![]() Isaac considers the magical grafting of new wings, or mechanical devices to reproduce flight. Yagharek, having had his wings hacked from his body as punishment for a crime Isaac cannot comprehend, desperately yearns to fly again. ![]() Overweight, talented but erratic scientist Isaac-his girlfriend is a khepri, with the red-skinned body of human female and a head resembling a huge scarab-accepts the flying humanoid Yagharek as a client. Humans, aliens, sentient floor-mops, and other entities even more bizarre maintain an uneasy coexistence criminals may be sentenced to have their heads grafted on to coal-burning machines. In the stinking, teeming, rotting city of New Crobuzon, magic, science, and alchemy all work. Doorstopper steampunk fantasy from the author of King Rat (1999). ![]()
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