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Journal Entry 2 by livrecache at Melbourne, a controlled release -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Released 2 yrs ago (11/17/2009 UTC) at Melbourne, a controlled release -- Controlled Releases CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
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On its way to another bookcrosser. I hope you enjoy it.
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Journal Entry 3 by leeny37 from Melbourne, Victoria Australia on Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Thank you so much for granting a wish! :) I'm new to Miéville's work and I'm interested to read more.
From Amazon.com:
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.
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Iron Council
