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In the Watchful City

S. Qiouyi Lu

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English
Miscellaneous
26 November 2021
"""This masterful work positions Lu among the vanguard of contemporary futurism and speculative fiction.""-Publishers Weekly, starred review

In the tradition of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, debut author S. Qiouyi Lu has written a multifaceted story of borders, power, diaspora, and transformation with In the Watchful City.

The city of Ora is watching.

Anima is an extrasensory human tasked with surveilling and protecting Ora's citizens via a complex living network called the Gleaming. Although ær world is restricted to what æ can see and experience through the Gleaming, Anima takes pride and comfort in keeping Ora safe from harm.

When a mysterious outsider enters the city carrying a cabinet of curiosities from around with the world with a story attached to each item, Anima's world expands beyond the borders of Ora to places-and possibilities-æ never before imagined to exist. But such knowledge leaves Anima with a question that throws into doubt ær entire purpose: What good is a city if it can't protect its people?"

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Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 202mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   234g
ISBN:   9781250792983
ISBN 10:   1250792983
Pages:   208
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

S. Qiouyi Lu writes and translates between two coasts of the Pacific. AEr work, including fiction, poetry, and essays, has appeared in several award-winning venues. In the Watchful City is aer first novella. You can find out more about S. at aer website or on Twitter.

Reviews for In the Watchful City

Beautiful prose, a complex structure, and well-wrought Asian-influenced worldbuilding. . . . This masterful work positions Lu among the vanguard of contemporary futurism and speculative fiction. --Publishers Weekly, starred review Lu has built a complex and fascinating world, futuristic and strange. --Booklist Stories within stories, possibilities within impossibilities: In the Watchful City is half-tapestry, half-menagerie, adding up to an intricate, transcendent fantasy. --Chuck Wendig An intricately nested cyberpunk story that perfectly represents the best of the genre while exploring entirely new territory. --Premee Mohamed In the Watchful City is piercing and precise, threading grief and joy through your heart as it examines the ties that bind people to one another. --Andrea Stewart A wild, wonderful, dizzying ride I didn't want to end. The worldbuilding is as intricate and intoxicating as the characters are wrenchingly alive. In the Watchful City trumpets the arrival of a major new talent. --Sam J. Miller


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