Author(s): China Mieville
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 424
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Language: English
Date Published: 2013-04-30
Dimensions: 137.16 x 205.74 x 30.48mm
Publication City/Country: United States
Edition: Reprint
Illustrations: Illustrations, black and white
"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, Miéville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own."--Los Angeles Times
On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one's death & the other's glory. Spectacular as it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than the endless rails of the railsea--even if his captain thinks only of hunting the ivory-colored mole that took her arm years ago. But when they come across a wrecked train, Sham finds something--a series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be impossible--that leads to considerably more than he'd bargained for. Soon he's hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters & salvage-scrabblers. & it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"[Miéville] 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)
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 424
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Language: English
Date Published: 2013-04-30
Dimensions: 137.16 x 205.74 x 30.48mm
Publication City/Country: United States
Edition: Reprint
Illustrations: Illustrations, black and white
"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, Miéville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own."--Los Angeles Times
On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one's death & the other's glory. Spectacular as it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than the endless rails of the railsea--even if his captain thinks only of hunting the ivory-colored mole that took her arm years ago. But when they come across a wrecked train, Sham finds something--a series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be impossible--that leads to considerably more than he'd bargained for. Soon he's hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters & salvage-scrabblers. & it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"[Miéville] 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)
Book Info | |
Author | China Mieville |
Date Published | 2013-04-30 |
Dimensions | 137.16 x 205.74 x 30.48mm |
Edition | Reprint |
First Author | China Mieville |
Format | Paperback |
Illustrations | Illustrations, black and white |
ISBN | 9780345524539 |
Language | English |
No. of Pages | 424 |
Publication City/Country | United States |
Publisher | Del Rey Books |
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