celestial Tower. Narrated in the first person, the novel begins in the mid-twentieth century as space travel is still a very new prospect. Starclimber follows Oppel’s Printz Honor-winning Airborn, and Skybreaker. Along the way, Matt must contend with the spaceship Starclimber’s mechanical failure, Kate’s secret wedding engagement, a violent terrorist group known as the Babelites, and a breed of extraterrestrial creatures called Etherians. When Matt’s summer in Paris is interrupted by a chance to enter an “astralnaut” training program, he cannot refuse the opportunity to partake in the first mission to reach outer space. Primarily set in outer space during the mid-twentieth century, the story resumes the enthralling adventures of boy pilot Matt Cruse and his romantic interest Kate De Vries. The third entry in the Matt Cruse book series, Starclimber is the 2008 young-adult fantasy novel written by Canadian author Kenneth Oppel.
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