Part 21 (1/2)

Perdido Street Station.

The Scar.

Iron Council.

Copyrights.

Looking for Jake is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fict.i.tiously.

A Del Rey Trade Paperback Original.

Copyright 2005 by China Mieville.

”On the Way to the Front” ill.u.s.trations copyright 2005 by Liam Sharp All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publis.h.i.+ng Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

DELREYis a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

The stories first appeared, some in slightly different forms, in the following venues: ”Looking for Jake” in Neonlit: The Time Out Book of New Writing, Volume 1, ed. Nicholas Royle (Quartet, 1998).

”Foundation” in The Independent on Sunday ”Talk of the Town” magazine, 27 April 2003, ed.

Ian Irvine.