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The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2) by China Miéville is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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SUMMARY:A mythmaker of the highest order, China Miéville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sprawling world of Miéville’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, Perdido Street Station, this latest epic introduces a whole new cast of intriguing characters and dazzling creations. 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 travelers, 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.For Bellis, the plan is clear: live among the new frontiersmen of the colony until it is safe to return home. But when the ship is besieged by pirates on the Swollen Ocean, the senior officers are summarily executed. The surviving passengers are brought to Arm

Who reads The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)?

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
China Miéville
Publisher
Random House, Incorporated
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9780345460011
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction
Rating
4.15 / 5 (21,122 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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