Audiobooks by China Miéville

"Brought to you by Penguin. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A mind-blowing epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books. The prologue is read by Keanu Reeves. She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods. There have always been whispers. Legends. The warrior who cannot be killed. Who’s seen a thousand civilizations rise and fall. He has had many names: Unute, Child of Lightning, Death himself. These days, he’s known simply as “B.” And he wants to be able to die. In the present day, a U.S. black-ops group has promised him they can help with that. And all he needs to do is help them in return. But when an all-too-mortal soldier comes back to life, the impossible event ultimately points toward a force even more mysterious than B himself. One at least as strong. And one with a plan all its own. In a collaboration that combines Miéville’s singular style and creativity with Reeves’s haunting and soul-stirring narrative, these two inimitable artists have created something utterly unique, sure to delight existing fans and to create scores of new ones. ‘What an extraordinary book! China Miéville’s brilliance as a writer combined with Keanu Reeves’s quite magnificently wild imagination make for a compulsive read. Unlike anything else. Boom!’ Stephen Fry ‘A rattlingly good read . . . has much in common with Reeves' best film roles.’ Sunday Times ‘A pulpy, adrenaline-fueled thriller, but it’s also a moody, experimental novel about mortality, the slippery nature of time and what it means to be human.’ New York Times © Keanu Reeves, China Miéville 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024"

China Miéville, Keanu Reeves (Author), Allan Corduner, Asia Kate Dillon, China Miéville, Edoardo Ballerini, Joshua Manning, Keanu Reeves, Lily Rabe, Michiel Huisman (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - La estación de la calle Perdido (Bas-Lag 1)

"La estación de la calle Perdido es el aclamado thriller fantástico con que China Miéville dio inicio a su mítica trilogía «Bas-Lag», a la que le seguirán La cicatriz y El Consejo de Hierro. La metrópoli de Nueva Crobuzon se extiende en el centro de su desconcertante mundo. Los seres humanos, los mutantes y las razas arcanas se apiñan en la penumbra, bajo sus chimeneas; los ríos fluyen, viscosos, y las fábricas y las fundiciones martillan la noche. Durante más de mil años, el Parlamente y su brutal milicia han gobernado a una amplia gama de obreros, artistas, espías, magos, adictos y prostitutas. Ahora, al llegar un extraño con los bolsillos llenos y una demanda inalcanzable, algo impensable se libera. De pronto, la ciudad se ve atrapada por el terror, y el destino de millones de personas depende de un grupo de marginados que huyen de los legisladores y los delincuentes. El paisaje urbano se convierte en un campo de caza, las batallas se libran en las sombras de edificios extraños... y ya es tarde para escapar. Galardonado con el Premio Arthur C. Clarke de 2001 y el Ignotus de 2002. Con esta trilogía, Miéville empezó a fascinar a escritores, medios y lectores de cualquier género. Hoy es considerado uno de los mayores nombres de las letras anglosajonas del siglo XXI. La crítica ha dicho de este libro... «La estación de la calle Perdido transporta al lector, a lo largo de más de ochocientas páginas rebosantes de imaginación, a Nueva Corbuzon, una metrópoli bulliciosa y brutalmente estratificada: un Parlamento compuesto por miembros de las elites, y sostenido por la fuerza militar, rige los destinos de una población marginal, ingente y prácticamente paria, de drogodependientes, prostitutas, artesanos y delincuentes. Sin ser del todo un libro steampunk, La estación de la calle Perdido tiene algo de parábola victoriana, de versión sci-fi de Oliver Twist en la manera de describir la suciedad y la miseria en las calles. A lo que Miéville añadía un ingrediente más: la xenofobia.» El Mundo «China Miéville se coloca sin esfuerzo en la primera división de aquellos que usan herramientas y armamento de la fantasía para definir y crear la literatura del siglo XXI.» Neil Gaiman «El inicio de una trilogía que mezcla de forma magistral steampunk, ciberpunk y urban fantasy. Bas-Lag es ya un clásico de fantasía.» Antonio Torrubia, Libreriía Gigamesh"

China Miéville (Author), Francesc Belda (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - La ciudad y la ciudad

