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Three moments of an explosion: stories

✍ Scribed by China Miéville

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group;Del Rey
Year
2015
Tongue
en-US
Weight
240 KB
Edition
First edition
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1101884738

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The fiction of multiple award--winning author China Miéville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not to escape from reality but instead to interrogate it in provocative, unexpected ways.

London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure but violent purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse's bones--designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what?

Of such concepts and unforgettable images are made the twenty-eight stories in this collection--many published here for the first time. By turns speculative, satirical, and heart-wrenching, fresh in form and language, and featuring a cast of...

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