The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
by: China Mieville
Publisher: Del Rey Books (2002)
$19.00
Staff Pick by comrade: Jamie
Miéville is a poet's sci-fi writer. Linguistically, he wraps sentences around you until you're cocooned in a shadowy, maze-like world of sunken ships turned pirate cities, and masterful, shady political intrigue.