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Railsea

"Other names besides [Herman] Melville's will surely come to mind as you read this thrilling tale -- there's Dune's Frank Herbert. . . . But in this, as in all of his works, Miéville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own." -- Los Angeles Times O...

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Main Author: Miéville, China
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Language:English
Published: 2012.
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Imaginary places > Young adult fiction.
Fantasy fiction > Young adult.
Suspense fiction.
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Summary:"Other names besides [Herman] Melville's will surely come to mind as you read this thrilling tale -- there's Dune's Frank Herbert. . . . But in this, as in all of his works, Miéville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own." -- Los Angeles Times 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 & the other's glory. Spectacular as it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than the endless rails of the railsea -- even if his captain thinks only of hunting the ivory-colored mole that took her arm years ago. But when they come across a wrecked train, Sham finds something -- a series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be impossible -- that leads to considerably more than he'd bargained for. Soon he's hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters & salvage-scrabblers. & it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[Miéville] gives all readers a lot to dig into here, be it emotional drama, Godzilla-esque monster carnage, or the high adventure that comes only with riding the rails." -- USA Today "Superb . . . massively imaginative." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Riveting . . . a great adventure." -- NPR "Wildly inventive . . . Every sentence is packed with wit." -- The Guardian (London)
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ISBN:9780345524546
Author Notes:China Miéville is the author of several books, including Un Lun Dun, Perdido Street Station, The City & The City, Kraken, & Embassytown . His works have won the Hugo, the British Science Fiction Award (twice), the Arthur C. Clarke Award (three times) & the World Fantasy Award. He lives & works in London.

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