Iron Council

It is a time of revolts and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming metropolis to the brink. In the midst of this turmoil, a mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places. In desperation, a small group of renegades escapes from the city and crosses strange and alien continents in the search for a lost hope, an undying legend. In the blood and violence of New Crobuzon's most dangerous hour, there are whispers. It is the time of the Iron Council.


Genre: Science Fiction

"New Crobuzon, a great boiling metropolis in the heart of the world of Bas-Lag, is, in the end, an astonishing creation." - John Clute

"A writer with a rare descriptive gift, an unusually observant eye for physical detail, for the sensuality and beauty of the ordinarily human as well as the thoroughly alien...utterly absorbing." - Michael Moorcock

"China Mieville is bona-fide wizard, a powerful hybrid strain of magician, scientist and poet...it doesn't come any better than this." - Tricia Sullivan