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Gears of the City imagines an impossible urban landscape
scifiwire.com - 1/14/2009
Gears of the City imagines an impossible urban landscape
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Gears of the City , the new novel by fantasy author Felix Gilman, is set in an infinite city whose geography is beyond mapping or comprehension because it rearranges itself. "It spans all of human history," Gilman said in an interview. "It's full of gods, or energies, or hauntings—depending on how you look at them—that power it and reshape it." The book follows the adventures of Arjun, an innocent and rather lost but well-meaning pilgrim, who first came to the infinite city in ...

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SF Signal — Interviews & Profiles: @SCI FI Wire: C.J. Cherryh (Regenesis) and Felix Gilman (Gears of the City). @BookSpot Central: Chris Roberson (Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love). Here's an essay (from 2004) about Samuel R. Delany written by K. Leslie Steiner. @Concept Sci-fi: Peter Crowther from PS Publishing. Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon] Catherine Asaro's has posted her novella "The Spacetime ...

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Planet-x.com.au — Lakeshore found this 23 hours ago on entertheoctopus.wordpress.com. SF Books · 3 · Historicize Me Now · io9 found this 8 days ago on www.bookslut.com. 2 · The BookSpot Beat - Telling Fables with Chris Roberson … Originally posted here: Gears of the City imagines an impossible urban landscape - Felix …

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