Ludluda

Price range: £5.99 through £9.99

Concluding the epic two-book series from the highly celebrated and award-winning authors Jeff Noon and Steve Beard.


File Under: Fantasy 

Ludluda, the sequel to Gogmagog, takes us on a haunting and delightfully witty adventure in a fantasy world which defies genre.

Luluda tells the story of a journey through a strange modern city whose power is sourced from the ghost of a dragon. Ludwich may no longer be at war with its great political rival overseas, but veteran sailor Cady Meade, survivor of many battles, suspects that the hard-won peace is about to break. She promises to deliver a preternatural ten-year old girl to a coming-of-age festival in the heart of Ludwich. But she has been warned by the prophets that dangers lie ahead.
Cady suspects that the young girl’s fate is entwined with that of the city. When the girl disappears, the old sailor must hunt her down, accompanied by a know-it-all mechanical man whose circuits are slowly grinding to dust. But Cady’s mission has always been to guard Ludwich from enemies both known and occult, and she will never give up.
Following the course of the River Nysis through the city, and beyond, Cady must uncover the final mysteries of the great dragon Haakenur’s life and death and afterlife. Her greatest battle is about to begin.
Jeff Noon is an award-winning British novelist, short story writer and playwright. He won the Arthur C Clarke Award for Vurt, the John W Campbell award for Best New Writer, a Tinniswood Award for innovation in radio drama and the Mobil prize for playwriting. He was trained in the visual arts, and was musically active on the punk scene before starting to write plays for the theatre. His last novel, The Body Library, was nominated for the Philip K Dick Award.
STEVE BEARD is a writer who experiments with making essays and fictions from theory, history, testimony and psychogeography. He has written various speculative novels and documentary fictions and contributed to the anthology London: City of Disappearances, edited by Iain Sinclair. He previously collaborated with Jeff Noon on the novel Mappalujo (2016).

Release Date

2024-12-03

Formats

Ebook, Paperback

EBook ISBN

3rd December 2024 | 9781915998323 | epub & mobi | £5.99/$9.99/$11.99

Paperback ISBN

3rd December 2024 | 9781915998316 | Paperback | £9.99 / $17.99 / $23.99

“Beard and Noon have created a fascinating place where bits of technology, like a crystal-powered radio, exist alongside supernatural elements. Fans of Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastard books will love the skullduggery and potential treachery of this world as well as Cady’s bravado.”
– Booklist

“Marvellous stuff: a great flowing river of a novel, endlessly inventive, gorgeously written, pungent and haunting and gripping. This is the kind of world that, in all its strangeness, feels very real: you inhabit it rather than read about it. The dragon Faynr: chef’s kiss! Can’t wait for the next volume.”
– Adam Roberts, BSFA award-winning author of Jack Glass