Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories

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Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post â€¢ NPR â€¢Â The GuardianÂ â€¢Â Kirkus ReviewsÂ â€¢ The fiction of multiple awardâ€“winning author China MiÃ©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.
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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 corpseâ€™s bonesâ€”designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what?
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Of such concepts and unforgettable images are made the twenty-eight stories in this collectionâ€”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 worldâ€”and at times the deeper weirdness of themselvesâ€”Three Moments of an Explosion is a fitting showcase for one of literatureâ€™s most original voices.

Praise for Three Moments of an Explosion
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â€œChina MiÃ©ville is dazzling. His latest collection of short stories, Three Moments of an Explosion, crowds virtuosity into every sentence.â€â€”The New York Times
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â€œYou canâ€™t talk about [China] MiÃ©ville without using the word â€˜brilliant.â€™ . . . His wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing.â€â€”Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian
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â€œ[A] gripping collection . . . MiÃ©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.â€â€”The Washington Post
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â€œThe stories shine . . . with a winking brilliance.â€â€”The Seattle Times
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â€œMind-bending excursions into the fantastic.â€â€”NPR
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â€œBradbury meets Borges, with Lovecraft gibbering tumultuously just out of hearing.â€â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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â€œThree Moments of an Explosion is a book filled with fabulous oddities.â€â€”Entertainment Weekly
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â€œMiÃ©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.â€â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Del Rey
Manufacturer Random House Worlds
Binding Paperback
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Color White
ReleaseDate 2016-06-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101884782

Country	USA
Brand	Del Rey
Manufacturer	Random House Worlds
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Refer to Sapnet.
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2016-06-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781101884782

Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories

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