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There is always an elfin quality of humor lurking behind the tough stuff in a mieville novel
Dick dick wrote too fast and loose but his prose does have this awful quality of righteous paranoia as though the world isn’t a... Read More
Ballard into the fold but mieville’s books don’t have thedreamlike quality of ballard’s prose nightmares
Competitiveness
The two cites are beszel—an old eastern europe sort of city with a whiff of decay about it—and ul qoma a more modern type city on the rise
They see only those elements of their own city they’ve trained themselves to focus on the dress and movement of the people the ... Read More
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- This product had a total of 4,195 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 16 2023.
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I dont believe the cities could ever exist in real life but assuming that they did exist the book was very consistent with itself which allows a suspension of belief
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It seems like way too much work on all the places to be sustainable
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Each is pointedly invisible to the other though they are often superimposed on one another
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China mieville gets marked down as a science fictionfantasy author but time and again when reviewers discuss his books they write that they transcend genres and deserve to be read as main stream respectable fiction
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A reviewer for this book described it thusly “if philip k
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They will themselves not to see touch or hear them their deep other although they literally rub against each other every day
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Living in this world requires a continuous act of selfnegation and not acknowledging
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