Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miville

Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miville

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - NPR - The Guardian - Kirkus Reviews - The fiction of multiple award-winning author China Mi ville 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 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

China Mi ville is dazzling. His latest collection of short stories, Three Moments of an Explosion, crowds virtuosity into every sentence.--The New York Times

You can't talk about China] Mi ville without using the word 'brilliant.' . . . His wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing.--Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian

A] gripping collection . . . Mi ville expertly mixes science fiction, fantasy and surrealism. . . . Amid the longer stories are more cerebral, poetic flash pieces that will haunt the reader beyond the pages of this exceptional book.--The Washington Post

The stories shine . . . with a winking brilliance.--The Seattle Times

Mind-bending excursions into the fantastic.--NPR

Bradbury meets Borges, with Lovecraft gibbering tumultuously just out of hearing.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Three Moments of an Explosion is a book filled with fabulous oddities.--Entertainment Weekly

Mi ville moves effortlessly among realism, fantasy, and surrealism. . . . His characters, whether ordinary witnesses to extraordinary events or lunatics operating out of inexplicable compulsions, are invariably well drawn and compelling.--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

From the Hardcover edition.

China Mieville 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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ISBN 13	9781101884782
ISBN 10	1101884789
Title	Three Moments of an Explosion
Author	China Miéville
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2016-06-07
Number of pages	416
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.