(1/4 of) City of Dreams and Nightmare
Jan. 18th, 2012 02:26 pmIn my Monday peregrinations (of which more anon) I found myself at White Dwarf Books, a spec-fic bookstore with a wide selection. All new, as the proprietor informed me, although some have been there for awhile. They had the second and third volumes of Gwyneth Jones's Aleutian trilogy, for instance (though not the first), which have been out of print except as ebooks for some years.
I ended up walking away with the three volumes of Ian Whates's City of a Hundred Rows. It had what looked to be a fairly inventive setting (huge enclosed vertical city, stratified and run-down, with steampunk overtones that aren't quite enough to turn me off it), and the main character as introduced in the first couple of pages is a guardsman whose parents decided that his being a guardsman was their ticket to higher society but who isn't very thrilled about this.
( City of Dreams and Nightmare )
I ended up walking away with the three volumes of Ian Whates's City of a Hundred Rows. It had what looked to be a fairly inventive setting (huge enclosed vertical city, stratified and run-down, with steampunk overtones that aren't quite enough to turn me off it), and the main character as introduced in the first couple of pages is a guardsman whose parents decided that his being a guardsman was their ticket to higher society but who isn't very thrilled about this.
( City of Dreams and Nightmare )