The Scar

31 hrs. 13 min.

Language Russian

Author China Miéville

Narrator Mikhail Roslyakov

First time in Russian—a novel set in the same world as “The Railway Station of Lost Dreams,” a celebrated fantastical masterpiece, the most delightful and engaging novel of our time, and—according to critics—the best work in the steampunk genre since Gibson and Sterling’s “The Difference Engine.”

Belliss Khladovin flees the giant metropolis of New Crobuzon. An experienced linguist, she takes a job as a translator aboard a ship sailing to Nova Esperium. But the ship is captured by pirates, and Belliss’s new life begins not in some far-off Crobuzon colony, but on the Armada—a floating pirate city made up of thousands upon thousands of vessels, traveling the Swollen Ocean for more than a century and run by a pair of sadomasochists known as the Lovers. As in New Crobuzon, the Armada is inhabited by humans and beetle-headed hephries, by mermaids and water-people, by man-made mutants—reworked human-cacti—as well as by scabs and vampires. Refusing to accept that she will never see her hometown again, Belliss will do anything to find out the nature of the deeply classified project being worked on by Dr. Johannes Tierfly, the best hunter anywhere in Bas-Lag Tin-tin-nabulum, the Lovers, and their bodyguard Uter Doul…

1. Perdido Street Station (narrated by Oleg Buldakov) 1. The Station of Lost Dreams (narrated by Kirill Kirk) 2. The Scar (narrated by Oleg Buldakov) 2. The Scar (narrated by Dmitriy Ignatyev) 2. The Scar 3. Iron Council (narrated by Mikhail Roslyakov) 3. Iron Council (narrated by Roman Volkov)