Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009: The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative con...
Although I had a few minor quibbles, this book was excellent. Don't read reviews of this book. Don't read the dust jacket. Just read the book. It's truly fantastic.
Amazing book... amazingly realized concept and very well crafted. I think this is the book that will bring Mieville more readers... it's genre defying.
I had mixed feelings about this book. I read it because I'd heard much praise poured upon the author and because comparisons had been made between it and Jan Morris's 'Hav', a book that I love (I saw a new copy of the latter, incidentally, on sale for 25 pence. If ever an illustration were needed of...
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