by China Miéville
It is 1950 in Nazi-occupied Paris. Clearly, we are in a reality alternate to our own. If Germans were the only invading force, that would be bad enough. But Paris is also overrun with nightmare visions plucked from the imaginations of surrealist writers, painters, and sculptors who believed that a...
China Miéville doesn’t stick to just one type of fiction. He mostly writes fantasy but likes to explore different settings and styles and refuses to be nailed down to the confines of a genre. This is a good thing, and I am sincere when I say that I respect it. Unfortunately, it also means that not a...
I’m often drawn to books simply because the premise amuses or intrigues me, only to be disappointed when an author doesn’t have the imagination to pull it off. I never worry about China Miéville’s ability to take a weird idea and run with it to an off-kilter but thoughtful conclusion. It only took a...
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