The Star Pit has many fine descriptive passages that make scenes and characters come alive, as when Vyme enters a darkened warehouse: "I was held from plummeting into nothing only by my own footsteps, as black swerved around me." Such short descriptions make even small events vivid. Longer descriptions are also startlingly dramatic: First: I was standing at the railing of the East River—runs past this New York I was telling you about—at midnight, looking at the illuminated dragon of the Manhattan Bridge that spanned the water, then at the industrial fires flickering in bright, smoky Brooklyn,.....
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