Read By Neospeech Bridget
In this stunning new novel set mainly in the decadent and magical city of New
Crobuzon, British author MiÊville (The Scar) charts the course of a proletarian
revolution like no other. The capitalists of New Crobuzon are pushing hard.
More and more people are being arrested on petty charges and "Remade" into
monstrous slaves, some half animal, others half machine. Uniformed militia are
patrolling the streets and watching the city from their dirigibles. They turn
a blind eye when racists stage pogroms in neighborhoods inhabited by non-humans.
An overseas war is going badly, and horrific, seemingly meaningless terrorist
acts occur with increasing frequency. Radical groups are springing up across
the city. The spark that will ignite the revolution, however, is the Perpetual
Train. Workers building the first transcontinental railroad, badly mistreated
by their overseers, have literally stolen a train, laying track into the wild
back-country west of the great city, tearing up track behind them, fighting
off the militia sent to arrest them, even daring to enter the catotopic zone,
that transdimensional continental scar where anything is possible. Full of
warped and memorable characters, this violent and intensely political novel
smoothly combines elements of fantasy, science fiction, horror, even
the western. MiÊville represents much of what is new and good in contemporary
dark fantasy, and his work is must reading for devotees of that genre.
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