Iron Council

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Pan Macmillan, Aug 28, 2008 - Fiction - 400 pages

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.

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About the author (2008)

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 to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell (The Times) and Philip K. Dick (Guardian). His novels Perdido Street Station and The Scar are also set in the richly imagined Bas-Lag world.

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