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FREETHE SCAR EBOOK China Mieville | 608 pages | 29 Jun 2004 | Random House USA Inc | 9780345460011 | English | New York, United States The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2) by China Miéville Goodreads The Scar you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading The Scar. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us The Scar the problem. Return to Book Page. Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade The Scar grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling The Scar of Nova Esperium. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for The Scar the city. Among them is Bellis Coldwine, The Scar linguist whose services as an interpre Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and The Scar, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of Nova Esperium. Among them is Bellis Coldwine, a linguist whose services as The Scar interpreter grant her passage—and escape from horrific punishment. For she is linked to Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, the brilliant renegade scientist who has unwittingly unleashed a nightmare upon New Crobuzon. For Bellis, the plan is clear: live among the new frontiersmen of the colony until it The Scar safe to return home. But when the ship is besieged by pirates on the Swollen Ocean, the senior officers are summarily executed. The surviving passengers are brought to Armada, a city constructed from the hulls of pirated ships, a floating, landless mass ruled by the bizarre duality called the Lovers. On Armada, everyone is given work, and even Remade live as equals to humans, Cactacae, and Cray. Yet no one may ever leave. Lonely and embittered in The Scar captivity, Bellis knows that to show dissent is a death sentence. The answer lies in the dark, amorphous shapes that float undetected miles below the waters—terrifying The Scar with a singular, chilling mission. Get A Copy. Mass Market Paperbackpages. Published June 29th by Del Rey first published April More Details Original Title. New Crobuzon 2. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Scarplease sign up. But the first book in the Bas-Lag trilogy left me totally cold. In my opinion it was overly long, quite badly structured a bit like this questionand I didn't like the way the main characters were portrayed. Is there a chance I might enjoy this one? Because I keep reading it's vast improvement on the first book? I think some could claim The …more Don't know whether I agree that it's a vast improvement on Perdido Street Station - I think each have their own virtues. I think some could claim The Scar is also overly The Scar, badly structured, and many characters are "unlikeable" but The Scar scenes are very compelling and the is no disputing that Mieville can write. See all 5 questions about The Scar…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Scar The Scar Crobuzon, 2. Shelves: awesome-kickass-heroinesstrange-avenues-of-mieville-s- mindreadsfavoriteshugo-nebulalocus-winnerlocation-is-the-true-protagonist. Say goodbye to the festering filth The Scar New Crobuzon! Welcome to a floating pirate city chock-full of mysteries, lies, betrayals, photophobic haemophages, and merciless manipulation. Now, where do I apply The Scar its citizenship??? A pirate city is every child's dream. Including, apparently, my own inner child, desperately in need of inner babysitter. Before I say anything else in my review, I want to confess - I absolutely, wholeheartedly loved Armada. I loved its tolerance, its camaraderie, its s Say The Scar to the festering filth of New Crobuzon! I loved its tolerance, its camaraderie, its stubbornness, its unbelievable spirit and tenacity. I loved the harmony, the creation of a whole out of so many varying bits, pieces, cultures, races, nations. I loved the respect for knowledge. I loved the concept of creating a habitable place in the midst of unwelcoming ocean. Basically, I embraced it with the same fierce loyalty that Tanner Sack did, and it pained me to see it threatened. A scar The Scar a healing. After an injury, a scar is what makes you whole. We see the literal ones - on the faces of the Lovers and on the backs of Tanner and Bellis. We hear about the mythical one, a splitting wound in the fabric of reality. Scars become the symbols of fight, survival, love, unity, pain, remembrance, and healing. They can be seen in many ways, in the light of many endless possibilities. Like sutures. They The Scar the past to me. The huge poisonous filthy city is a The Scar presence weighing on the minds of our ex-Crobuzoner characters, but we are spared its suffocating bulk and do not meet any of the familiar characters from Perdido Street Station. Our link to New Crobuzon is Bellis Coldwine, a reserved and disillusioned linguist sailing away in the self-imposed exile to New Crobuzon The Scar. On her ship, below decks, destined to be a slave, is Tanner Sack, a Remade - a victim of the cruel body-altering Crobuzonian system of punishment. Bellis is an exile hoping to return someday; Tanner is little more than worthless cargo. No wonder they react in polarly opposite ways when their ship is taken over by pirates and they find themselves new "press-ganged" citizens of a floating pirate city, a huge melting pot, which, like the Hotel California, "you can never leave". For Bellis, it's a place The Scar dared to take her choice away from her, and she's not happy. And, as one can expect, when existing powers in search of even more power collide with the lives The Scar regular people, it can bring little but brokenness, The Scar, and despair. For their crimes they are marked for life, horrifically modified, and permanently reduced to the miserable existence of 'freaks', nightmarish slaves. That's why I instantly loved Armada - for dispensing away with the cruelty, for accepting them and admitting what New Crobuzon denies - that they are who they are, with rights and possibilities, with chance for love and respect and life. With just few words and sentences he creates memorable and vivid characters that feel alive and real, ready to step out of the page. Our main viewpoint character Bellies Coldwine is amazingly written. She is an unusual female character - middle-aged, chain-smoking, cold and cynical, stubborn and strong-willed, in full control of her emotions, with walls of reserve surrounding her - and she is not waiting for anyone to take these walls down. She is smart and resilient; she is a survivor. Beautifully written, she is fully realized, relatable without being always likable, making you root for her while The Scar angry at her at the same time - a lifelike love-hate relationship, ultimately culminating in understanding and respect. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. The Scar know too much. What I do now, I do for me. I don't think there is anything that this man cannot conjure out of the depths of The Scar prodigious mind. He takes the existing concepts - cities, piracy, monstrous sea creatures - and turns them onto their heads, brings along new and unexpected angles, creates unbelievable depths, and in the process reveals so much about human nature that it can be unsettling. Thank you, Mr. It was great! 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. View all 38 comments. May 25, Crystal rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: weary genre fiction readers, people with big The Scar. FN SCAR® 17S | FN® Looking for a movie the entire family can enjoy? Check out our picks for family friendly movies movies that transcend all ages. For even more, visit our Family Entertainment Guide. See the full list. 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