Fantasy
by Adrian Tchaikovsky · The Tyrant Philosophers series
An occupied city chafes under colonial rule, criminal control, industrial exploitation, and an ancient curse, while revolutionaries plot in the shadows. Tchaikovsky weaves multiple perspectives through Ilmar's dark streets, where everyone—thieves, scholars, factory workers, sorcerers—struggles against their own form of oppression. Dense, politically complex fantasy that examines how power corrupts at every level of society.
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