Blizna, rozgrywająca się w tym samym świecie co Dworzec Perdido, to kreacjapełna rozmachu i młodzieńczej energii, widać w niej przy tym, że Mieville próbuje szukać oryginalności także w fabule. Kogo znużyły powtarzane w nieskończoność schematy fantasy tolkienowskiej i tęskni do światów naprawdę innych, niepodobnych do niczego, co zna, powinien odwiedzić uniwersum Chiny Mieville`a – tędy prowadzi droga do fantastyki XXI wieku.Grupa skazańców i niewolników o groteskowo przetworzonych ciałach jest transportowana drogą morską do młodej kolonii Nowego Crobuzon. W podróży tej towarzyszy im kilka innych osób, z których każda ma powód do ucieczki z miasta. Jest wśród nich Bellis Coldwine, zdolna lingwistka, która zatrudnia się jako tłumaczka, co pozwala jej opłacić przejazd i uniknąć straszliwej kary. Jest bowiem powiązana z Isaakiem Danem der Grimnebulinem, genialnym naukowcem-renegatem, który niegdyś niechcący sprowadził koszmar na Nowe Crobuzon. Bellis ma jasno określony plan: przemieszkać w kolonii do czasu, gdy będzie mogła bezpiecznie wrócić. Na Wezbranym Oceanie statek opanowują jednak piraci i mordują wszystkich oficerów. Pasażerowie i szeregowi członkowie załogi zostają przewiezieni na Armadę, do miasta zbudowanego z kadłubów zdobytych okrętów. Tym pływającym lasem masztów rządzi dziwna, dwuosobowa struktura zwana Kochankami. Na Armadzie wszyscy dostają pracę i nawet prze-tworzeni mają takie same prawa jak ludzie, ludzie-kaktusy i ludzie-raki. Nikomu nie wolno jednak opuścić miasta.Samotna i sfrustrowana Bellis wie, że zdradzenie się z chęcią ucieczki oznaczałoby dla niej wyrok śmierci. Zamiast tego Bellis ukradkowo szuka informacji na temat planów Armady. Odpowiedź tkwi w ciemnych, amorficznych kształtach zwisających w wodzie wiele kilometrów pod miastem – przerażających obiektach obarczonych niezwykłą, mrożącą krew w żyłach misją…

Amazon.com Review China Miéville'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 lover, the messianic Judah Low, on a quest to return to the Iron Council hidden in the western wilds. The second is Judah himself, an erstwhile railroad scout who has become the iconic golem-wielding hero of Iron Council's uprising at the end of the tracks. And the third is Ori, a young revolutionary on the streets of New Crobuzon, whose anger leads him into a militant wing of the underground, plotting anarchy and mayhem. Miéville (The Scar, Perdido Street Station) weaves his epic out of familiar and heavily political themes-imperialism, fascism, conquest, and Marxism-all seen through a darkly cast funhouse mirror wherein even language is distorted and made beautifully grotesque. Improbably evoking Jack London and Victor Hugo, Iron Council is a twisted frontier fable cleverly combined with a powerful parable of Marxist revolution that continues Miéville's macabre remaking of the fantasy genre. -Jeremy Pugh -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly 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

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

La metrópolis de Nueva Crobuzon se extiende desde el centro del mundo. Humanos, mutantes y razas arcanas malviven en la penumbra bajo sus chimeneas, donde el río se trona viscoso por los afluentes artificiales, donde las fábricas y fundiciones amartillan la noche. Durante más de mil años, el Parlamento y su brutal milicia han gobernado una vasta economía de obreros y artistas, espías y soldados, magos, yonquis y prostitutas. Pero acaba de llegar un extraño con el bolsillo lleno y una demanda imposible. De forma torpe, inadvertida, algo imposible es liberado. Dotado de un especial talento para las ambientaciones exóticas, China Miéville convierte a Nueva Crobuzon en un vigoros escenario en el que se dan cita los ecos de un Londres victoriano, la distopía más agria, la poderosa imaginería de la literatura gótica y originales razas atropomórficas. Sirviéndose de los recursos clásicos de la literatura fantástica y de anticipación, inaugura una fórmula narrativa fresca y novedosa, capaz de fascinar por igual a público y crítica hasta convertir "La estación de la calle Perdido" en la gran revelación de 2000 en el Reino Unido, donde ha sido galardonada con los principales premios literarios

