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de China Mieville (Author) "It is only ten miles beyond the city that the river loses its momentum, drooling into the brackish estuary that feeds Iron Bay ..." En savoir plus
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In the third book in an astounding, genre-breaking run, China Miéville expands the horizon beyond the boundaries of New Crobuzon, setting sail on the high seas of his ever-growing world of Bas Lag.

The Scar begins with Miéville's frantic heroine, Bellis Coldwine, fleeing her beloved New Crobuzon in the peripheral wake of events relayed in Perdidio Street Station. But her voyage to the colony of Nova Esperium is cut short when she is shanghaied and stranded on Armada, a legendary floating pirate city. Bellis becomes the reader's unbelieving eyes as she reluctantly learns to live on the gargantuan flotilla of stolen ships populated by a rabble of pirates, mercenaries, and press-ganged refugees. Meanwhile, Armada and Bellis's future is skippered by the "Lovers," an enigmatic couple whose mirror-image scarring belies the twisted depth of their passion. To give up any more of Miéville’s masterful plot here would only ruin the voyage through dangerous straits, political uprisings, watery nightmares, mutinous revenge, monstrous power plays, and grand aspirations.

Miéville's skill in articulating brilliantly macabre and involving descriptions is paralleled only by his ability to set up world-moving plot twists that continually blow away the reader's expectations. Man-made mutations, amphibious aliens, transdimensional beings, human mosquitoes, and even vampires are merely neighbors, coworkers, friends, and enemies coexisting in the dizzying tapestry of diversity that is Armada. The Scar proves Miéville has the muscle and talent to become a defining force as he effortlessly transcends the usual clichés of the genre. --Jeremy Pugh



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In this stand-alone novel set in the same monster-haunted universe as last year's much-praised Perdido Street Station, British author Mieville, one of the most talented new writers in the field, takes us on a gripping hunt to capture a magical sea-creature so large that it could snack on Moby Dick, and that's just for starters. Armada, a floating city made up of the hulls of thousands of captured vessels, travels slowly across the world of Bas-Lag, sending out its pirate ships to prey on the unwary, gradually assembling the supplies and captive personnel it needs to create a stupendous work of dark magic. Bellis Coldwine, an embittered, lonely woman, exiled from the great city of New Crobuzon, is merely one of a host of people accidentally trapped in Armada's far-flung net, but she soon finds herself playing a vital role in the byzantine plans of the city's half-mad rulers. The author creates a marvelously detailed floating civilization filled with dark, eccentric characters worthy of Mervyn Peake or Charles Dickens, including the aptly named Coldwine, a translator who has devoted much of her life to dead languages; Uther Doul, the superhuman soldier/scholar who refuses to do anything more than follow orders; and Silas Fennec, the secret agent whose perverse magic has made him something more and less than human. Together they sail through treacherous, magic-ridden seas, on a quest for the Scar, a place where reality mutates and all things become possible. This is state-of-the-art dark fantasy and a likely candidate for any number of award nominations. (July 2). Forecast: Perdido Street Station won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award. A major publicity push including a six-city author tour should help win new readers in the U.S.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 My 100-word book review, Mars 7 2006
This review is from: The Scar (Mass Market Paperback)
A second novel to be set in China Mieville's fantasy world of Bas-Lag, The Scar once more displays the author's prodigious imagination and command of language. Sea battles, weird science, fantastical creatures, monsters of the deep and a piratical floating city feature in this compelling story. The characterisation is subtle, with a main protagonist who is somewhat cold and inexpressive. Some plotlines are not developed too well and go nowhere, but there is more than enough great stuff to compensate. Most impressive creature has to be the avanc. Scariest creatures, in my opinion are the anophelii, mosquito women from hell!
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Another fantastic Mieville novel., Juil 7 2004
Par Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Cleveland, OH) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Scar (Mass Market Paperback)
China Mieville, The Scar (Ballantine, 2002)

Comparing any fantasy novel to Mieville's mighty Perdido Street Station invites a bad review. But it can't be helped, in the case of The Scar. After all, it's the sequel to Perdido Street Station. It's not surprising that it doesn't measure up; what is surprising is how close it comes to doing so.

Not long after the events of Perdido Street Station, Grimnebulin's sometime-girlfriend, Bellis Coldwine, flees New Crobuzon when she feels the militia closing in. Boarding the Terpsichoria, she heads off for the colonies on the other side of the world, stopping at Salkrikaltor Cray on the way for some negotiations. Not long after they leave Cray, however, they are ambushed by pirates from a nation who are completely unconcerned with New Crobuzon's might, and taken prisoner. Things go, to put it mildly, downhill from there.

