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Title	:	Railsea
Author	:	China Miéville
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 424 pages
Published	:	May 15th 2012 by Del Rey
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Steampunk. Young Adult

Railsea Hardcover | Pages: 424 pages

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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. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea–even if his captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-coloured mole she’s been chasing since it took her arm all those years ago. When they come across a wrecked train, at first it's a welcome distraction. But what Sham finds in the derelict—a series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be impossible—leads to considerably more than he'd bargained for. Soon he's hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters and salvage-scrabblers. And it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea. From China Miéville comes a novel for readers of all ages, a gripping and brilliantly imagined take on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick that confirms his status as "the most original and talented voice to appear in several years." (Science Fiction Chronicle)

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Original Title:	Railsea
ISBN:	0345524527 (ISBN13: 9780345524522)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book (2013), Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Nominee for Bestes ausländisches Werk (2016), John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee (2013), Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Roman étranger and Traduction (2017), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (Robert Holdstock Award) (2013) Andre Norton Award Nominee (2012)

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Ending hit me like a hammer, will have to recollect my thoughts before I can even attempt a coherent review.4.5 starsOk, so I'm still unsure if I can write the review this book deserves, and a lot of it has already been said anyway. It's certainly far easier to write about books I didn't like, or ones I loved but could use nostalgia as a tool to write the review. Railsea was released this year, and I read it recently, so no nostalgia there. The world it is set in is wildly unlike my own, so

May 2012Are those moldywarpe bones towering over New Crobuzon?Now there's a thought. But it ain't true, sorry. This ain't a Bas-Lag book. It's more fun than that.Sham Yes ap Soorap ("Call me Sham") is just a mediocre doctor's assistant aboard the Medes, a moletrain hunting the railsea for, well, you get it--& its one-armed captain is on the lookout for the biggest moldywarpe ever: Mocker-Jack, the great white mole himself! Yeah, it's kinda like Moby-Dick-with-trains, only it's not, too--far

Originally reviewed here.Im not going to lie and say that Railsea is a book I will be recommending to all readers, but I will, with certainty, be recommending it to anyone and everyone I think would enjoy it. Railsea isnt what anyone expects to see under the YA label. Many have argued that it isnt really YA at all, but when a book is pitched as a novel for readers of all ages, I dont think its really trying to be. Given its content, I think that a novel for readers of all ages is the perfect

What word better could there be to symbolize the railsea that connects & separates all lands, than & itself? Where else does the railsea take us, but to one place & that one & that one & that one, & so on? & what better embodies, in the sweep of the pen, the recurved motion of trains, than &?CM certainly appreciates the hothouse of lexicon. One senses the work and wonder at play. Railsea doesn't wear any undue YA infamy, well, not until the concluding third. I

There's truly a lot to enjoy here, especially if you're a fan of philosophy and moles.Sometimes together. No, no, scratch that. You can't separate the philosophy from the moles.Every captain must have a philosophy to chase after, and truly, it DOESN'T REALLY MATTER if you're missing an arm or a leg, Okay? Just trust me on this. Don't go chopping off perfectly good appendages just because some bloody mole popped out of one of the seven layered seas and ruined my perfectly happy steampunk reverie.

Imagine a world where islands of solid ground are surrounded by seas of shifting dirt, sand and ice, all of it infested with dangerous subterranean predators -- giant moles, ant lions and of course the dreaded naked mole rats. The only way across this earthen sea is a labyrinthine network of rails, built and maintained by mysterious beings called Angels. In the Railsea, men travel by train, and brave molers set sail to hunt the giant moldywarpe. Our hero, Sham ap Soorap, has just signed aboard

You probably wouldn't have wanted to read my original review that was lost in the ether (as apocalyptic fantasies not grounded in some semblance of reality don't really do anything for me) but China Miéville's Young Adult (or so they say, but good luck, young readers parsing this "Railcreole") homage to Moby Dick (with a decimated world covered with seas of railroad tracks, poisoned lands, and ruled by burrowing, larger-than-life animals like antlions, earwigs, blood rabbits, naked moles (with