Iron council

While I'm on a subject of my favourite writers I checked out when China Mieville's next book is out and to my delight, Iron Council is out this September! Further good news is that he's still writing about Bas-Lag, and that the events will take place in New Crobuzon. Apparently the book is best read without knowing anything about it - not even reading the sleeve, so I stopped reading spoilers pretty soon. But not soon enough - I still managed to find out that while the book has a publishing date of 17th of September for UK, it's going to be released in US 1st of July - which is this week! I'm absolutely gutted, and completely perplexed - I'm sure it's some weird publisher issue, but it just seems unfair. I wondered if it would be worth it to order it from Amazon.com - normal postage isn't too bad but to guarantee for it to arrive before we leave for Finland would cost me around $30 which is almost double the price of the book. Maybe I should order it to be delivered directly to Finland... Choices, choices.

Later: Oh well - just when I was about to make the order, they changed the release date to 27th of July... so bye bye holiday reading. It's still sooner than September though.