Judah Low's Time Golem

"New Crobuzon, and crude, vigorous, ineluctable, the precision of that parcelled-up time reshaped time, was an argument in time.

    reshaped the time itself, and made it

          a golem

                 a time golem

which stood into its life, a golem of sound and time, stood and did what it was instructed to do, its instruction became it, its instruction, its exsistance, its command just to be, and so it was. This animate figure carved out of time itself, the rough hew-markes of its making the unshaped seconds and crushed moments at its edges, the split instances where its timelimbs joined its timebody. It was the shape of a figure in dimensions insensibe even to its maker, unseen by any there."

Iron Council, China Mieville

Remade Horrors

"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

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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.

Remades are Made Impossible

"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

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^1. Iron Council (2004) is a weird fantasy novel by China Miéville, his third in the Bas-Lag universe.

Remades are Always Varied

"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

Remnants of a Highwaymen's or a Pirates Life

"Money. In rolls and tight wraps. A hugh haul of coins and notes, in scores of currencies. Shekels, nobles, and guineas, yes, the newest decades old, but there were ducats too, dollars, and rupees and sandnotes and arcane bawbees, square coins, little ingots from maritime provinces, from Shankell, from Perrick Nigh and from cities Ori was not sure he believed in.

A 'contribution', said the note enclosed. 'To hep with a Good Plan. In Jack's memory'."

Iron Council, China Mieville

New Crobuzon's Bonetown

"They were in Bonetown. They watched evening come in livid shades through the silhouettes of the Bonetown Claws and Ribs. The ancient bones that gave the area its name curved more than two hundred feet into the air, cracking, yellowed, mouldering at a geological pace, dwarfing the houses around them."

Iron Council, China Mieville

The Revelers at Fallybeggers Hall

"Up close to the orchestra by the stage it was a cramped clot of men and women, polyglot and many-raced. A slick of vagabonds, petty thieves. and their bosses, discharged foreign soldiers, discharged jailbirds, dissolute rich and tinkers, beggers, pimps and their charges, chancers, knife-grinders, poets, and police agents. Humans, and here and there catus-heads poking over the crowd (allowed in only if their thorns were plucked), the Cactacae,¹ and the scarab-heads of the khepri.

Cigarillas hung form mouths, and people banged their glasse or cutery in time while waiters went between them, on the sawdusted floor..."

Iron Council, China Mieville

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¹The Cactacae are enormous humanoid plant people, often towering over human beings.

The New Crobuzon Fallybeggers Hall

"Fallybeggers Hall was huge and was perminated and clogged with smoke and certain aroma's of drugs. In the boxes and raised circle were the big men and their hangers-on, and sometimes the big woman too."

Iron Council, China Mieville

Other Books: Miéville’s Bas-Lag/ New Crobuzon Series (The Scar)

 

I started this category, labeled Special Books back in 2015. This is where I can record lists of books that are mentioned within the story. Most are fictitious in nature, but I still find them intriguing.

I found these titles listed within China Miéville’s , The Scar which the second in his Bas-Lag/ New Crobuzon series. The second volume is has thick as his previous volume (638 pages) in a large format. I would say that you would have close to 1200 pages if it had been published in regular sized book.

This is heady stuff:

Against Bendamburg: A Radical Theory of Waters
Maritime Ecologies

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The Biophysics of Brine
Predation in Iron Bay Rock pools
Sardula Anatomy
Essays on Beasts
Theories of Megafauna
Trans-plane Life as a Problem for the Naturalists

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Caudexes of the Wormseye Scrub
High Kettai Grammatology

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Kriiach Aum