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  • Iron Council

  • New Crobuzon, Book 3
  • By: China Mieville
  • Narrated by: Damian Lynch
  • Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (39 ratings)

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Iron Council

By: China Mieville
Narrated by: Damian Lynch
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Publisher's Summary

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.

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Critic Reviews

"Miéville has reshaped modern fantasy, as readers of the award-winning Perdido Street Station and The Scar know very well, and he's done so by rejecting epic romance à la Tolkien for what one might call Zolaesque magic naturalism. Miéville's signature city, New Crobuzon, is populated by the human, the insectoid, the genetically remade, and altogether teems with the kind of grotesques one associates with Bosch paintings, the gnarly art (both verbal and pictorial) of Mervyn Peake or the night-club scene in Star Wars. There are no generic happy endings here." (The Washington Post)
"China Miéville's new novel takes place in the same world as Perdido Street Station and The Scar, a kind of steampunk milieu furnished by clockwork engines (here we see the invention of the phonograph), electrified by magic ("thaumaturgy"), and populated by an improbable variety of sentient life-forms. It tells the story of industrial action on a railway - which, this being fantasy fiction, is more colourful than a day of commuter misery at Waterloo." (The Guardian)
"Full of warped and memorable characters, this violent and intensely political novel smoothly combines elements of fantasy, science fiction, horror, even the western." (Publishers' Weekly)

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Great story

I loved the story and the performance. I hope there will be part 4 to the series, it is a pleasure to read incomparable to anything else

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Mieville gives us another wonder

Yet again, Mieville delivers a fascinating and immersive weird fantasy world. This time with an even stronger, powerful left wing political awareness. His depiction of the effects of a common struggle building solidarity and overcoming bigotry is inspiring.
The conclusion is, in Mieville style, not happy but also not what you could ever expect.
I cannot recommend the New Crobuzon trilogy strongly enough.

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