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The Escapement

(2021)
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Awards
2021 Philip K Dick Award (nominee)

2022 Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation, Best Novel

In this dazzling new novel evoking Westerns, surrealism, epic fantasy, mythology, and circus extravaganzas, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar (Central Station)
has created an incomparable dreamscape of dark comedy, heartbreak, hope, and adventure. Chronicling a lone man’s quest in parallel worlds, The Escapement offers the archetypal darkness of Stephen King’s The Gunslinger within the dark whimsy of a child’s imagination.

“Comic, tragic, and utterly magnificent.”
—Samantha Shannon, author of
The Priory of the Orange Tree

“A wild, decadent hybrid of
The Dark Tower and Carnivale.”
—Catherynne M. Valente, author of
Deathless

Into the reality called the Escapement rides the Stranger, a lone gunman on a quest to rescue his son from a parallel world. But it is too easy to get lost on a shifting landscape full of dangerous versions of his son’s most beloved things: cowboys gone lawless, giants made of stone, downtrodden clowns, ancient battles, symbol storms, and shadowy forces at play.

But the flower the Stranger seeks still lies beyond the Mountains of Darkness. Time is running out, as he journeys deeper and deeper into the secret heart of an unforeseen world.

In his most compelling work to date, Lavie Tidhar has delivered a multicolored tapestry of dazzling imagery.
The Escapement is an epic, wildly original chronicle of the extraordinary lengths to which one will go for love.


Genre: Fantasy

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