![]() ![]() I loved Perdido Street Station and the world of Bas Lag, it's such a vivid mix of steampunk, weird fantasy and urban fantasy and in "the Scar" it's almost as if he's re-inventing urban fantasy - at the very least re-imagining it, the very idea of the city Armarda is simply genius. The talented linguist Bellis Coldwine finds herself a reluctant inhabitant after being press ganged by Pirates while she is running from New Crobuzon and becomes embroiled in an ambitious and highly dangerous project. The floating metropolis of Armada purports to be a free city, advertising itself as a place of refuge for those who would be otherwise subjugated or oppressed and yet it is still strictly controlled in reality, a place where no one ever leaves except straight down to feed the fishes. This time however we are far removed from the dirty, winding streets of New Crobuzon and thrust into the wider world, adrift on strange tides and weird seas. ![]() The Scar returns us to the wonderful world of Bas Lag, first encountered in the award winning novel Perdido Street Station. ![]()
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