Richard Kadrey

The Grand Dark (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series, a lush, dark, stand-alone fantasy built on the insurgent tradition of China Miéville and M. John Harrisona subversive tale that immerses us in a world where the extremes of bleakness and beauty exist together in dangerous harmony in a city on the edge of civility and chaos

The Great War is over. The city of Lower Proszawa celebrates the peace with a decadence and carefree spirit as intense as the war's horrifying despair. But this newfound hedonismdrugs, sex, and endless partiesdistracts from the strange realities of everyday life: intelligent automata taking jobs; genetically engineered creatures that serve as pets and beasts of war; a theater where gruesome murders happen twice a day; and a new plague that even the ceaseless euphoria can't mask.

Unlike others who live strictly for fun, Largo is an addict with ambitions. A bike messenger who grew up in the slums, he knows the city's back alleys and secrets intimately. His life seems set. He has a beautiful girlfriend, drugs, a chance at a promotionand maybe an opportunity for complete transformation: a contact among the elite who can set him on the course to lift himself out of the streets.

But dreams can be dangerous in a city whose mood is turning dark and inward. Others have a vision of life very different from Largo's, and they will use any method to secure control. And behind it all, beyond the frivolity and chaos, the threat of new war always looms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062672537
• Artikelnr.: 56933215

Autorenporträt

Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir books. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon's 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime, and is in development as a feature film. Some of his other books include The Wrong Dead Guy, The Everything Box, Metrophage, and Butcher Bird. He also writes the Vertigo comic Lucifer.

Rezensionen

'A fun and terrifying ride, gritty and relentless, burning with true love and revolutionary fervor'
Cory Doctorow, bestselling author of LITTLE BROTHER

'The very best science-fiction and fantasy is often set somewhere else, during another time, while still also very much being about the here and the now, and The Grand Dark continues that essential tradition. Kadrey has written for us a beautiful nightmare - one that's often eerily familiar - showing a theatrical world set on the edge of war, and losing itself in the shadows of brutality and oppression'
Chuck Wendig, bestselling author of WANDERERS

'Stunning. The hard, spare, considered voice that's driven Kadrey's gonzo supernatural noir has been honed to a deft Kafka-esque edge. Unsettling and dreamlike, seductive and bleak, the jaws of The Grand Dark gape to devour you'
Max Gladstone

'Artisanal gene mod and robots and coal dust and a big middle finger to the oligarchs, plus bicycles!'
Kevin Hearne

'Wildly ambitious and inventive fantasy'
KIRKUS