by China Miéville
I wasn't sure what to expect from China Mieville when it came to short stories. But I've read a handful of his novels and was excited to see what he could do with the medium. I was not disappointed. I was slightly terrified by a few of them, and overall I couldn't believe how good they were. I borro...
- This review can also be found at my book blog -It was my first time reading China Miéville. As in every short stories collection, there were ones I loved, ones I really didn’t like and ones I just went meh at, but overall it is stronger than many others I’ve read over the years.The titular novella...
I've always known there was something deeply wrong about Ikea. It's like some kind of Swedish hellscape, a garish blue-and-yellow mercantile abyss. You go there and wander that infernal labyrinth in despair, and you feel your soul being sucked out of you slowly by some unseen chthonic force. That...
Lo leí porque me gusta Miéville y porque leerlo en inglés siempre es un desafío. Disfruté dos de las historias y las demás ni me acuerdo de qué trataban. Y me gustaron por su trabajo de atmósfera, por la presentación de pequeños detalles, una historia de una mujer perseguida por algo que vio y que n...
Another brilliant, if bleak, effort from Miéville.If I had to choose one word to tie in all of these short stories (and one novella, [book:The Tain]), I'd have to say "paranoia". Almost every story involves a character fearful of something — often without obvious cause.Miéville's wordplay is, as alw...
Table of contentsLooking for JakeFoundation The ball room Reports of certain events in London FamiliarEntry taken from a medical encyclopaediaDetails Go between Different skies An end to hunger 'Tis the season Jack On the way to the front The tainA collection of short stories that benefit from bei...
Sometimes short stories are a great way to introduce yourself to an author you haven't read before. I found China Mieville while reading an anthology and was intrigued but not sure if I would like him so I found his collection of short stories.If these are fantasy I would call them dark fantasy for ...
The name China Miéville isn't generally synonymous with short stories, probably because he doesn't write them that often. In the past decade, he's published 10 novels, and in the same span, produced only 16 pieces of short fiction. I mean, whatever. Dude is busy. I think he also became an economics ...
A mixed group here: some ghost stories, a couple post-apocalyptic, a dystopian, a couple standard horror, a paranoid spy thriller, a tech thriller, one Bas Lag, and a graphic short (that I didn't really understand). Standard leftwing concerns generally. The three standouts are the lovecraftian it...
Although not biiled as a horror anthology, some of these stories areup there with the creepiest I've ever read... hey, if it can give me chillswhile I'm on my subway commute, that's pretty good!With this collection, Mieville proves that he's equally a master of theshort story as of the sprawling lab...
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