![]() Shopkeeper Cutter treks into the wilderness in search of his lover, the revolutionary Judah Low. The city has chosen to fight a war with remote Tesh, whose utterly mysterious leaders retaliate with terrible, incomprehensible magical weapons. ![]() Citizens who transgress are likely to find their heads and torsos grafted on to a horse’s body. New Crobuzon’s rulers, a quasi-democratic, utterly ruthless capitalist gang, enforce their will through militia equipped with firearms and magic, perhaps mounted upon Remade steeds with steam-piston legs. Think Calcutta, then add magic, aliens, alchemy, and other disciplines almost unimaginably strange and alarming. Third foray into the fantasy world of New Crobuzon ( The Scar, 2002, etc.), a city unlike any other. ![]()
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