A City Dreaming
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Daniel Polansky. (2016). A City Dreaming. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Daniel Polansky. 2016. A City Dreaming. Blackstone Publishing.

Daniel Polansky, A City Dreaming. Blackstone Publishing, 2016.

Daniel Polansky. A City Dreaming. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2016.

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     Daniel Polansky was born in Baltimore in 1984. His first book, Low Town, was released in 2011. Two sequels followed, Tomorrow, the Killing (2012) and She Who Waits (2013). His follow up series, the Empty Throne, began with Those Above (2015) and concluded with Those Below (2016). His novella, The Builders, was nominated for the 2016 Hugo Award. He currently lives in Brooklyn.

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M is a magician of modest wit, dim ability, and few scruples, who would prefer to spend his easy immortality drinking artisanal beer and making eyes at smiling women. Alas, in the infinite nexus of the universe that is New York City, equilibrium is no easy thing to maintain. Canal pirates, drug-induced divinities, pocket steam-punk universes, hipster zombies, ex-girlfriends, and the devil are all taken in easy stride—but when the city's uneasy dual monarchy threatens to break into outright war, it will take all of M's cleverness to keep the capital of existence from going the way of Atlantis.

He might even have to get out of bed before noon.

Sharp, surreal, and hilarious, A City Dreaming is the postmodern fantasy adventure you never saw coming.

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     August 8, 2016
     This offbeat gonzo fantasy attempts to mock American consumerism but prioritizes the bizarre at the expense of both plot and humor. The lead, known simply as M, has the power to change reality; he’s introduced in a present-day Paris tavern, where he’s rewinding a killer’s life to erase every trace of his existence. He returns to New York City and becomes involved in a series of adventures, beginning with a foray to rescue a friend from pirates named Rum, Sodomy, and Lash whose secret code word is “Arggggghhhhhh!” From there, the story line, which builds to a dramatic climax involving the entire metropolis, becomes harder to follow. The author takes pains to poke fun at the urban fantasy genre; he devotes one short chapter to explaining that nothing much happened in a particular month, which may raise a smile but does nothing to sustain any narrative momentum. Mixing such sections with stomach-churning ones, sometimes literally so (“He spent the next few minutes vomiting up unbirthed chunks of existence”), results in a listless mess, rather than a clever tweaking of urban fantasy tropes.

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M is a magician of modest wit, dim ability, and few scruples, who would prefer to spend his easy immortality drinking artisanal beer and making eyes at smiling women. Alas, in the infinite nexus of the universe that is New York City, equilibrium is no easy thing to maintain. Canal pirates, drug-induced divinities, pocket steam-punk universes, hipster zombies, ex-girlfriends, and the devil are all taken in easy stride—but when the city's uneasy dual monarchy threatens to break into outright war, it will take all of M's cleverness to keep the capital of existence from going the way of Atlantis.

He might even have to get out of bed before noon.

Sharp, surreal, and hilarious, A City Dreaming is the postmodern fantasy adventure you never saw coming.

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