The Scar

Belis Khladovin, an experienced linguist, gets a job as a translator on a ship going to Nova-Espeirium. But the ship is captured by pirates, and Belis’s new life begins not in some distant Krbyuzon colony, but on the Armada—an afloat pirate city made from thousands and thousands of ships, sailing the Bulging Ocean for more than a century and ruled by a pair of sadomasochists known as the Lovers. Refusing to accept the fact that she will never see her home city again, Belis is ready for anything, just to figure out the nature of the deeply classified project being worked on by Dr. Johannes Tearfly (biology), the best hunter in the whole Bas-Lag of Tinintinabulum, the Lovers, and their bodyguard Uter Dole...