The Grand Dark - Richard Kadrey
Category: Sci-Fi
Tags: Sci-Fi, Fantasy
The Great War is over. The city of Lower Proszawa celebrates the peace with a decadence and carefree spirit as intense as the wars horrifying despair. But this newfound hedonism - drugs and sex and endless parties - distracts from strange realities of everyday life: Intelligent automata taking jobs. Genetically engineered creatures that serve as pets and beasts of war. A theater where gruesome murders happen twice a day. And a new plague that even the ceaseless euphoria cant mask., Unlike others who live strictly for fun, Largo is an addict with ambitions. A bike messenger who grew up in the slums, he knows the citys streets and its secrets intimately. His life seems set. He has a beautiful girlfriend, drugs, a chance at a promotion - and maybe, an opportunity for complete transformation: a contact among the elite who will set him on the course to lift himself up out of the streets., But dreams can be a dangerous thing in a city whose mood is turning dark and inward. Others have a visi
