Living Next-Door to the God of Love

Metropolis is a city of superheroes where you can become anyone you like. Sankhara is a universe where everything is remade by night, according to the inhabitants' deepest, darkest dreams. Koker Ai is a city of another time and space, where Intana, courtesan to the court of a decaying empire, has just discovered a warrior who cannot die. Prequel to 'Natural History', where augmented human beings (the 'Forged') have been developed to penetrate the outer reaches of space and the depths of the ocean, but at terrible cost to their basic humanity. Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2005 Following on from her brilliant previous novel, Natural History, Justina Robson again takes into a series of worlds and dimensions we would never have otherwise imagined