Wild Cards: Down and Dirty China Miéville Publication Date: 01 May 2005

Publication Date: 01 May 2005

constantly engaged in a 'neural ballet' that connects us brain-to-brain with those around us

Winner of the Miles Franklin AwardWinner of the Encore AwardWinner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered AwardShortlisted for the Costa Novel PrizeShortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial PrizeLonglisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction

Homes describes nice people doing not-so-nice deeds in luminous

he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years

Wild Cards: Down and Dirty China Miéville Publication Date: 01 May 2005When an alien virus struck the Earth decades ago, it spawned a new breed of superhuman men and women. Those with useful mutations were known as Aces, those with deformities as Jokers. Now, in New York's Jokertown, a savage street war has broken out between the Mafia and a gang known as the Shadow Fists. A courageous band of Aces must go underground to wage a war against the powers of the criminal netherworld. Edited by George R. R. Martin and