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In the third book in an astounding, genre-breaking run, China Mieville 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 Mieville'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 Mieville.s
masterful plot here would only ruin the voyage through dangerous straits,
political uprisings, watery nightmares, mutinous revenge, monstrous power plays,
and grand aspirations.

Mieville'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 Mieville has the muscle and talent
to become a defining force as he effortlessly transcends the usual cliches of
the genre.

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