Three brothers explore an infested city, seeking the forbidden weapons of a school of malevolent psychics...a trustee investigator on an interdimensional prison ship answers a mysterious summons from the sweating depths of a labor camp...an insect with a gift for telepathy and oratory organizes a revolution of vermin...and in a pocket dimension made of absolute ice, Charlotte St. Andrews learns how to Burn.
Staggeringly good. Boldly imaginative. A tale of breakneck destruction told with boundless creativity. From the fevered expressions of mind as matter and matter as mind to the cataclysm of worlds and expansion of souls, I reel at the originality of it all, this wild universe of psychic powers and charming characters. It’s wonderfully strange and provocative, powered by a kind of hearty and heartfelt Darwinian idealism. Vivid, effusive, chaotic—yet tightly controlled and cohesive with masterful pacing and witty prose. I love this book.