Iron Council [Hardcover]

" Mie ville 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
" Continuously fascinating . . . Mie ville creates a world of outrageous inventiveness."
-- "The Denver Post
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"From the Hardcover edition." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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.

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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

China Mieville has lived all his life in London. His first novel was King Rat, his second, Perdido Street Station, won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2001, and his third, The Scar, has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award, 2003.