Book Review: Alita: Battle Angel - Iron City, by Pat Cadigan

A prequel that didn't need to be written.

Titan Books, 2018, 312 pages

The official prequel novel to the highly anticipated film

A long time ago, there was the Great War. The reasons for the war have been lost to time. On the shattered surface of the earth, there is a metropolis that lives amid the garbage thrown down from the inhabitants of a sky city floating above it. Welcome to Iron City.

A lonely doctor specializing in cyborg repair, Ido, is doing his best to help the citizens of Iron City. But Ido has a double life, another persona born from the pieces of his broken heart.

Hugo, a young man surviving on a life of crime, spots the ultimate steal: an object that will unearth secrets from his own past.

And Vector, the most powerful businessman in the city, has his sights set on a new technology that will change the future of Iron City forever....

( It's like a manga in novel form... and the reason why media sometimes doesn't translate well. )

Also by Pat Cadigan: My review of Alita: Battle Angel.

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