China Miéville
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
Description
"Acclaimed fantasy author China Mieville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later, it became the first socialist...
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English
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"For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a stunning, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and bestselling author China Mieville. In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a profoundly 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,...
4) Iron council
Author
Series
New Crobuzon series volume 3
Language
English
Description
A new cast of characters shares mythical adventures in the sprawling, phantasmagoric city of New Crobuzon.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"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 ever...almost."--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the chaos of wartime Marseille, 1941, 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. In 1950, a lone Surrealist...
10) Embassytown
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
12) Railsea
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"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. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea--even if his captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-colored...
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English
Description
China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and a spirited defense of the modern world's most influential political document.
Few written works can so confidently claim to have shaped the course of history as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Manifesto of the Communist Party. Since first rattling the gates of the ruling order in 1848, this incendiary pamphlet has never ceased providing fuel for...
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Language
Deutsch
Description
1941, inmitten des vom Zweiten Weltkrieg bedrohten Marseilles, stolpert der amerikanische Ingenieur und Okkultist Jack Parsons in eine Widerstandsgruppe, zu der auch der surrealistische Dichter André Breton zählt. In dieser Résistance aus regimekritischen Diplomaten, exilierten Revolutionären und Avantgarde-Künstlern sieht Parsons einen Hoffnungsschimmer. Aber was er aus Versehen freisetzt, ist die Macht der Träume—und der Albträume—, die...
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Español
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"En febrero de 1917 Rusia era una monarquía atrasada y autocrática, enfangada en una guerra impopular; y en octubre, después de no una, sino dos revoluciones, se había convertido en el primer Estado de los Trabajadores, pugnando por colocarse en la vanguardia de la revolución global. ¿Cómo tuvo lugar esta inimaginable transformación?
En una visión panorámica, desde San Petersburgo y Moscú hasta las aldeas más remotas de un imperio inabarcable,...
19) El mar de hierro
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Language
Español
Description
Sube a bordo del Medos y embárcate en una aventura sin igual.
Sham viaja en el Medos, un tren que recorre los infinitos raíles que conforman el Mar de Hierro, en el que habitan numerosas criaturas monstruosas y se esconden terribles peligros.
En los escombros de un tren descarrilado, Sham encuentra unas fotos que lo pondrán sobre la pista de algo que, hasta entonces, creía imposible.
Pronto piratas, tripulaciones de trenes, monstruos y cazatesoros...
20) Un Lun Dun
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Español
Description
Alondres es Londres a través del espejo, una ciudad a la que van a parar todas las cosas perdidas o rotas de Londres... y también algunas personas perdidas o rotas. En Alondres las palabras están vivas, una jungla se oculta dentro de una casa, jirafas carnívoras recorren las calles y una nube oscura y maligna sueña con incendiar el mundo. Es una ciudad sitiada que espera a su salvadora, cuya llegada se profetizó hace tiempo en las páginas de...
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