China Miéville
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 578 pages Rating: 4.16 | 27582 Users | 1659 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Scar |
| ISBN: | 0345460014 (ISBN13: 9780345460011) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/114264/the-scar-by-china-mieville/9780345460011/ |
| Series: | New Crobuzon #2 |
| Setting: | Bas-Lag |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2003), Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2003), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (2003), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2003), Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work) (2005) British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (August Derlith Fantasy Award) (2002), Philip K. Dick Award for Special Citation (2003), British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2003), Cena Akademie SFFH for Kniha roku (Book of the Year) (2004) |
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Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city. Among them is Bellis Coldwine, a renowned linguist whose services as an interpreter grant her passage—and escape from horrific punishment. For she is linked to Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, the brilliant renegade scientist who has unwittingly unleashed a nightmare upon New Crobuzon.For Bellis, the plan is clear: live among the new frontiersmen of the colony until it is safe to return home. But when the ship is besieged by pirates on the Swollen Ocean, the senior officers are summarily executed. The surviving passengers are brought to Armada, a city constructed from the hulls of pirated ships, a floating, landless mass ruled by the bizarre duality called the Lovers. On Armada, everyone is given work, and even Remades live as equals to humans, Cactae, and Cray. Yet no one may ever leave.
Lonely and embittered in her captivity, Bellis knows that to show dissent is a death sentence. Instead, she must furtively seek information about Armada’s agenda. The answer lies in the dark, amorphous shapes that float undetected miles below the waters—terrifying entities with a singular, chilling mission. . . .
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| Title | : | The Scar (New Crobuzon #2) |
| Author | : | China Miéville |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 578 pages |
| Published | : | June 29th 2004 by Del Rey (first published April 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Steampunk. Weird Fiction. New Weird. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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Ratings: 4.16 From 27582 Users | 1659 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books The Scar (New Crobuzon #2)
It took me two days to get through the last 50 pages of China Miéville's The Scar. Not because I was bored, or because the story was particularly impenetrable, but simply because I did not want the book to be over. I did finish it, however. And for a good ten minutes after the last sentence I found myself staring into space, stunned and cut adrift and wishing for another 50 pages. When I eventually sat down to begin this review, I realized that I had no idea what made the book so amazing.AndWow. Clear an evening, take a day off, do whatever you need to do to carve out some serious reading time because the The Scar is good. Very, very good. This is the sort of book you put down for a second just to exclaim aloud how good it is, the sort you push on friends and family with evangelical fervor. I stayed up late with this one, suffering in a fug of fatigue at work the next day, yet hanging out for when I could crack the covers and read into the wee hours all over again. If you've read
Say goodbye to the festering filth of New Crobuzon! Welcome to a floating pirate city chock-full of mysteries, lies, betrayals, photophobic haemophages, and merciless manipulation. Now, where do I apply for its citizenship??? A pirate city is every child's dream. Including, apparently, my own inner child, desperately in need of inner babysitter.Before I say anything else in my review, I want to confess - I absolutely, wholeheartedly loved Armada. I loved its tolerance, its camaraderie, its
By gods and Jabber! This is one pugnacious thaumaturgical book! (sorry, bad in-joke).China Miéville an interesting and awe-inspiring author, he writes like an angel but looks like a football hooligan! This is the second of the New Crobuzon series. Why it is not called The Bas-Lag series I have no idea, all of the Scar is set outside the great sprawling city of New Crobuzon, though it is frequently referred to.As with the amazing Perdido Street Station this book is full of interesting characters
After reading Kraken, and The City and the City and after Perdido Street Station, it occurred to me that China Mieville was certainly one of our most imaginative and talented new writers and that he was on a short list of authors who were dramatically making new ground in new fantasy. But after reading each, I also decided, knew in fact, that he could do better, that his masterpiece was yet to be written, that as great a talent had been displayed, more, so much more could be expected.The Scar
I bow my head in acknowledgement of Miéville's inventiveness. Who else but the Master of Weird would have thought up of anophelii, mosquito men and women? Or of crays, people with the head and torso of a man and the lower half of a crayfish? Or of Armada, a huge floating city made up of boats and ships all tied together? To me, however, it was all just a lot of flashy window dressing. This is all well and good. Clearly there are a lot of people who enjoy that and who find it interesting. I was
So far my favorite Miéville's book.Again main star is one very fascinating city but very different one. New crobuzone is filthy, dream shattering capitalist metropolis, pirate city Armada tries to be opposite. While in Perdido street station he criticizes capitalism in The scar he takes shots at communism and socialism, which I did find bit surprising as Miéville is left wing political activist. Other than fascinating city this book features multilayered story, well developed characters and
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