Green City Wars - by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Philip Marlowe meets Redwall in this superior adult noir tale, where all the characters are animals, fighting for survival in the city underneath the humans.

In the solar cities of the future, the humans relax in the sun and the animals work in the shadows. Genetically engineered Little Helpers, serving humanity--unseen, unheard.

Meet Skotch. Raccoon, PI--yours for a few buttons as long as the job isn't too illegal, whatever that means.

A mouse has gone missing. Normally this wouldn't raise any hackles, nor any alarms, but this mouse has something that everyone seems to want, though nobody appears particularly eager to say what that something is.

The fee is good--perhaps too good. Certainly not something Skotch can easily turn down.

If only Skotch can work out where the mouse is hiding, what he's hiding, and why his secrets are upsetting a lot of animals caught up in the Green City wars.

Review Quotes

A Most Anticipated Release from Kirkus Reviews, BookRiot, Polygon, SciFiNow, and The Christian Science Monitor

"[A] charmingly bizarre SF noir....Interstitial fiction at its most engaging and mind-bending." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"If Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy toned his language down and opened a private investigator's office like Philip Marlowe, he'd be Tchaikovsky's Skotch.... Readers searching for an adult Redwall, the animals-as-humans concept of Juneau Black's Shady Hollow, or the upside-down criminal enterprise of John Scalzi's Starter Villain will be thrilled to meet Skotch." --Library Journal, starred review

"Perfect for adult fans of Redwall, hard-boiled detective stories and Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Green City Wars embodies the best of both solarpunk and mystery stories." --BookPage, starred review

"Green City Warsis another hit from Tchaikovsky, blending genres and current themes into a fantastical piece of fiction that immerses you in another world, both alien and familiar to our own. His already substantial fan base will love this, and it's bound to bring in a few more. Highly recommended." --The British Fantasy Society

"Tchaikovsky is not only at the top of his game, he's also turning out stuff more bedded in real-world concerns than ever. Recommended." --Horror Tree

Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky

"A surprisingly thoughtful and compelling story...Readers who love a good postapocalyptic hell ride, AI-centered adventures, and robot/human companion stories, such as A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, will appreciate." --Library Journal, starred review on Service Model

"With humor, heart, and hope balancing out the decay, this glimpse of the future is sure to win fans." --Publishers Weekly on Service Model

"Picking up an Adrian Tchaikovsky book is proof you love your brain and want it to be happy." --John Scalzi

"There's an Ursula Le Guin-like grace to [Tchaikovsky's] storytelling....Ten out of ten." --The New York Times on Elder Race

"An epic tale of a land ruled by magic--or the sober record of a world colonized by science....The double vision built into the story works well." --The Wall Street Journal on Elder Race

"Rex, a two-metre-tall bioengineered dog, is one of the most achingly human characters I have ever encountered in an SF novel. A gripping dive into bioethics and artificial intelligence." --New Scientist on Dogs of War

"Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human." --Patrick Ness

About the Author

Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide variety of work, including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Elder Race, Tyrant Philosophers, and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such as The Doors of Eden, Spiderlight, and many others. Children of Time won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and its sequel, Children of Ruin, won the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel. His other works have won British Fantasy, British Science Fiction and Sidewise Awards, and he is a frequent nominee in several Hugo Award categories.