Fiction

This book takes readers back to the world he created in "Perdido Street Station" but you don't need to read that to enjoy this.

A ship carrying "slaves" and paying passengers to a really out of the way part of the world is captured by a group of pirates that press-gang everyone into their floating city called Armada which is made up of many ships lashed together that has been floating the worlds oceans for centuries if not thousands of years.

It turns out that they acquired this ship because of at least one of it's passengers is very important to future plans.

Mieville is one of my favorite world creator authors (kind of weird fiction / steampunk blend). He's got a fantastic way with words that makes his novels both readable and not dumbed down in the least.