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 Iron Council - China Mieville
 Iron Council - China Mieville ... fabulous city of New Crobuzon and its very special world 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.Newest Review: ... whilst the other is based around the movements of a New Crobuzonian dissident. The central theme for each of them is ... more ... rebellion, specifically against the oppressive state of the New Crobuzon government and its indiscriminate militia, but the real interest lies in the separate motivations for their rebellion - ennui, love, selfishness, righteousness, hatred - and in what their individual acts of rebellion means to them and reduces them to.
Invariably the three intertwine as the story progresses and reaches climax, but each individual journey is beautifully and patiently woven into the greater scheme of things, before bein...more |
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Iron Council - China Mieville: Renegade Rail Runs Rampant (486 words)
by - written on 08/01/09 (Very useful, 34 readings)
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Iron Council is China Mieville's third book set in the world of Bas Lag, first introduced to us in cityscape format in Perdido Street Station and then via the sprawling seas of The Scar. And whilst the world might be the same, and whilst we do indeed return to his most luscious of creations, the city of New Crobuzon, this book is on a different level altogether from the previous two. Not necessarily better, but certainly different. Stylistically, Iron Council is Mieville's most plot-centric novel, told through three different narratives, two of which are directly concerned with the peripatetic movements of the eponymous Iron Council, a wondrously inventive ... Read the complete review
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