China Mieville - King Rat

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KING rat

"A genuine

contribution

to London's

subterranean mythology .. . It's humane and

delinquent. And it bites"

IAIN SINCLAIR

"Full of the rank energy of Jungle rhythms, China

Mieville's rat's nest of a book gives a new meaning

to the term 'alternative London', a kingdom we

didn't know we'd inherited. KING RAT goes down

as sweetly as week-old garbage, to leave the

reader eyeing speculatively the manhole covers

of Soho and Battersea. A knotted, toothy, thought

provoking read."

M.JOHN HARRISON

"China Mieville is an intriguing new voice in British

fantasy. He's inventing a language for Jungle London

that's both ancient and part of the city's future."

CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

"A story so compelling you almost haven't time to

notice how fine the writing is: a dark myth reinvented

for our time and for London in particular with great

wit, style and imagination"

RAMSEY CAMPBELL

"KING RAT takes us out of the high courts of fairy

tale, away from the romanticised city streets of many

current fantasies, down into the sewers . . . And his

characters are fabulous, even the bit players .. .

This is a riveting, brilliant novel. The language

sings, the concepts are original and engrossing ... an

utter delight"

CHARLES DE LINT

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CHINA MIEVILLE

KING RAT

PAN BOOKS

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fts

First published 1998 by Macmillan

This edition published 1999 by Pan Books

an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd

Pan MacmilUn, 20 New Wharf Road, London I'll 9RR

Basingstoke and Oxford

Associated companies throughout the world

www.panmacmillan.com

ISBN 0 330 37098 7

Tin; right of China Mieville to be identified -is the

aiuhoi of this work has been asserted b> him in .Kaini.inee

with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or

transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical,

photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written

permission of the publisher. Any person who does any unauthorized

act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal

prosecution and civil claims for damages.

57986

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from

the British Library.

Phototypeset by Intype London Ltd

Printed and bound in Great Britain by

Mackays of Chatham pic, Chatham, Kent

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not,

by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out,

or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent

in any form of binding or cover other than that in which

it is published and without a similar condition including this

condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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TO MAX

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to everyone who read this in the early

stages. All my love and gratitude go to my mother,

Claudia, for all her support, always: and to my sister,

Jemima, for her advice and feedback.

Deep love and thanks to Emma, of course, for

everything.

My heartfelt thanks to Max Schaefer, who gave me

invaluable criticisms, hours of word-processing help,

and great friendship during a generally rubbish year.

I can never thank Mic Cheetham enough. I am

incredibly lucky to have her on my side. And thanks

to all at Macmillan, particularly my editor Peter

Lavery.

I owe too many writers and artists to mention, but

respect is especially due to Two Fingers and James The.

Kirk for their novel Junglist. They blazed a trail. Many

thanks also to Iain Sinclair for generously letting me

keep the metaphor I accidently stole from him. Jake

Pilikian introduced me to Drum and Bass music and

changed my life. Big up to all the DJs and Crews who

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provided a soundtrack. Awe and gratitude especially

to A Guy Called Gerald for the sublime Gloc: old,

now, but still the most terrifying slab of guerrilla bass

ever committed to vinyl. Rewind.

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A London Sometin'...

Tek9

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KING RAT

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I can squeeze between buildings through spaces you

can't even see. I can walk behind you so close my

breath raises gooseflesh on your neck and you won't

hear me. I can hear the muscles in your eyes contract

when your pupils dilate. I can feed off your filth and

live in your house and sleep under your bed and you

will never know unless I want you to.

I climb above the streets. All the dimensions of the city

are open to me. Your walls are my walls and my ceilings

and my floors.

The wind whips my overcoat with a sound like

washing on a line. A thousand scratches on my arms

tingle like electricity as I scale roofs and move through

squat copses of chimneys. I have business tonight.

I spill like mercury over the lip of a building and

slither down drainpipes to the alley fifty feet below.

I slide silently through piles of rubbish in the sepia

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