China Miéville: Lebenslauf und Bücher bei LOVELYBOOKS

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Stadt der Fremden

384 Seiten, Science-Fiction/Fantasy:
Auf einem fernen Planeten leben die Menschen mit einer fremden Spezies zusammen. Diese spricht eine einmalige Sprache. Nur wenige beherrschen sie: die Botschafter. Sie sorgen für Frieden und Gleichberechtigung. Doch dann kommt ein neuer Botschafter. Als er beginnt zu sprechen, ändert sich alles.
(0 Bibliotheken, 0 Leser, 0 Rezensionen)

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Der Krake

734 Seiten, Science-Fiction/Fantasy: london, magie, fantasy, apokalyspe, weltuntergang
Wenn ein Autor im Vorwort meine Helden William Hope Hodgson, H. G. Wells und Jules Vernes erwähnt, kann er eigentlich nur gewinnen! Und das tut er auch! Hier wird gekonnt Fantasy, Science Fiction und Horror vermischt. Und die Beschreibungen des Kraken las
(6 Bibliotheken, 0 Leser, 4 Rezensionen)

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Un Lon Dun

590 Seiten, Science-Fiction & Fantasy: london, smog, fantasy, regenschirm, unlondon
Zwei Londoner Mädchen gelangen auf mysteriöse Weise in Londons Vis-a-Vis-Stadt: Un Lon Dun. Seltsame Gestalten leben hier, Dinge die in London zum Müll gehörten, sind hier auf wundersame Weise zum Leben erwacht. Während die Beiden noch staunend ihre Umgeb
(22 Bibliotheken, 3 Leser, 6 Rezensionen)

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Embassytown. Stadt der Fremden, englische Ausgabe

404 Seiten, Science-Fiction/Fantasy:
Viel ist es, das der Autor preisgegeben hat: "Science fiction, aliens and spaceships, but I don't want to give give too much away!" Und so wissen wir: Dieser Titel ist mehr Sci-Fi als die Vorgängertitel.
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Perdido Street Station / Die Falter

557 Seiten, Science-Fiction/Fantasy: science fiction, steampunk, fantasy, kepri, new crobuzon
Eingereicht von drwatson32: New Crobuzon - ein schwärender, stinkender Moloch von einer Stadt, ein Schmelztiegel aller möglichen menschlichen und andersartigen Kulturen. Beherrscht von einem korrupten Parlament, unterdrückt von einer gesichtslosen, brutal
(28 Bibliotheken, 1 Leser, 3 Rezensionen)

