The Scar-Fast Shipping

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A mythmaker of the highest order, China Miéville has emblazoned the fantasy novelwith fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the samesprawling world of Miéville’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, Perdido StreetStation, this latest epic introduces a whole new cast of intriguing characters anddazzling creations.

Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves,their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to thefledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joinedby a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city. Among them isBellis Coldwine, a renowned linguist whose services as an interpreter grant her passage—andescape from horrific punishment. For she is linked to Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin,the brilliant renegade scientist who has unwittingly unleashed a nightmare upon NewCrobuzon.

For Bellis, the plan is clear: live among the new frontiersmen of thecolony until it is safe to return home. But when the ship is besieged by pirateson the Swollen Ocean, the senior officers are summarily executed. The surviving passengersare 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, everyoneis given work, and even Remades live as equals to humans, Cactae, and Cray. Yet noone may ever leave.

Lonely and embittered in her captivity, Bellis knows that toshow dissent is a death sentence. Instead, she must furtively seek information aboutArmada’s agenda. The answer lies in the dark, amorphous shapes that float undetectedmiles below the waters—terrifying entities with a singular, chilling mission. . ..

China Miéville is a writer for a new era—and The Scar is a luminous, brilliantlyimagined novel that is nothing short of spectacular.