Book 69: "The Scar" by China Mieville
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kittiwakeThere were certain mysteries that the work of the underwater engineer threw up. What manner of things were those shadows he sometimes glimpsed, behind the tightly tethered guard-sharks, unclear through what must be adumbrating glamours? What were the purposes of the repairs that he and his colleagues daily carried out?
Bellis Coldwine, a former lover of Isaac de Grimnebulin, has to leave New Crobuzon to avoid being picked up by the authorities, who are 'disappearing' anyone who knows the main players in the slake moth crisis (the story of which is told in "Perdido Street Station"). Bellis is a linguist, and after hastily learning salkrikaltor cray, she takes a job as translator on a ship that is heading for a distant colony, carrying a few paying passenger and a cargo of criminals. The ship never reaches its destination, but its passengers and crew find themselves living in a fabled city, and some of them are caught up in a secret project run by the rulers of one of the city ridings.
The story features more of the intelligent races of Bas-Lag (including scabmettlers, he-crays, grindylow and anophelii), as well as one race that is possibly not native to the planet.
Just as good as "Perdido Street Station", and with the added bonus of a strong ending!
Bellis Coldwine, a former lover of Isaac de Grimnebulin, has to leave New Crobuzon to avoid being picked up by the authorities, who are 'disappearing' anyone who knows the main players in the slake moth crisis (the story of which is told in "Perdido Street Station"). Bellis is a linguist, and after hastily learning salkrikaltor cray, she takes a job as translator on a ship that is heading for a distant colony, carrying a few paying passenger and a cargo of criminals. The ship never reaches its destination, but its passengers and crew find themselves living in a fabled city, and some of them are caught up in a secret project run by the rulers of one of the city ridings.
The story features more of the intelligent races of Bas-Lag (including scabmettlers, he-crays, grindylow and anophelii), as well as one race that is possibly not native to the planet.
Just as good as "Perdido Street Station", and with the added bonus of a strong ending!
