There is marvellous language on every page, and if the plot is a little pat, the whole makes for an unforgettable engrossment in community and estrangement.

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Winner of the Locus Award for best SF publisher 29 consecutive years from. Tor is billing this as The Thin Man in space. Winner of the 2022 Arthur C Clarke award, this is a remarkable feat of language and imagination: a verse novel written in Orcadian Scots, with a lively and inventive southern English translation running along the bottom of the pages. Tor Books is the most successful science fiction and fantasy publisher in the world.

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