The Cacotopos

"Even there in hte outskirts of the cacotopos¹ the land was liminal, half worldy geography half some bad-dream set. It was merciless, stone horns and trees that looked like stone horns, forests of head-high mushrooms, and ferns that dwarfed prunt pines and in between two-tall extrusions.

The Cacotopos also included mountains with new shapes, with snow on their tops a color snow, a color that should not be, but instead something alive and tenebrous."

Iron Council, China Mieville

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¹"An imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can be."