House of Open Wounds

Shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Series 2025

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Beschreibung

<p><b>Behind the front lines of a crusade to scour the world of magic, the crew of a field hospital confront the horrors of war. A companion novel to Adrian Tchaikovsky's award-winning fantasy novel <i>City of Last Chances</i></b><br><br>City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, so they deliver a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh to the field hospital tents just behind the front line.<br><br>Which is where Yasnic, one-time priest, healer and rebel, finds himself. Reprieved from the gallows and sent to war clutching a box of orphan Gods, he has been sequestered to a particularity unorthodox medical unit.<br><br>Led by 'the Butcher', an ogre of a man who's a dab hand with a bone-saw and an alchemical tincture, the unit's motley crew of conscripts, healers and orderlies are no strangers to the horrors of war. Theirs is an unspeakable trade: elbow-deep in gore they have a first-hand view of the suffering caused by flesh-rending monsters, arcane magical weaponry and embittered enemy soldiers. <br><br>Entrusted - for now - with saving lives deemed otherwise un-saveable, the field hospital's crew face a precarious existence. Their work with unapproved magic, necromancy, demonology and Yasnic's thoroughly illicit Gods could lead to the unit being disbanded, arrested or worse.<br><br>Beset by enemies within and without, the last thing anyone needs is a miracle.<br><br>Reviews for <i>City of Last Chances</i>:<br><br>'Paints a vivid detailed backdrop' <b><i>SF</i></b><i><b>X</b></i><br>'Brilliant chaos ensues' <b><i>Daily Mail</i></b><br>'Some of Tchaikovsky's best prose' <b><i>SF Crowsnest</i></b><br>'An intriguing tangle. ingenious' <b><i>Locus</i></b><br>'Endlessly creative' <b>Patrick Ness</b><br>'Rich, inventive worldbuilding' <b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br>'Ilmar is vividly alive' <b>David Towsey</b><

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781035901364

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

194 x 131 x 42 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury UK