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Perdido Street Station

fantasy, mutanten, steampunk, science-fiction
When Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful," she could have been talking about China Miéville's Perdido Street Station. The novel's publication met with a burst of extravagant praise from Big Name Authors and was almost instantly a multiaward finalist. You expect hyperbole in blurbs; and sometimes unworthy books win awards, so nominations don't necessarily mean much. But Perdido Street Station deserves the acclaim. It's ambitious and brilliant and--rarity of rarities--sui generis. Its clearest influences are Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy and M. John Harrison's Viriconium books, but it isn't much like them. It's Dickensian in scope, but fast-paced and modern. It's a love song for cities, and it packs a world into its strange, sprawling, steam-punky city of New Crobuzon. It can be read with equal validity as fantasy, science fiction, horror, or slipstream. It's got love, loss, crime, sex, riots, mad scientists, drugs, art, corruption, demons, dreams, obsession, magic, aliens, subversion, torture, dirigibles, romantic outlaws, artificial intelligence, and dangerous cults. Generous, gaudy, grand, grotesque, gigantic, grim, grimy, and glorious, Perdito Street Station is a bloody fascinating book. It's also so massive that you may begin to feel you're getting too much of a good thing; just slow down and enjoy. Yes, but what is Perdido Street Station about? To oversimplify: the eccentric scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is hired to restore the power of flight to a cruelly de-winged birdman. Isaac's secret lover is Lin, an artist of the khepri, a humano-insectoid race; theirs is a forbidden relationship. Lin is hired (rather against her will) by a mysterious crime boss to capture his horrifying likeness in the unique khepri art form. Isaac's quest for flying things to study leads to verification of his controversial unified theory of the strange sciences of his world. It also brings him an odd, unknown grub stolen from a secret government experiment so perilous it is sold to a ruthless drug lord--the same crime boss who hired Lin. The grub emerges from its cocoon, becomes an extraordinarily dangerous monster, and escapes Isaac's lab to ravage New Crobuzon, even as his discovery becomes known to a hidden, powerful, and sinister intelligence. Lin disappears and Isaac finds himself pursued by the monster, the drug lord, the government and armies of New Crobuzon, and other, more bizarre factions, not all confined to his world. --Cynthia Ward Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none—not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory. Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger. While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger—and more consuming—by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon—and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes . . . A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader's imagination. From the Trade Paperback edition. Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none -- not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory.Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger -- and more consuming -- by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon -- and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes...A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader's imagination.<hr>"[A] phantasmagoric masterpiece... The book left me breathless with admiration."    <A HREF="/author.cgi/1143">BRIAN STABLEFORD</A>"China Miéville's cool style has conjured up a triumphantly macabre technoslip metropolis with a unique atmosphere of horror and fascination."    <A HREF="/author.cgi/1215">PETER HAMILTON</A>"It is the best steampunk novel since Gibson and Sterling's."    JOHN CLUTE"Ambitious, beautifully written, enormously imaginative, engrossing... A complex fable that blends several genres -- fantasy, horror, gothic, science fiction, and social protest with believable, interesting, and utterly weird, fantastic creature-characters... I could feel my imagination stretched and tweaked by the haunting narrative -- redolent of dreams, nightmares, intuitive whisperings, visions, and tastes of the unconscious.... With its inventive plot, fascinating characters, evocative language, and underlying themes of coexistence among very different beings, economics and politics, crime and punishment, computer consciousness, science and art, Perdido Street Station is in the end both complex and satisfying. And China Miéville is an author to read both for fun and for quite serious amusement."    THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER"Revolutionary in the sheer bravura range of its invention... This is the point in the review where prefabricated accolades like 'this novel heralds a promising new voice on the fantasy horizon' are usually offered up. To hell with that. Miéville isn't on the horizon, he's roared to the center of the map, kicked ass, taken names, and jumped straight to the top of the heap."    THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION"With his new novel, the gargantuan, intricate, and thoroughly grounded Perdido Street Station, China Miéville moves effortlessly into
(21 Bibliotheken, 1 Leser, 0 Rezensionen)

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König Ratte

462 Seiten, Science-Fiction & Fantasy: london, fantasy, ratten, natasha, england
“König Ratte” habe ich auf einem Wühltisch gefunden. Das hat mich erstaunt, denn China Miéville ist ein herausragender Autor, dessen Bücher sich zumindest im englischsprachigen Raum sehr gut verkaufen. Doch vielleicht liegt es ganz einfach am Alter des Bu
(19 Bibliotheken, 0 Leser, 2 Rezensionen)

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Perdido Street Station / Der Weber

557 Seiten, Science-Fiction/Fantasy: science fiction, kepri, fantasy, new crobuzon, steampunk
Zweiter Teil der Perdido Street in der alles zerfällt und die Träume ausgeträumt sind. Noch spannnender und brutaler als der erste Teil!
(17 Bibliotheken, 0 Leser, 2 Rezensionen)

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Die Stadt und die Stadt

416 Seiten, Science-Fiction & Fantasy:
Jeder von uns kennt das: Vom letzten Umzug ist diese eine Kiste stehen geblieben, und während wir anfangs noch drüber stolpern, uns ärgern und uns vornehmen, sie wegzuräumen, umgehen wir sie nach ein paar Wochen automatisch und elegant, im Bemühen, uns au
(9 Bibliotheken, 0 Leser, 2 Rezensionen)

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Die Narbe

525 Seiten, Science-Fiction & Fantasy: science fiction, fantasy, schöne sprache, fremde welten, bas-lag
Bellis Schneewein muss aus der Metropole New Crobuzon fliehen. Sie nimmt die erste Passage auf einem Schiff, nimmt einen Job als Übersetzerin an. Doch das Schiff voll mit gepreßten Remaden (Menschen mit künstlichen Veränderungen, die biologischer oder mas
(11 Bibliotheken, 0 Leser, 2 Rezensionen)

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Der eiserne Rat

683 Seiten, Science-Fiction & Fantasy: science fiction, fantasy, bas-lag, steampunk
Episch. Breit wie tief. Und fesselnd. Anders kann man es nicht bezeichnen, dieses fast 700seitige Steampunk-Werk , in dem uns der Autor nach seinem Kultroman „Perdido Street Station“ erneut auf den Kontinent Bas-Lag und in dessen Hauptstadt New Crobuzon e
(11 Bibliotheken, 0 Leser, 2 Rezensionen)

