false<![CDATA[Finch]]>65824961In <I>Finch,</I> mysterious underground inhabitants known as the gray caps have reconquered the failed fantasy state Ambergris and put it under martial law. They have disbanded House Hoegbotton and are controlling the human inhabitants with strange addictive drugs, internment in camps, and random acts of terror. The rebel resistance is scattered, and the gray caps are using human labor to build two strange towers. Against this backdrop, John Finch, who lives alone with a cat and a lizard, must solve an impossible double murder for his gray cap masters while trying to make contact with the rebels. Nothing is as it seems as Finch and his disintegrating partner Wyte negotiate their way through a landscape of spies, rebels, and deception. Trapped by his job and the city, Finch is about to come face to face with a series of mysteries that will change him and Ambergris forever.67759671112009Finchtotal:16|5:10|4:5|3:1|2:0|1:0|1673126641falsefalseThu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009Sun Oct 25 09:07:48 -0700 2009Sun Oct 25 09:07:59 -0700 2009 Jeff Vandermeer is the Hierophant of the the "New Weird", an avant-garde branch of modern fantasy that uses phantasmagorical imagery and horror in an often urban secondary fantasy world. China Mieville's Perdido Stre...more...]]>
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53falsefalseTue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009Wed Jul 01 09:04:52 -0700 2009Wed Nov 04 08:27:49 -0800 2009New Weird, defined the 21st century’s first major literary movement.
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