description: 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.
language: English
title: The Scar
titlecomplete: The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Weird Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, New Weird, Steampunk
ratings_count: 31727
places: Bas-Lag
series: New Crobuzon
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work), awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best Novel (August Derlith Fantasy Award), awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Philip K. Dick Award
category: Special Citation, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Roman étranger and Traduction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Cena Akademie SFFH
category: Kniha roku (Book of the Year)
publisher: Turtleback Books