>>94715996Its a weird gonzo science-fantasy story about the Spire, the last city with breathable oxygen for humans, surrounded by a wasteland inhabited by mutant creatures (Skews) and religious tech scavenger barbarians. The Emperor of the Spire has died and his daughter successor has started to create laws that are breaking up the tentative peace the humans and skew had, meanwhile, the protagonist, a human-looking Skew shapeshifter and detective in the Spire, has to uncover who is behind a string of murders targeting members of the nobility while also dealing with the unrest of skew and human relations.