The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway

Author:Nick Harkaway
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Tags: Literary, Science Fiction., Humour, Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Fantasy Fiction., Contemporary, general, Romance, Fantasy, Dystopias., Dystopias, Gsafd, fiction, Love Stories
ISBN: 0307268861
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

The sun comes out. The wind changes. We fight on. Shadowmen flail and die, and are not replaced. In the sunlight, in the ordinary world, they look pathetic: hulking, ugly brutes without advantages. Bullies. Bandits. Veda Tsur, spattered in grime and weeping, slams the last one to the ground with a copper saucepan, and Rao beats him, methodically, until he dies like a broken fly. He tried to take their children. Jun is clinging to his father’s arm, adding his weight to every blow.

In good order, and because we are very angry and afraid, we counter. We sally forth. Sallying has gone out of fashion in recent years, because it doesn’t work very well when you have gun emplacements, and anyway no one really lays siege in the traditional way any more; they blockade and they assail, but more usually they go house-to-house, because sieges kill civilians before they kill soldiers and this kind of thing is, broadly speaking, bad. It’s okay to kill huge numbers of civilians by mistake, of course, but killing them on purpose is illegal, slap-on-the-wrist time. We sally because, hell, we’ve earned it. Vasille leads, Bone Briskett brings up the rear and in the middle are an improvised mechanised infantry of hyped Ford Focuses (Foci?) and armoured RVs.

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