"La mítica novela en que se basa la nueva serie homónima de la BBC. Por una de las mayores voces de las letras anglosajonas del siglo XXI. Galardonada con los premios Hugo, World Fantasy, BSFA, Locus y Arthur C. Clarke. Originalmente publicada en 2009, La ciudad y la ciudad es la obra maestra que ha convertido a China Miéville en una de las mayores voces de las letras anglosajonas actuales en cualquier género, admirado por escritores de la talla de Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Neil Gaiman y Ursula K. Le Guin. Bienvenidos a la historia de dos ciudades gemelas, invisibles la una para la otra, cuyos destinos se entrelazan por el asesinato de la joven Mahalia Geary, hallada muerta y con la cara desfigurada en la ciudad de Beszel. Durante la investigación del crimen, el inspector Borlú seguirá las piras desde Beszel hasta la idéntica ciudad vecina, UI Qoma. Allí descubrirá la participación de la joven en una conspiración política y se verá rodeado de nacionalistas, que intentan destruir la ciudad gemela, y de unificacionistas, que sueñan con convertir las dos ciudades en una. Las verdades que el detective descubrirá sobre la separación de ambas urbes podrían constarle la vida. China Miéville mezcla lo mejor de la ciencia ficción, la novela negra y el drama policial en una obra que rompe las costuras de tres géneros para convertirse en una obra de lectura absolutamente inolvidable. La crítica ha dicho... «Miéville no pertenece a la familia de los ingenieros de la ciencia ficción, sino a la de sus poetas.» Babelia «Ficción para el nuevo siglo.» Neil Gaiman «Si Philip K. Dick y Raymond Chandler tuvieran un hijo criado por Franz Kafka, escribiría algo parecido a La ciudad y la ciudad .» Los Angeles Times"

China Miéville (Author), Francesc Belda (Narrator)

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A Spectre, Haunting

"In 1848, THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO was published by two émigrés from Germany. Marx and Engels' apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of the world reduces every relationship to that of profit, and burst asunder the old forms of production and of politics. It is still a recognisable picture of our world – the vampiric energy of the system being once again highly contentious. The Manifesto is a text that shows no sign of fading into antiquarian obscurity. Its ideas animate in different ways the work of writers like Yanis Varoufakis, Adam Tooze, Naomi Klein and the journalist Owen Jones. China Mieville is not a writer who has been hemmed in by conventional notions of expertise or genre, and this is a strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today."

China Miéville (Author), China Miéville (Narrator)

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A Spectre, Haunting

China Miéville (Author), China Miéville (Narrator)

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Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology

"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 This anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction asks: 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? Out of the Ruins features stories from China Miéville, Emily St. John Mandel, Clive Barker, Carmen Maria Machado, Charlie Jane Anders, Samuel R. Delaney, Ramsey Campbell, Lavie Tidhar, Kaaron Warrern, Anna Tambour, Nina Allan, Jeffrey Thomas, Paul Di Filippo, Ron Drummond, Nikhil Singh, John Skipp, Autumn Christian, Chris Kelso, Rumi Kaneko, Nick Mamatas, and D.R.G. Sugawara."

Carmen Maria Machado, Charlie Jane Anders, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Emily St. John Mandel, Preston Grassmann, Ramsey Campbell (Author), Alex Boyles, Chelsea Stephens, Heath Miller, Helen Lloyd, James Anderson Foster, Kevin Kenerly (Narrator)

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The Last Days of New Paris

"A thriller of a war that never was - of survival in an impossible city - of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new. 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer and occult disciple Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist André Breton. In the strange games of dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world for ever. 1950. A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts - and by the forces of Hell. To escape the city, Thibaut must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse. But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties - to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself."

China Miéville (Author), Ralph Lister (Narrator)

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This Census-Taker

"In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a 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, of escape. When at last a stranger knocks at his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation might be over. But by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? What is the purpose behind his questions? Is he friend? Enemy? Or something else altogether? A novella filled with beauty, terror and strangeness, This Census-Taker by China Miéville is a poignant and riveting exploration of memory and identity."

China Miéville (Author), Matthew Frow (Narrator)

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Railsea

"Savage giant moles, rail pirates, and explorers abound in China Miéville's thrilling young adult novel, Railsea. 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 – are extraordinary. But no matter how spectacular it is, travelling the endless rails of the railsea, Sham senses that there’s more to life. Even if his captain can think only of her obsessive hunt for one savage mole. When they find a wrecked train, it's a welcome distraction. But the impossible salvage Sham finds there leads to trouble. Soon he's hunted on all sides: by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters & salvage-scrabblers. And it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea. And it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea."

China Miéville (Author), Tom Lawrence (Narrator)

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Un Lun Dun

"The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster. The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The noise of the cars and vans and motorbikes outside grew tinny . . . The wheel turned off all the cars and turned off all the lamps. It was turning off London. Zanna and Deeba are two girls leading ordinary lives, until they stumble into the world of UnLondon, an urban Wonderland where all the lost and broken things of London end up . . . and some of its lost and broken people too. Here discarded umbrellas stalk with spidery menace, carnivorous giraffes roam the streets, and a jungle sprawls beyond the door of an ordinary house. UnLondon is under siege by the sinister Smog and its stink-junkie slaves; it is a city awaiting its hero. Guided by a magic book that can’t quite get its facts straight, and pursued by Hemi the half-ghost boy, the girls set out to stop the poisonous cloud before it burns everything in its path. They are joined in their quest by a motley band of UnLondon locals, including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas, Obaday Fing, a couturier whose head is an enormous pincushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle. Winner of the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book, China Miéville’s Un Lun Dun is an extraordinary vivid creation; populated by astonishing frights and delights that will thrill the imagination."

China Miéville (Author), Karen Cass (Narrator)

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