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The legendary Keanu Reeves and
inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic of
ancient powers, modern war, and an outcast who cannot die.
A mind-blowing epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, unlike
anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired
by the world of the BRZRKR comic books.
She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods.
There have always been whispers. Legends. The warrior who cannot be
killed. Who’s seen a thousand civilizations rise and fall. He has had
many names: Unute, Child of Lightning, Death himself. These days, he’s
known simply as \"B.\"
And he wants to be able to die.
In the present day, a U.S. black-ops group has promised him they can
help with that. And all he needs to do is help them in return. But when
an all-too-mortal soldier comes back to life, the impossible event
ultimately points toward a force even more mysterious than B himself.
One at least as strong. And one with a plan all its own.
In a collaboration that combines Miéville’s singular style and
creativity with Reeves’s haunting and soul-stirring narrative, these
two inimitable artists have created something utterly unique, sure to
delight existing fans and to create scores of new ones.
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King Rat (Paperback)
China Mieville
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Weaving together the historical and the imagined, China Mieville's
The Last Days of New Paris is a surreal and extraordinary work,
from the author of The City & The City. 1941. In the chaos of
wartime Marseille, American engineer and occult disciple Jack
Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including
Surrealist theorist Andre Breton. In the strange games of dissident
diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons
finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the
power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world for
ever. 1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new,
hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in
unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and
texts - and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city, Thibaut must
join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording
the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure
of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse. But Sam is being
hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their
loyalties - to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality
itself.
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China Mieville - Critical Essays (Paperback)
Caroline Edwards, Tony Venezia; Series edited by Sarah Dillon; Foreword by China Mieville; Afterword by Roger Luckhurst
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Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, China
Mieville's astonishing Embassytown is an intelligent and immersive
exploration of language in an alien world. 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.
Science fiction and socialism have always had a close relationship.
Many sf novelists and filmmakers are leftists. Others examine
explicit or implicit Marxist concerns. As a genre, sf is ideally
suited to critiquing the present through its explorations of the
social and political possibilities of the future. This is the first
collection to combine analyses of sf literature and films within a
broader overview of Marxist theory and critical perspectives on the
genre. Covering a rich variety of examples from Weimar cinema to
mainstream Hollywood films, and novelists from Jules Verne and H.G.
Wells to Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken MacLeod and Charles Stross, this
is an indespensible insight into how Marxism and science fiction go
hand-in-hand.
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary,
decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks
like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime
Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to
conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could
have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in
danger. Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as
strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of
Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, the
multi-award winning The City & The City by China Mieville is a
murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
King Rat blends eerie fairy tale and contemporary urban fantasy in
China Mieville's fantastical debut. Something is stirring in
London's dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood.
Something has murdered Saul's father, and left Saul to pay for the
crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into his prison
cell and leads him to freedom. A shadow called King Rat. In the
night-land behind London's facade, in sewers and slums and rotting
dead spaces, Saul must learn his true nature. Grotesque murders
rock the city like a curse. Mysterious forces prepare for a
showdown. With Drum and Bass pounding the backstreets, Saul
confronts his bizarre inheritance - in the badlands of South
London, in the heart of darkness, at the gathering of the Junglist
Massive. Like the DJ says: 'Time for the Badman.'
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Miracles of Life (Paperback)
J.G. Ballard; Introduction by China Mieville
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J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most
significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his
classic novel, 'Empire of the Sun', this revelatory autobiography
charts the course of his astonishing life. 'Miracles of Life' takes
us from the vibrant surroundings of pre-war Shanghai, to the
deprivations and unexpected freedoms of Lunghua Camp, to Ballard's
arrival in a devastated Britain. Ballard recounts his first
attempts at fiction and his part in the social and artistic
revolutions of the 60s. He describes his friendships with figures
as diverse as Kingsley Amis, Michael Moorcock and Eduardo Paolozzi
alongside recollections of his domestic life in Shepperton -
raising three children as a single father following the unexpected
and premature death of his wife. 'Miracles of Life' is both a
captivating narrative of the experiences that have shaped this
extraordinary writer's works, his distinctive outlook and his
original visions of the future, and is also an account of a
remarkable life. This edition is part of a new commemorative series
of Ballard's works, featuring introductions from a number of his
admirers (including Ali Smith, Hari Kunzru, Neil Gaiman and Martin
Amis) and brand-new cover designs.
