The Etched City
10 best books like The Etched City (K.J. Bishop): Iron Council, The Alchemy of Stone, Viriconium, Palimpsest, Physiognomy, The Iron Dragon's Daughter, The Year of Our War, Thunderer, The New Weird, Veniss Underground
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 0345458427 |
Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon—this time, decades later.
It is a...
| Author | Ekaterina Sedia |
| ISBN | 0809572842 |
Mattie, an intelligent automaton skilled in the use of alchemy, finds herself caught in the middle of a conflict between gargoyles, the Mechanics, and the Alchemists. With the old order quickly giving way to the new, Mattie discovers powerful and dangerous secrets -- secrets that can completely alter...
| Author | M. John Harrison |
| ISBN | 0553383159 |
This landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light.
Set in the imagined city of Viriconium, here are the masterworks that revolutionized a genre and enthralled a generation of readers: The Pastel City, A Storm of Wings, In Viriconium,...
| Author | Catherynne M. Valente |
| ISBN | 0553385763 |
In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger’s...
| Author | Jeffrey Ford |
| ISBN | 2290319732 |
Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel: Cley has mastered the art of physiognomy—and now he is about to learn its ultimate truth
In the Well-Built City, Master Drachton Below’s power is absolute, and he will not hesitate to use it. His primary method of control is through his...
| Author | Michael Swanwick |
| ISBN | 0380972336 |
This is a very impressive and work of imagination, and while I've read better Swanwick, it's *still* Swanwick, and that means it's head-and-shoulders better than almost anything out there.
This novel gives the illusion that it might be a YA, with a lot of impressive and delightful adventure...
| Author | Steph Swainston |
| ISBN | 0060753870 |
Unique among his fellow immortals and mortal folk alike, Jant Comet can fly. His talent is a gift and a curse that has earned him a place in the Castle Circle as Messenger to the Emperor San -- soaring high and free above the bloody battlefields of his world, carrying word back to his master of progress and...
| Author | Felix Gilman |
| ISBN | 0553806769 |
In this breathtaking debut novel by Felix Gilman, one man embarks on a thrilling and treacherous quest for his people’s lost god—in an elaborate Dickensian city that is either blessed …or haunted.
Arjun arrives in Ararat just as a magnificent winged creature swoops and sails over...
| Author | Ann VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 1892391554 |
This avant-garde anthology that presents and defines the New Weird—a hip, stylistic fiction that evokes the gritty exuberance of pulp novels and dime-store comic books—creates a new literature that is entirely unprecedented and utterly compelling. Assembling an array of talent, this collection...
| Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 0553383566 |
In his debut novel, literary alchemist Jeff VanderMeer takes us on an unforgettable journey, a triumph of the imagination that reveals the magical and mysterious city of Veniss through three intertwined voices. First, Nicholas, a would-be Living Artist, seeks to escape his demons in the shadowy...
| Author | Ian R. MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0441012744 |
If this book had been a movie, I can imagine that the pitch session would have gone like this:
Writer: Think: Great Expectations meets Germinal!
Producer: Germa-what?
Writer: It's this French novel by …
Producer: Nobody's gonna wanna watch a French story. What are you? Crazy?
Writer:...
| Author | Michael Cisco |
| ISBN | 1894815866 |
Endless metaphors...
Endless descriptions of an ever changing landscape.
Cisco is Gaiman on acid. Kafka on steroids. An unorthodox Poe.
The whole thing is a prose poem. No! A painting!
Hieronymus Bosch merging with Jackson Pollock. It's a grotesque dream!
The Tyrant is...
