Iron Council
Title | Iron Council |
Year for Search | 2004 |
Authors | Miéville, China [Tom](b. 1972) |
Date Published | 2004 |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | English author, Male author |
Annotation | Set in New Crobuzon, the city that plays a role in both 2000 and 2002 Miéville but set earlier than in those novels. Iron Council is a train that is a socialist society constantly moving, picking up the track behind it and laying it in front to go wherever the inhabitants choose. The leaders of New Crobuzon are set on destroying it, and various threads of the novel following characters involved on both sides. See also 2005 Miéville. |
Author Note | (b. 1972) |
Full Text | 2004 Miéville, China [Tom] (b. 1972). Iron Council. New York: Ballantine Books. Set in New Crobuzon, the city that plays a role in both 2000 and 2002 Miéville but set earlier than in those novels. Iron Council is a train that is a socialist society constantly moving, picking up the track behind it and laying it in front to go wherever the inhabitants choose. The leaders of New Crobuzon are set on destroying it, and various threads of the novel following characters involved on both sides. See also 2005 Miéville. |