num_pages: 564
description: Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar , acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon—this time, decades later.It is a time of wars and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming city to the brink. A mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places.In desperation, a small group of renegades escapes from the city and crosses strange and alien continents in the search for a lost hope.In the blood and violence of New Crobuzon’s most dangerous hour, there are whispers. It is the time of the iron council. . . .The bold originality that broke Miéville out as a new force of the genre is here once more in Iron Council : the voluminous, lyrical novel that is destined to seal his reputation as perhaps the edgiest mythmaker of the day.
language: English
title: Iron Council
titlecomplete: Iron Council (New Crobuzon, #3)
genres: Weird Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction, Steampunk, Science Fiction Fantasy, New Weird, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 15420
places: Bas-Lag
series: New Crobuzon
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Bestes ausländisches Werk (Best Foreign Work)
publisher: Del Rey