I Hear a New World
A Novel
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 26 may 2026
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- $279.00
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- Pedido anticipado
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- $279.00
Descripción editorial
From New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the second book in the Long London Series, a daringly inventive fantasy novel about murder, mayhem, and magic.
It's 1958 and Dennis Knuckleyard has decided to leave his adventures in the Great When in the past where they belong. For nine years, he's avoided so much as thinking about the magical version of London, until he rediscovers an unpleasant reminder of his last adventure-a key that he'd secretly brought into his own world from the other for safekeeping.
But while Dennis may believe he's done with the Great When, it's far from done with him. When Dennis gives the key to a friend, its magical properties reawaken, bringing creatures from the other world into Dennis's and sparking riots in Notting Hill. Even worse, Dennis's old crush Grace Shilling has been forced into the Great When to investigate strange happenings in both cities.
Desperate to keep Grace safe, Dennis follows her into Long London. But once inside the other city, it will not let him go away again so easily, and Dennis and Grace must fight to set things right in the Great When and their own world, or forever lose their lives-and each other.
Full of Moore's characteristically stunning world building and rollicking prose, I Hear a New World is the extraordinary second adventure in the Long London series.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Moore's satisfying second Long London urban fantasy (after The Great When) again adroitly blends the fantastic and the mundane. He eases readers back into a 1958 London where two alternate versions of the city exist side by side through vivid prose describing the environs. ("Ahead, through soaking haze, the banked filth that will be a football stadium is beetled with black raincoats and flat caps, both milling workforce and those sodden locals who've brought refuse as a contribution to the ground's foundations.") Moore eventually reintroduces protagonist Dennis Knuckleyard, who, in the previous volume, stumbled upon the other London but hopes that he's left his stressful adventures behind him. Then creatures from that dimension, among them an eight-foot-tall six-armed being, erupt into the real world, their presence sparking riots. Dennis is catapulted back into magical mayhem and, by the end, his life has changed dramatically, provocatively setting up a sequel. Moore's worldbuilding is as fascinating as ever. Series fans won't be disappointed.