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Hedrigall posted:Here's a pretty cool map of Bas-Lag someone did: Totally awesome, only gripe is the misspelling of Cacatopic Stain.
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redreader posted:my least favourite thing about bas-lag was the handlingers. It's always "OH MY GOD IT'S A HANDLINGER THEY'RE ULTIMATE BADASSES" and then they get their asses handed (hurr) to them. Also I thought the scar was great, AMAZINGly good, and Iron Council was a massive disappointment to me. I love the sense of the weird that you get from his books. I think it made sense, the handlingers were shown to be badasses and thus proved how powerful the slake moths were when the slake moths annihilated them. Squidbeak fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Jun 19, 2010 |
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Hedrigall posted:I've been probated for the last month, and I had something really cool I wanted to post about 2 weeks ago but I totally forget what it was. Oh well, have an awesome new interview by the AV Club! "Kraken was an effort to tap into that same kind of pleasurable ramble. In some ways, Kraken is more like Perdido, whereas The City & The City was a departure. It’s the kind of thing I’d like to do a lot more of. In some ways, this was getting back to what I was better known for." I can't tell if he's saying he'd rather do a lot more pleasurable ramble type language or stilted stuff like TC&TC. Though, reading further he seemed to emphasize this was the end of that type of, er, rumbustious writing for him.
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Desumaytah posted:I just finished Iron Council. It had its moments but it also had its infuriating stretches. As far as his Bas Lag books go, I think the Scar was the most well-written and Perdido Street Station was the most exciting. I could be wrong, but in The Scar didn't the Grindylow chew big gashes in the Avanc or some such that made it sick?
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Oct 31, 2010 08:11
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TouretteDog posted:The podcast "To the best of our knowledge" just had an episode where Mieville talks a bit about Emabssytown. It's brief, but I found it pretty interesting. Cool interview. Thanks for posting it.
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Sir Slush posted:They record the narrator pronouncing each part of the "fraction" separately, then for the book they play them back at the same time. That's pretty cool actually
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iron_weasel posted:Gabe has terrible taste in books. His number one love in the world is the Star Wars Genre. All ironic because Tycho's writing is similar in the D&D weird monster sense. Deep Crow? Come on, Tycho, he's like what you dream to be.
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Hedrigall posted:China has another new short fiction piece up on his blog: http://chinamieville.net/post/90548155303/trailer-the-crawl this is loving badass. china is a genius.
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