Iron Council, China Mieville
Iron Council, China Mieville
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Iron Council

Author: China Miéville

Series: Bas-Lag #3

Narrator: Gildart Jackson

Unabridged: 21 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/28/2014


Synopsis

Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon—this time, decades later.

It is a time of wars and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming city to the brink. A mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places.

In desperation, a small group of renegades escapes from the city and crosses strange and alien continents in the search for a lost hope.

In the blood and violence of New Crobuzon’s most dangerous hour, there are whispers. It is the time of the iron council. . . .

The bold originality that broke Miéville out as a new force of the genre is here once more in Iron Council: the voluminous, lyrical novel that is destined to seal his reputation as perhaps the edgiest mythmaker of the day.

About The Author

China Miéville is the author of King RatPerdido Street Station, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award; The Scar, winner of the Locus Award and the British Fantasy Award; Iron Council, winner of the Locus Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award;Looking for Jake, a collection of short stories; and Un Lun Dun, his New York Times bestselling book for younger readers. He lives and works in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brad

Overtly political, teasingly intricate, and deeply intertextual, China Miéville's Iron Council is everything I expect to love in great speculative fiction, and nearly everything I know I love in Miéville's work. Yet, since its publication, I have only read it once, and I still find myself ranking it......more

Goodreads review by Mona

I gave this four stars, but I also gave Mieville's "The Scar" four stars. But they aren't equal. (This highlights the difficulty with the Goodreads rating system). "The Scar" probably deserved a 4.5 (nearly perfect), where this rates more like a 3.5. This is the third book in the New Crobuzon/Bas Lag s......more


Quotes

“Miéville moves effortlessly into the first division of those who use the tools and weapons of the fantastic to define and create the fiction of the coming century.”
—NEIL GAIMAN

“Continuously fascinating . . . Miéville creates a world of outrageous inventiveness.”
The Denver Post


Awards

  • Arthur C. Clarke Award