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| Rune* Quote | Reply | | China Mieville posted on: 8/3/2005 1:18:32 PM Are there any fans of this authors works? What have you read and why do you like them  |
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IceDrake
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China Mieville
replied on: 8/3/2005 5:43:38 PM I've read some of Perdido Street Station. His style is pretty weird and I had to put the book down. One of these days I'll get back to it though. |
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Rune*
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China Mieville
replied on: 10/15/2005 4:49:21 PM Anyone got Looking for Jake yet? |
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GOLL
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China Mieville
replied on: 11/27/2005 1:36:45 AM quote:I've not got the book yet Rune but I've seen it plenty of times in the local bookshop. I read the books in his Crobuzon sequence and think they're brilliant, very highly rated. Having said that these books will not be to the taste of everyone and may prove a turn off for those more attuned to a traditional style of fnatasy. China is a prodigious talent in terms of his sheer imagination and prose. He's certainly New Weird with an emphasis on the Weird. The 3 books are: Perdido Street Station The Scar The Iron Council Don't forget to check out his first novel King Rat, an urban gothic offering. A summary of Perdido Station: The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants and arcane races throng the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magicians, junkies and whores. Now a stranger has come, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand, and inadvertently something unthinkable is released. Soon the city is gripped by an alien terror - and the fate of millions depends on a clutch of outcasts on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike. The urban nightscape becomes a hunting ground as battles rage in the shadows of bizarre buildings. And a reckoning is due at the city's heart, in the vast edifice of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape. |
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Rune*
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replied on: 11/27/2005 10:47:26 AM I really enjoyed King Rat Apart from The Scar I think King Rat is the favourite of his books  Agree with you that Mieville isnt run of the mill kind of fantasy author, but does have a brilliant imagination
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Rune*
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replied on: 4/13/2006 8:34:49 AM Ive moved this author to Sci-Fi. HIs work is hard to classify to be honest, but I would say most of it has a stronge Sci-Fi element more than any of the other genre's 
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GOLL
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replied on: 4/14/2006 2:00:32 AM quote:He's essentially considered "New Weird" (vs. "Old Weird" like Clark Ashton Smith, HP Lovecraft etc...) although I'm sure you knew that already. Probably more SF than straight fantasy, so I would've done the same. Not easy to classify I agree. The brillant Gene Wolfe is another like this. Since read Looking For Jake, what an absolutlely brilliant collection of short stories from a truly gifted individual! Highly recommended to anyone on these boards...
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Rune*
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replied on: 4/14/2006 10:28:20 AM Ive so got to get that book
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fobe
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China Mieville
replied on: 4/14/2006 7:35:15 PM seems so
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Adasunshine
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replied on: 4/30/2006 6:43:12 PM Well, I've just finished King Rat (yesterday) and I really, really enjoyed it. It was good for me that King Rat wasn't the good guy, I do feel that his rattiness made the book all that more believable. Saul was very well written and you really felt for him as a character and wanted him to get through it all unscathed. As for the Piper, well, loved to read and fear him at the same time - what a gruesome individual - very very well written IMO. I loved that he had London as the setting and as I said on another forum, people that know London and even love London can really relate to his descriptions and Saul's ponderings of the city. The Jungle setting, IMO, was a rather clever one, being a fan of the music myself back in the day, it made an interesting backdrop to the tale. A very interesting twist on the Pied Piper of Hamelin tale and very well done, my only bug-bear was the open-ending, I'm not good with open endings!!!  China Mieville is definately an author I'm eager to read more of and I have more books on order... xx |
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Rune*
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replied on: 5/1/2006 8:26:26 AM I thought Mieville did a very good job of making the story feel grimy
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