China Miéville
Hardcover | Pages: 424 pages Rating: 3.89 | 11312 Users | 1535 Reviews
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| Title | : | Railsea |
| Author | : | China Miéville |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 424 pages |
| Published | : | May 15th 2012 by Del Rey |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Steampunk. Young Adult |
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On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one’s death and the other’s glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea–even if his captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-coloured mole she’s been chasing since it took her arm all those years ago. When they come across a wrecked train, at first it's a welcome distraction. But what Sham finds in the derelict—a series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be impossible—leads to considerably more than he'd bargained for. Soon he's hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters and salvage-scrabblers. And it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea.From China Miéville comes a novel for readers of all ages, a gripping and brilliantly imagined take on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick that confirms his status as "the most original and talented voice to appear in several years." (Science Fiction Chronicle)
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| Original Title: | Railsea |
| ISBN: | 0345524527 (ISBN13: 9780345524522) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book (2013), Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Nominee for Bestes ausländisches Werk (2016), John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee (2013), Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Roman étranger and Traduction (2017), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (Robert Holdstock Award) (2013) Andre Norton Award Nominee (2012) |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 11312 Users | 1535 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books Railsea
I generally like YA sci-fi/fantasy novels but I rarely consider them anything more than lite fun between big books and because of it I tend to be less critical towards them but every now and than one comes along that is good by any standard and reminds me to take this sub-genres seriously.Un Lun Dun,Half a king, Wizard of Earthsea (yes I do consider this book to be YA but not rest of the series), Graveyard book, Chaos Walking and now Railsea joins the group.If I had to label it this would be YALeave it to China Miéville to write a young adult novel and so obfuscate his intentions (via complex vocabulary, a tricky literary style, dense prose, measured pacing, a total lack of plot threads about which boy is cuter) that I've had more than one conversation with youth librarians here on Goodreads who swear up and down that this isn't a young adult book. My evidence is, of course, rather shaky at best: the publisher says so, and why should I complain, because that means the hardcover costs
Thank you, China Miéville. Thank you. Thank you! In the last week & a half, full of 14-hour work days, lack of sleep, physical & mental exhaustion & near-constant feeling of overwhelmed inadequacy CM provided me with the sanctuary of a few precious hours when none of that mattered, when I was completely under the spell of this weirdly fascinating, ridiculous but engrossing universe, when I felt that Miéville's boundless imagination has given me a safe haven where I could breathe
Once again, China Miéville delivers one of the most unique, imaginative worlds Ive ever spent time in. I sometimes wonder if this man is taking some sort of imagination supplements that the rest of us dont know about (Hallucinogenic drugs perhaps? Dreamshit?). How does he even come up with these things? I mean, I was pretty skeptical about giant moles as monsters, but he really sold it:"The mole rats shook off earth. Like hairless, wrinkled mammal newborn, swollen to dog-size, snapping dreadful
Thank you, China Miéville. Thank you. Thank you! In the last week & a half, full of 14-hour work days, lack of sleep, physical & mental exhaustion & near-constant feeling of overwhelmed inadequacy CM provided me with the sanctuary of a few precious hours when none of that mattered, when I was completely under the spell of this weirdly fascinating, ridiculous but engrossing universe, when I felt that Miéville's boundless imagination has given me a safe haven where I could breathe
Urged on by his guardian cousins, young Sham Yes ap Soorap gets apprenticed to a doctor on a moletrain, riding the Railsea in search of moldywarpe, giant moles hunted for food. Captain Naphi of the Medes, the train Sham sails aboard, is obsessed with Mocker Jack, the biggest moldywarpe of them all, & will do anything to find her prey...Remember that game you used to play when you were a kid, when the living room floor was either molten lava or shark-infested waters, & you had to leap
Imagine a world where islands of solid ground are surrounded by seas of shifting dirt, sand and ice, all of it infested with dangerous subterranean predators -- giant moles, ant lions and of course the dreaded naked mole rats. The only way across this earthen sea is a labyrinthine network of rails, built and maintained by mysterious beings called Angels. In the Railsea, men travel by train, and brave molers set sail to hunt the giant moldywarpe. Our hero, Sham ap Soorap, has just signed aboard
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