The white city

The white city

Elizabeth Bear

Book - 2010

For centuries, the White City has graced the banks of the Moskva River. But in the early years of a twentieth century not quite analogous to our own, a creature even more ancient than Moscow's fortress heart has entered its medieval walls. In the wake of political success and personal loss, the immortal detective Don Sebastien de Ulloa has come to Moscow to choose his path amid the embers of war between England and her American colonies. Accompanied by his court--the forensic sorcerer Lady Abigail Irene and the authoress Phoebe Smith--he seeks nothing but healing and rest. But Moscow is both jeweled and corrupt, and when you are old there is no place free of ghosts, and Sebastien is far from the most ancient thing in Russia ...

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Subjects
Garrett, Abigail Irene (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
De Ulloa, Don Sebastien (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Vampires > Fiction.
Witches > Fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Historical fiction.
Moscow (Russia) > Fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Fantasy fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Genres
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Fantasy fiction
Mystery fiction
Published
Burton, Mich. : Subterranean Press 2010.
Language
English
Main Author
Elizabeth Bear (-)
Edition
1st ed
Item Description
Sequel to: New Amsterdam.
Physical Description
189 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781596063235
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Hugo-winner Bear (The Sea Thy Mistress) begins her new short novel with a deceptive catalogue of steampunk cliches-alternate history, a plucky heroine, and the obligatory zeppelins-before veering in a radically different direction with a double-threaded detective story plot. Two murders in Moscow, one in 1897 and the other in 1903, are linked to a single woman. But this is no mere costumed crime story: the czarist police employ forensic sorcerers, and vampires and their elegant "courts" of human hangers-on are accepted members of society. The pace is brisk, the characters are well realized, and the resultant delvings into darkness are certain to keep genre readers entertained to the end. The sole cause for disappointment is that things wrap up too quickly and easily, with limited exposure to the strange minds of Bear's decidedly posthuman vampires. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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