A City Dreaming

Daniel Polansky

• 06 oktober 2016
• 9781473652170

Samenvatting:

It helps if you don't think of it as magic. M certainly had long since ceased to do so. He thought of it as being in good with the management, like being a regular at a neighborhood bar. You come to a place long enough, talk up the chick behind the counter, and after a while she'll look the other way if you have a smoke inside, let you run up your tab without scowling, maybe even send over some free nuts on occasion. Magic is like that, except the bar is existence and the rules being bent are thermodynamics and weak nuclear force.

M is a drifter with a sharp tongue, few scruples, and limited magical ability, who would prefer drinking artisanal beer to involving himself in the politics of the city. Alas, in the infinite nexus of the universe which is New York, trouble is a hard thing to avoid, and now a rivalry between the city's two queens threatens to make the Big Apple go the way of Atlantis. To stop it, M will have to call in every favor, waste every charm, and blow every spell he's ever acquired - he might even have to get out of bed before noon.

Enter a world of wall street wolves, slumming scenesters, desperate artists, drug-induced divinities, pocket steam-punk universes, and hipster zombies. Because the city never sleeps, but is always dreaming.

(P) 2016 Hodder & Stoughton Limited