IRON COUNCIL
Book ID/图书代码： 12844006B01497
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是一个充斥着起义和革命，冲突和阴谋的时代。新克洛布桑遭受着内外交困。战争的阴云密布于Tesh的城邦，街头巷尾的骚乱，让整个城市走向崩溃的边缘。在这个动荡的岁月里，一个神秘的蒙面人，突然出现在这个充斥着暴力的意外之地。
在绝望中，一小群的反叛者逃离城市，穿过这片陌生的，外星大陆，寻找最后的一希望，一个不朽的传奇。血雨腥风下的新克鲁宗处在危于累卵之际，有传言......
钢铁议会的时代即将来临。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：“Miéville moves effortlessly into the first division of those who use the tools and weapons of the fantastic to define and create the fiction of the coming century.”---NEIL GAIMAN
“Continuously fascinating . . . Miéville creates a world of outrageous inventiveness.”---The Denver Post
In the forest Rudewood, Cutter waits for the few who will join him in finding the somaturge, or creator of golems, Judah, and then warning the Iron Council that the militia of the powerful, totalitarian city of New Crobuzon are closing in to destroy it. Meanwhile, in the malign megalopolis, young Ori, seeking to contact a daring urban freedom fighter and strike real blows against New Crobuzon’s rulers, gets acquainted with an apparently mad old man said to have been a comrade of legendary outlaw-rebel Jack Half-a-Prayer. Mieville returns to the sublimely weird world of his award-winning Perdido Street Station (2000) and The Scar (2002) in a shorter but still sprawling saga that is being boosted as his breakthrough to the kind of popularity fellow English fantasists Clive Barker and Neil Gaiman enjoy. The new book’s parts alternate between Cutter’s and Ori’s adventures, which eventually intersect, and a long flashback tells the backstory of Judah and the Iron Council. Cutter’s story unfolds like a blending of western movies and King Kong, and Ori’s echoes the urban grunge fantasy of Gaiman’s Sandman graphic novels. Freighting his prose with arcane botanical and engineering terms as well as neologisms, Mieville writes the intertwined tales in different styles--relatively spare and dry for Cutter’s, lush and saturated for Ori’s. His verbal and imaginative largesse may throw some readers while utterly engrossing others. No doubt about it, he’s an original.---Ray Olson, From Booklist
About the Author/作者介绍： 柴纳·米耶维（China Mieville），1972年生于英格兰诺里奇，先后就读于剑桥大学，伦敦政经学院，哈佛大学。最后于伦敦政经学院获国际法学博士，博士论文为《对等权利之间：国际法的马克思主义理论》。
1998年出版处女作《鼠王》。2000-2004年相继出版了巴斯-莱格三部曲。2007年《伪伦敦》。2009年《城与城》。2010年‘Kraken’。2011年‘Embassytown’。2012年‘Railsea’。
其中巴斯-莱格三部曲获多项科幻小说奖提名并获得了‘阿瑟·克拉克奖’、‘英国科幻小说奖’等。而《城与城》获得2010年的‘雨果奖’。China Mieville has lived all his life in London. His first novel was King Rat, his second, Perdido Street Station, won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2001, and his third, The Scar, has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award, 2003.
Format:PROOF
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