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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Looking for Jake Looking for Jake China Miéville What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Mieville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Now from this brill… OL14871878W
Un Lun Dun Un Lun Dun China Miéville What is Un Lun Dun?It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the lost and broken things of London end up . . . and some of its lost and broken people, … OL14871881W
King Rat King Rat China Miéville A London man is enrolled by the King of Rats to assassinate the Pied Piper of Hamelin who dethroned him. The man is Saul, whose rat mother joined humanity, making him immune to the piper's call. In h… OL14871882W
Kraken Kraken China Miéville Kraken is a fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in the UK by Macmillan, and in the US by Del Rey Books. The book bears the subtitle "An Anatomy" on the title page. It was … OL14990804W
Embassytown Embassytown China Miéville,China Miville Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth plan… OL16001889W
Railsea Railsea China Miéville "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 re… OL16564661W
This Census-Taker This Census-Taker China Miéville "For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a stunning, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and bestselling aut… OL19325151W
The worst breakfast The worst breakfast China Miéville "Two sisters sit down one morning and begin describing all of the really gross things that were in the worst breakfast they ever had, until all they can picture is a table piled sky-high with the wei… OL20047719W
A Spectre, Haunting A Spectre, Haunting China Miéville China Miéville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: the Communist Manifesto. In 1848 a strange political tract was published by two emigres… OL25233129W
Perdido Street Station Perdido Street Station China Miéville Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The… OL8718786W
The Scar The Scar China Miéville A mythmaker of the highest order, China Mieville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sprawling world of Mieville's Arthur… OL8718787W