Railsea

China Miéville

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Pan
01 May 2013

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction; Fantasy; Future Society; Space

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 and the other's glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea - even if his captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-coloured mole she's been chasing since it took her arm all those years ago. When they come across a wrecked train, at first it's a welcome distraction. But what Sham finds in the derelict - a series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be impossible - leads to considerably more than he'd bargained for. Soon he's hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters and salvage-scrabblers. And it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea.

By: China Miéville
Imprint: Pan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 266g
ISBN: 9781447213673
ISBN 10: 144721367X
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 May 2013
Recommended Age: From 12 years
Audience: Young adult , Children/juvenile , Preschool (0-5) , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

China Mieville lives & works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award & has also won the British Fantasy Award twice. The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published to dazzling critical acclaim & drew comparison with the works of Kafka & Orwell and Philip K. Dick. His previous novel, Embassytown, was a first & widely praised foray into science fiction (published in 2011).

Reviews for Railsea

Mieville's imagined societies may be fantastic, but they are utterly coherent . . . wonderfully infectious. * Daily Telegraph * One of the most imaginative young writers around in any kind of fiction. * Guardian * Mieville's work is thrillingly imaginative . . . immensely witty & utterly unforgettable. * Scotland on Sunday * Fiction of the new century. * Neil Gaiman *