Alita: Battle Angel - Iron City

The official prequel novelization to the highly anticipated science fiction movie, Alita: Battle Angel.

The official prequel novel to the highly anticipated film.

A long time ago there was the Great War. The reasons for the war have been lost to time. On the shattered surface of the Earth, there is a metropolis that lives amidst the garbage thrown down from the inhabitants of a sky city floating above it. Welcome to Iron City.

A lonely doctor specialising in cyborg repair, Ido, is doing his best to help the citizens of Iron City. But Ido has a double life, another persona born from the pieces of his broken heart.

Hugo, a young man surviving on a life of crime, spots the ultimate steal: an object that will unearth secrets from his own past.

And Vector, the most powerful businessman in the city, has his sights set on a new technology that will change the future of Iron City forever...“A perfect example of a prequel that boasts a tight connectivity to the film." - Movie NoozPat Cadigan is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer, three-time winner of the Locus Award, twice-winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and one-time winner of the Hugo Award. She wrote a novelization and sequel to Lost in Space, novelizations of two episodes of The Twilight Zone, Cellular novelization, and the novelization and sequel to Jason X.