Bas-Lag – serie

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best NovelWinner of the August Derleth Award for Best NovelPerdido Street Station is an imaginative urban fantasy thriller and the first of China Miéville's novels set in the sprawling world of Bas-Lag.The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants linger in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night.For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magicians, junkies and whores. Now a stranger has come, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand, and inadvertently something unthinkable is released. Soon the city is gripped by an alien terror – and the fate of millions depends on a clutch of outcasts on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike.The urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground as battles rage in the shadows of bizarre buildings. And a reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape.Praise for China Miéville:‘You can’t talk about Miéville without using the word “brilliant”’ – Ursula K. Le Guin‘One of the most interesting and freakishly gifted writers of his generation’ – The Daily Telegraph‘As intelligent as he is original’ – The Guardian‘The names of Kafka and Orwell tend to be invoked too easily for anything a bit out of the ordinary, but in this case they are worthy comparisons’ – The TimesPerdido Street Station is the first of China Miéville's novels set in Bas-Lag. For more, read The Scar and Iron Council.

Rebellion and war collide in Iron Council, the award-winning steampunk novel from acclaimed author China Miéville.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 this teeming metropolis to the brink.In the midst of the city's turmoil, a mysterious masked figure spurs an unconventional rebellion, while a small band of daring rebels escapes in the search for a lost legend.As New Crobuzon faces its darkest hour, there are whispers. It is the time of the Iron Council. . .Set in a desperate world on the brink of revolution, Iron Council is the third book in China Miéville's renowned Bas-Lag series, following the Locus and Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Perdido Street Station and The Scar.

Winner of the British Fantasy Award, The Scar by China Miéville is a colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination, set in the richly visualized world of Bas-Lag.A human cargo bound for servitude in exile . . .A pirate city hauled across the oceans . . .A hidden miracle about be revealed . . .These are the ingredients of an astonishing story. It is the story of a prisoner's journey. Of the search for the island of a forgotten people, for the most astonishing beast in the seas, and ultimately for a fabled place - a massive wound in reality, a source of unthinkable power and danger.

Winner of the British Fantasy Award, The Scar by China Miéville is a colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination, set in the richly visualized world of Bas-Lag.A human cargo bound for servitude in exile . . .A pirate city hauled across the oceans . . .A hidden miracle about be revealed . . .These are the ingredients of an astonishing story. It is the story of a prisoner's journey. Of the search for the island of a forgotten people, for the most astonishing beast in the seas, and ultimately for a fabled place - a massive wound in reality, a source of unthinkable power and danger.

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best NovelWinner of the August Derleth Award for Best NovelPerdido Street Station is an imaginative urban fantasy thriller and the first of China Miéville's novels set in the sprawling world of Bas-Lag.The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants linger in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night.For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magicians, junkies and whores. Now a stranger has come, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand, and inadvertently something unthinkable is released. Soon the city is gripped by an alien terror – and the fate of millions depends on a clutch of outcasts on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike.The urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground as battles rage in the shadows of bizarre buildings. And a reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape.Praise for China Miéville:‘You can’t talk about Miéville without using the word “brilliant”’ – Ursula K. Le Guin‘One of the most interesting and freakishly gifted writers of his generation’ – The Daily Telegraph‘As intelligent as he is original’ – The Guardian‘The names of Kafka and Orwell tend to be invoked too easily for anything a bit out of the ordinary, but in this case they are worthy comparisons’ – The TimesPerdido Street Station is the first of China Miéville's novels set in Bas-Lag. For more, read The Scar and Iron Council.