City of Last Chances
Shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Series 2025
2024 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST, BEST FANTASY NOVEL<BR>WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL<BR><BR>'Endlessly creative... so much invention peeking around every corner' Patrick Ness<BR><BR>Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution.<BR><BR>There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse.<BR><BR>What will be the spark that lights the conflagration?<BR><BR>Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the Anchorwood - that dark grove of trees, that primeval remnant, that portal, when the moon is full, to strange and distant shores.<BR><BR>Ilmar, some say, is the worst place in the world and the gateway to a thousand worse places.<BR><BR>Ilmar, City of Long Shadows.<BR><BR>City of Bad Decisions.<BR><BR>City of Last Chances.<BR><BR>'Ilmar is vividly alive with ideas, conflicts, and a sense of its own history - a truly breathtaking fantasy city, down every street a compelling story.' David Towsey<BR>'A master at the height of his powers. This is epic symphonic fantasy, weaving a breakneck plot through a sumptuously dangerous world.' Ian Green<BR>'A wonderful twisty stew of a book with a cast of fascinating characters, set against the brilliantly realized city of Ilmar.' Django Wexler<BR>'A triumph of a book: wildly imaginative, immediately immersive and hypnotically compelling.' Sharon Emmerichs
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2024 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST, BEST FANTASY NOVEL<BR>WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL<BR><BR>'Endlessly creative... so much invention peeking around every corner' Patrick Ness<BR><BR>Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution.<BR><BR>There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse.<BR><BR>What will be the spark that lights the conflagration?<BR><BR>Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the Anchorwood - that dark grove of trees, that primeval remnant, that portal, when the moon is full, to strange and distant shores.<BR><BR>Ilmar, some say, is the worst place in the world and the gateway to a thousand worse places.<BR><BR>Ilmar, City of Long Shadows.<BR><BR>City of Bad Decisions.<BR><BR>City of Last Chances.<BR><BR>'Ilmar is vividly alive with ideas, conflicts, and a sense of its own history - a truly breathtaking fantasy city, down every street a compelling story.' David Towsey<BR>'A master at the height of his powers. This is epic symphonic fantasy, weaving a breakneck plot through a sumptuously dangerous world.' Ian Green<BR>'A wonderful twisty stew of a book with a cast of fascinating characters, set against the brilliantly realized city of Ilmar.' Django Wexler<BR>'A triumph of a book: wildly imaginative, immediately immersive and hypnotically compelling.' Sharon Emmerichs
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Shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Series 2025
H | B | T | Gramm
127 mm | 196 mm | 34 mm | 383 gr
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
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Taschenbuch
Verlag
Bloomsbury UK
ISBN-10
1801108447
ISBN-13
9781801108447
Autor
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
528
Themen
Action- / Abenteuerromane, Thriller / Spannung, Urban Fantasy, Metaphysische / philosophische Belletristik, Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, nicht nach Genre, Epische Fantasy High Fantasy / Heroische Fantasy
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