'A refreshingly new take on post-dystopia civilizations, with the smartest evolutionary worldbuilding you'll ever read' Peter F. 'Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human' Patrick Ness There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. 'Brilliant science fiction and far out worldbuilding' James McAvoy Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky’s triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution. There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than. Ilmar, some say, is the worst place in the world and the gateway to a thousand worse places. City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Large Paperback). What will be the spark that lights the conflagration? Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the Anchorwood - that dark grove of trees, that primeval remnant, that portal, when the moon is full, to strange and distant shores. Head of Zeus, 29.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-80110-842-3 The theft of a rare magical amulet becomes the catalyst for revolution in the shady city of. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. Clarke award winner Tchaikovsky (Children of Memory). Clarke winner Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution. The theft of a rare magical amulet becomes the catalyst for revolution in the shady city of Ilmar in this well wrought fantasy from Arthur C. Versatile and prolific author Adrian Tchaikovsky won the Arthur C.

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