Step into a London ravaged by unearthly creatures at once utterly alien and chillingly familiar. In China Miéville'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 Miéville's work

China Miéville stworzył swą najdoskonalszą dotąd powieść — egzystencjalny thriller rozgrywający się w mieście najniezwyklejszym ze wszystkich, realnych czy wyimaginowanych… Gdy w ponurym, chylącym się ku upadkowi mieście Besźel położonym gdzieś na skraju Europy znaleziono ciało zamordowanej kobiety, wydawało się, że inspektora Tyadora Borlú z Brygady Najpoważniejszych Zbrodni czeka kolejna rutynowa sprawa. W miarę postępów śledztwa Borlú odkrywa jednak dowody wskazujące na spiski znacznie dziwniejsze i groźniejsze niż wszystko, co mógłby sobie wyobrazić. Wkrótce inspektorowi i bliskim mu ludziom zaczyna grozić niebezpieczeostwo. Borlú musi przekroczyć granicę niepodobną do żadnej innej i wyruszyć do jedynego miasta na Ziemi, które jest równie dziwne jak to, w którym mieszka… Powieść nagrodzona „Arthur C. Clarke Award 2010” oraz „Hugo Award 2010”

Acclaimed fantasy author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later, it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked by not one but two revolutions? This is the story of the extraordinary months between those upheavals, in February and October, of the forces and individuals who made 1917 so epochal a year, of their intrigues, negotiations, conflicts and catastrophes. From familiar names like Lenin and Trotsky to their opponents Kornilov and Kerensky; from the byzantine squabbles of urban activists to the remotest villages of a sprawling empire; from the revolutionary railroad Sublime to the ciphers and static of coup by telegram; from grand sweep to forgotten detail. Historians have debated the revolution for a hundred years, its portents and possibilities: the mass of literature can be daunting. But here is a book for those new to the events, told not only in their historical import but in all their passion and drama and strangeness. Because as well as a political event of profound and ongoing consequence, Miéville reveals the Russian Revolution as a breathtaking story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tvCfiLzee8

An anthology of stories The Devil is known by many names: Serpent, Tempter, Beast, Adversary, Wanderer, Dragon, Rebel. His traps and machinations are the stuff of legends. His faces are legion. No matter what face the devil wears, Sympathy for the Devil has them all. Edited by Tim Pratt, Sympathy for the Devil collects the best Satanic short stories by Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Stephen King, Kage Baker, Charles Stross, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Kelly Link, China Mieville, Michael Chabon, and many others, revealing His Grand Infernal Majesty, in all his forms. Thirty-five stories, from classics to the cutting edge, exploring the many sides of Satan, Lucifer, the Lord of the Flies, the Father of Lies, the Prince of the Powers of the Air and Darkness, the First of the Fallen… and a Man of Wealth and Taste. Sit down and spend a little time with the Devil

A thriller of war that never was—of survival in an impossible city—of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new. “Beauty will be convulsive…” 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseilles, American engineer—and occult disciple—Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of the 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 forever. 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, he 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

Award-winning author China Miéville (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. Miéville'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."

Nadszedł czas buntów i rewolucji, konfliktów i intryg. Nowe Crobuzon jest rozszarpywane od zewnątrz i od wewnątrz. Wojna z nieodgadnionym państwem-miastem Tesh i zamieszki w kraju popychają kipiącą życiem metropolię na skraj katastrofy. Pośród tej zawieruchy tajemnicza, zamaskowana postać wywołuje dziwny bunt, a zdrada i przemoc wybuchają w nieoczekiwanych miejscach. Grupa zdesperowanych uciekinierów z miasta przemierza dziwne i obce kontynenty w poszukiwaniu zaginionej nadziei, nieśmiertelnej legendy. W crobuzońskiej, krwawej godzinie największego zagrożenia ludzie szepczą do siebie: To jest czas Żelaznej Rady