China Miéville

Relsomore. Obshirnye prostranstva otravlennoj zemli, pokrytye setju stalnykh relsov i derevjannykh shpal. Kolei, soedinjajuschie vremena & strany, prolozheny vo vsekh napravlenijakh, kuda ni gljan. Oni ukhodjat v vechnost. No s ostrova na ostrov khodjat slukhi, chto gde-to za gorizontom est vykhod tuda, gde net relsov. Tuda, gde nakhoditsja Raj, zemlja obetovannaja... I imenno on, Shemus ap Suurat, pomoschnik doktora na poezde-krotoboe "Midas", nakhodit kljuch k razgadke etoj tajny. No smozhet li on dobratsja do kraja Relsomorja, prezhde chem piraty i relsovyj flot doberutsja do nego?

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 Mièville, Charlie Jane Anders and more. 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? Digging through the layers of ruined cities beneath your feet, living in the bombed-out husk of a city, hiding from the monsters on the other side of the wall, can we turn the cataclysm into an opportunity? Featuring new and exclusive stories, as well as classics of the genre, Grassmann takes us through the fall and beyond, to the things that are created after. Calling on the finest traditions of post-apocalyptic fiction, this anthology asks us what makes us human, and who we will be when we emerge out of the ruins? Featuring work from China Miéville 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 D. R. G. Sugawara.

To understand the scale of what faces us and how it ramifies through every corner of our lives is to marvel at our inaction. Why aren't we holding emergency meetings in every city, town and village every week? What is to be done to create a planet where a communist horizon offers a new dawn to replace our planetary twilight? What does it mean to be a communist after we have hit a climate tipping point? The Tragedy of the Worker is a brilliant, stringently argued pamphlet reflecting on capitalism's death drive, the left's complicated entanglements with fossil fuels, and the rising tide of fascism. In response, the authors propose Salvage Communism, a programme of restoration and reparation that must precede any luxury communism. They set out a new way to think about the Anthropocene. The Tragedy of the Worker demands an alternative future - the Proletarocene - one capable of repairing the ravages of capitalism and restoring the world.

Den unga studenten Mahalia Geary hittas brutalt mördad i den förfallna staden Beszel, någonstans i utkanten av Europa. När inspektör Tyador Borlú tar sig an fallet ser det först ut som ett rutinfall. Men i Beszel, och dess modernare tvillingstad Ul Qoma, är inget vad det först verkar vara. Städerna är belägna på till största del samma yta och delar vägar, hus och invånare. Men de är ändå två helt separata städer och dess befolkning gör sitt bästa för att inte se den andra staden. Över allting svävar en hemlig osynlig makt som håller medborgarna i schack och hindrar dem från att göra intrång i den andra staden. Spåren leder snart till en märklig och våldsam värld fylld av konspirationer och politiska motsättningar. För att lösa fallet måste Borlú samarbeta med polisen i Ul Qoma, den enda stad i världen som är lika märklig som hans egen, och resa över en gräns som inte liknar någon annan. VINNARE AV ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD! VINNARE AV WORLD FANTASY AWARD! VINNARE AV HUGO AWARD! VINNARE AV LOCUS AWARD! China Tom Miéville föddes i Norwich, Storbritannien, den 6 september 1972 och växte upp i Willesden i nordvästra London. Han är författare, akademiker och politisk aktivist. Hans böcker beskrivs ofta som ”weird fiction” och har vunnit flera prestigefulla utmärkelser, bland annat Arthur C. Clarke Award (tre gånger), British Fantasy Award (två gånger), Locus Award (två gånger), Hugo Award och World Fantasy Award. Staden & Staden (The City & The City), en existentiell thriller, fick fantastiska recensioner och jämförs med verk av Kafka, Orwell och Philip K. Dick. China Miéville bor och arbetar i London.

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, Miéville 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 Miéville tells the extraordinary story of this pivotal moment in history.

A thriller of a war that never was. 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.

