China Miéville proved himself a master of atmospheric dark fiction with his previous two novels, and the award-winning British author just keeps getting better. THE SCAR, set in the same world as PERDIDO STREET STATION, introduces the coolest setting ever--the floating, libertarian city of Armada.5/5(5). · The Scar was the first novel China Mieville wrote while being known as a major figure in the world of speculative fiction and with the expectations that come along with such praise. Perdido Street Station at times achieved a brilliance born of vivid imagination that felt like a wake up call to the genre. Mieville picked up the British Fantasy Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel, Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. China Miéville’s “The Scar” is set on the vast floating pirate city of ‘Armada’, among mosquito-people, walking cacti, criminals punished by being surgically ‘Remade,’ and a fine cast of monsters, from the murderous “Grindylow”, to the incomprehensible “Avanc”/5(K).
Mieville, China. The Scar. New York: Del Rey, p. Cover art's by Ashley Wood — and a very nice atmospheric picture of the floating city Armada and its accompanying airships it is. Go check out his website — he does kick-ass, grungy robots and human figures. Some posing super-chicks, which I get a little tired of, but, ah, well. The Scar begins with Miéville's frantic heroine, Bellis Coldwine, fleeing her beloved New Crobuzon in the peripheral wake of events relayed in Perdidio Street Station. But her voyage to the colony of Nova Esperium is cut short when she is shanghaied and stranded on Armada, a legendary floating pirate city. The Scar probably isn't China Miéville's best novel. That accolade should go to The City and the City or Embassytown, books which set out from the start to discomfit and unsettle: the first.
The Scar was the first novel China Mieville wrote while being known as a major figure in the world of speculative fiction and with the expectations that come along with such praise. Perdido Street Station at times achieved a brilliance born of vivid imagination that felt like a wake up call to the genre. Mieville picked up the British Fantasy Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel, and speculative fiction had a new must read author. China Miéville proved himself a master of atmospheric dark fiction with his previous two novels, and the award-winning British author just keeps getting better. THE SCAR, set in the same world as PERDIDO STREET STATION, introduces the coolest setting ever--the floating, libertarian city of Armada. China Miéville is a writer for a new era—and The Scar is a luminous, brilliantly imagined novel that is nothing short of spectacular.
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