Blackfish City - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062684876 ISBN 13: 9780062684875

Synopsis

Blackfish City

About this title

Review:

"An urgent tale imploring us to look at the ties between technology, race, gender and class privilege. . . . Surprisingly heartwarming. . . . An action-packed science fiction thriller."--Washington Post

"Miller's poetic prose gives this dystopian story a taut, lyrical edge."--Entertainment Weekly

"Blackfish City feels like a place I've never seen in a story before, but I came away feeling as though I'd lived there forever. One of the most intriguing future cities in years."--Charlie Jane Anders

"This is the kind of swirling, original sci-fi we live for."--B&N Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog

"Bleak, gut-wrenching, yet beautifully written, Blackfish City ponders what makes a society thrive or die."--Amazon Book Review

"A timeless story of rebellion against a corrupt master, giving it a kind of Hunger Games resonance that reaches beyond any genre boundaries. Miller is a graceful writer."--Booklist

"A floating Arctic city; nano-bonded orcas and polar bears; an Earth violently reshaped by the mistakes we're making right now... I haven't been this swept away by imagination and worldbuilding since Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. A gorgeous, queer, muscular novel."--Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award-nominated author of Her Body and Other Parties

"A wildly inventive post-cyberpunk ride that also has real things to say about community and family. Sam Miller's drowned future is vivid and fully real, even as he throws in the weird and the fantastic. Sam Miller is a fiercely strong writer, and this book is a blast."--Daryl Gregory, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Spoonbenders

"Blackfish City is an exhilarating tour of a post-catastrophe future that's both fantastical and eerily convincing. Imagine The Yiddish Policeman's Union cross-bred with Snowcrash and you'll get an inkling of the imaginative horsepower on display here."--Adam Sternbergh, author of The Blinds

"Miller gives us an incisive and beautifully written story of love, revenge, and the power (and failure) of family in a scarily plausible future. Blackfish City simmers with menace and heartache, suspense and wonder."--Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling and Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke Award-winning author of Ancillary Justice

From the Back Cover:

When a strange new visitor arrives in a floating city in the Arctic--humanity's last hope after the ravages of climate change--the city is entranced. She's riding an orca and has a polar bear at her beck and call. She's called "the orcamancer," and she very subtly unites four desperate people to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together, they will learn shocking truths about themselves--and save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay.

About this edition

• ISBN 10: 0062684876
• ISBN 13: 9780062684875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336