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Add to Calendar. View Map View Map. Find out more about how your privacy is protected. He related strongly to Emily's dream of becoming a published writer and by grade seven determined that he, too, would write. He noted in Writing Stories, Making Pictures: Biographies of Canadian Children's Authors and Illustrators: "I remember making a vow to my father when I was thirteen, that I wanted to have something published before I'd turned fourteen. The story behind that accomplishment is almost too good to be true.
As a pre-teen, Oppel had a strong interest in the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. By the time he was fourteen, however, that interest had evolved into a passion for video games.
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His first book, Colin's Fantastic Video Adventure , was a result of that video-gaming enthusiasm. Oppel used pencil to write the first draft of his book the summer he was fourteen. He rewrote it the following summer and got his lucky break. A family friend who knew British children's author Roald Dahl agreed to show him Oppel's story.
Dahl was impressed enough to pass it on to his own literary agent.
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The agent agreed to represent the book and promptly sold it to publishers in London and New York. Oppel soon learned that such early success is not always an unmitigated blessing. Fascinated by his cinema studies, Oppel began making student films. When, in his final undergraduate year, he turned again to writing children's books, it was inevitable that his film experience would influence his literary style.
The Live-Forever Machine , written for an independent studies course in creative writing, demonstrated the new cinematic influence.
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The story of fourteen-year-old Eric, who stumbles upon two men who discovered the secret of immortality in A. The reader sees, as if through a camera lens, a dank underworld where the Live-Forever machine is jealously guarded, a deceptively bland urban upper world melting under a ferocious sun, and a cool museum that offers refuge from the heat and a passageway into the past. The techniques and themes introduced in The Live-Forever Machine continue to surface in Oppel's books for young adults.
Readers can count on quickly spliced scenes, flashbacks, an obsession with the past and immortality, and young protagonists struggling to decipher their place in the world. Dead Water Zone , Oppel's second novel, drew on and further developed the complexities of scene and character introduced in The Live-Forever Machine.
Elizabeth S. MacCallum also commented: "Perhaps in fantasy and science fiction most of all, where the reader must be convinced of the reality of an imaginary universe in which a whole world of different conditions apply, the writer must be able to paint a convincing scene with words. Oppel's world is indisputable from the first paragraph. In Silverwing , his third novel for young people, Oppel introduces yet another world, one of bats.
Like all books in this genre, its success depends upon the convincing portrayal of a plausible world. This Kenneth Oppel has achieved. Since leaving a job at a children's book publisher, Oppel has devoted himself to writing full time. The Live-Forever Machine provides a clue to the role that writ-ing now plays in his life. In the book, Eric's father, an aspiring writer, rushes home from his conductor's job to get directly to his typewriter.
Writing is more than a nine-to-five job. Oppel also explained his prodigious literary output in "Meet Kenneth Oppel. We were very poor, and I think it was fear of total destitution that made me as productive as I was during the next eighteen months. In his headlong pursuit of excellence, Oppel is much like his fictional characters. The protagonists in his stories all have a restless intelligence. Rather than relying on what adults tell them to believe, they are driven to find answers on their own.
Shade, the irrepressibly curious young bat in Silverwing , sets out on a dangerous journey to discover the truth about what happened to his lost father and which of the many versions of history he should believe. Oppel's characters, nonconformists all, speak directly and meaningfully to young readers. In spite of his success in the field of children's literature, Oppel has not confined his writing exclusively to children's books. He has also gained a reputation for screen writing.
His screenplay for The Live-Forever Machine was optioned for film even before the book was published.
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An adult screenplay, Virtual Murder , about a virtual reality theme park in which nothing is legal or illegal, was optioned by a Hollywood film producer in After experimenting with adult fiction in the year medical thriller Devil's Cure , Oppel returned to young adult titles, enlarging the saga of bats begun in Silverwing. With Sunwing and Firewing , the author continues the adventures of Shade, as he attempts to be reunited with his colony of bats. In Sunwing Shade's search for his father brings him into a dangerous forest and also pits him against his old enemy, Goth, leader of a colony of vampire bats.
In Firewing , Shade goes to the rescue of his own son, Griffin, trapped in the Underworld. Michael Jung, reviewing Firewing in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy , felt that it, like the earlier volumes in the series, displayed "a masterful blend of humor, suspense, fantasy, and adventure that draws readers into the tale. Oppel turns his attention to flight of another variety in Airborn and Skybreaker , two young adult novels featuring Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries and their adventures on a luxury airship or dirigible.
Set near the beginning of the twentieth century, these books feature a wealth of detail about such airships, combined with romance and adventure.
In the first title, Airborn , Matt, a cabin boy who helps save his airship from a mid-air collision, later survives an attack by pirates and a crash-landing on a desert island where he and Kate discover a strange and dangerous species of animal. Kliatt reviewer Paula Rohrlick found this title an "exciting tale," and Booklist contributor Jennifer Matson also praised the "rip-roaring" adventures Matt and Kate experience in their first outing together.
Skybreaker is a continuation of such adventures, described by a Kirkus Reviews contributor as "creative, compelling, nicely unpredictable and alive with nature and technology. Matt memorizes the coordinates, for the ship in question is full of booty, and soon he is on the hunt for it, aided again by Kate.
This second installment also earned favorable reviews. Matson, writing in Booklist , thought that readers "will happily stay aboard to the tinglingly good conclusion. Watson, review of Dead Water Zone , p.