"FReemade. A little tribe. Escapes from a man, without arms, with useless ornamental beetle wings. There is a man with rubberised pincers, a man who wears a crocdile's snout, a hugh cur with the head of a pretty woman. The dog's is a male body. By the skins they wear the jewellery of holed stones on sinews, by the complexities like wood and tea."
Iron Council, China Mieville
Updated on 7.25.24 @ 1:25 PM: Corrected two spelling errors.
"A Remade sutured to steam-and-piston legs like spread-out fingers that run with tremendous shuddering up slods of rock, his man-torso afail like an unwilling passenger. Another Remade, was a muscled man made into a strange six limbed thing: he is joined below his abdomen to the neck."
Iron Council, China Mieville
Routledge Companion to Science Fiction: China Meiville
I just found this article (a downloadable PDF) while researching China Meiville. It makes for some good reading. If you click here it will deliver you to some good resources on the horror genre, if you so inclined.
"A Remade with limbs becoming pistons and jackhammer, where he becomes deafened through his own labors. One was a man whose arms were replaced with the outsized spalyed claws of a mole."
Iron Council, China Miéville1
1. Iron Council (2004) is a weird fantasy novel by China Miéville, his third in the Bas-Lag universe.
"The Remades are always varied. Their bodies made impossible. On the roadbed there is a man whose front pulsates with scrany arms, each from a corpse or an ambulation. Chained to him a taller man, his face stotic. A fox stitched embedded in his chest from where it snarls and bites at him, keeping the man in permanent terror.
Here a crawling man spiral-shelled in iron and venting smoke. Here a woman working. There are plenty of woman Remades working amoung the others. A woman became a guttered pillar, with her organic parts like a after thoughts. A man, or is it a woman? Whose flesh moves with the tides, with eructations like an octopus. People with their face relocated, bodies made of iron and rubber cables, and steam-engine arms, and animal arms, and arms that are body length pistons that reach out below their waists."
Iron Council, China Miéville
