Description: "The Grand Dark is a miracle of the old and the new: a tale of weimar decadence that is also a parable for our New Gilded Age [...] It's a fun and terrifying ride, gritty and relentless, burning with true love and revolutionary fervor." -- Cory Doctorow, author of Radicalized and Walkaway "Kadrey has written for us a beautiful nightmare -- one that's often eerily familiar -- showing a theatrical world set on the edge of war, and losing itself in the shadows of brutality and oppression." -- Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers "The Grand Dark is more than just another reliably strong outing from a veteran writer. It's the work of a major science fiction/fantasy creator going way out in a limb in the effort to wholly redefine himself, all while crystallizing what's made him great." -- NPR "Wildly ambitious and inventive fantasy from an author who's punching above his weight in terms of worldbuilding--and winning." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Stunning. The hard, spare, considered voice that's driven Kadrey's gonzo supernatural noir has been honed to a deft Kafka-esque edge. Unsettling and dreamlike, seductive and bleak, the jaws of The Grand Dark gape to devour you." -- Max Gladstone, author of Empress of Forever "Artisanal gene mod and robots and coal dust and a big middle finger to the oligarchs, plus bicycles!" -- New York Times bestselling author Kevin Hearne "[For] readers who like morally complex characters and enjoy their fantasy on the dark side." -- Booklist "The novel feels almost China Mieville-esque in its tone and themes." -- Seattle Book Review "The Grand Dark is a thematic buffet. Wealth, addiction, and censorship are only a few of its social and political layers. Foremost among its concerns are mankind's relationship to technology, the treatment of veterans, and how a society handles its 'undesirables.'" -- ZYZZYVA "A constant underlying tension makes the city's powder-keg agitation visceral, and the individual neighborhoods and their residents are well wrought." -- Publishers Weekly "This book is being compared in several places to China Mieville's Perdido Street Station, and it's an apt comparison." -- Locus Magazine "The Grand Dark reads as something not only unique to the author, but to the genre. We discuss it within the constraints of genre, but it is really just literature and deserves consideration in that loftier categorization. Kadrey will see his name on the Hugo and Nebula ballots, but he deserves the shortlists for literary prizes beyond those." -- Spectrum Culture

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