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RoboCicero posted:It's funny, when I first saw that book I was like "no way that Mieville doesn't have a story in this", got to the end, wondered where he was, then re-read it and of course he's the one with the invisible letter. What's his short story like?
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Decent! I'm not sure when it's from, but it reminds me a bit of that one story in Three Moments of an Explosion about the New Dead. Less creepy and more him taking an idea (animals comprised of 'nothing') and having some fun with it. Written in the same considered, faux-academic style as that, as well as Buscard's Murrain and Second Slice Manifesto, but a lot less creepy than the latter two. One of his stories that make you go "huh, weird" and sit for a little bit considering the implications.
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Witness last days of New Paris as it is slowly consumed by blur filter.
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Someone detonated a photoshop hackjob bomb! It's not as bad as the American cover for Three Moments but it's pretty close. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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I found the art director's notes: "I want it to have a sense of melancholy and wistfulness and -most importantly- evoke a real sense that it's dreadfully boring"
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Wait, is the Eiffel Tower in Paris? I honestly would have had no idea if it weren't the title of the book. Wish the artist had picked a more unmistakable landmark; something so integral to the city of Paris that it basically does all the work for them.
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Goodreds is doing an interview with China, if you have any questions you would like asked and don't use the site just post them here and i will send them. "We are interviewing author China Miéville for the Goodreads monthly newsletter, so we are asking his readers to submit questions! You can click reply below and submit a question about his upcoming book, This Census-Taker, his past work, or anything you're curious about in general. If you send me a question, we may be able to include it! * You received this message because you gave 4 or 5 stars to a book by China Miéville. To participate, please click below to reply to this message with your question by Thursday, December 17."
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Can you ask him if he thinks Leicester can maintain their momentum and go on to win the league? His input is vital to me.
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Ask him if we're ever gonna get that encyclopedia of Bas Lag.
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Ask him what weight he squats. E: It's not just that cover, it's all the new 'literatey' cover designs. AUTHOR NAME portrait of an assgrabber SaviourX fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Dec 18, 2015 |
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Seconding the question about his exercise routine, which I've always assumed was just benching stacks of other lesser fantasy series. Since I assume everybody else is going to ask about more Bas Lag. . . ask him if he can ask Steph Swainston when we might see another one of her books.
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The deadline for sending in questions ran out a few days ago.BigSkillet posted:ask him if he can ask Steph Swainston when we might see another one of her books. "The fifth Castle book, Fair Rebel is complete and will be published by Gollancz in 2016. I have three more Castle books planned and I’m halfway through the next one." http://stephswainston.co.uk/ I really need to find the time to re-read those books.
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"Mr. Miéville: Full Communism Now or moderate social-democracy established in small increments whenever it's convenient?"
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Read PDS. Now highly alienated. Don't even want to look out the window.
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Baloogan posted:Read PDS. Now highly alienated. Don't even want to look out the window. Now I want to read Perdido Dreet Station.
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I got the second Dial H trade for christmas, I highly recommend it. China's writing goes really well with the comicbook medium, I hope we see more of that kind of work from him in the future.
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Io9 reviewed This Census-Taker : http://io9.gizmodo.com/china-mieville-novella-this-census-taker-is-a-strange-m-1751397274
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Eh. I'm going to get it, naturally, but from that reviews it really seems he's continuing the Three Moments approach of letting the readers draw their own conclusions... about everything and in spite of writing endings. In short stories, it worked for some and less for others, but I'm rather suspicious of anything longer done this way.
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This Census Taker is probably one of those short stories that just got big enough to release as novella?
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Do you guys like experimental jazz performed alongside spoken excerpts from China Miéville stories? I didn't before, but I do now! https://themievilleproject.bandcamp.com/album/the-mieville-project-live
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Hedrigall posted:Do you guys like experimental jazz performed alongside spoken excerpts from China Miéville stories? This is great
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Hedrigall posted:Do you guys like experimental jazz performed alongside spoken excerpts from China Miéville stories? The idea behind it is really cool, i gave it a listen but jazz really isn't my thing.
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I have literally no idea how to process that or how I feel about it. Huh. (Also I think some bits of Three Moments were basically meant for that so their lack of inclusion is weird.)
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Does China Mieville do any martial arts? I really want to fight him. He looks kind of like a pierced dick.
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Tossing out some love for Un Lun Dun... don't let the "Young Adult' thing scare you. I'm 27 and while it is definitely an easy read it is very entertaining, witty, and unpredictable. Dude does his own illustrations too, what a boss. I've been hitting his books in order, right now working on Kraken  . Collingswood is probably my favorite character so far. "What do you know about making big poo poo little?" 
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Collingswood does indeed own very much. Also if you liked Un Lun Dun, you're gonna love Railsea.
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Sorry, double post but this is a slow-moving thread : I finally got some uninterrupted time to just read and have a glass or four of wine and eat through This Census Taker. Short trip report? I have absolutely no clue about what half the poo poo that happened is, but I was thoroughly engaged the whole time and I think that's the point? I look forward to lending it out and discussing it with friends. But anyone on the fence : it's like 200 pages. Just read it. It's not like it's a commitment and it's thoroughly gripping if ???????  /10, but was happy the whole time.
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Glad it was a good read. I'm looking forward to getting it but for once I haven't either preordered or arranged to get an advanced copy. I'll just pick it up in stores here at the end of this month. I'm keeping an eye on publisher's catalogues for info about The Last Days of New Paris. Weirdly the page count for that has been revised down to 175 pages, so maybe this year we're just getting two novellas, no full length novels...
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02-6611-0142-1 posted:Does China Mieville do any martial arts? I really want to fight him. He looks kind of like a pierced dick. I think he just lifts
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02-6611-0142-1 posted:Does China Mieville do any martial arts? I really want to fight him. He looks kind of like a pierced dick. You don't have a chance
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quote:Lady Gagas now surround China, hundreds and hundreds of them. This is a p good blog.
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 Are you guys ready for what sounds like China's most political and complex novel yet?The Last Days of New Paris posted:A thriller of war that never was—of survival in an impossible city—of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new. Out August 9th!!
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gently caress another new book for 3-7 year olds called The Worst Breakfast! October 4th this year!! https://outtherebooks.wordpress.com/2016/03/05/a-third-china-mieville-book-for-2016-its-a-picture-book/
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I'm excited for Last Days of New Paris, though his most recent stuff has me worried that it trails off rather than finishing the main arc out. Sounds like Life And Times In The Cacotopic Stain.
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Has he just been sitting on all this? What's with the famine then feast?
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I think they're supposed to be short novels.
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Yeah, I like the idea of taking crazy new wave type ideas and keeping the novella-short novel length to them to keep the ideas from ballooning out. Much hyped.
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I miss his long novels, but of course I don't want a long story just for the sake of it being long. Has anyone read This Census Taker yet?
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