Well-Built City Trilogy: The Physiognomy (Series #01) (Paperback)

from GingerbreadMan

I'm having a great time discovering all the facets of this loose "New Weird"-movement! Here is something that, again, has a flavour that's distinctly it's own. I really like Ford's way of building a world with quite few penstrokes that still evokes imagination and feels like a solid place. I like...

from GingerbreadMan

I'm having a great time discovering all the facets of this loose "New Weird"-movement! Here is something that, again, has a flavour that's distinctly it's own. I really like Ford's way of building a world with quite few penstrokes that still evokes imagination and feels like a solid place. I like...

from amandrake

Comparisons to *1984* and Kafka are inevitable for this dystopian novel, and though they are warranted both for style and content there is an underlying hopefulness in *The Physiognomy* that those others lack. Ford's landscape is also less familiar, set somewhere that is neither a projected futur...

from BobNolin

For once, a book lives up to its hype. Very well-constructed, fascinating to read. The main character, Cley, evolves and changes. The sequel, Memoranda, fills in a lot of the back story, but wasn't as good as this. Still, both are worth reading.

from ragwaine

1998 World Fantasy Award. Great cast of weird characters, original and you never knew what was going to happen next. More light hearted fantasy toward end and somethings weren't explained.