by China Miéville, Jewel Samad
Rating: 3.75* of fiveThe Book Report: Eerie doins on the North Sea coast of England, to do with the detritus of the petrochemical rape of the planet. The Day of Reckoning has come, in true China Miéville fashion, from the single least anticipated quarter.My Review: Shovelmonkey1, that minx, recommen...
Weird as most of his writing but feels sloppy.
You may think his prose is as heavy as an anvil. Or that he uses lots of big words to show off. But one thing you cannot deny is that China Miéville has one hell of a remarkable imagination.This short story is just an example. This guy's writing is so distinctive as to be nearly unique. I think he c...
Leave it to the master of weird China Miéville to create a strange but magical story of revenant oil-rigs, the "petrospectral presences", single-mindedly setting out from the depths of the ocean like enormous mechanical turtles. -----------------------------------------------------------------------...
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