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New Crobuzon: Book 2

The Scar (2002) (edit title/settings)

by China Miéville (Author) (edit contributors)

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A mythmaker of the highest order, China Miéville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sprawling world of Miéville’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, Perdido Street Station , this latest epic introduces a whole... read more

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  • “In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.”
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  • Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.”
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  • unprecedented sensation of meaning coming up at him from the page, from behind the letters like an escapee. It almost made him queasy, almost made him feel like spewing, it was so intense and unnerving.
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  • In time, in time they tell me, I’ll not feel so bad. I don’t want time to heal me. There’s a reason I’m like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won’t smooth you away. I can’t say good-bye.
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  • I have seen the Lover’s scars, and they are ugly and unpleasant. And the fact that they bespeak some sordid ritual, some game for the emotionally arrested to play, does not change that. They are ugly and unpleasant.
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  • Sister Meriope; Bartol Gimgewry the merchant; the cadaverous surgeon Dr. Mollificatt; Widow and Miss Cardomium, a quiet mother and daughter transformed by Bellis’ pen into a scheming pair of husband hunters. Johannes Tearfly became the professorial buffoon pilloried in music halls.
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  • In the possibility mining that Uther Doul had just described Bellis saw a radical undermining of crisis theory. Crisis, Isaac had once told her, was manifest in the tendency of the real to become what it was not. If what was and what was not were allowed to coexist, the very tension—the crisis at the center of existence—must dissipate. Where was that crisis energy in the real becoming what it was not, if what it was not was right there alongside what it was?
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  • “People are made and broken and remade by their circumstances,”
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  • “Pretending that freggios were what he claimed they were, she changed them, and made them much more. Changing them, she changed him, too. Scarred his culture as well as his face. They found solace and strength in each other, then. They found an intensity and a connection in those wounds, wounds made suddenly pure.
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  • They had never been each other. They had never been doing the same thing. Perhaps it was only chance that they had traveled together so far.
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  • She taught him that night how to remake rules, how always to go further. She made him like her. She was hungry for transformations.
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Bas-Lag is a world where both magic (referred to as 'thaumaturgy') and steampunk technology exist, and is home to many intelligent races.
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First Sentence edit see section history

It is only ten miles beyond the city that the river loses its momentum, drooling into the brackish estuary that feeds Iron Bay.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 2 of 3 in New Crobuzon. (standard series)

Preceded by Perdido Street Station, and followed by Iron Council.

This is book 2 of 3 in Bas-Lag Novels. (universe)

Preceded by Perdido Street Station, and followed by Iron Council.

This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. China Miéville (Author)

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  1. Edward Miller (Cover Artist)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company
Country: UK
Publication Date: June 2002
ISBN: 0333781740
Page Count: 608

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  • Library of Congress: PR6063.I265 S28 2002
  • Dewey: 823/.914 21

More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • Iron Council
  • Perdido Street Station

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  • Perdido Street Station

Books That Influenced This Book edit see section history

   
  • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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