Blizna, rozgrywaj?ca si? w tym samym ?wiecie co Dworzec Perdido, to kreacjape?na rozmachu i m?odzie?czej energii, wida? w niej przy tym, ?e Mieville pr?buje szuka? oryginalno?ci tak?e w fabule. Kogo znu?y?y powtarzane w niesko?czono?? schematy fantasy tolkienowskiej i t?skni do ?wiat?w naprawd? innych, niepodobnych do niczego, co zna, powinien odwiedzi? uniwersum Chiny Mieville`a – t?dy prowadzi droga do fantastyki XXI wieku.Grupa skaza?c?w i niewolnik?w o groteskowo przetworzonych cia?ach jest transportowana drog? morsk? do m?odej kolonii Nowego Crobuzon. W podr??y ...
Metropolia Nowe Crobuzon to centralny punkt ?wiata Bas-Lag. Ludzie, mutanty i niezwyk?e obce rasy ?yj? tu obok siebie, w ponurym labiryncie wal?cych si? dom?w i wysokich komin?w, w wid?ach rzek nios?cych tony zanieczyszcze?, po?r?d fabryk i hut pracuj?cych dzie? i noc. Od ponad tysi?ca lat Parlament z pomoc? brutalnej milicji sprawuje kontrol? nad spo?eczno?ci? robotnik?w i artyst?w, szpieg?w i ?o?nierzy, uczonych i magik?w, a tak?e w??cz?g?w i prostytutek.Lecz oto w Nowym Crobuzon pojawia si? kaleki przybysz ...
Nadszed? czas bunt?w i rewolucji, konflikt?w i intryg. Nowe Crobuzon jest rozszarpywane od zewn?trz i od wewn?trz. Wojna z nieodgadnionym pa?stwem-miastem Tesh i zamieszki w kraju popychaj? kipi?c? ?yciem metropoli? na skraj katastrofy. Po?r?d tej zawieruchy tajemnicza, zamaskowana posta? wywo?uje dziwny bunt, a zdrada i przemoc wybuchaj? w nieoczekiwanych miejscach. Grupa zdesperowanych uciekinier?w z miasta przemierza dziwne i obce kontynenty w poszukiwaniu zaginionej nadziei, nie?miertelnej legendy. W crobuzo?skiej, krwawej godzinie najwi?kszego zagro?enia ludzie szepcz? do siebie: To jest czas ?elaznej Rady.
Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie. Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak Language, and connect the two communities. But an unimaginable new arrival has come to Embassytown. And when this Ambassador speaks, everything changes. Catastrophe looms. Avice knows the only hope is for her to speak directly to the alien Hosts. And that is impossible.
Amazon.com ReviewChina Mi?ville's novel Iron Council is the tumultuous story of the "Perpetual Train." Born from monopolists' greed and dispatched to tame the western lands beyond New Crobuzon, the train is itself the beginnings of an Iron Council formed in the fire of frontier revolt against the railroad's masters. From the wilderness, the legend of Iron Council becomes the spark uniting the oppressed and brings barricades to the streets of faraway New Crobuzon. The sprawling tale is told through the past-and-present eyes of three characters. The first is Cutter, a heartsick subversive who follows his ...
The story is set in New Crobuzon, a city in Mieville's created world Bas-Lag and the setting of Perdido Street Station and Iron Council. It takes place after the capture of the infamous New Crobuzon criminal/terrorist, Jack Half-a-Prayer, and is narrated by one of his former associates.
Something is stirring in London’s dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul Garamond’s father, and left Saul to pay for the crime.But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into Saul’s prison cell and leads him to freedom. A shadow called King Rat, who reveals Saul’s royal heritage, a heritage that opens a new world to Saul, the world below London’s streets — a heritage that also drags Saul into King Rat’s plan for revenge against his ancient enemy. With drum ‘n’ bass pounding the backstreets, Saul must confront the forces that would use him, the forces that would destroy him, and the forces that shape his own bizarre identity.
The Natural History Museum's prize exhibit – a giant squid – suddenly disappears. This audacious theft leads Clem, the research scientist who has recently finished preserving the exhibit, into a dark urban underworld of warring cults and surreal magic. It seems that for some, the squid represents a god and should be worshiped as such. Clem gradually comes to realise that someone may be attempting to use the squid to trigger an apocalypse. And so it is now up to him and a renegade squid-worshiper named Dean to find a way of stopping the destruction of the world as they know it whilst themselves surviving the all out-gang warfare that they have unwittingly been drawn into…
La metr?polis de Nueva Crobuzon se extiende desde el centro del mundo. Humanos, mutantes y razas arcanas malviven en la penumbra bajo sus chimeneas, donde el r?o se trona viscoso por los afluentes artificiales, donde las f?bricas y fundiciones amartillan la noche. Durante m?s de mil a?os, el Parlamento y su brutal milicia han gobernado una vasta econom?a de obreros y artistas, esp?as y soldados, magos, yonquis y prostitutas. Pero acaba de llegar un extra?o con el bolsillo lleno y una demanda imposible. De forma torpe, inadvertida, algo imposible es liberado.
