The Scar
A mythmaker of the highest order, China Miéville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sprawling world of Miéville?s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, Perdido Street Station, this latest epic introduces a whole new cast of intriguing characters and dazzling creations.
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. . . .
China Miéville is a writer for a new era?and The Scar is a luminous, brilliantly imagined novel that is nothing short of spectacular. more
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-01-2009
- No map, and no text-to-voice
The text-to-speech is disabled, showing a dislike for vision impaired people.The images of this are great and creative, but the twists and turns which don't pan out take a very long time, and you end of feeling ripped off after reading...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-10-2009
- Intricate new world
It took me a while to get into this book. At first I was taken aback by all the new words and references that were just thrown at me, without any explanation. I don't want to give away the plot, since that is one of the things that drew...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-25-2009
- Pulpable fiction
The problem with Mielville is that he is overmuch in love with EVERY ONE of his ideas and proceeds to stick them all into the same book.In Perdido Street Station he introduced the strange city of New Crobuzon in the world Bas-Lag. Not...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-16-2009
- 20,000 Leagues ACROSS the Sea
If you think about it, Mieville's THE SCAR is a modern-day "20,000 Leagues" tale.Both start off with the ship and crew going to some distant location, only to have their voyage halted by an unexpected attack. Instead of a giant squid,...
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Selected Reviews
- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-10-2009
- Intricate new world
It took me a while to get into this book. At first I was taken aback by all the new words and references that were just thrown at me, without any explanation. I don't want to give away the plot, since that is one of the things that drew...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Mar-26-2009
- Interesting but not-fast paced follow up to Perdido Street Station
_The Scar_ is the third book by China Mi?ville, the second of his that I have read. Prior to this I read his _Perdido Street Station_. Though the book briefly references events in that earlier novel and the novel's primary character, the...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-01-2009
- No map, and no text-to-voice
The text-to-speech is disabled, showing a dislike for vision impaired people.The images of this are great and creative, but the twists and turns which don't pan out take a very long time, and you end of feeling ripped off after reading...
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