Bellis Coldwine is fleeing New Crobuzon for a distant colony. The Scar takes us far from the teeming streets and slums of New Crobuzon, out into the rolling waves of the Swollen Ocean to the city's east. There can now be no doubt that there's no one in contemporary fantasy writing quite like him, and we should all be delighted that a talent like his has come along at the turn of the century to inject life into a genre stuck for so long in a creative cul-de-sac. It stands alone as a story and can serve as an introduction to Miéville's extraordinary worldbuilding. The Scar, which takes a much more direct approach to structuring its plot than Perdido, is related to but not a sequel to that book.
In The Scar, Miéville proves the hype right by fulfilling that promise. Tweets by was clear when reading China Miéville's mesmerizing Perdido Street Station that its setting, the dreamlike metropolis New Crobuzon and the world of Bas-Lag, possessed a nearly inexhaustible potential for future stories. Book cover artwork is copyrighted by its respective artist and/or publisher. All reviews and site design © by Thomas M.
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