Blackfish City
By: Sam J. Miller
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: April 1, 2018
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780062684820
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Climatic changes; Social conflict; Corruption; Social change; Fiction
First sentence: People would say she came to Qaanaaq in a skiff towed by a killer whale harnessed to the front like a horse.
Description: After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. Now crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives--a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side--the city is entranced. She very subtly brings together four people--each living on the periphery--to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves.
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