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    Dark Star

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    ISBN: 9781907389306
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    AuthorLangmead, Oliver
    Pub Date11/03/2015
    BindingPaperback
    Pages224
    Publisher: Red Squirrel Publishing
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    A unique blend of science fantasy, hardboiled crime and epic verse. In the dark city of Vox, three hearts bring light. Prometheus, liquid light, is the drug of choice. Virgil Yorke investigates a murder when one of the hearts is stolen. Vox needs a hero; but Virgil has had a long cycle and doesn't feel like a hero.

    Shortlisted for the Guardian's Not The Booker Award 2015. I was wrong to think that there were floodlights. Nobody's got a torch lit. There's no need. She's difficult to look at. She's too bright. She's lighting the whole damn scene with her blood. Welcome to Vox. A city of perpetual night, existing under a star that burns in darkness. Light-starved citizens shoot up on Prometheus, while the wealthy live in the radiance provided by three Hearts that beat light into the city. Aquila. Corvus. Cancer. When Cancer is stolen, it falls to hero cop Virgil Yorke to investigate. But Virgil has had a long cycle and he doesn't feel like a hero. The unsolved case of Vivian North, a promising student found dead with veins full of unnatural glowing, dominates his thoughts. The possibility of a connection between the lucent girl and the stolen Heart urges Virgil to shed light on the dark city's even darker secrets. Tormented by the ghosts of his past and chased by his addictions, which will crack first, Virgil or the case? Dark Star is hardboiled science fantasy written in syllabic verse, distinctive in form but accessible and immediately compelling.Langmead's tale of a flawed cop in the darkness recreates science fantasy as modern legend, epic verse as Virgil's voice.
    Steeped in atmosphere, a sensuous linguistic trip, Dark Star will be one of the most striking titles of 2015.