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Iron Council

January 22, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: A railroad sets out from New Crobuzon and goes rogue, setting off across the continent in pursuit of an ideal of freedom. Time passes and the train turns to myth – but with war tearing apart New Crobuzon from within and without, a small band of adventurers sets out to bring the train home. The Iron Council is needed… The Review: I don’t know why I’m so ambivalent about this book. On the surface, it should deliver […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction • Tags: Bas-Lag, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Cartography, China Miéville, Fantasy, Fiction, Iron Council, New Crobuzon, Politics, Reviews, Revolution, Trains, Travel, Weird, Weird Fiction

Looking for Jake and Other Stories

December 24, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Rogue streets that fight each other, creatures from the edge of consciousness, apocalypses of various forms, and a socialist Christmas are just some of the strange delights in China Miéville’s first collection. The Review: Pound for pound, there are few authors more inventive than China Miéville. I could (and have, many times) go on about the ways in which he’s impressed me previously… but seeing as short stories are often a great way to get introduced to a writer, let’s […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: Bas-Lag, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, China Miéville, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Looking for Jake, Looking for Jake and Other Stories, Mystery, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Short Stories, Thriller, Weird, Weird Fiction

The Scar

August 17, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Bellis Coldwine escapes New Crobuzon on a boat bound for the colonies to the East – but when the ship is turned around and then captured by pirates, she’s left without a plan. Still, Armada (the near-mythic floating city of ships) might provide her with a chance to get home – but the rulers of the city have a plan of their own: to find a rent in the very fabric of the world known as the Scar… […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Literature • Tags: Adventure, Bas-Lag, China Miéville, Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Multiverse Theory, Oceans, Pirates, Probability Theory, Seafaring, The Scar, Weird, Weird Fiction

Perdido Street Station

April 7, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: A stranger arrives in the city-state of New Crobuzon with a seemingly impossible request. And what begins as an ordinary scientist’s experiment unexpectedly (when he receives some contraband) swings into a terror that threatens to consume the entire city – a terror that invades your dreams on giant wings… The Review: I’m on record as being a big Miéville fan – but his Bas-Lag sequence has been touted as his sprawling masterwork, a titanic trilogy that (in its […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Literature • Tags: 5+, Bas-Lag, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, China Miéville, Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Metaphysics, New Crobuzon, Perdido Street Station, Physics, Politics, Reviews, Science, Weird, Weird Fiction

Raging Biblio-holism

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Iron Council

Looking for Jake and Other Stories

The Scar

Perdido Street Station