Markey Writes

“If split there was. That beginning was a shadow in history an unknown – records effaced and vanished for a century either side. Anything could have happened. From that historically brief quite opaque moment came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and horrified investigators. All we know is nomads on the steppes, then those black-box centuries of urban instigation – certain events, and there have been films and stories and games based on speculation (all making the censor at least a little twitchy) about the dual birth – then history comes back and there are Beszel and Ul Qoma.” – The city the city by China Meiville