Blackfish City

Sam J. Miller

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Blackfish City was shortlisted for the Nebula Award for Best Novel, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018, a Kirkus Best Book of 2018, and a Washington Post Best Science Fiction Novel of 2018. After the climate wars, a floating city was constructed in the Arctic Circle. Once a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering it is now rife with corruption and the population simmers with unrest. Into this turmoil comes a strange new visitor - a woman accompanied by an orca and a chained polar bear. She disappears into the crowds looking for someone she lost thirty years ago, followed by whispers of a vanished people who could bond with animals. Her arrival draws together four people and sparks a chain of events that will change Blackfish City forever.