''Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories'' is a collection of short stories by British author

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. It was published in the U.K. by

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on 30 July 2015, and in the U.S. by

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on 4 August 2015. It features twenty-eight short stories, ten of which had been published previously.

Stories

''Three Moments of an Explosion'' contains the following stories: A number of the stories have been previously published. These include "The Rope is the World" (on ''iconeye.com'', February 2010), "Covehithe" (on ''guardian.co.uk'', 22 April 2011), "Estate" (in ''

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'' issue 8, August 2013), "The 9th Technique" (in ''The Apology Chapbook'' given out for free at the

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2013), "The Design" (in '' McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'' issue 45, December 2013), "Polynia" (on ''tor.com'', July 2014), and "Säcken" (in '' Subtropics'' issue 17, Winter/Spring 2014). In addition, the stories "Three Moments of an Explosion", "The Crawl", and "Four Final Orpheuses" were first published on the author's blo
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The remaining eighteen stories are new to this collection.

Reception

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'' gave the book a starred review, saying Miéville "moves effortlessly among realism, fantasy, and surrealism in this dark, sometimes horrific short story collection" and that the stories' characters are "invariably well drawn and compelling". The review concludes by stating that "what the stories have in common is a sense that the world is not just strange, but stranger than we can ever really comprehend." '' Kirkus Reviews ''also gave a starred review, stating that in the book, "horror, noir, fantasy, politics, and poetry swirl into combinations as satisfying intellectually as they are emotionally". The review summarized Miéville's style as " Bradbury meets

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, with Lovecraft gibbering tumultuously just out of hearing."

Adaptations

The short story "Estate" was adapted into a 20-minute film, due to be released in 2019.

References

{{China Miéville 2015 short story collections British short story collections Works by China Miéville Del Rey books Pan Books books