It seemed to me throughout that much of Mieville's impetus for writing The Scar was to explore and flesh out some of the places that were just mentioned in Perdido Street Station. All well and good, as much of what was praised about the former novel was Mieville's ability to build a world with an awe-inspiring amount of descriptive realism. So it's no surprise that the same happens here, as Mieville takes us thousands of miles north and west of New Crobuzon, jumping around the map and filling in pieces of it we didn't get to see before. Mieville's descriptive talents are as strong as ever.

The plot's got a good deal going for it, as well. The pirates are not your normal brand of pirate, and Bellis spends much of her time trying to figure out what's really going on as a possible means of somehow winning her freedom from her captors. She, and her various co-conspirators, are just as expertly drawn as the batch in Perdido Street Station.

Where the book sometimes flags is pace. Perdido Street Station is compelling reading, the kind of book for which foregoing food and sleep often seems like a good idea. Not so in parts of The Scar. Only parts, mind you, but there are passages here and there where the pace flags. That Mieville previously achieved a perfectly-paced novel in the midst of the vast amounts of thick description therein is the only reason for criticism here; with most authors, we'd be amazed it moves as swiftly as it does.

A worthy, if (very slightly) inferior, successor to Perdido Street Station. **** 

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Unusual and imaginative (unlike this review), Avril 24 2004
Par ZombiKitty "zombikitty" (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Plot in a very small nutshell: Travellers, prisoners, and slaves (many of whom have been biologically modified against their wills) are on board a sea vessel bound for the New Crobuzon colony. Pirates seize the ship and take the survivors to their floating city Armada to become a part of that rather unorthodox society.
The characters and the society and culture of Armada are very detailed and well thought out. There are bizarre characters, monsters, magic, secrets, and intrigue. The language and descriptions are effective and beautiful. I have not yet read PERDIDO STREET STATION (though I plan to remedy that very soon), but that did not hamper my reading of THE SCAR in any way that I was aware of.
THE SCAR is one of the most unusual books that I have read in a long time and it is one I will read again.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 disappointed
Miéville is an unparallelled worldsmith, but 'the scar' is let down by flat characterisation and an ultimately pointless plot. I recommend you try perdido street station instead.
Publié le Janv. 13 2004 par milkycat

5.0étoiles sur 5 GrindyGhostThaumaturtastic
Perdido was an excellent book in its own right, yet I was impressed by how much better The Scar was. Read more
Publié le Oct. 28 2003 par Emperor Norton

5.0étoiles sur 5 more bizarre and engrossing fun
After reading China Miéville's novel Perdido Street Station last June, The Scar was quickly added to my Must Read list. Read more
Publié le Oct. 27 2003 par Woodge

5.0étoiles sur 5 Sweet
Hmmmm...hmmmmm. I have been reading sci-fi and fantasy since I was 7 years old. Thats a long time. And I can honestly say do yourself a favor and get this one, its good. Read more
Publié le Oct. 12 2003

3.0étoiles sur 5 Not Nearly as Good as Perdido
Perdido Street Station was incredible, so I went into this book with high hopes. Unfortunately, they were to fall. Read more
Publié le Sep 19 2003 par Luke Johnson

4.0étoiles sur 5 Mining the Possibilities
This is another powerhouse of the imagination from China Mieville, who certainly deserves the praise he has gotten as one of SF/Fantasy's most important new writers. Read more
Publié le Sep 9 2003 par doomsdayer520

3.0étoiles sur 5 Gorgeous Writing, idiotic plot, lackluster protagonist
I really wanted to love this book.

However, I did not.

The process of reading it was one of frustration and irritation, because the author is so obviously capable of writing... Read more

Publié le Sep 2 2003 par Barbara A. Fisher

5.0étoiles sur 5 A Splendid Return To Mieville's World of Bas-Log
"The Scar" is unquestionably China Mieville's best novel to date. While it lacks the intricate details and spellbinding plot of "Perdido Street Station", it... Read more
Publié le Aoû 28 2003 par John Kwok

3.0étoiles sur 5 Stick with it, it gets better near the end
I found the first half of this book quite dull and slow-moving, and I almost gave up on it. I'm glad I didn't, though. Read more
Publié le Juil 14 2003

3.0étoiles sur 5 Disappointing
As a devout fan of China Mieville, I was not overly thrilled with Scar. I will admit that the setting and characters were complex and fantastic. Read more
Publié le Jui 26 2003 par Camille Fremed

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