City of Hope & Despair (City of a Hundred Rows) - Softcover

Whates, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 085766087X ISBN 13: 9780857660879

Publisher: Angry Robot, 2011

Synopsis

THEY CALL IT THE CITY OF A HUNDRED ROWS. The ancient city of Thaiburley is a vast, multi-tiered metropolis, where the poor live in the City Below, and Demons are said to dwell in the Upper Heights. The street-nick Tom must find the source of the great river Thair and perhaps learn the secret of his own strange powers… The assassin Dewar must redeem himself… The Prime Master desperately seeks the cure for bone flu – a mysterious and deadly malady that is striking down the talented in Thaiburley’s highest Rows… Kat, the renegade nick, forms an uneasy alliance with her sister Charveve, and the two lead the Tattooed Men through the dark streets of the City Below in search of the Soul Thief: the evil monster that murdered their mother and consigned both girls to the gladitorial hellhole known as the Pits… Welcome back to Thaiburley, the City of 100 Rows, the City of Dreams… where the nightmare has only just begun… File Under: Fantasy [ Towering City | Ancient Secrets | Assassins & Gods | Soul Thief! ]

About this title

About the Author

Ian Whates lives in a comfortable home down a quiet cul-de-sac in an idyllic Cambridgeshire village, which he shares with his partner Helen and their pets. His first published stories appeared in the late 1980s, but it was not until the early 2000s that he began to pursue writing with any seriousness, joining the Northampton SF Writers Group in 2004. In 2006 Ian launched the acclaimed independent publisher NewCon Press. Ian is currently a director of the British Science Fiction Association and has chaired the organisation since Spring 2008.

Edition details

• Publisher: Angry Robot
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 085766087X
• ISBN 13: 9780857660879
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400