- Title:
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The Scar (MP3)
- Series:
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New Crobuzon #2
- Written by:
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China Miéville
- Read by:
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Damian Lynch
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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2
- Duration:
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21 hours 42 minutes
- MP3 size:
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921 MB
- Published:
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October 01 2020
- Available Date:
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October 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655696506
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Science Fiction; Fantasy Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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Award winning author
A colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination. Damian Lynch narrates China Mieville's British Fantasy Award-winning novel of human cargo bound for servitude in exile.
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 travellers, 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.
When the ship is besieged by pirates, the surviving passengers are brought to Armada, a city constructed from the hulls of stolen ships, a floating, landless mass ruled by the bizarre duality called the Lovers. And 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 …
'A work of exhaustive inventiveness . . . superlative fantasy.'
Time Out
'A well-written, authentically engrossing adventure story, exuberantly full of hocus-pocus ... Miéville does not disappoint.'
Daily Telegraph
'Mieville's creatures end up none the wiser, but there is nothing uncertain about his confidence in his own inventions. And it is wonderfully infectious; Armada, like New Crobuzon, has the feel and complexity of a living place - it's just that you wouldn't want to live there.'
Sunday Telegraph