Truth and Fear, Peter Higgins
Truth and Fear, Peter Higgins
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Truth and Fear

Author: Peter Higgins

Narrator: Neil Dickson

Unabridged: 13 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 03/25/2014


Synopsis

Investigator Lom returns to Mirgorod and finds the city in the throes of a crisis. The war against the Archipelago is not going well. Enemy divisions are massing outside the city, air raids are a daily occurrence and the citizens are being conscripted into the desperate defense of the city.

But Lom has other concerns. The police are after him, the mystery of the otherworldly Pollandore remains and the vast Angel is moving, turning all of nature against the city.
But will the horrors of war overtake all their plans?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Althea on July 04, 2015

A worthy follow-up to 'Wolfhound Century.' The author provides a web page with a list of books that inspired or were used for research while writing this book... the collection gives a good idea as to the 'feel' of the book: [URL not allowed] The story follows the characters from......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on August 13, 2016

[URL not allowed] Shortly after the events of Wolfhound Century, Vissarion Lom and Maroussia Shaumian are on a tram headed into Mirgorod, battle weary and all too aware that they’re being pursued by Commander Lavrentina Chazia, chief of the Mirgorod Secret Police. Mirgorod is o......more

Goodreads review by Strix on February 12, 2021

Not a true review, as I am so, so tired of this book. It is gorgeous with descriptions and character movement and everything builds in a crescendo for everyone except the main character. Lom's sequences of travel with Florian got to me, until I couldn't read it anymore, and skimmed bits of it until......more

Goodreads review by Matt on July 18, 2015

Not quite as cool-sounding title as "Wolfhound Century" but the sequel is just as good. The setting, of a fantastical quasi-Soviet Union, is still fascinating. Giants, space angels and a mystical, pan-dimensional forest existing alongside airplanes, machine guns and collectivized farms. Not somethin......more

Goodreads review by Aildiin on July 07, 2015

This book improves on the first book in the serie. It's bursting with ideas and somehow the author manages to mesh them all together and keeps us enthralled. There are bits of fantasy , science fiction, thriller and steampunk sprinkled through the pages. The chapters are very short and it allows us......more


Quotes

"An amazing, fast-paced story in a fantasy world poised dangerously on the edge of quantum probability, a world where angels war with reality"—Peter F. Hamilton on Wolfhound Century

"Like vintage Mieville or Vandermeer, but with all the violent narrative thriller drive of Fleming at his edgiest. I fell into Wolfhound Century and devoured it in three days."—Richard Morgan

"A dark new Soviet alternative history with angels...an alternate history that will grab you by the lapels and snap you to attention."—io9.com on Wolfhound Century

"A brilliant exploitation of the power of fantasy: the tender green soul of Russian history set free for uncanny battle with its grey, gunmetal carapace."—Francis Spufford on Wolfhound Century

"[Wolfhound Century] captures its world with absolute conviction. Mirgorod is a city of crumbling infrastructure and frightened people, but it is also a living, breathing, and very much vital place, that lives in its narrow streets and filthy river and in the overwhelming sense of cold that becomes more oppressive every time somebody shivers in daylight or huddles in a doorway for protections. There's brutality and heroism in equal portions."—SciFi Magazine on Wolfhound Century

"I absolutely loved Wolfhound Century. Higgins's world is truly original creation, Russian cosmos and Slavic mythology filtered through steampunk and le Carre. What really captured me was his beautiful style and language: his metaphors and associations flow smoothly like the waters of the Mir, and, like Lom without his angel stone, make you see the world in a new way."—Hannu Rajaniemi on Wolfhound Century

"A compelling Stalin-era alternate Russia ... An ambitious and fascinating novel."—Booklist on Truth and Fear