The Scar
China Miéville
2003 Winner
Locus Award Best Fantasy Novel
2003 Nominee
The Arthur C. Clarke Award
2003 Nominee
BSFA Award for Best Novel
2003 Nominee
Hugo Award For Best Novel
2003 Nominee
World Fantasy Awards Best Novel
Synopsis
Winner of the British Fantasy Award, The Scar by China Miéville is a colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination, set in the richly visualized world of Bas-Lag.
A human cargo bound for servitude in exile . . .
A pirate city hauled across the oceans . . .
A hidden miracle about be revealed . . .
These are the ingredients of an astonishing story. It is the story of a prisoner's journey. Of the search for the island of a forgotten people, for the most astonishing beast in the seas, and ultimately for a fabled place - a massive wound in reality, a source of unthinkable power and danger.