John Meaney. (2008). Bone Song. Random House Worlds.

John Meaney. 2008. Bone Song. Random House Worlds.

John Meaney, Bone Song. Random House Worlds, 2008.

John Meaney. Bone Song. Random House Worlds, 2008.

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   • bioText: John Meaney is the author of four previous novels. His novelette Sharp Tang was short-listed for the British Science Fiction Award, and To Hold Infinity and Paradox both appeared on the BSFA short lists for Best Novel. Meaney has a degree in physics and computer science and holds a black belt in Shotokan karate. He lives with his wife in Kent, where he is at work on his next novel, Black Blood, the sequel to Bone Song.
     
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Hailed as “the first important new SF writer of the 21st century,” John Meaney delivers a darkly luminous new thriller that blends futuristic noir with gothic fantasy. Here, in a city of the dead where desire is very much alive and murder a pleasure for connoisseurs, an honest cop must face his own darkest impulses just to have a prayer.

There have been four victims already. Famed for their beauty and one-of-a-kind artistic gifts, they were murdered in the most shocking ways imaginable and their corpses stolen. Now the famed diva Maria daLivnova is arriving in Tristopolis—a city literally powered by the massive necroflux generators that process the dead—and it is up to Lieutenant Donal Riordan to make sure she ends her limited engagement alive.
But Riordan isn’t the only one watching deLivnova. For the Diva is being followed by two other secret “protectors”: Commander Laura Steele—who’s made a more or less successful transition to para-life—and her partner, the invisible free-wraith Xalia. They are part of the necropolis’s vast underground network and they’ve mobilized against an unseen enemy for a battle of epic proportions. For a perverse death cult with powerful members in every stratum of society has learned how to distill from the bones of their sacrificed victims the ultimate thrill—a nectar that, once tasted, is impossible to resist. And the more precious the life, the greater the pleasure it is to take it away.
Soon Riordan will find himself in the unlikeliest of alliances as he journeys through a world of corruption—both aboveground and below—among gargoyles and zombies, spirit slaves and assassins, science and sorcery, in search of an enemy even the dead have every reason to fear….

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   • source: Kat Richardson, author of Greywalker
   • content: "A remarkable book featuring a unique dark Fantasy/SF world and great writing. The police procedural plot, creepy technology, and seamless, fascinating world make it a real page turner, full of great twists and details. Bone Song has really got it all: fantasy, horror, science fiction, cops, crime--even a love story and a dose of dark, dry humor. A great read and I can't wait for the next one."
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   • source: Mark Del Franco, author of Unshapely Things
   • content: "John Meaney brings a city of death to richly textured life. In an amazing blend of noir mystery and dark fantasy, Meaney doesn't just build a world–he creates an eerie culture that you can truly visualize and feel. Bone Song is a thrilling and suspenseful beginning to a great new series."
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   • source: Guardian, UK
   • content: "Brilliantly fuses SF with elements of gothic fantasy."
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   • source: SFFWorld.com
   • content: "Crisply written and vividly portrayed."
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   • source: Booklist
   • content: "Grittiness is a word that all too often is thrown around, but I will apply it to the street-level, no nonsense Riordan. Fast paced, very entertaining and out of the ordinary...both haunting and engaging."
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     December 24, 2007
     This mélange of mystery, dark fantasy and over-the-top gothic horror marks a dramatic departure from Meaney’s existential SF epic, the Nulapeiron Sequence. In Tristopolis, where corpses are incinerated by the thousands to produce the “necroflux” that sustains the city and its undead inhabitants, police lieutenant Donal Riordan learns that a disturbingly well-organized cult is killing the world’s most talented artists. Tasked with keeping a visiting opera diva safe, the intrepid cop soon finds himself caught up in a sweeping necromantic conspiracy that could involve the very highest ranks of government. Meaney makes extensive use of dark colors and gothic imagery (“a golden clock, formed of interlocking metal bones”; “the bat-winged ambulance”), and Tristopolis is at times more fascinating than its inhabitants or the relatively conventional hard-boiled story line. With many plot threads left untied or simply ignored, readers will have to wait until future installments to pass judgment on this ambitious saga.

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     February 15, 2008
     In a city based around death, murder still stands out as a crimeparticularly when the murderer is targeting celebrities. Police Lieutenant Donal Riordan's task is to prevent any more murders in the vast necropolis known as Tristopolis. Together with a "para-live" female agent who holds a forbidden attraction for him, they search through a world filled with zombies, spirit slaves, and other strange beings, some living, some not quite alive. Dark, humorous, and in places, poignant, Meaney's ("Sharp Tang; To Hold Infinity") series opener blends gothic urban fantasy with sf and horror to create a uniquely atmospheric detective thriller that belongs in most libraries.

     Copyright 2008 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     February 15, 2008
     Meaneys latest novel straddles the line between gothic fantasy and detective fiction in creating an alternate world in which humans coexist with mythical creatures and a cultlike underworld that feeds, literally, on death. Police lieutenant Donal Riordan faces perhaps the most challenging assignment of his career when hes asked to provide protective services to, of all people, an opera diva visiting his native city of Tristopolis. A handful of celebrity artisteshave already been dispatched under mysterious circumstances, and Riordan quickly realizes that the murders are only the gruesome preliminary clues to a much larger conspiracy involving Tristopolis death-obsessed ruling elite. Before he can track down the lead conspirators, however, he becomes involved in an unlikely allianceand steamy romancewith an undead military commander who is already deeply engaged with the enemy in a chesslike battle in which Riordan is merely a pawn. Readers who enjoy this sort of fanciful, macabre romp can look forward to its sequel, Black Blood, slated for publication later this year.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)

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There have been four victims already. Famed for their beauty and one-of-a-kind artistic gifts, they were murdered in the most shocking ways imaginable and their corpses stolen. Now the famed diva Maria daLivnova is arriving in Tristopolis—a city literally powered by the massive necroflux generators that process the dead—and it is up to Lieutenant Donal Riordan to make sure she ends her limited engagement alive.
But Riordan isn’t the only one watching deLivnova. For the Diva is being followed by two other secret “protectors”: Commander Laura Steele—who’s made a more or less...

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