A thriller of war that never was--of survival in an impossible city--of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Mi ville 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 Marseille, American engineer--and occult disciple--Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andr 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. Praise for The Last Days of New Paris "Beautiful, stunningly realized . . . The Last Days of New Paris] is a brief vacation in alien latitudes, a midnight layover in an imaginary place."--NPR "A thoughtful, highbrow novella . . . Mi ville's self-assured style offers up a strong sense of humanity, while the strange Surrealist monsters give Last Days a fun and complementary mad-science component."--USA Today " A] testament to the necessary, progressive power of art . . . Both moving and disturbingly timely."--Newsday "A novel both unhinged and utterly compelling, a kind of guerrilla warfare waged by art itself, combining both meticulous historical research and Mi ville's unparalleled inventiveness."--Chicago Tribune "An extraordinarily original work that foregrounds Mieville's considerable ingenuity and innovation."--The Millions "Hauntingly poetic, strangely beautiful, and erratically intense."--San Francisco Book Review "Dazzling . . . quite a feat."--The Guardian

Relsomore. Obshirnye prostranstva otravlennoj zemli, pokrytye setju stalnykh relsov i derevjannykh shpal. Kolei, soedinjajuschie vremena & strany, prolozheny vo vsekh napravlenijakh, kuda ni gljan. Oni ukhodjat v vechnost. No s ostrova na ostrov khodjat slukhi, chto gde-to za gorizontom est vykhod tuda, gde net relsov, tuda, gde nakhoditsja Raj, preispolnennyj bogatstv... I imenno on, Shemus ap Suurat, pomoschnik doktora na poezde-krotoboe "Midas", nakhodit kljuch k razgadke etoj tajny. No smozhet li on dobratsja do kraja Relsomorja, prezhde chem piraty i relsovyj flot doberutsja do nego? Perevodchik: Ekimova N. V.

In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a traumatic event. He tries - and fails - to flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below, of escape. When at last a stranger knocks at his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation might be over. But by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? What is the purpose behind his questions? Is he friend? Enemy? Or something else altogether? A novella filled with beauty, terror and strangeness, This Census-Taker is a poignant and riveting exploration of memory and identity.

Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2016 A Mississippi Clarion-Ledger best seller "Mi ville and Smith's dialogue is fantastic: witty, smart, with great rhythm that doesn't sacrifice artful turns of phrase to reach for an internal rhyme... Smith's artwork keeps pace with the text, which the artist sets into little rectangles to contrast with the jaggedly flamboyant paintings that get increasingly manic as the girl goes on, incorporating tentacles and pterodactyls as well as piled-high foodstuffs... This should be in the hands of all kids who aren't easily satiated by tamer picture books and who would engage with a real work of art that they can revisit over and over. None of the artwork is too gross to behold, even for the squeamish, but it does perfectly illustrate the culinary horrors the girl is trying to convey to her sister. A brilliant, original, infinitely rereadable book that can sit alongside Sendak and Dahl." --Kirkus Reviews, Starred review "Mi ville lets it rip in this stomping, howling rant about a bad meal of legendary proportions . . . Punk artist Smith's neatly framed dialogue boxes and crisp black contours have a buttoned-up look, but no: tentacles wave from inside bowls, monsters smile amid mountains of vile sausages, and a blue alien juggles cherry tomatoes. As the pages turn, the towers of bad food grow ever loftier. In the end, a simple tea strainer saves the sisters from another terrible meal. This one's for families enamored of new words, exotic foods, and strong opinions." --Publishers Weekly "Mi ville, known for his genre-defying fantasy novels for adults, makes a splash with his picture book debut. Smith's illustrations, filled with geometric shapes and patterns, are the perfect complement to the text... This is a subversive delight." --School Library Journal "Deftly written by the exceptionally talented China Mi ville and shockingly but gifted illustrated by Zak Smith, The Worst Breakfast is a unique picture book that will be enduringly popular... Very highly recommended." --Midwest Book Review "This is a child's imagination come to life, where a good thing can be the greatest thing in existence and a minor inconvenience snowballs into the most horrendous, atrocious, appalling, not good, very bad meal you've ever had." --San Francisco Book Review "Imaginative and fun, The Worst Breakfast is perfect for any picky eater out there. A rhyming scheme and inventive text kept up the giggles and the pace. The text is best read aloud going along with all of the suggestions, with emphasis placed on capitalized words and pauses between syllables when they are spaced out. The illustrations are very different than what you typically see in children's books; they are bright and fun, but edgier and begged to be looked at deeper. You can spend time on each page trying to find each food and a series of silly little monsters." --100 Pages a Day "This book is just too much fun to read by yourself . . . This will be a storytime mainstay for me. This would be great for a food storytime . . . I was reminded of Sendak . . . This is a fun tale that's sure to get the kids interacting during a storytime. If you've got readers who enjoy gross humor - and who doesn't? - this will build their vocabularies and make them howl with disgusted delight." --Mom Read It Part of Akashic's Black Sheep imprint. Two sisters sit down one morning and begin describing all of the really gross things that were in the worst breakfast they ever had, until all they can picture is a table piled sky-high with the weirdest, yuckiest, slimiest, slickest, stinkiest breakfast possible. And then they have the best breakfast... almost.

