Railsea - Hardcover

Praise for China Mieville
Embassytown
"Mieville's swing-for-the-fences gusto thrills. This is Big Idea Sci-Fi at its most propulsively readable."--"Entertainment Weekly"
Kraken
"The stakes [are] driven high and almost anything can happen. The reader is primed for a memorable payoff, and Mieville more than delivers."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
The City & The City
"If Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler's love child were raised by Franz Kafka, the writing that emerged might resemble . . . "The City & The City.""--"Los Angeles Times"
Un Lun Dun
"Endlessly inventive . . . [a] hybrid of "Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz" and "The Phantom Tollbooth.""--Salon
Perdido Street Station
"Compulsively readable . . . impossible to expunge from memory."--"The Washington Post Book World"
The Scar
"A fantastic setting for an unforgettable tale . . . memorable because of Mieville's vivid language [

Praise for China Mieville

Embassytown

"Mieville's swing-for-the-fences gusto thrills. This is Big Idea Sci-Fi at its most propulsively readable."--"Entertainment Weekly"

Kraken

"The stakes [are] driven high and almost anything can happen. The reader is primed for a memorable payoff, and Mieville more than delivers."--"San Francisco Chronicle"

The City & The City

"If Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler's love child were raised by Franz Kafka, the writing that emerged might resemble . . . "The City & The City"."--"Los Angeles Times"

Un Lun Dun

"Endlessly inventive . . . [a] hybrid of "Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz" and "The Phantom Tollbooth"."--Salon

Perdido Street Station

"Compulsively readable . . . impossible to expunge from memory."--"The Washington Post Book World"

The Scar

"A fantastic setting for an unforgettable tale . . . memorable because of Mieville's vivid language [and] rich imagination."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer"

Iron Council

"A masterwork . . . a story that pops with creativity."--"Wired"

"Other names besides [Herman] Melville's will surely come to mind as you read this thrilling tale--there's "Dune"'s Frank Herbert. . . . But in this, as in all of his works, MiEville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own."--"Los Angeles Times"
"[MiEville] gives all readers a lot to dig into here, be it emotional drama, "Godzilla"-esque monster carnage, or the high adventure that comes only with riding the rails."--"USA Today"
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"Superb . . . massively imaginative."--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"Riveting . . . a great adventure."--NPR
"Wildly inventive . . . Every sentence is packed with wit."--"The Guardian "(London)

Other names besides [Herman] Melville s will surely come to mind as you read this thrilling tale there s Dune s Frank Herbert. . . . But in this, as in all of his works, Mieville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own. Los Angeles Times

[Mieville] gives all readers a lot to dig into here, be it emotional drama, Godzilla-esque monster carnage, or the high adventure that comes only with riding the rails. USA Today

Superb . . . massively imaginative. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Riveting . . . a great adventure. NPR
Wildly inventive . . . Every sentence is packed with wit. The Guardian (London)"

Playful and clever, this is the new gloriously imagined novel from China Miéville