When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, 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 multi-award winning The City & The City by China Miéville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, 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 multi-award winning The City & The City by China Miéville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
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Urban world-building, boundary-crossing speculative fiction, and dark atmospheric intrigue converge in the sprawling metropolis of New Crobuzon, first introduced in the novel Perdido Street Station. China Tom Miéville established his reputation as a leading exponent of the New Weird movement by blending fantasy, science fiction, and horror while deliberately moving speculative literature away from commercial genre clichés. His fiction challenges traditional boundaries by grounding strange, surreal worlds in complex social and political realities.
Born in Norwich on 6 September 1972, Miéville grew up in Willesden, London, raised by his mother. Before attending university, he spent a year working in Egypt and Zimbabwe. He entered Clare College, Cambridge, in 1991 to study Social Anthropology before going on to earn a PhD from the London School of Economics. His academic work in law and social theory deeply informed his non-fiction, which includes a publication on Marxism and international law as well as his history October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. Alongside his writing, Miéville has been active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party and ran for the House of Commons for the Socialist Alliance. He has taught creative writing as Associate Professor at Warwick University and held positions at Birkbeck, University of London, and Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Describing his work as "weird fiction" in the tradition of early twentieth-century pulp and horror writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Miéville builds dense fictional landscapes characterized by political conflict, urban geography, and linguistic experimentation. Works such as The City & The City feature dual-reality urban environments where political borders and psychological perception shape human behavior, while Embassytown examines alien semiotics and the power of language. His inventive approach to speculative fiction has earned him the Hugo, World Fantasy, Arthur C. Clarke, and British Science Fiction awards, along with fellowships from the Royal Society of Literature and the Guggenheim Foundation.
8 books in catalog
Urban world-building, boundary-crossing speculative fiction, and dark atmospheric intrigue converge in the sprawling metropolis of New Crobuzon, first introduced in the novel Perdido Street Station. China Tom Miéville established his reputation as a leading exponent of the New Weird movement by blending fantasy, science fiction, and horror while deliberately moving speculative literature away from commercial genre clichés. His fiction challenges traditional boundaries by grounding strange, surreal worlds in complex social and political realities.
Born in Norwich on 6 September 1972, Miéville grew up in Willesden, London, raised by his mother. Before attending university, he spent a year working in Egypt and Zimbabwe. He entered Clare College, Cambridge, in 1991 to study Social Anthropology before going on to earn a PhD from the London School of Economics. His academic work in law and social theory deeply informed his non-fiction, which includes a publication on Marxism and international law as well as his history October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. Alongside his writing, Miéville has been active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party and ran for the House of Commons for the Socialist Alliance. He has taught creative writing as Associate Professor at Warwick University and held positions at Birkbeck, University of London, and Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Describing his work as "weird fiction" in the tradition of early twentieth-century pulp and horror writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Miéville builds dense fictional landscapes characterized by political conflict, urban geography, and linguistic experimentation. Works such as The City & The City feature dual-reality urban environments where political borders and psychological perception shape human behavior, while Embassytown examines alien semiotics and the power of language. His inventive approach to speculative fiction has earned him the Hugo, World Fantasy, Arthur C. Clarke, and British Science Fiction awards, along with fellowships from the Royal Society of Literature and the Guggenheim Foundation.
