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I just finished reading a mind-blowing novel by China Mieville entitled PERDIDO STREET STATION. Won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award. Anyone had the opportunity?
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whats it about..without spoilers...what kind of novel is it?
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Ive heard a lot of good things about this novel. Never read it though. Most of his other stuff is firmly in the New Weird, which I ain't such a fan of. Its a Sci-Fantasy, isn't it?
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I read it last year. It's an amazing book, but I got bogged down in the prose occasionally. He's wordy when he doesn't need to be. Other than that, the story itself is fantastic.
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I haven't read it but where'd you get the sandworm drawing for your avatar?
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Found this
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It looks like one of the paintings from the calendar.
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Spice Grandson wrote:I just finished reading a mind-blowing novel by China Mieville entitled PERDIDO STREET STATION. Won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award. Anyone had the opportunity?
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Perdido Street Station is pretty good. I read it years ago. It's one of the first books that was described as New Weird. It didn't inspire me to dash out and read Mieville's other novels, though.
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Freakzilla wrote:I haven't read it but where'd you get the sandworm drawing for your avatar?
Don't remember where I picked up that avatar, Freak. Sorry. Somewhere on-line.
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Omphalos wrote:Ive heard a lot of good things about this novel. Never read it though. Most of his other stuff is firmly in the New Weird, which I ain't such a fan of. Its a Sci-Fantasy, isn't it?
It really does defy genre classification. It even has (if you can believe it) a heart-wrenching love story between a human and a half-human, half-bug ...uh...person. The fantasy element is pretty strong depending on what he's writing about (some "magical" items but they're put into scientific terms). I'm going to purchase SCAR now, which is another of Mieville's New Crobuzon series, or so I've heard.

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Spice Grandson wrote:It even has (if you can believe it) a heart-wrenching love story between a human and a half-human, half-bug ...uh...person.
Kewl! Why didn't you mention that earlier?!

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SandChigger wrote:
Spice Grandson wrote:It even has (if you can believe it) a heart-wrenching love story between a human and a half-human, half-bug ...uh...person.
Kewl! Why didn't you mention that earlier?!

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Look who's talkin'. :roll:

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Mandy wrote:I read it last year. It's an amazing book, but I got bogged down in the prose occasionally. He's wordy when he doesn't need to be. Other than that, the story itself is fantastic.

What she said. The prose can take a lot of getting use too, I know people who just can't get past it, the story is fantastic though.

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