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In the Absence of Heroes

Railsea

Author: China Miéville

2014 Longlist

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. Spectacular as it is, Sham can’t shake the sense that there is more to life than the endless rails of the railsea-even if his captain thinks only of hunting the ivory-colored mole that took her arm years ago. But when they come across a wrecked train, Sham finds something-a series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be impossible-that 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.

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About the Author

China Miéville is the author of King Rat; Perdido Street Station, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award; The Scar, winner of the Locus Award and the British Fantasy Award; Iron Council, winner of the Locus Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award; Looking for Jake, a collection of short stories; and Un Lun Dun, his New York Times bestselling book for younger readers. He lives and works in London.

Librarian’s Comments

In this new book, China Mieville pays tribute to “Moby Dick”, The ship is a train, the sea is a sea of rails, and Captain Abacat is a woman.

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Author

China Miéville

Country

US

Nominating Library

Bibliothèque Municipale de Mulhouse, France

Publisher

Del Rey, USA

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