num_pages: 713
description: An epic masterwork about the trials of a man of science in a Kafkaesque realm of persecution and paranoia from a World Fantasy Awardwinning author. The Well-Built City is a hellish place of unrelenting nightmare ruled with cruelty oppression and terror by the inscrutable madman Drachton Below. In his multiple-award-winning New York Times Notable trilogy Jeffrey Ford creates a dystopia that chronicles the hubris downfall and damnation of a highly placed functionary responsible for determining who will live or die according to their facial structure. The Physiognomy: With his unimpeachable authority to condemn and destroy the pompous drug-addicted Cley is one of the most feared civil servants in Drachton Belows Well-Built City. But when the Master himself dispatches him to a remote mining town to recover a stolen object of unimaginable power events will cause the physiognomist to doubt his science and the reality of his world. Memoranda: Exiled in the wilderness Cleys newfound peace is shattered when his village is struck with a terrible sleeping sickness. Joining forces with Drachton Belows demon son Misrix the former physiognomist must reenter the now-ruined city to find a cure hidden in the insane labyrinth of the Masters mind. The Beyond: On a journey chronicled by the half-demon Misrix one-time physiognomist Cley travels deep into a mysterious and dangerous Beyond to face untold terrors as he attempts to right an unspeakable wrong.
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title: The Well-Built City Trilogy: The Physiognomy, Memoranda, and The Beyond
publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy