Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller
Blackfish City, Sam J. Miller
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Blackfish City
A Novel

Author: Sam J. Miller

Narrator: Vikas Adam

Unabridged: 10 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/17/2018


Synopsis

“Miller gives us an incisive and beautifully written story of love, revenge, and the power (and failure) of family in a scarily plausible future. Blackfish City simmers with menace and heartache, suspense and wonder. Plus, it has lots of action and a great cast of characters. Not to mention an orca and a polar bear!” —Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke AwardsAfter the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city’s denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges—crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called “the breaks” is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives—a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side—the city is entranced. The “orcamancer,” as she’s known, very subtly brings together four people—each living on the periphery—to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves. Blackfish City is a remarkably urgent—and ultimately very hopeful—novel about political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection. 

About Sam J. Miller

Sam J. Miller is the Nebula Award–winning author of The Art of Starving (an NPR best book of the year) and Blackfish City (a Nebula Award finalist and a John W. Campbell Award winner). Sam is a recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Workshop. His short stories have been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus Awards, and reprinted in dozens of anthologies. He lives in New York City. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rick on January 08, 2021

I'm late to the party here, but what a wonderful book! Blackfish City takes us into the near future, when climate change has caused the flooding and destruction of large swaths of the inhabited continents. The rich have fled, constructing massive floating cities in the Arctic, to which refugees floc......more

Goodreads review by karen on July 12, 2018

NOW AVAILABLE!!! this was a real roller coaster of a read for me. it was offered to me by a publisher-pal, who confidently declared: “I just think you will die for this book.” between that prediction and the first part of the synopsis: When a strange new visitor arrives—a woman riding an orca, with a......more

Goodreads review by James on April 17, 2018

I received an advanced reading copy of Blackfish City in exchange for an honest review. I would like to thank Sam J. Miller and Orbit Books. The results of the climate wars were that the majority of the Earth was either flooded or burnt to rubble leaving very little in the way of habitual environme......more

Goodreads review by Philip on August 09, 2018

2.5ish stars. Underwhelmed. A lot of great individual elements, but there's so much missing at the same time. I wanted to like it more than I did. Especially based on the imaginative setting, the interesting crowd of POVs, the great cover, and the concept of an ORCAMANCER, hello! I enjoyed Miller's Y......more

Goodreads review by Gary on May 04, 2018

7.8 out of 10 at: [URL not allowed] Sci-fi and fantasy narratives that deal directly with structures of power usually feature a single, goal-oriented protagonist, often consumed with a desire for revenge or seeking to redress a perceived injustice. Even if the intent is to cast......more