Audiobooks by China Miéville

The Rouse: The long-awaited masterpiece from the author of The City & The City

"'Completely without parallel' - Michael Moorcock, author of The Dancers at the End of Time 'A magisterial wonder' - Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World 'An extraordinary tour de force' - Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time 'Every page feels alive' - Xiaolu Guo, author of Call Me Ishmaelle From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making - a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy. Maur's life has been shaped by an unbearable loss. But in the aftermath of what is an apparently ordinary tragedy, deeper, stranger questions arise . . . Their answers may lie within the dark heart and darker history of an old soldier who shares Maur's obsessions - and is violently pursued by the same unknown, unquiet forces. So begins The Rouse, a masterpiece unlike any other: at once a sprawling saga of the bloody twentieth century, and the intimate story of two lives, their loves, regrets and secrets - and a terrifying journey into infinite mystery. Praise for China Miéville, author of The City & The City 'You can't talk about Miéville without using the word "brilliant"' - Ursula K. Le Guin 'One of the most interesting and freakishly gifted writers of his generation' - The Daily Telegraph 'As intelligent as he is original' - The Guardian 'The names of Kafka and Orwell tend to be invoked too easily for anything a bit out of the ordinary, but in this case they are worthy comparisons' - The Times"

China Miéville (Author), China Miéville, Colin Mace, Emma Spurgin Hussey (Narrator)

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King Rat

"King Rat blends eerie fairy tale and contemporary urban fantasy in China Miéville's fantastical debut. Something is stirring in London's dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul's father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into his prison cell and leads him to freedom. A shadow called King Rat. In the night-land behind London's façade, in sewers and slums and rotting dead spaces, Saul must learn his true nature. Grotesque murders rock the city like a curse. Mysterious forces prepare for a showdown. With Drum and Bass pounding the backstreets, Saul confronts his bizarre inheritance - in the badlands of South London, in the heart of darkness, at the gathering of the Junglist Massive. Like the DJ says: 'Time for the Badman.'"

China Miéville (Author), David Ijiti (Narrator)

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This Census-Taker

"READ BY THE AUTHOR 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 is a poignant and riveting exploration of memory and identity."

China Miéville (Author), China Miéville (Narrator)

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Kraken

"Read by the incredible John Lee Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Kraken is a darkly comic, wildly absurd adventure by the author of Perdido Street Station, China Miéville. Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when the creature suddenly and impossibly disappears? For curator Billy Harrow it's the start of a headlong pitch into a London of warring cults, surreal magic, apostates and assassins. It might just be that the creature he's been preserving is more than a biological rarity: there are those who are sure it's a god. A god that someone is hoping will end the world."

China Miéville (Author), John Lee (Narrator)

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Embassytown

"Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, China Miéville's astonishing Embassytown is an intelligent and immersive exploration of language in an alien world. Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie. Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak Language, and connect the two communities. But an unimaginable new arrival has come to Embassytown. And when this Ambassador speaks, everything changes. Catastrophe looms. Avice knows the only hope is for her to speak directly to the alien Hosts. And that is impossible."

China Miéville (Author), Susan Duerden (Narrator)

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The City & The City

"Read by the incredible John Lee Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a World Fantasy award, and a BSFA Award. Blending weird fiction with the police procedural, The City & The City is an existential thriller like no other. When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlú must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, the multi-award-winning The City & The City by China Miéville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights. 'As intelligent as he is original' - The Guardian 'There is no one else writing stuff like this.' - Dazed"

China Miéville (Author), John Lee (Narrator)

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The Scar

"Winner of the British Fantasy Award, The Scar by China Miéville is a colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination, set in the richly visualized world of Bas-Lag. A human cargo bound for servitude in exile . . . A pirate city hauled across the oceans . . . A hidden miracle about be revealed . . . These are the ingredients of an astonishing story. It is the story of a prisoner's journey. Of the search for the island of a forgotten people, for the most astonishing beast in the seas, and ultimately for a fabled place - a massive wound in reality, a source of unthinkable power and danger."

China Miéville (Author), Gildart Jackson (Narrator)

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Perdido Street Station

"Read by the incredible John Lee Winner of the August Derleth award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Perdido Street Station is an imaginative urban fantasy thriller, and the first of China Miéville's novels set in the world of Bas-Lag. The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants linger in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magicians, junkies and whores. Now a stranger has come, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand, and inadvertently something unthinkable is released. Soon the city is gripped by an alien terror - and the fate of millions depends on a clutch of outcasts on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike. The urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground as battles rage in the shadows of bizarre buildings. And a reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape."

China Miéville (Author), John Lee (Narrator)

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Iron Council

"Rebellion and war collide in Iron Council, the award-winning steampunk novel from acclaimed author China Miéville. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing this teeming metropolis to the brink. In the midst of the city's turmoil, a mysterious masked figure spurs an unconventional rebellion, while a small band of daring rebels escapes in the search for a lost legend. As New Crobuzon faces its darkest hour, there are whispers. It is the time of the Iron Council. . . Set in a desperate world on the brink of revolution, Iron Council is the third book in China Miéville's renowned Bas-Lag series, following the Locus and Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Perdido Street Station and The Scar."

China Miéville (Author), Gildart Jackson (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - La cicatriz (Bas-Lag 2)

"La cicatriz es el segundo volumen de la mítica trilogía «Bas-Lag», el thriller fantástico con que China Miéville redefinió los límites de la fantasía contemporánea y empezó a fascinar a escritores, medios y lectores de cualquier género. A bordo de un gran buque viaja un grotesco cargamento humano camino del exilio. Son todos prisioneros y esclavos que luchan por rehacer sus extraños cuerpos. Nueva Crobuzon, la ciudad pirata que surca los océanos, les espera. Y entre ellos se halla Bellis Coldwine, una lingüista que escapa de un terrible castigo. Esta es la historia de búsqueda de la isla de un pueblo olvidado, de la más asombrosa bestia de los mares, de un lugar fabuloso, una inmensa heridaen la realidad, una fuente de inimaginable poder y peligro... Un barco es sitiado por piratas, los oficiales son ejecutados y los supervivientes trasladados a Armada, una nueva tierra sin tierra regida por Los Amantes. Pero solo unas oscuras formas tienen la respuesta a sus preguntas. Su primera parte, La estación de la calle Perdido, fue galardonada con el Premio Arthur C. Clarke de 2001 y el Ignotus de 2002. Hoy Miéville es considerado uno de los mayores nombres de las letras anglosajonas del siglo XXI. Reseñas: «China Miéville es uno de los escritores de ciencia ficción más respetados del nuevo milenio.» Pablo Guimón, El País «Uno de los autores más originales, políticamente comprometidos y literariamente interesantes al mismo tiempo que reivindicativamente pulp del género fantástico.» Ernest Alós, El Periódico de Catalunya «Uno de las grandes responsables de la renovación del género en los últimos años.» Xaime Martínez, Playground"

China Miéville (Author), Francesc Belda (Narrator)

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The Book of Elsewhere: The Sunday Times bestselling novel by Keanu Reeves and 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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Audiobooks by China Miéville

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