Step into a London ravaged by unearthly creatures at once utterly alien and chillingly familiar. In China Mi?ville's award-winning novella 'The Tain', we learn the reason for the invaders' terrible revenge. One survivor must trek through the ruins of the city with a desperate plan to stand against their assault. In addition to 'The Tain', this superb collection contains thirteen short stories, of visionary cityscapes and urban paranoia, ghosts, monsters and impossible diseases. Several of the stories are published here for the first time: these include one set in New Crobuzon, the location of the award-winning series of novels that began with Perdido Street Station; and one in comic-strip form, illustrated by top graphic artist Liam Sharp. This collection displays the sheer imaginative scope of China Mi?ville's work.
China Mi?ville stworzy? sw? najdoskonalsz? dot?d powie?? — egzystencjalny thriller rozgrywaj?cy si? w mie?cie najniezwyklejszym ze wszystkich, realnych czy wyimaginowanych…Gdy w ponurym, chyl?cym si? ku upadkowi mie?cie Bes?el po?o?onym gdzie? na skraju Europy znaleziono cia?o zamordowanej kobiety, wydawa?o si?, ?e inspektora Tyadora Borl? z Brygady Najpowa?niejszych Zbrodni czeka kolejna rutynowa sprawa. W miar? post?p?w ?ledztwa Borl? odkrywa jednak dowody wskazuj?ce na spiski znacznie dziwniejsze i gro?niejsze ni? wszystko, co m?g?by sobie wyobrazi?. Wkr?tce inspektorowi i bliskim mu ludziom zaczyna grozi? niebezpieczeostwo. Borl? musi przekroczy? granic? niepodobn? do ?adnej innej i wyruszy? do jedynego miasta na Ziemi, kt?re jest r?wnie dziwne jak to, w kt?rym mieszka…Powie?? nagrodzona „Arthur C. Clarke Award 2010” oraz „Hugo Award 2010”.
Amazon.com ReviewWhen Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful," she could have been talking about China Mi?ville's Perdido Street Station. The novel's publication met with a burst of extravagant praise from Big Name Authors and was almost instantly a multiaward finalist. You expect hyperbole in blurbs; and sometimes unworthy books win awards, so nominations don't necessarily mean much. But Perdido Street Station deserves the acclaim. It's ambitious and brilliant and-rarity of rarities-sui generis. Its clearest influences are Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy and M. John Harrison's Viriconium books, but it isn't ...
On board the moletrain , Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one’s death & the other’s glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can’t shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea—even if his captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-colored mole she’s been chasing since it took her arm all those years ago. When they come across ...
The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbanist), but from book to book he's tried on different genres, and here he's fully hard-boiled, stripping down to a seen-it-all detective's voice that's wonderfully appropriate for this story of seen and unseen. His ...
Amazon.com ReviewIn the third book in an astounding, genre-breaking run, China Mieville expands the horizon beyond the boundaries of New Crobuzon, setting sail on the high seas of his ever-growing world of Bas Lag.The Scar begins with Mieville's frantic heroine, Bellis Coldwine, fleeing her beloved New Crobuzon in the peripheral wake of events relayed in Perdidio Street Station. But her voyage to the colony of Nova Esperium is cut short when she is shanghaied and stranded on Armada, a legendary floating pirate city. Bellis becomes the reader's unbelieving eyes as she reluctantly learns to live on the ...
This is a novella set in a post-apocalyptic version of London where the fauna of mirrors have rebelled against their imprisonment. It was originally published in 2002 as a limited edition book by PS Publishing.
Award-winning author China Mi?ville (King Rat; Perdido Street Station; The Scar; Iron Council) claims that he meant Un Lun Dun for younger readers, but, like the Harry Potterseries, the novel will appeal to a wide range of ages. While it includes the basics of the genre — magic, monsters, quests, heroes — it breaks the mold in many ways. An urban adventure with a strong environmental message, the novel harkens back to London's Great Smog of 1952, which bridges the real and the fantastical. Mi?ville's playful, clever language and plot, reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's, also impressed most critics, though a few thought them contrived and tedious. "Finding it as a grown-up may not be the optimum way to stumble into UnLondon," concludes Salon, "but it's pretty miraculous all the same."
