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by China Mieville (Author)

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Hardcover: 576 pages
Publisher: Del Rey (Jul 27 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345464028
ISBN-13: 978-0345464026
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.5 x 3.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 862 g

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In this stunning new novel set mainly in the decadent and magical city of New Crobuzon, British author Miéville (The Scar) charts the course of a proletarian revolution like no other. The capitalists of New Crobuzon are pushing hard. More and more people are being arrested on petty charges and "Remade" into monstrous slaves, some half animal, others half machine. Uniformed militia are patrolling the streets and watching the city from their dirigibles. They turn a blind eye when racists stage pogroms in neighborhoods inhabited by non-humans. An overseas war is going badly, and horrific, seemingly meaningless terrorist acts occur with increasing frequency. Radical groups are springing up across the city. The spark that will ignite the revolution, however, is the Perpetual Train. Workers building the first transcontinental railroad, badly mistreated by their overseers, have literally stolen a train, laying track into the wild back-country west of the great city, tearing up track behind them, fighting off the militia sent to arrest them, even daring to enter the catotopic zone, that transdimensional continental scar where anything is possible. Full of warped and memorable characters, this violent and intensely political novel smoothly combines elements of fantasy, science fiction, horror, even the western. Miéville represents much of what is new and good in contemporary dark fantasy, and his work is must reading for devotees of that genre. FYI: Miéville has won Arthur C. Clarke, British Science Fiction and British Fantasy awards.
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In the forest Rudewood, Cutter waits for the few who will join him in finding the somaturge, or creator of golems, Judah, and then warning the Iron Council that the militia of the powerful, totalitarian city of New Crobuzon are closing in to destroy it. Meanwhile, in the malign megalopolis, young Ori, seeking to contact a daring urban freedom fighter and strike real blows against New Crobuzon's rulers, gets acquainted with an apparently mad old man said to have been a comrade of legendary outlaw-rebel Jack Half-a-Prayer. Mieville returns to the sublimely weird world of his award-winning Perdido Street Station (2000) and The Scar (2002) in a shorter but still sprawling saga that is being boosted as his breakthrough to the kind of popularity fellow English fantasists Clive Barker and Neil Gaiman enjoy. The new book's parts alternate between Cutter's and Ori's adventures, which eventually intersect, and a long flashback tells the backstory of Judah and the Iron Council. Cutter's story unfolds like a blending of western movies and King Kong, and Ori's echoes the urban grunge fantasy of Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels. Freighting his prose with arcane botanical and engineering terms as well as neologisms, Mieville writes the intertwined tales in different styles--relatively spare and dry for Cutter's, lush and saturated for Ori's. His verbal and imaginative largesse may throw some readers while utterly engrossing others. No doubt about it, he's an original. Ray Olson
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5.0 out of 5 stars My 100-word book review, Mar 7 2006

By	A. J. Cull (London, UK) - See all my reviews

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Another wonderfully imaginative novel in China Mieville's Bas-Lag series, Iron Council is more overtly political than its predecessors, with echoes of the Paris Commune and other revolutionary episodes in our own world. The author's powers of invention are once more in exuberant overdrive, producing scores of new fantastic and grotesque creatures and phenomena. Some readers may not resonate completely with Mieville's left-wing agenda, also the militia come across as very two-dimensional, little better than orcs. However, the standard of the writing is as excellent as it was in Perdido Street Station and The Scar, and I enjoyed Iron Council immensely.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great read! Thank you, Sep 15 2004

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From the author of THE SCAR, we get a riveting hybrid novel. Part fiction, part fantasy, and part a little of everything else, I guarantee you'll be sucked right into this stellar read! VERY well crafted and paced, it's not like anything else you're likely to come across this year. Would also recommend another great book I just finished, though it's nothing like COUNCIL, and that is THE BARK OF THE DOGWOOD. Equally riveting, hilarious, and very deep.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unabashed Rave Review, Jul 31 2004

