The novel stumbles only at the very end, in a denouement that feels just a little too hurried for the characters’ twisting journey. Qaanaaq is a beautiful and brutal character in its own right, rendered in poetic interludes.
Miller has crafted a thriller that unflinchingly examines the ills of urban capitalism. Charlie Jane AndersSimmers with menace and heartache, suspense and wonder. Together, they uncover a dramatic series of secrets, connections, and political plots. Miller is the author of the YA novel The Art of Starving. One of the most intriguing future cities in years. Ankit, a political aide, wants to free her institutionalized birth mother her brother, Kaev, is a brain-damaged fighter at the end of his career Fill, a rich playboy, has the breaks, an illness that throws sufferers into strangers’ memories and Soq, an ambitious nonbinary street messenger, is trying to hustle their way into a better life. Themes like hybridity and diaspora, alienation and found family, greed, religious intolerance and genocide, class struggle, revenge, and rebellion. His second young adult novel, Destroy All Monsters, was published by. Miller creates a vivid, if daunting and dystopian, future after climate change has so ravaged the world that the great powers have fallen and nearly everyone is a refugee.
The arrival of a woman with two unusual companions-an orca and a polar bear-draws a disparate group together. His first novel for adults, Blackfish City, was released in April 2018 by Ecco Press. The floating city of Qaanaaq was constructed after many mainland cities burned or sank. Miller, fresh from his YA debut ( The Art of Starving), makes the jump to adult SF with an ambitious, imaginative, and big-hearted dystopian ensemble story that’s by turns elegiac and angry.
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