Iron Council: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Miéville moves effortlessly into the first division of those who use the tools and weapons of the fantastic to define and create the fiction of the coming century.”

  — Neil Gaiman

• “Continuously fascinating…Miéville creates a world of outrageous inventiveness.”

  — Denver Post

• “Miéville weaves his epic out of familiar and heavily political themes—imperialism, fascism, conquest, and Marxism—all seen through a darkly cast funhouse mirror wherein even language is distorted and made beautifully grotesque. Improbably evoking Jack London and Victor Hugo, Iron Council is a twisted frontier fable cleverly combined with a powerful parable of Marxist revolution that continues Miéville’s macabre remaking of the fantasy genre."

  — Amazon.com, editorial review

• “Stunning…Full of warped and memorable characters, this violent and intensely political novel smoothly combines elements of fantasy, science fiction, horror, even the Western. Miéville represents much of what is new and good in contemporary dark fantasy, and his work is must-reading for devotees of that genre.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Freighting his prose with arcane botanical and engineering terms as well as neologisms, Mieville writes the intertwined tales in different styles—relatively spare and dry for Cutter’s, lush and saturated for Ori’s. His verbal and imaginative largesse may throw some readers while utterly engrossing others. No doubt about it, he’s an original.”

  — Booklist