Our discussion of the best bets for great reading in 2012 continues today with China Mieville’s novel Railsea.
Details about this new YA novel are rather light at the moment, but in my opinion, any new title from this master of modern fantasy is cause for celebration. His last novel, Embassytown, was one of the finest works of science fiction that I’ve ever read. Who else but China Miéville could interweave linguistic theory and space opera into a cohesive and entertaining tale like that? Here’s what we know about Railsea:
From China Miéville, New York Times bestselling author of Un Lun Dun, a thrilling new young adult novel that re imagines Moby-Dick in an unforgettable and fascinatingly imagined setting.
Sham Yes ap Soorap, young doctor’s assistant, is in search of life’s purpose aboard a diesel locomotive on the hunt for the great elusive moldywarpe, Mocker-Jack. But on an old train wreck at the outskirts of the world, Sham discovers an astonishing secret that changes everything: evidence of an impossible journey. A journey left unfinished…which Sham takes it on himself to complete. It’s a decision that might cost him his life.
