Railsea by China Miéville - Limited Signed Slipcased Edition

I just pre-ordered my copy of Limited Signed Slipcased Edition of Railsea by China Miéville and I'm very excited about it. "High expectations" anyone?

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I think only The Book Depository is running such a deal:

Railsea: Limited Signed Slipcased Edition

New Artwork Revealed for China Miéville

Last night, Pan Macmillan unveiled the full re-jacketed backlist of China’s books, to be published alongside his new novel, Embassytown, on 6th May 2011.

Crush Creative designed the covers and they look truly amazing! I can already see the fans wanting to own the entire catalogue.

They all look sublime but if I have to pick the best one, in my opinion, it would be the cover of Iron Council. What do you think?

Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Macmillan (6 May 2011)
ISBN-10: 0230750761
ISBN-13: 978-0230750760

Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe.

Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie.

Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak Language, and connect the two communities. But an unimaginable new arrival has come to Embassytown. And when this Ambassador speaks, everything changes.

Catastrophe looms. Avice knows the only hope is for her to speak directly to the alien Hosts.

And that is impossible.

Book Review: The City & The City by China Miéville

Title: The City & The City
Author: China Miéville
Hardcover: 312 pages
Publisher: Macmillan (UK) (15 May 2009)
ISBN-10: 1405000171
ISBN-13: 978-1405000178

When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Besźel, 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 begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlú must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984 , "The City & The City" is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.

Please find the rest of the review on Speculative Book Review...

Read an Extract from Kraken by China Miéville

Kraken is a book that I've been looking forward to and I'm hoping to read it soon.

In the meantime, I was glad to hear that an extract of the book, which looks like its first chapter is available on panmacmillan.com. Go and get a taste of what's to come!

Blurb

Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when the creature suddenly and impossibly disappears?

For curator Billy Harrow it's the start of a headlong pitch into a London of warring cults, surreal magic, apostates and assassins. It might just be that the creature he's been preserving is more than a biological rarity: there are those who are sure it's a god.

A god that someone is hoping will end the world.

3 Free E-Books From Suvudu including Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

I'm very impressed by some of the titles given away by Suvudu for free. This month, Suvudu Free Book Library displays China Miéville's Perdido Street Station among the 3 free e-books they have available in multiple formats:

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

Changelings by Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough


Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur