The Wind City (42 page)
Authors: Summer Wigmore
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Otago Daily Times
“
Tropic of Skorpeo
is a romp, and a fun one too.” –
Landfall
“A work of SF worthy of words like ‘romp’ and ‘bizarre’.”
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New Zealand Books
The Factory World
“Cognitively estranging, richly imagined, and splendidly paranoid.”
– Dr Dougal McNeill, Victoria University of Wellington
“Simultaneously disconcerting and entertaining.”
– Dr Luke Goode, University of Auckland
“Proper science fiction that takes a serious view of the future.”
– SFFANZ Reviews
DownMind
“Belts along with tremendous energy … A considerable imaginative accomplishment.”
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Herald on Sunday
“A unique and skilfully designed world, that will stick in your memory.”
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Novazine
“Weird and intriguing … strange and disturbing … a wonderful antidote to the ubiquitous fat fantasy trilogy.”
– SFFANZ Reviews
First published in 2013 by Steam Press Ltd
© Text: Summer Wigmore, 2013
© Cover art: Alice Brash, 2013
© Internal art: Steam Press, 2013
This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing with the purpose of private study, research, criticism, or review, as permitted under copyright laws, no part may be reproduced by any process, nor transmitted, nor translated without prior written permission from the copyright owners. Enquiries should be addressed to the publisher. Summer Wigmore has asserted her moral rights.
National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Wigmore, Summer, 1993-
The wind city / Summer Wigmore.
ISBN 978-0-9922578-8-6 (pbk.)—ISBN 978-0-9922578-1-1 (epub)
—ISBN 978-0-9922578-2-8 (mobi)
[1. Pakiwaitara. reo 2. Ao wairua. reo] I. Title
NZ823.3—dc 23
Stephen Minchin at Steam Press is eternally grateful to Ange Minchin for, well, everything. Thanks also to Marie Hodgkinson for her help in the initial stages of this project, Alice Brash for her kick arse cover, Matariki Williams and Abby Aitcheson for their awesome proofreading, Kawata Teepa for helping us fly true, and Summer, of course, for sending me such a freaking amazing story.
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ebook conversion by Matariki Williams
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