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Leviathan

476 Seiten, Science-Fiction & Fantasy: science fiction, fantasy, schöne sprache, steampunk, bas-lag
Im zweiten Teil des Buches nimmt die Reise der schwimmenden Stadt rasante Züge an. Der Avanc wird über das Meer getrieben gehalten von Kilometer und Tonnen von Zügeln, die an Armada geschmiedet sind. Sie wollen zur Narbe, einen Riss im Raum-Zeitgefüge, d
(11 Bibliotheken, 0 Leser, 2 Rezensionen)

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Kraken

481 Seiten, Science-Fiction/Fantasy: englisch
China Miéville ist der Shooting-Star der internationalen Fantasy-Szene. Allerdings weisen seine Romane auch Elemente anderer Genres wie dem Science Fiction, dem Steampunk und der Horrorliteratur auf. Er selbst bezeichnet sie als "Weird Fiction". Mit einigen seiner Werke hat er Preise wie den renommierten "Arthur C. Clarke Award" gewonnen. Nach "The City&the City" ist "Kraken" sein neuer Roman.
(2 Bibliotheken, 1 Leser, 0 Rezensionen)

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Andere Himmel

347 Seiten, Science-Fiction & Fantasy: fantasy, short stories, science fiction
Eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten. Miéville erschafft intensive, fantasiereiche Erzählungen und sprengt damit die Grenzen der Phantastik. Hier geht es um Fenster die in eine andere Welt blicken, ein London das von ungesehenen Monstern bevölkert wird, eine
(8 Bibliotheken, 0 Leser, 1 Rezension)

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Iron Council

613 Seiten, bas lag, diktatur, spionage, krieg, magie
§ Eine Welle von Revolten, Konflikten und Intrigen zerreißt New Crobuzon. Die Gewalt auf den Straßen wächst stetig und verzweifelt verlässt eine Gruppe Aufständischer die Stadt, um nach der Legende der Letzten Hoffnung zu suchen.
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The City & The City

500 Seiten, Science-Fiction/Fantasy: weird, osteuropa, philosophie, soziologie, fantasy
Es kommt nicht oft vor, dass Autoren das definierende Werk eines ganzes Genres schreiben - wesentlich weniger oft, als dass es von ihnen behauptet wird. Ein Grund dafür ist sicher, dass so ein Urroman natürlich am Anfang der Historie eines Genres liegt. W
(1 Bibliothek, 0 Leser, 1 Rezension)

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Spiegel

Science-Fiction/Fantasy:
Eine der bekanntesten, kürzeren Geeschichten von Miéville. Eine Welt die durch die Spiegelwelt bedroht und beinahe besiegt scheint. Ein Einzelgänger sammelt Informationen und weiht den Leser in sein Wissen ein. Eine beklemmde Geschichte und in dieser Edit
(1 Bibliothek, 0 Leser, 1 Rezension)

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Moloch

430 Seiten, Science-Fiction/Fantasy: science fiction, kurzgeschichten, fantasy
Fühlst du dich wohl in deiner Stadt? Falls ja, denk noch einmal gründlich nach ... In MOLOCH rankt sich alles um das fantastische Potenzial der Großstadt: ob im verfallenen London China Mievilles oder der beunruhigenden Hightech-Zukunftsvision von Geoff Ryman. An anderer Stelle ist den Bewohnern von Paul di Filippos Stadt Himmel und Hölle auf den Fersen, und Michael Moorcock entführt uns auf die unsicheren Straßen einer Zukunft, die auf den Trümmern des 11. September errichtet ist. In diesem Band sind vier längere Erzählungen der angesehensten Autoren des SF-und Fantasy-Genres vereint.
(8 Bibliotheken, 0 Leser, 0 Rezensionen)

