Full name: Blackfish City: A Novel

Author: Sam J. Miller Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction, Award winners, Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopia Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780062684844 9780062684820 0062684841 0062684825

After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city's denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges--crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives--a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side--the city is entranced. The "orcamancer," as she's known, very subtly brings together four people--each living on the periphery--to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves. Blackfish City is a remarkably urgent--and ultimately very hopeful--novel about political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection. Similar books: Dust by Hugh Howey Shift by Hugh Howey Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery Walkaway by Cory Doctorow Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton Seed by Rob Ziegler Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot Amatka by Karin Tidbeck Dark Age by Pierce Brown Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald The Great Wheel by Ian R. MacLeod Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack Aftermath by Levar Burton Intrusion by Ken MacLeod The Postmortal by Drew Magary The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor The Bear by Andrew Krivak Caliphate by Tom Kratman