- Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general
Winner of the BSFA Best Novel Award 2022.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781801108430
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“That morning, God was complaining again.”
ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY was born in Lincolnshire and studied zoology and psychology at Reading, before practising law in Leeds. He is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor and is trained in stage-fighting. His literary influences include Gene Wolfe, Mervyn Peake, China Miéville, Mary Gently, Steven Erikson, Naomi Novak, Scott Lynch and Alan Campbell.
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