***A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2018***
***A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018***

'Incisive and beautifully written . . . Blackfish City simmers with menace and heartache, suspense and wonder' Ann Leckie, Hugo, Nebula and Clarke Award-winning author

'Sam Miller is a fiercely strong writer, and this book is a blast' Daryl Gregory, World Fantasy Award-winning author

'It's too early in the year to begin assembling 2018's 'best of' list, but Blackfish City has got to be an early contender' Starburst

*****

After the climate wars, a floating city was constructed in the Arctic Circle. Once a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering it is now rife with corruption and the population simmers with unrest.

Into this turmoil comes a strange new visitor - a woman accompanied by an orca and a chained polar bear. She disappears into the crowds looking for someone she lost thirty years ago, followed by whispers of a vanished people who could bond with animals. Her arrival draws together four people and sparks a chain of events that will change Blackfish City forever.

DISTURBING, POWERFUL AND FEARLESSLY IMAGINED, BLACKFISH CITY IS A MESMERISING NOVEL FROM A REMARKABLE NEW VOICE IN SCIENCE FICTION

*****

'A compelling dystopian thriller' Guardian

'I haven't been this swept away by imagination and worldbuilding since Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials' Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award-nominated author of Her Body and other Parties

'An urgent tale . . . wrapped in an action-packed science fiction thriller' Washington Post

'An ambitious, imaginative and big-hearted dystopian ensemble story that's by turns elegiac and angry' Publisher's Weekly

'This is the kind of swirling, original sci-fi we live for' B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog

'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' Ann Leckie, Hugo, Nebula and Clarke Award-winning author

'Sam Miller is a fiercely strong writer, and this book is a blast'
Daryl Gregory, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Spoonbenders

After the climate wars, a floating city was constructed in the Arctic Circle. Once a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, it has started to crumble under the weight of its own decay - crime and corruption have set in, a terrible new disease is coursing untreated through the population, and the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside deepest poverty are spawning unrest.

Into this turmoil comes a strange new visitor - a woman accompanied by an orca and a chained polar bear. She disappears into the crowds looking for someone she lost thirty years ago, followed by whispers of a vanished people who could bond with animals. Her arrival draws together four people and sparks a chain of events that will lead to unprecedented acts of resistance.

BLACKFISH CITY IS A MESMERISING NOVEL FROM A REMARKABLE NEW VOICE IN SCIENCE FICTION

'I haven't been this swept away by imagination and worldbuilding since Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. A gorgeous, queer, muscular novel'
Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award-nominated author of Her Body and other Parties

'An urgent tale imploring us to look at the ties between technology, race, gender and class privilege . . . wrapped in an action-packed science fiction thriller'
Washington Post

'An ambitious, imaginative, and big-hearted dystopian ensemble story that's by turns elegiac and angry'
Publisher's Weekly

The novel flows with the momentum of an epidemic, an outbreak, and it doesn't slow down until the floor is littered with blood and bodies, and the air smells of fire and ash and hope . . . From battles involving polar bears and orca whales to daring rescues through maximum security installations, the novel brings a vivid action and fast pace . . . Damn near perfect