The Stone Canal
LIFE ON NEW MARS... is tough for humans, but death's only a minor inconvenience. The machines know their place, and only the Abolitionists object.Until a young man walks into Ship City, a clone who remembers Jon Wilde's life as an anarchist with nuclear capability, who was accused of losing World War 3. He also remembers Dave Reid, the city's boss, who haunts Wilde's memory to the end...a cold death in Kazakhstan. In Reid's cyborg concubine, Dee Model, both men see the image of their obsessions, and information that wants to be free. But she has ideas of her own...The Stone Canal moves from the recent past into a distant future, where long lives and strange deaths await those who survive the wars and revolutions to come.
Reviews
Jan Jackson@pilgrim
The overtly political did for me. There’s no doubt that the author can write, and that he can conjour up an acreage of setting and place, and has a marvellous off-beam imagination, but I found myself so wanting this to be a simple analysis of What It Is To Be Human. It’s not that I don’t agree with his politics (or his portrayal of a political arena), just that I don’t need to attend lectures. Mieville doesn’t beat you over the head in this way, but you understand his underlying take. I would have liked to understand more about The Fast Folk.