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    The Grand Dark

    By Richard Kadrey

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    ‘The Great War was over, but everyone knew another war was coming and it drove the city a little mad’

    Raised on the streets of Lower Proszawa, Largo makes his living as a cycle courier in a vast, decadent metropolis. With a dazzling girlfriend and a chance of promotion, he avoids politics and delivers without question.

    While Lower Proszawa’s citizens seek oblivion in sex and drugs, secret police stalk its streets, strange beasts and intelligent machines emerge from its factories, and the powerful prepare for war. Soon, as the dark forces driving the city threaten everything he loves, Largo must confront them and fight to uncover their deepest secrets.

    From New York Times bestseller Richard Kadrey, The Grand Dark is a subversive fantasy of survival and defiance in a world sleepwalking toward disaster.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateJun 27, 2019
    ISBN9780008288860
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    Richard Kadrey

    Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir books. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s “100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime,” and is in development as a feature film. Some of his other books include The Wrong Dead Guy, The Everything Box, Metrophage, and Butcher Bird. He also writes the Vertigo comic Lucifer.

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    • 5/5
      Really enjoyed this book set in an alternate post-Great War city where a bicycle messenger and a puppeteer actress become entangled in intrigue, as war profiteers dealing in eugenics and automata turn to a new battleground... It is dark and strange but in the end, hopeful, and always interesting.
    • 4/5
      Steampunk Weimar Republic. The protagonist is an opium addict/bike messenger whose girlfriend performs in creepy puppet shows while mechanical servitors and animals with human features roam the streets and the politicians prepare for the next war, despite the fact that the last war left many ordinary soldiers horribly injured and rendered the High City toxic to life. He gets swept up in political machinations and then has to save his girlfriend from mortal peril. Definitely had the steampunk noir vibe down.
    • 3/5
      The Great War is over.

      But this newfound hedonism-drugs and sex and endless parties-distracts from strange realities of everyday life: Intelligent automata taking jobs. Genetically engineered creatures that serve as pets and beasts of war. A theater where gruesome murders happen twice a day.

      And a new plague that even the ceaseless euphoria can't mask.

      Largo is an addict with ambitions.

      He has a beautiful girlfriend, drugs, a chance at a promotion-and maybe, an opportunity for complete transformation: a contact among the elite who will set him on the course to lift himself up out of the streets.

      Others have a vision of life very different from Largo's, and they will use any methods to secure control. And in behind it all, beyond the frivolity and chaos, the threat of new war always looms.

      Dreams can be a dangerous thing in a city whose mood is turning dark and inward.

      Thank you Goodreads and Avon/Voyager At Harper Collins for a chance to read this book!

      This is the first book I have read by Richard Kadrey. When the book arrived, I looked him up and read a lot of good things about him. So, I got excited to read this book. I see there are a lot of mixed opinions about this book and some of them I can agree with. But overall, I feel this was a good and interesting book. There’s just a lot of things crammed into one book. The characters were nicely thought out easy to like and follow. The story is science fiction with a historical feel to it. It took me a little bit to get into it but in the end, I really did like the story. Happy reading everyone!!