Iron Council: A Bas-Lag Novel 3
Synopsis
WINNER OF THE 2005 ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD "Mieville 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 The third novel in China Mieville's amazing imaginative sequence focused on the fabulous city of New Crobuzon. With economic slump … WINNER OF THE 2005 ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD "Mieville 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 The third novel in China Mieville's amazing imaginative sequence focused on the fabulous city of New Crobuzon. With economic slump and growing social unrest, New Crobuzon has become a fraught and dangerous place. The militia patrol in uniform, there is tension between its myriad races, there are even rumours of war. In an attempt to spur trade, a major company is building a railway across the continent, but the project involves brutal suppression of both the workers and the native inhabitants they pass. As mutiny grows among the slave labourers, one train is hijacked on the half-finished line. They tear up the track for a few miles behind them, then begin to rebuild it in front of the train -- diverging from the original route and disappearing into the desert. This renegade train, 'The Iron Council', soon becomes an icon of freedom to the repressed urban population, till the city government has no choice but to hunt it down and destroy it. Whatever happens, they cannot allow it to escape-and so begins a desperate pursuit across alien wild lands filled with bizarre populations, monsters and hazards. PRAISE FOR CHINA MIEVILLE "[Mieville's] wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing." Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian (on Three Moments of an Explosion) "Dark and thought-provoking." The San Diego Union-Tribune (on The City & The City) "Richly conceived." The New York Times Book Review (on Embassytown) "Mieville more than delivers." San Francisco Chronicle (on Kraken) "Compulsively readable." The Washington Post Book World (on Perdido Street Station)
Tropes
Tone
Readers Also Enjoyed
Cage of Souls
Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Tyranny of Faith
Richard Swan
Priest of Gallows
Peter McLean
The Court of Broken Knives
Anna Smith-Spark
The Dragon Republic
R.F. Kuang
Godsgrave
Jay Kristoff
Chronicles of the Black Company
Glen Cook
In the Shadow of Their Dying
Anna Smith Spark
Iron Gold
Pierce Brown
The Dark Tower III
Stephen King
The Shadow of the Torturer
Gene Wolfe
Ogres
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Golden Son
Pierce Brown
Holy Sister
Mark Lawrence
The Dark Tower
Stephen King
The Sword of the Lictor
Gene Wolfe
The Thousandfold Thought
R. Scott Bakker
Sharp Ends
Joe Abercrombie
Harrow the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
The Gunslinger
Stephen King