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City of All Seasons

By Oliver K. Langmead and Aliya Whiteley
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A vibrant and emotional science fantasy about cousins trapped in mirrored worlds—the resplendent and verdant summer city and the ice-carved wastes of the winter city. For fans of Every Heart a Doorway and This is How You Lose the Time War. Welcome to Jamie Pike's Fairharbour—a... Read More
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A vibrant and emotional science fantasy about cousins trapped in mirrored worlds - the resplendent and verdant summer city and the ice-carved wastes of the winter city. For fans of Every Heart a Doorway and This is How You Lose the Time War.

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A vibrant and emotional science fantasy about cousins trapped in mirrored worlds—the resplendent and verdant summer city and the ice-carved wastes of the winter city. For fans of Every Heart a Doorway and This is How You Lose the Time War.

Welcome to Jamie Pike's Fairharbour—a city stuck in perpetual winter, its windows and doorways bricked shut to keep out the freezing cold, its residents striving to survive in the arctic conditions. Welcome to Esther Pike's Fairharbour—a city stuck in constant summer, its walls crumbling in the heat, its oppressive sunlight a relentless presence.

Winter and Summer alike have both fallen under the yoke of oppressive powers that have taken control after the cataclysm. But both Fairharbours were once a single, united city. And in certain places, at certain times, one side can catch a glimpse of the other. As Jamie and Esther find a way to communicate across the divide, they set out to solve the mystery of what split their city in two, and what, if anything, might repair their fractured worlds.

'A beautifully strange and unique fable.' The Guardian's Best SF of 2024 on Aliya Whiteley

'A unique and memorable work.' The Guardian's Best SF of 2024 on Oliver K. Langmead

'An elegantly told meditation on how we can't leave ourselves behind.' Esquire's 30 best SF Books of 2024 on Oliver K. Langmead

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781835411445

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Titan Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 304

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Aliya Whiteley Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Oliver K. Langmead Sci-Fi & Fantasy

About the Author

Oliver K. Langmead is an author and a poet based in Glasgow. His novels include Birds of Paradise and Metronome, and his long-form poem, Dark Star, featured in the Barnes and Noble and the Guardian's Best Books of 2015. Oliver is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Glasgow, where he is researching terraforming and ecological philosophy, and in late 2018 he undertook a writing residency at the European Space Agency's Astronaut Centre in Cologne, writing about astronauts and people who work with astronauts.

Aliya Whiteley's is the author of The Beauty, The Loosening Skin, Skein Island, From the Neck Up, The Arrival of Missives and more. Her novels and novellas have been shortlisted for multiple awards including the Arthur C. Clarke award, British Fantasy award, British Science Fiction award and a Shirley Jackson award. Her short fiction has appeared in The Guardian, The Dark, Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Strange Horizons, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and anthologies such as This Dreaming Isle, 2084 and Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction.

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