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|title=Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay

|author=Chris Wooding

|reviewer=John Lloyd

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=448

|publisher=Gollancz

|amazonus=<amazonus>0575085177</amazonus>

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Things on board the Ketty Jay have never been as low. Darian Frey and his crew are even having trouble thieving from defenceless orphanages. So when the next token job-they-can't-refuse comes along, they fall under it's spell. An explorer has returned with tales of untold riches, courtesy of the most mysterious artefacts and treasures of an unknown civilization. The fact that the remains are those of an aircraft crashed in the most Arctic of rainforests, inhabited by the most evil beast-men monsters, is neither here nor there. The problems start with what they find there, which is worse than anyone could have expected - or indeed years ago, with a mysterious connection between the remains and the more unusual crewmember...

There's a slight religious side to this book, as there is in [[The Holy Machine by Chris Beckett]]. For straight fantasy, I enjoyed [[The Lord of the Changing Winds (Griffin Mage) by Rachel Neumeier]] greatly.

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