'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.