Reception
Metacritic gave the book 75 out of 100, based on 10 reviews.
Steven Poole reviewed the book for The Guardian and suggested that "in comparison with The Scar, such ideas are fewer and less indulgently elaborated. Iron Council feels more po-faced, more weighed down by its tonnage of political baggage. ... Still, fantasy fiction is usually fabulously conservative, and Iron Council - with its implicit trade unionism, as well as the fact that many characters are casually bisexual - stands as a rebuke to the genre's medieval politics." Concluding "It was a good ride." The Washington Post review by Michael Dirda states that "n myriad ways, China Miéville's New Crobuzon is an unweeded garden of unearthly delights, and Iron Council a work of both passionate conviction and the highest artistry."
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