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Iron Council Paperback – 6 May 2011

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Rebellion and war race to take control of New Crobuzon in the award-winning Iron Council by China Miéville.

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.

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624 pages
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6 May 2011
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18 years and up
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13.1 x 3.8 x 19.7 cm
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0330534203
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978-0330534208
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China Miéville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice. The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell and Philip K. Dick. His novel Embassytown was a first and widely praised foray into science fiction.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pan; Main Market edition (6 May 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0330534203
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0330534208
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.1 x 3.8 x 19.7 cm

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China Miéville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award (Perdido Street Station, Iron Council and The City & The City) and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice (Perdido Street Station and The Scar). The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published in 2009 to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell (The Times) and Philip K. Dick (Guardian).

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Jo Bennie

Bewildering and dense, but worth the effort

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 February 2014

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Mieville's conclusion to the Perdido Street Station trilogy is dense, magical, bewildering and brilliant. Out in the wastes beyond New Crobuzon a rag tag band searches for the legendary Iron Council, a train taken by rebels into the wilderness when the City refused to pay their wages. In New Crobuzon unrest is rife and the people are in covert revolt against their authoritarian rulers, themselves at war against the mysterious Tesh, and the two strands come into painful contact

Mieville introduces us to an incredible cast: Remade, people punished by the authorities by being surgically altered to be part machine; their rebel counterparts the fReemade; magicians; golems; all manner of creatures part bird, bat and insect; stomach churning spells, the visceral urban grit of New Crobuzon and the bewildering landscape outside where smoke turns to stone petrifying its victims and nothing is fixed. And all this in an opaque bewitching language that often had me reaching for the dictionary. Worth the work though.

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Andrew Stevenson

different but in a good way

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Some times you get the feeling that that the author is a litle up his own bottom and llikes to show off...i dont know whether thats true or not ,but you can't deny his talent.
He challenges his readers in a similar way to stephen donaldson...although in no way are the stories comparable.
If you want to fully appreciate this book read his others first ...believe me ....they are well worth it........and then this one is much more entertaining.
His rich world of baslag is odd,very odd.Very provocative and hugely entertaining.....this guy is NOT someone just trying to make a fast buck from the genre,not that he would admit to being "in it", he is adding something new, original.
It will appeal to different people in different ways,i loved it.

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R. S. Loch

Really not that bad

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 14 December 2004

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The real flaw this book is that it is different.
Mieville has moved from the urban landscapes of his first three novels and created a book, which is about journeys real and psychological. The book is also a great deal more political than his previous novels and as such becomes too human. The book also lacked the independence of the other three novels; you have to have read Perdido Street Station to understand the world these events are occurring in.
With all due respect to other reviewers who have slated this book, I suspect it is more a reaction to the book's differences rather than its quality.

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Muskrat

Excellent

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Probably not as good as The Scar or Perdido Station but still excellent. I did find I had to use the dictionary a few times! I’ve had my Kindle for years and didn’t even know it did that! Maybe I’ve got thicker....

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A bizarre train of thought

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3.5/5 • Once again Mieville displays his trademark creative and literary flair. IRON COUNCIL brims with ideas, so much so in fact that it sometimes seems as though he’s struggling to cram them all in. As with the other Bas-Lag novels, this is outlandish stuff. And I love it for that. Mieville has an imagination to die for. He creates worlds that are mindboggling not only in their strangeness but it in their vividness. His is a fertile mind, that’s for shizzle. So why only 3.5/5? Well, when compared to The Scar, and Perdido Street Station, IRON COUNCIL has a less fulfilling story. It just isn’t quite as compelling as it could be and feels rather ponderous at times. Also, the two parallel storylines didn’t come together as effectively as I would have liked. Don’t get me wrong: this isn’t a dull or bad story it’s just not up to Mieville’s usual standard (although it does have a rounded ending, unlike some of his other books). Good, but not his best.

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Steve Conway

Good read, but not an easy, pick up, put down book

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If you are a fan of China Miéville, then you will know what to expect. Without a doubt, some of his writing is truly brilliant, and some of his plot twists are equally unexpected.
However, sometime it seems the reader is drawn in a nightmare labyrinth of prose. I have yet to decide whether this is a flaw, or simply just the author writing at a level that is beyond me.
Having said that, this book struck me as being more accessible that previous novels by this author.
Treat this as an exotic meal, complex, and not entirely digestible, but at the same time, novel and the opposite of bland, and I am sure that you will appreciate the read.

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S. J. King

A mixture of Marxist propaganda and rather short plots

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It is no secret that China Miéville is a Marxist; he has written a book about it. What I consider his best book, Perdido Street Station , is clearly informed by this: the workers in New Crobuzon are oppressed by the ruling class, freedom of expression and association are ruthlessly suppressed, and what democracy exists is clearly skewed to make sure there is never any real change in the government. This is the background to a gripping and scary story. With Iron Council he has not managed to repeat this outstanding achievement. The propaganda has come more to the front and become more heavy-handed, with attitudes strongly reminiscent of the 1970s, while the story has broken into pieces. Instead of one main plot there is a series of discontinuous sub-plots, rather loosely attached to the theme of the transcontinental railway, and there is rarely any real urgency to them. One sub-plot--"New Crobuzon must be saved from a terrifying supernatural assault"--is devalued by being little more than a retread of the defence against the slake-moths in Perdido Street Station . The battle even occurs on the station roof: the same place as in the earlier book. As ever, Miéville's ideas are vivid and outlandish, and he manages to make various extraordinary inventions believable, but these should be the foundations on which the story is built, and there isn't enough story to justify the complexity of the setting.

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