China Miéville
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China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and a spirited defense of the modern world's most influential political document.
Few written works can so confidently claim to have shaped the course of history as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Manifesto of the Communist Party. Since first rattling the gates of the ruling order in 1848, this incendiary pamphlet has never ceased providing fuel for...
2) Un Lun Dun
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Alondres es Londres a través del espejo, una ciudad a la que van a parar todas las cosas perdidas o rotas de Londres... y también algunas personas perdidas o rotas. En Alondres las palabras están vivas, una jungla se oculta dentro de una casa, jirafas carnívoras recorren las calles y una nube oscura y maligna sueña con incendiar el mundo. Es una ciudad sitiada que espera a su salvadora, cuya llegada se profetizó hace tiempo en las páginas de...
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Sube a bordo del Medos y embárcate en una aventura sin igual.
Sham viaja en el Medos, un tren que recorre los infinitos raíles que conforman el Mar de Hierro, en el que habitan numerosas criaturas monstruosas y se esconden terribles peligros.
En los escombros de un tren descarrilado, Sham encuentra unas fotos que lo pondrán sobre la pista de algo que, hasta entonces, creía imposible.
Pronto piratas, tripulaciones de trenes, monstruos y cazatesoros...
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1941, inmitten des vom Zweiten Weltkrieg bedrohten Marseilles, stolpert der amerikanische Ingenieur und Okkultist Jack Parsons in eine Widerstandsgruppe, zu der auch der surrealistische Dichter André Breton zählt. In dieser Résistance aus regimekritischen Diplomaten, exilierten Revolutionären und Avantgarde-Künstlern sieht Parsons einen Hoffnungsschimmer. Aber was er aus Versehen freisetzt, ist die Macht der Träume—und der Albträume—, die...
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Dial H volume 7
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What would happen if you discovered the H Dial, an unbelievably powerful artifact that turned you into a super hero? Nelson and Roxie are on the trail to unlock the mysteries of the H Dial while being stalked by the mysterious Centipede, who may have the answers they are looking for...and his own dark and deadly motivations. It will take every ounce of courage and luck for our unlikely heroes to discover secrets of the H Dials before their enemies...
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Hugo Award-winning novelist China Mieville breathes new life into a classic DC Comics series as part of the second wave of DC Comics - The New 52. In the small run-down town of Littleville, CO, a troubled young man stumbles upon the lost H-Dial and all of the secrets and power it possesses. It has been many years since the H-Dial has been seen, though legions of villains have been scouring the globe looking for it and its ability to transform users...
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"For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a stunning, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and bestselling author China Mieville. In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a profoundly traumatic event. He tries--and fails--to flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below,...
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"En febrero de 1917 Rusia era una monarquía atrasada y autocrática, enfangada en una guerra impopular; y en octubre, después de no una, sino dos revoluciones, se había convertido en el primer Estado de los Trabajadores, pugnando por colocarse en la vanguardia de la revolución global. ¿Cómo tuvo lugar esta inimaginable transformación?
En una visión panorámica, desde San Petersburgo y Moscú hasta las aldeas más remotas de un imperio inabarcable,...
10) Utopia
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Presents the English statesman's classic denunciations of sixteenth-century tyranny and corruption and vision of an ideal society, along with historical and biographical notes.
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Dial 4-3-7-6 to call on...Boy Chimney! Iron Snail! Human Virus! Shamanticore! Captain Lachrymose! Overweight, unemployed slacker Nelson Jent is not a hero. But with the twist of a dial, he can become one. A broken-down payphone down a forgotten alley holds the power to transform anyone with the right number into a host of different superheroes. And Nelson knows the number: 4-3-7-6. The number that spells HERO. Award-winning novelist China Miéville...
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Literary spins on the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres—from Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, China Miéville, and many more.
Over the past three decades, the most adventurous practitioners of the literary arts of science fiction, fantasy, and horror have been transforming those genres into something all but unrecognizable. In Conjunctions’ game-changing New Wave Fabulists...
Over the past three decades, the most adventurous practitioners of the literary arts of science fiction, fantasy, and horror have been transforming those genres into something all but unrecognizable. In Conjunctions’ game-changing New Wave Fabulists...
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A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins. Featuring Emily St John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado and more.
WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE FROM THE FIRE?
In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it? Digging through the layers of ruined cities beneath your feet, living in the bombed-out husk of a city, hiding...
WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE FROM THE FIRE?
In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it? Digging through the layers of ruined cities beneath your feet, living in the bombed-out husk of a city, hiding...
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Introduction by China Miéville
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition’s uncanny discoveries–and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a...
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition’s uncanny discoveries–and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a...
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In this extraordinary story, which will bend the mind as well as the senses, Inspector Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad investigates the murder of a student whose body is found on the rundown streets of Besźel. Cases like this are run of the mill for Borlú until he discovers evidence that the victim had been visiting Besźel's prosperous neighboring city, Ul Qoma. This shouldn't be possible as citizens of each city are forbidden from seeing...
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John Constantine Hellblazer volume 22
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"Confronting the demons of one's past should be familiar ground for John Constantine. But some vicious memories are so horrible and buried so deep that digging them up could leave no one to pick up the pieces. Dreams of what could be and the nightmares of what is clash in John Constantine's mind as he slips in and out of fevered consciousness while past and present collide. A journey through the darkness of his heart discovers fear, regret, and the...
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