She keeps by her side a polar bear with its head and paws caged. The lives of all four characters are shaken up when a strange woman riding an orca arrives in town. Among those just trying to get by are Fill, a victim of “the breaks” Kaev, a professional fighter hired by a crime boss Ankit, an assistant to a local politician and Soq, a gender-fluid “messenger” who travels around the city, looking for a better way to spend their time. Crime is on the rise, the wealth gap is growing, and a mysterious disease called “the breaks” is spreading faster than doctors can study it.
It’s a floating city in the Arctic Circle, a last bastion of civilization after the so-called “Climate Wars.”īut no matter how great its technological advancements, the city is starting to fray. In fact, most of the world’s epicenters are gone, and in their place is a new metropolis called Qaanaaq. But unlike Robinson, Miller imagines New York City long gone. This book, like Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140, looks to a future time when Earth has been ravaged by climate change and humanity is barely hanging on. Miller, author of the thrilling new novel Blackfish City.
For this month’s column, I spoke with Sam J.
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