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Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

by K J Parker (Orbit, 2019)

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Parker’s understanding of siege warfare and voracious interest in how things work lend a sense of realness to setting and story, even as the openly unreliable narrator casts doubt on what’s happening. Light yet deeply engrossing, this poses real questions about historicity.