By	Jonathan K. Stephens (Stoney Creek, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Oh my Goodness! I'm like Alistair Sims' Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, "I'm as light as a feather, As, as...giddy as a schoolboy", I might just try to stand on my head but I'm not quite sure that I've yet put down all four feet in this reality. In fact, I feel I'm more than myself, I am... fReemade.
Your Pardon, you must excuse me as I blather on, for I've taken the Iron Council down in two healthy swigs; from 10 to 10 one night and then from about 9 to 2 the next day, and what a heady draught it was! Gluttony, I know, but then I've waited so long! Harlan Ellison has identified the importance of partaking in Strange Wine (intro to the collection), and, with apologies to the master, this is the most intensely visionary potable I've plumbed in many a long day. Such a triumphant return to New Crobuzon, and the world of Bas-long!
Ah, New Crobuzon! In my dreams I walk along your banks, into your dens and through your cobbled arches. I quiver to the various diversions of your multitudes, Oh dark city archetype! There are wonders and delights aplenty to behold here, but! Have a care! Such as these are not for the faint of heart!
Lord, China, when you decide to make a statement, you sure don't fool around! My only burning question is how many instants must we endure before the next myth appears? In the meantime, now let me see - what was it? What did it? What put it over the top? Was it the brilliant imagery festooned throughout the book?
• The vivid spectacle of a Vodyanoi Shaman triumphantly atop his Undine dismembering a ship,
• Or the Tardy, those crippled giant cactus gods of unbelievable power in full revenge mode,
• Or the sight of a world shaking City-Tortoise on fire, its refugees streaming away from their homes under the withering spells of the Militia Thaumaturges of New Crobuzon,
• Or Golems (I don't know if you've paid much attention to golems, I know I haven't, but China has thought them through, right from the very beginning of the novel, in merciless exquisite detail).
Or is it the masterful storytelling, the joyful seamless weaving of disparate parts together into a payoff with one hell of a punch. You see... It's all there. It is such a joy to see a master craftsman flex his fingers and get down to it. The stylistic brilliance with which he makes the Western Novel his own; the sly use of its very tropes to engage, tease and seduce, the reader, leading them on, inevitably, to the mystery of the Iron Council itself, which is...uh...what, exactly. Well, I'm not sure if I can tell you, if I could, or if I should, he muttered. The purveyors of the Runagate Rampant know that there can be...ah, consequences to knowledge. However, it's definitely an idea, but it's also a concrete thing, maybe even a philosophy of existence. I know, I know, I'm not being terribly helpful, but it is difficult to describe with any accuracy, like the Torque itself. You can only experience it for yourself and draw your own conclusions. I feel as one with the confusion of the inhabitants of New Crobuzon, their obsessions, their motivations, their magnificent, and oh, so human delusions! That's definitely part of it, I mean the ambiguity and all, but then so are the spot-on characterizations (I will take to my grave the vision of hate-filled visage of the dying New Crobuzon Militia Thaumaturge "You F*****g cowards...we're the best...And now we know the way through", along with that of Khan (in Wrath of...), his face twisted with maniacal passion breathing "From Hells Heart I stab at thee, for Hates sake, I spit my last breath at thee").
Of the New Weird movement, China himself said in Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field that there is something going on here that demands to be described (December 2003). What he didn't say, perhaps with becoming modesty, was that he is just about the chief prophet. Like the seminal works of the New Wave, Cyberpunk, and Magic Realism, it's not a question of if this book will win an award, but of how many? The Nebula, for sure: There's no way that the SFWA (that's Science Fiction Writer's Association, for those not in the know) can ignore this man's effortless command of the form any longer, but could this be the gender-bender to sweep all the specialty fiction awards; the Hugo, The World Fantasy, The Horror Writer's, The Western Writer's and only the Lord knows what else? However far this novel goes, in all categories (Hmm, Brooker, even?) this award season, China has now set the bar high, high, high. For those of you who have not sampled the dark delights of New Crobuzon before, welcome, for those who have, welcome home. As for me, I think I'll take a quiet walk back around to Perdido Street Station, just to relax and see what's new.

-Jono, 31/7/04

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