A thriller of a war that never was - of survival in an impossible city - of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Mieville 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 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 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.

The multi-award-winning China Miéville 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.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - NPR - The Guardian - Kirkus Reviews - The fiction of multiple award-winning author China Mi ville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not to escape from reality but instead to interrogate it in provocative, unexpected ways. London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse's bones--designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what? Of such concepts and unforgettable images are made the twenty-eight stories in this collection--many published here for the first time. By turns speculative, satirical, and heart-wrenching, fresh in form and language, and featuring a cast of damaged yet hopeful seekers who come face-to-face with the deep weirdness of the world--and at times the deeper weirdness of themselves--Three Moments of an Explosion is a fitting showcase for one of literature's most original voices. Praise for Three Moments of an Explosion "China Mi ville is dazzling. His latest collection of short stories, Three Moments of an Explosion, crowds virtuosity into every sentence."--The New York Times "You can't talk about China] Mi ville without using the word 'brilliant.' . . . His wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing."--Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian " A] gripping collection . . . Mi ville expertly mixes science fiction, fantasy and surrealism. . . . Amid the longer stories are more cerebral, poetic flash pieces that will haunt the reader beyond the pages of this exceptional book."--The Washington Post "The stories shine . . . with a winking brilliance."--The Seattle Times "Mind-bending excursions into the fantastic."--NPR "Bradbury meets Borges, with Lovecraft gibbering tumultuously just out of hearing."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Three Moments of an Explosion is a book filled with fabulous oddities."--Entertainment Weekly "Mi ville moves effortlessly among realism, fantasy, and surrealism. . . . His characters, whether ordinary witnesses to extraordinary events or lunatics operating out of inexplicable compulsions, are invariably well drawn and compelling."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Savage giant moles, rail pirates, and explorers abound in China Miéville'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.

"Other names besides Herman] Melville's will surely come to mind as you read this thrilling tale--there's Dune's Frank Herbert. . . . But in this, as in all of his works, Mi ville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own."--Los Angeles Times 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 & the other's glory. Spectacular as it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than the endless rails of the railsea--even if his captain thinks only of hunting the ivory-colored mole that took her arm years ago. But when they come across a wrecked train, Sham finds something--a series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be impossible--that leads to considerably more than he'd bargained for. Soon he's hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters & salvage-scrabblers. & it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER " Mi ville] gives all readers a lot to dig into here, be it emotional drama, Godzilla-esque monster carnage, or the high adventure that comes only with riding the rails."--USA Today "Superb . . . massively imaginative."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Riveting . . . a great adventure."--NPR "Wildly inventive . . . Every sentence is packed with wit."--The Guardian (London)