When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence...

A mythmaker of the highest order, China Miéville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sprawling world of Miéville's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel,...

In the moment I woke it was without a sense of time having passed. I closed my eyes in the crosshatched streets of the Old Towns; I opened them again and gasped for breath . . . When the body of a murdered woman is found in the...

"The City & The City" von China Miéville ist ein faszinierender Roman, der sich um einen ungewöhnlichen Mordfall in zwei fiktiven Städten dreht: Besźel und Ul Qoma. Diese Städte existieren an einem geheimnisvollen Ort, wo sie geografisch...

"Embassytown" ist ein Science-Fiction-Roman von China Miéville, der sich um Sprache, Kommunikation und die Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Alien dreht. Die Geschichte spielt in Embassytown, einer kleinen menschlichen Enklave auf dem...

Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, China Miéville's astonishing Embassytown is an intelligent and immersive exploration of language in an alien world.Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the...

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this-or any other-year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret...

Winner of the August Derleth award, Perdido Street Station is an imaginative fantasy thriller, and the first of China Miéville's novels set in the world of Bas-Lag.The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Endlessly inventive . . . [a] hybrid of Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and The Phantom Tollbooth."-Salon What is Un Lun Dun? It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange...

"The Scar" von China Miéville ist ein Fantasy-Roman, der in der von ihm geschaffenen Welt Bas-Lag spielt. Die Geschichte folgt Bellis Coldwine, einer Linguistin aus der Stadt New Crobuzon, die auf der Flucht vor politischen Unruhen ein...

When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Avice is torn between competing loyalties--to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no...

The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster. The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The noise of the cars and vans and motorbikes outside...