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The Scar

Science-Fiction & Fantasy:
In the third book in an astounding, genre-breaking run, China Miéville expands the horizon beyond the boundaries of New Crobuzon, setting sail on the high seas of his ever-growing world of Bas Lag. The Scar begins with Miéville's frantic heroine, Bellis Coldwine, fleeing her beloved New Crobuzon in the peripheral wake of events relayed in Perdidio Street Station. But her voyage to the colony of Nova Esperium is cut short when she is shanghaied and stranded on Armada, a legendary floating pirate city. Bellis becomes the reader's unbelieving eyes as she reluctantly learns to live on the gargantuan flotilla of stolen ships populated by a rabble of pirates, mercenaries, and press-ganged refugees. Meanwhile, Armada and Bellis's future is skippered by the "Lovers," an enigmatic couple whose mirror-image scarring belies the twisted depth of their passion. To give up any more of Miéville's masterful plot here would only ruin the voyage through dangerous straits, political uprisings, watery nightmares, mutinous revenge, monstrous power plays, and grand aspirations. Miéville's skill in articulating brilliantly macabre and involving descriptions is paralleled only by his ability to set up world-moving plot twists that continually blow away the reader's expectations. Man-made mutations, amphibious aliens, transdimensional beings, human mosquitoes, and even vampires are merely neighbors, coworkers, friends, and enemies coexisting in the dizzying tapestry of diversity that is Armada. The Scar proves Miéville has the muscle and talent to become a defining force as he effortlessly transcends the usual clichés of the genre. --Jeremy Pugh 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, Perdido Street Station, this latest epic introduces a whole new cast of intriguing characters and dazzling creations. Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city. Among them is Bellis Coldwine, a renowned linguist whose services as an interpreter grant her passage—and escape from horrific punishment. For she is linked to Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, the brilliant renegade scientist who has unwittingly unleashed a nightmare upon New Crobuzon. For Bellis, the plan is clear: live among the new frontiersmen of the colony until it is safe to return home. But when the ship is besieged by pirates on the Swollen Ocean, the senior officers are summarily executed. The surviving passengers are brought to Armada, a city constructed from the hulls of pirated ships, a floating, landless mass ruled by the bizarre duality called the Lovers. On Armada, everyone is given work, and even Remades live as equals to humans, Cactae, and Cray. Yet no one may ever leave. Lonely and embittered in her captivity, Bellis knows that to show dissent is a death sentence. Instead, she must furtively seek information about Armada’s agenda. The answer lies in the dark, amorphous shapes that float undetected miles below the waters—terrifying entities with a singular, chilling mission. . . . China Miéville is a writer for a new era—and The Scar is a luminous, brilliantly imagined novel that is nothing short of spectacular. From the Trade Paperback edition. Nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy AwardA mythmaker of the highest order, China MiÃƒÂ©ville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sprawling world of MiÃƒÂ©ville's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, Perdido Street Station, this latest epic introduces a whole new cast of intriguing characters and dazzling creations.Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of New Crobuzon. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city. Among them is Bellis Coldwine, a renowned linguist whose services as an interpreter grant her passage -- and escape from horrific punishment. For she is linked to Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, the brilliant renegade scientist who has unwittingly unleashed a nightmare upon New Crobuzon.For Bellis, the plan is clear: live among the new frontiersmen of the colony until it is safe to return home. But when the ship is besieged by pirates on the Swollen Ocean, the senior officers are summarily executed. The surviving passengers are brought to Armada, a city constructed from the hulls of pirated ships, a floating, landless mass ruled by the bizarre duality called the Lovers. On Armada, everyone is given work, and even Remades live as equals to humans, Cactae, and Cray. Yet no one may ever leave.Lonely and embittered in her captivity, Bellis knows that to show dissent is a death sentence. Instead, she must furtively seek information about Armada's agenda. The answer lies in the dark, amorphous shapes that float undetected miles below the waters -- terrifying entities with a singular, chilling mission. . . .China MiÃƒÂ©ville is a writer for a new era -- and The Scar is a luminous, brilliantly imagined novel that is nothing short of spectacular.
(4 Bibliotheken, 0 Leser, 0 Rezensionen)

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Un Lun Dun

Science-Fiction & Fantasy: zanna, smog, fantasie, fantasy, deeba
What is Un Lun Dun? It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the lost and broken things of London end up . . . and some of its lost and broken people, too–including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas; Obaday Fing, a tailor whose head is an enormous pin-cushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle. Un Lun Dun is a place where words are alive, a jungle lurks behind the door of an ordinary house, carnivorous giraffes stalk the streets, and a dark cloud dreams of burning the world. It is a city awaiting its hero, whose coming was prophesied long ago, set down for all time in the pages of a talking book. When twelve-year-old Zanna and her friend Deeba find a secret entrance leading out of London and into this strange city, it seems that the ancient prophecy is coming true at last. But then things begin to go shockingly wrong.
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Geschlecht:	männlich
Geboren am:	05.09.1972
Geburtsort:	Großbritannien, Norwich
Genres:	Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Kinder- & Jugendbuch, Sach- & Fachbuch

China Miéville

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