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Three moments of an explosion : stories / China Miéville.

by Miéville, China

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Del Rey, c2015.

382 p. ; 25 cm.

Three moments of an explosion -- Polynia -- The condition of new death -- The dowager of bees -- In the slops -- The crawl -- Watching God -- The 9th technique -- The rope is the world -- The buzzard's egg -- Säcken -- Syllabus -- Dreaded outcome -- After the festival -- The dusty hat -- Escapee -- The bastard prompt -- Rules -- Estate -- Keep -- A second slice manifesto -- Covehithe -- The junket -- Four final orpheuses -- The rabbet -- Listen the birds -- A mount -- The design.

London awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure but violent purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse's bones - designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what? Of such concepts and unforgettable images are made the twenty-eight stories in this collection - many published here for the first time. By turns speculative, satirical, and heart-wrenching, fresh in form and language, and featuring a cast of damaged yet hopeful seekers who come face-to-face with the deep weirdness of the world - and at times the deeper weirdness of themselves

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