num_pages: 342
description: Call him Stark. If you have to. If you're lucky, you won't have to call him at all. Because if you do, it means you've got trouble. Big trouble. And the problem is that before Stark is done fixing something, a lot of other things usually get broken, like lives and laws. Which makes it a good thing he has contacts in almost every Neighborhood in the City.A word about the Neighborhoods. A long time ago, when the nation's main city began to cover most of the country, neighborhoods became Neighborhoods, self-governing states, each free to do what it liked. In Color, the streets change hue to offset what you're wearing; in Sound, no one makes any; and in Fnaph, people believe that if they jump high enough, they'll touch heaven. And those are just the milder Neighborhoods.But most of Stark's assignments take him to wilder places. His latest, to find a missing VIP named Fell Alkland - whom authorities believe was kidnapped from Action, where everyone is into Doing Things - takes him into Red, a pretty dangerous place for most people. But Stark's not most people. Red to him is a piece of cake. And that's what bothers him. If there's one thing he's learned while trying to survive in a world hurtling straight to hell, it's this: Things are always more complicated than they seem. And when a job seems too easy, something truly ugly is about to happen.Finding Fell Alkland is easy. What happens afterward will turn out to be Stark's worst nightmare - the kind where your most secret fear becomes a soul-screaming reality. And you don't even have to be asleep.
language: English
title: Only Forward
titlecomplete: Only Forward
genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Book Club, Horror, Cyberpunk
ratings_count: 5701
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Philip K. Dick Award, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel (August Derleth Award)
publisher: Bantam Books