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Three moments of an explosion : stories / China Miéville.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Del Rey, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 382 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 110188472X
  • 9781101884720
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Three moments of an explosion -- Polynia -- The condition of new death -- The dowager of bees -- In the slopes -- 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 to the birds -- A mount -- The design.
Summary: A provocative new collection of short stories by the New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author of Kraken explores a range of styles and forms to explore an alternate universe where nature provocatively renders the human race an endangered species.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Mieville China Available 33111008041093
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST  AND THE GUARDIAN * The fiction of multiple award-winning author China Miéville is powered by intelligence and imagination. Like George Saunders, Karen Russell, and David Mitchell, he pulls from a variety of genres with equal facility, employing the fantastic not to escape from reality but instead to interrogate it in provocative, unexpected ways.
 
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-- Three Moments of an Explosion is a fitting showcase for one of literature's most original voices.

Praise for Three Moments of an Explosion
 
"Even when he is orbiting somewhere in a galaxy too far away for normal human comprehension, the genre-subverting English novelist China Miéville is dazzling. His latest collection of short stories, Three Moments of an Explosion, crowds virtuosity into every sentence. . . . There are things to admire in every story, even the ones you can't quite grasp. The book left me feeling unsettled, uneasy, nervous, and I think that is Mr. Miéville's point. He wants to draw attention to the scratching under the floorboards, the panic in our heads, the rebellion of nature and inanimate objects. As he says, 'These days there are so many odd and troubling noises in the city.'" --Sarah Lyall, The New York Times
 
"You can't talk about Miéville without using the word 'brilliant.' . . . His wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing. . . . My favourite of all these tales is 'The Rules,' two and a half pages long. Read it. You won't regret it, or forget it."-- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian (U.K.)
 
" Three Moments of an Explosion is a book filled with fabulous oddities." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Horror, noir, fantasy, politics, and poetry swirl into combinations as satisfying intellectually as they are emotionally. . . . Bradbury meets Borges, with Lovecraft gibbering tumultuously just out of hearing." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
 
"Miéville moves effortlessly among realism, fantasy, and surrealism in this dark, sometimes horrific short story collection. . . . His characters, whether ordinary witnesses to extraordinary events or lunatics operating out of inexplicable compulsions, are invariably well drawn and compelling. Above all, what the stories have in common is a sense that the world is not just strange, but stranger than we can ever really comprehend." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Three moments of an explosion -- Polynia -- The condition of new death -- The dowager of bees -- In the slopes -- 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 to the birds -- A mount -- The design.

A provocative new collection of short stories by the New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author of Kraken explores a range of styles and forms to explore an alternate universe where nature provocatively renders the human race an endangered species.

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