Dancing with Bears

Dancing With Bears follows the adventures of notorious con men Darger and Surplus They ve lied and cheated their way onto the caravan that is delivering a priceless gift from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke of Muscovy The only thing harder than the journey to Muscovy is their arrival in Muscovy An audience with the Duke seems impossible to obtain, and Darger and Surplus quickly become entangled in a morass of deceit and revolution.The only thing dangerous than the convoluted political web surrounding Darger and Surplus is the gift itself, the Pearls of Byzantium, and Zoesophia, the governess sworn to protect their virtue. New Download Dancing with Bears [ author ] Michael Swanwick [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr When I first read Swanwick s Surplus and Darger stories in a collection of his I wished that he would craftof them, and just maybe a full length My wish came true While much of the novelty and compressed energy of the stories is lost in the transition but their world isfilled out The strange combination of biopunk grotesquery, 19th century ambiance, myths, and post apocalyptic future combined with tales of unredeemed roguery on wider canvas, true the characters aren t given much m When I first read Swanwick s Surplus and Darger stories in a collection of his I wished that he would craftof them, and just maybe a full length My wish came true While much of the novelty and compressed energy of the stories is lost in the transition but their world isfilled out The strange combination of biopunk grotesquery, 19th century ambiance, myths, and post apocalyptic future combined with tales of unredeemed roguery on wider canvas, true the characters aren t given muchdepth, but Swanwick crafts this like a comic novel with endless disasters, double crosses, action, and a cast exhibiting the depth of human folly The stories also traffic in the particular myths of the area they are set in and this story does so for Russia with revolution, Lenin, Baba Yaga, Koschei the deathless, a brutal secret policeman, economies run on cigarettes, Rasputin, wolves, and bears being elements of the story This book is mostly Swanwick having a lot of fun, granted ...A Fine Post Utopian Dystopian Steampunk Romp Courtesy of Darger and SurplusVampire novels to the left of us, zombie novels to our right, with dystopian novels in our midst such is the current dismal state of affairs in publishing science fiction Most of these aren t worth the paper they are printed on, even if they are from some of our best known authors or the latest literary darlings aspiring toward artistic and commercial success, claiming to have both a firm appreciation and understanding A Fine Post Utopian Dystopian Steampunk Romp Courtesy of Darger and SurplusVampire novels to the left of us, ...I normally love a heist novel, and that wasn t my problem with this book My problem with this book was the amount of weird sex The genetically engineered dog man who is 100% dog DNA but seems pretty humanoid in shape and intelligence and what not and the genetically manipulated harem girls and the sex drug giving priest who is preaching goodness knows what, and Honestly, I couldn t pay attention to the heist and the buddy dynamics between the main characters, because what the hell is goi I normally love a heist novel, and that wasn t my problem with this book My problem with this book was the amount of weird sex The genetically engineered dog man who is 100% dog DNA but seems pretty humanoid in shape and intelligence and what not and the genetically manipulated harem girls and the sex drug giving priest who is preaching goodness knows what, and Honestly, I couldn t pay attention to the heist and the buddy dynamics between the main characters, because what the hell is going on with the sex And why are almost all the female ...This was an interesting book, although some aspects were rather off putting I liked the vision of a post apocalyptic Russia This isn t a book where you can say, Wow, that s a really good person Everyone is highly fl...and Surplus are con men who have lied there way onto a caravan carrying a gift of immense value from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke of Moscovy But there are obstacles in the way of getting the gift to the Duke, which embroils the characters in political schemes, the agendas of religious zealots, drug rings and so forth So yes, this is our earth But the difference is in the details and there are a lot of details.A world both familiar and alienT and Surplus are con men who have lied there way onto a caravan carrying a gift of immense value from the Caliph of Baghdad to the Duke of Moscovy But there are obstacles in the way of getting the gift to the Duke, which embroils the characters in political schemes, the agendas of religious zealots, drug rings and so forth So yes, this is our earth But the difference is in the details and there are a lot of details.A world both familiar and alienThe most important aspect of this book for me was the worl...Not nearly as fun as book 2 I m glad I read that one first instead of this one or else I never would have read the second book My advice Just skip this one It is fun and shows a lot of promise, but it is definitely a case where book one is used for the author getting his legs.I enjoyed this book I open with that because I was about to give it only three stars due to some vague irritation I felt Then I realized that my irritation had nothing to do with the story and everything to do with marketing and trends and people who enthusiastically follow them without review or analysis.A digression follows.I am working on a project involving steampunk This novel showed up somewhere in my research at this writing, nine people on Goodreads have shelved it as such , and I ch I enjoyed thi...Charismatic and weird, Dancing with Bears tries to be many things at once and you appreciate it as you d indulge a child her antics While I didn t reel as much as I did when reading Stations of the Tide, I had fun This book probably would translate well to cinema.Darger and Surplus find themselves running a con in Moscow but get caught up in a much bigger plot At this point, the events just flow, pushing and pulling them places This world is a strange and beautiful time, where the living see Charismatic and weird, Dancing with Bears tries to be many things at once and you appreciate it as you d indulge a child her antics While I didn t reel as much as I did when reading Stations of the Tide, I had fun This book probably would translate well to cinema.Darger and Surplus find themselves running a con in Moscow but get caught up in a much bigger plot At this point, the events just flow, pushing and pulling them places This world is a strange and beautiful time, where the living seems Victorian, but there is high technology One could clone clothing from their own flesh, or change their eye colour at whim by a simple pill GMO creat...Swanwick can be somewhat formulaic, but still entertaining Add one part distopian cyberpunk Apocalypse, one part techno magic, and one part sex, drugs n rocks that roll, and you have the Swanwick novel In this case, the setting is bizarro Russia, and a couple of scam artists one of whom is a genetically engineered, bipedal, talking dog, because reasons are looking to rob Lenin s library, but stumble into an insanely tangled web of political schemes and nihilistic machine gods seeking to exte Swanwick can be somewhat formulaic, but still entertaining Add one part distopian cyberpunk Apocalypse, one part techno magic, and one part sex, drugs n rocks that roll, and you have the Swanwick novel In this case, the setting is bizarro Russia, and a couple of scam artists one of...Halfway through when I was just thinking this is going to my list of top fav books, the author decided to steer the story into full campy mode with plenty of russian cheese like awkward references to Baba Yaga and such folklore There s a very thin line between a fun story that doesn t take itself seriously, and a story that has gone off the edge of fun into the kingdom of silly.It s a nice read and the pages flew by really fast, but I think if the author gave it a littlelove after the Halfway through when I was just thinking this is going to my list of top fav books, the author decided to steer the story into full campy mode with plenty of russian cheese like awkward references to Baba Yaga and such folklore There s a very thin line between a fun story that doesn t take itself seriously, and a story that has gone off the edge of fun into the kingdom of silly.It s a nice read and the pages flew by really fast, but I think if ...

• English
• 19 December 2018
Michael Swanwick
• Hardcover
• 300 pages
• 1597802352
• Michael Swanwick
• Dancing with Bears