“A modern Socialist tale, managing to forgo idiotic idealism and replace it with hopeful fantasy. Whilst mythical and fanciful characters inhabit most pages of this dark finale to the New Crobuzon series, there's a serious vein of modern commonwealth running straight through it like the train track central to the story.
I was very impressed by the ending, which surprised me.”
gferguson wrote this review Thursday, February 9, 2012.
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