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Out of the Ruins (Paperback)
Preston Grassman, Preston Grassmann; China Mieville, Ramsay Campbell, Charlie Jane Anders, …
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A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology of 18 stories: the end of the
world seen through the salvage and ruins. Featuring Emily St John
Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, Clive Barker, China Mieville, Charlie
Jane Anders and more. This anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction
asks, what would you save from the fire? In the moments when it all
comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we
save it? Featuring stories from China Mieville, Emily St John
Mandel, Clive Barker, Carmen Maria Machado, Charlie Jane Anders,
Samuel R. Delaney, Ramsey Campbell, Lavie Tidhar, Kaaron Warrern,
Anna Tambour, Nina Allan, Jeffrey Thomas, Paul Di Filippo, Ron
Drummond, Nikhil Singh, John Skipp, Autumn Christian, Chris Kelso,
Rumi Kaneko, Nick Mamatas and D.R.G. Sugawara.
Savage giant moles, rail pirates, and explorers abound in China
Mieville's thrilling young adult novel, Railsea. On board the
moletrain Medes, 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 and the other's glory - are extraordinary. But no matter how
spectacular it is, travelling the endless rails of the railsea,
Sham senses that there's more to life. Even if his captain can
think only of her obsessive hunt for one savage mole. When they
find a wrecked train, it's a welcome distraction. But the
impossible salvage Sham finds there leads to trouble. Soon he's
hunted on all sides: by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters and
salvage-scrabblers. And it might not be just Sham's life that's
about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea.
Winner of the British Fantasy Award, The Scar by China Mieville is
a colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding
imagination, set in the richly visualized world of Bas-Lag. A human
cargo bound for servitude in exile . . . A pirate city hauled
across the oceans . . . A hidden miracle about be revealed . . .
These are the ingredients of an astonishing story. It is the story
of a prisoner's journey. Of the search for the island of a
forgotten people, for the most astonishing beast in the seas, and
ultimately for a fabled place - a massive wound in reality, a
source of unthinkable power and danger.
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Un Lun Dun (Paperback)
China Mieville
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The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and
faster. The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the
sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The noise of
the cars and vans and motorbikes outside grew tinny . . . The wheel
turned off all the cars and turned off all the lamps. It was
turning off London. Zanna and Deeba are two girls leading ordinary
lives, until they stumble into the world of UnLondon, an urban
Wonderland where all the lost and broken things of London end up .
. . and some of its lost and broken people too. Here discarded
umbrellas stalk with spidery menace, carnivorous giraffes roam the
streets, and a jungle sprawls beyond the door of an ordinary house.
UnLondon is under siege by the sinister Smog and its stink-junkie
slaves; it is a city awaiting its hero. Guided by a magic book that
can't quite get its facts straight, and pursued by Hemi the
half-ghost boy, the girls set out to stop the poisonous cloud
before it burns everything in its path. They are joined in their
quest by a motley band of UnLondon locals, including Brokkenbroll,
boss of the broken umbrellas, Obaday Fing, a couturier whose head
is an enormous pincushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle.
Winner of the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book, China
Mieville's Un Lun Dun is an extraordinary vivid creation;is
populated by astonishing frights and delights that will thrill the
imagination.
Winner of the August Derleth award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award,
Perdido Street Station is an imaginative urban fantasy thriller,
and the first of China Mieville's novels set in the world of
Bas-Lag. The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of
its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants and arcane races
throng the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are
sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound
into the night. For more than a thousand years, the parliament and
its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and
artists, spies, magicians, junkies and whores. Now a stranger has
come, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand, and
inadvertently something unthinkable is released. Soon the city is
gripped by an alien terror - and the fate of millions depends on a
clutch of outcasts on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike.
The urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground as battles rage in
the shadows of bizarre buildings. And a reckoning is due at the
city's heart, in the vast edifice of Perdido Street Station. It is
too late to escape.
China Miville's brilliantly original book is an indispensable guide
for anyone concerned with international law. It is the most
comprehensive scholarly account available of the central
theoretical debates about the foundations of international law. It
offers a guide for the lay reader into the central texts in the
field.-Peter Gowan, Professor, International Relations, London
Metropolitan University. Miville critically examines existing
theories of international law and offers a compelling alternative
Marxist view. China Miville, PhD, International Relations, London
School of Economics, is an independent researcher and an
award-winning novelist. His novel Perdido Street Station won the
Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Rebellion and war race to take control of New Crobuzon in the
award-winning Iron Council by China Mieville. It is a time of
revolts 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 metropolis to the brink. In the midst of this turmoil,
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, an undying legend.
In the blood and violence of New Crobuzon's most dangerous hour,
there are whispers. It is the time of the Iron Council.
"New York Times" bestselling author China Mieville delivers his
most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city
unlike any other-real or imagined.
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at
the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector
Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates,
the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly
than anything he could have imagined.
