![]() ![]() ![]() “One of the finest prose stylists around, and-borrowing as he does much of the melodrama of Victorian literature, along with the revisionist modernism of later authors like D. He strings together ideally chosen words into sentences that are variously lush, sparse, subtle, bold, joyous, mournful, comic, or tragic … But it’s on the character front that MacLeod truly expends his best efforts and achieves the most.” -SF Signal “An outstanding smoke-and-sorcery saga to rival Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy and China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station.” -Michael Moorcock “Stands beside the achievements of China Miéville. “MacLeod brings a Dickensian life to the pounding factories of London in a style he calls ‘realistic fantasy.’ It’s a complete world brought to life with compassionate characters and lyrical writing.” -The Denver Post ![]() “A meditative portrayal of an exotic society, fascinating in its unhealthy languor and seemingly imperturbable stasis … so powerfully recalls Dickens’s that this affinity animates the entire work.” -The Washington Post Book World ![]()
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