Jonathan Strahan. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $19.99 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-59780-345-8
Strahan’s sixth annual genre-spanning anthology lacks the clarity (or perhaps narrowness) of purpose of a series focusing solely on fantasy or SF, but the 31 selections demonstrate a knowledge of and affection for the fantastic that rival editors...
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China Mi%C3%A9ville. Del Rey, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-52449-2
Miéville (Kraken) adds to the sparse canon of linguistic SF with this deeply detailed story of the ways an alien language might affect not only thought patterns but ways of life. Avice Benner Cho returns to her backwater colony home of Embassytown...
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China Miéville. Verso, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-78478-277-1
Miéville (The Last Days of New Paris) marks the centenary of Russia’s dual 1917 revolutions with this vivid and insightful study of the journey from the February Revolution, which “dispensed breakneck with a half-millennium of autocratic rule,” to...
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China Miéville. Del Rey, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-345-54399-8
Miéville (This Census-Taker) takes on the surrealists in this gritty and erudite fantasy. In 1941, a surrealist bomb exploded in Nazi-occupied Paris, unleashing thousands of manifs—physical manifestations of images taken from surrealist paintings....
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China Miéville. Del Rey, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-1-101-96732-4
New Weird exemplar Miéville (Three Moments of an Explosion) evokes fantasy from the emotional currents of daily life, eradicating differences between self and other and between reality and dream. An anonymous narrator, who’s currently a prisoner but
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China Miéville. Del Rey, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-1-101-88472-0
Award winner Miéville (Embassytown) moves effortlessly among realism, fantasy, and surrealism in this dark, sometimes horrific short story collection. Highlights include “Polynia,” in which icebergs begin appearing in the sky over London, floating...
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China Miéville. Del Rey, $18 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-52452-2
Miéville (Un Lun Dun) returns to YA fiction with a superb, swashbuckling tale of adventure on the railsea, a vast prairie densely crisscrossed by train tracks: “Tracks & ties, in the random meanders of geography & ages, in all directions. Extending...
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China Mieville, Author . Del Rey $18.95 (656p) ISBN 978-0-345-44438-7
In this stand-alone novel set in the same monster-haunted universe as last year's much-praised Perdido Street Station, British author Miéville, one of the most talented new writers in the field, takes us on a gripping hunt to capture a...
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China Mieville, Author Tor Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-89073-5
In the past decade, contemporary renderings of traditional fairy tales have become a staple of fantasy fiction. This flashy riff on the Pied Piper theme marks a notable extension of the trend and an auspicious debut for its author. Saul Garamond is...
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China Mieville, Author Del Rey Books $18.95 (720p) ISBN 978-0-345-44302-1
King Rat (1999), Mi ville's much-praised first novel of urban fantasy/horror, was just a palate-teaser for this appetizing, if extravagant, stew of genre themes. Its setting, New Crobuzon, is an audaciously imagined milieu: a city with the...
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China Miéville, Del Rey, $26 (514p) ISBN 9780-345-49749-9
British fantasist Miéville mashes up cop drama, cults, popular culture, magic, and gods in a Lovecraftian New Weird caper sure to delight fans of Perdido Street Station and The City & the City. When a nine-meter-long dead squid is stolen, tank and...
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China Mieville, Author . Del Rey $26 (312p) ISBN 978-0-345-49751-2
Better known for New Weird fantasies (Perdido Street Station
, etc.), bestseller Miéville offers an outstanding take on police procedurals with this barely speculative novel. Twin southern European cities Beszel and Ul Qoma coexist in the...
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China Mieville, Author . Ballantine $17.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-345-49516-7
Miéville (King Rat
) presents a remarkable bit of world-building. London teenager Zanna (short for Susanna) starts to experience odd occurrences: clouds that resemble her, strangers who call her the "Shwazzy," and graffiti that reads &
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China Mieville, Author . Del Rey $14.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-47607-4
London is a dangerous and demon-haunted place, at least for the characters in the dark, finely crafted tales presented in Miéville's first story collection. Miéville, who has won Arthur C. Clarke, British Science Fiction and...
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China Mieville, Author . Del Rey $24.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-345-46402-6
In this stunning new novel set mainly in the decadent and magical city of New Crobuzon, British author Miéville (The Scar
) charts the course of a proletarian revolution like no other. The capitalists of New Crobuzon are pushing hard. More...
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China Miéville, Mateus Santolouco et al. DC Comics, $14.99 ISBN 978-1-4012-3775-2
In noted SF author Miéville’s much-ballyhooed relaunch of the Silver Age classic Dial H for Hero, a pudgy telecom engineer named Nelson discovers a telephone booth where each time he dials a number he is transformed into a different superhero. One...
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China Miéville, illus. by Zak Smith. Black Sheep, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-61775-486-9
Miéville (Railsea) lets it rip in this stomping, howling rant about a bad meal of legendary proportions. “You can’t have forgotten the worst breakfast!” cries the older of two dark-skinned sisters sitting at the kitchen table. “The toast was burnt!...
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