Borlu must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis
on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no
other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in
perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel's
equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of
Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with
his own transition, Borlu is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of
rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and
unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the
detectives uncover the dead woman's secrets, they begin to suspect
a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than
their lives.
What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul
Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these
two cities.
Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and
1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling
metaphysical and artistic heights.
"From the Hardcover edition."
Introduction by China Mieville
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P.
Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own
pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of
supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately
told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic
expedition's uncanny discoveries-and their encounter with untold
menace in the ruins of a lost civilization-is a milestone of
macabre literature.
This exclusive new edition, presents Lovecraft's masterpiece in
fully restored form, and includes his acclaimed scholarly essay
"Supernatural Horror in Literature." This is essential reading for
every devotee of classic terror.
In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy,
mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two
revolutions, it had become the world's first workers' state,
straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. How did this
unimaginable transformation take place? In a panoramic sweep,
stretching from St Petersburg and Moscow to the remotest villages
of a sprawling empire, Mieville uncovers the catastrophes,
intrigues and inspirations of 1917, in all their passion, drama and
strangeness. Intervening in long-standing historical debates, but
told with the reader new to the topic especially in mind, here is a
breathtaking story of humanity at its greatest and most desperate;
of a turning point for civilisation that still resonates loudly
today. China Mieville tells the extraordinary story of this pivotal
moment in history.
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none—not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory.
Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.
While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger—and more consuming—by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon—and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes . . .
A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader's imagination.
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Utopia (Paperback)
Thomas More, Ursula Le Guin; Introduction by China Mieville
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Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More's
Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines
an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and
women are both educated, and property is communal. In a text
hovering between fantasy, satire, blueprint and game, More explores
the theories and realities behind war, political conflicts, social
tensions and redistribution, and imagines the day-to-day lives of a
citizenry living free from fear, oppression, violence and
suffering. But there has always been a shadow at the heart of
Utopia. If this is a depiction of the perfect state, why, as well
as wonder, does it provoke a growing unease? In this quincentenary
edition, published in conjunction with Somerset House, More's text
is introduced by multi-award-winning author China Mieville and
accompanied by four essays from Ursula K. Le Guin, today's most
distinguished utopian writer and thinker.
London's Overthrow is a potent polemic describing the capital in a
time of austerity at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Award-winning author and essayist China Mieville cuts through the
hyperbole of our politicians to present a view from ordinary London
- of the inequality, oppression and indignity and the hidden,
subversive sentiment pervading throughout our streets.
The multi-award-winning China Mieville has been called 'the equal
of David Mitchell or Zadie Smith' (Scotland on Sunday), a writer
whose 'inventiveness and precision is awesome' (Independent), and
who writes with 'an imagination of immense power' (Guardian). In
these twenty-eight short stories, glistening icebergs float above
urban horizons; a burning stag runs wild through the city; the
ruins of industry emerge unsteadily from the sea; and the abandoned
generations in a decayed space-elevator look not up at the stars
but down at the Earth. Ranging from portraits of childhood to
chilling ghost stories, from dystopian visions to poignant
evocations of uncanny love, with beautiful prose and melancholy
wit, Three Moments of an Explosion is a breath-taking collection
that poses searching questions of what it is to be human in an
unquiet world. It is a humane and unsentimental investigation of
our society, our world, and ourselves.
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The Scar (Paperback)
China Mieville
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A mythmaker of the highest order, China Miéville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sprawling world of Miéville’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, Perdido Street Station, this latest epic introduces a whole new cast of intriguing characters and dazzling creations.
Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city. Among them is Bellis Coldwine, a renowned linguist whose services as an interpreter grant her passage—and escape from horrific punishment. For she is linked to Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, the brilliant renegade scientist who has unwittingly unleashed a nightmare upon New Crobuzon.
For Bellis, the plan is clear: live among the new frontiersmen of the colony until it is safe to return home. But when the ship is besieged by pirates on the Swollen Ocean, the senior officers are summarily executed. The surviving passengers are brought to Armada, a city constructed from the hulls of pirated ships, a floating, landless mass ruled by the bizarre duality called the Lovers. On Armada, everyone is given work, and even Remades live as equals to humans, Cactae, and Cray. Yet no one may ever leave.
Lonely and embittered in her captivity, Bellis knows that to show dissent is a death sentence. Instead, she must furtively seek information about Armada’s agenda. The answer lies in the dark, amorphous shapes that float undetected miles below the waters—terrifying entities with a singular, chilling mission. . . .
China Miéville is a writer for a new era—and The Scar is a luminous, brilliantly imagined novel that is nothing short of spectacular.
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