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    <body><![CDATA[Australian author K. J. Bishopâ€™s first novel, <em>The Etched City</em>, reminds me somewhat of M. John Harrisonâ€™s Viriconium stories.  Thereâ€™s the same sense of a world that has decayed, and thereâ€™s the same lack of moral certainty or moral absolutes.  It also has some of the melancholy of Harrisonâ€...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19422982">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up The Etched City because it was name-dropped in the jacket copy of Jay Lakeâ€™s Trial of Flowers, along with texts by China MiÃ©ville and Jeff VanderMeer. Like Lake, MiÃ©ville, and VanderMeer, Bishop's novel is Fantasy, but a branch of Fantasy that owes more to the Surrealist, Magical Rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2435939">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Etched City is the story of gunslinger Gwynn and doctor Raule.  Together, they flee the wasteland of the Copper County and make their way to the city of Ashamoil.  Raule starts treating the poor of Ashamoil, occasionally delivering crocodilian babies, while Gwynn gets a job as a guard for a slave tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14517652">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Etched City is a very dreamlike book.  An alternate world experiences a lot of the same problems as us.  Things are familiar and yet totally different, as the best alternate universe fiction provides.  But other noteworthy things about it are that it really does seperate itself from mainstream f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18570721">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[K. J. Bishop, The Etched City (Prime, 2003)<br/><br/>Aussie author Bishop turns in her first novel, and what a first novel it is. The language in The Etched City demands to be savored, lingered over. It is beautiful to the point of astonishment. This is, basically, the fastest way to get a top revie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12953213">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[fantastic character work. gorgeous, vivid, poignant prose. most characters are brilliant, though i fail to understand the purpose of Beth. I think I would prefer her as a figment Gwynn's imagination. superb world-building. unfortunately there's not much by way of plot. <br/><br/>when i was about h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1768820">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Australian author K.J. Bishop's impressive first novel, <em>The Etched City</em>, draws deep from the well of dark fantasy to create a bruised and battered realm which invites comparison with Stephen King's Dark Tower series and China Mieville's twisted imaginings. <p>  Set first in the dustbowl wasteland of the Copper Country, Bishop introduces the battlefield sawbones Raule and her gunslinging companion Gwynn. The duo's relationship of necessity is cemented as they flee the justice of &quot;The Army of Heroes,&quot; a force created to put down a rebellion in which they were active participants. Wanted and destitute, they make for the uncharted Telute Shelf to find new lives amid the sprawling metropolis of Ashamoil. Gwynn's ruthless knack for violence sends him to the top of the town as an enforcer for the Horn Fan Cartel and its bustling slave trade. Raule, meanwhile, heads to the bottom where she tries to erase her brutal past through ministrations to the city's forsaken. Between the opposite poles of Gwynn and Raule is a languid tale wandering through a sideshow menagerie of lovelorn mobsters, debased priests, brutal imperialists, sorcererous drug dealers, gangland warlords, and otherworldly artists that deftly examines the nature of violence, compassion, spirituality, redemption, and reality. --<em>Jeremy Pugh</em></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[And so Iâ€™m done with The Etched City. It took me a while but donâ€™t get it wrong, itâ€™s a an amazing story that worths taking its time. Itâ€™s a story about fantastic details that build up a srange city. A few spots in the plot didnâ€™t convince me though: Raule, the doctor who seems the protago...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51007501">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of Gywnn, a handsome, philisophical sword for hire and Raule, a healer/mercenary looking for redemption. Together they travel to Ashamoil art is life and the line between waking and dreaming becomes blurred. Written in a very baroque style I found it heavy going and at times annoyi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47975931">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel a little guilty about 3 stars--if my head were in a different place, perhaps I would have given this novel 4 or 5 stars. However, while the philosophy and the plot are separately intriguing, the integration of the two seems mishandled. Very well-written in many regards but ultimately annoying...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70073301">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say I'm disappointed in this. Many people said it reminded them of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Perdido Street Station" title="Perdido Street Station">Perdido Street Station</a>, and I can see some of that and some of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=City of Saints and Madmen" title="City of Saints and Madmen">City of Saints and Madmen</a>, but overall those promises fail to deliver.  I like the world Mrs. Bishop creates but the plot was lacking.  The first 100 pages is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11378447">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the New Weird genre.  Definitely weird stuff but very good nonetheless.  I can see why this is classified differently than just as a simple fantasy novel.  It was a nice introduction to this style.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting fantasy novel set in a (possibly) post-apocalyptic world. A vivid and very well-written story for the most part, it was betrayed for me by an indulgence in vague mysticism.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  The Etched City is a psychedelic journey through a timeless land, so far in the future it feels like the distant past.  The story takes place in a far away land rife with lawlessness.  Outlaw Gwynn, and his companion Raule, a wandering village doctor who stives to locate her conscience, land i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50363385">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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