Before the earth’s environment collapsed, under the weight of industrial pollution and radioactive waster, the oceans teemed with an abundance of life.
It’s now 2200 and all that moves now is only mechanical…..
Aquatica is the second book by Lance Balchin which explores a future where all animals and insects as we know them now are long extinct and all that we have are mechanical creatures.
Aquatica explores a world filled with aquatic animals who have evolved from robotic drones into free thinking, dangerous attackers. Life in 2200 is dangerous yet amazingly interesting.
The protagonist Liberty Crisp, aged 15, is on a mission to document each of these species and try to befriend them so the world does not destroy itself even more than it has.
You can spend hours looking at the details of each mechanical creature and reading the detail of it’s habitat, speed and lifestyle. Lance Balchin ignites our imagination and makes the reader ponder the future – what do we want it to look like for our children?
So how can you use this book at home?
– Revisit Mechanica and the activities included.
– Visit a nearby water way and investigate the different living species that live within this environment.
– Look at what you put down your drain at home – could any of this effect marine life?
– Make your own Aquatica creature and test to see if it can live in water.
– Look at organisations such as WWF, Greenpeace and see how they help our oceans.
