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If they ever make Perdido Street Station I maintain that the best Isaac would be Chiwetel Ejiofor if he prepares for the role by going on an all-cake diet for a year or so
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andrew smash posted:Wendell Pierce. What’s wrong with you. If he can do the accent then ok!
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Sandwolf posted:Just finished Last Days of New Paris, I enjoyed it a lot, though it felt very pulpy and almost goofy in some parts. So I whanna know, is there anything of his that's a bit less nuanced and a bit more.. I dunno. Some scenes felt like they were handled with a rapier when I wanted to see a sledgehammer, if that makes sense. Perdido Street Station is kind of a big flashy action movie behind the flowery prose. Also Kraken.
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Bold Robot posted:There are fan theories that it is set in Bas-Lag. The hints about that lean much more towards blatant, in my opinion.
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He only ever uses it to describe the grindylow magic
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mitochondritom posted:
Wikipedia posted:Futurama: Bender's Big Score (or Bender's Big Score) is a 2007 American direct-to-video... Wikipedia posted:The Scar (novel) 🤔
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Tekopo posted:Does anyone else know of any other book where language is the main conceit of the book like Embassytown? I think the manipulation of the language and how it feels truly alien is one of my favourite things about the book so I'm really wondering if there is anything else like it out there. You’ll want to read the short story “Story Of Your Life” by Ted Chiang right now - it was adapted into film by Denis Villeneuve as Arrival. It’s a great movie but read the short story too, it goes far more into the alien language itself. If you pick up the collection that has the story (called Stories of Your Life and Others) you get a collection of equally mindboggling stories, all with incredible central ideas.
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Bilirubin posted:Very cool to see how Mieville is scaling up the story. He’s more chitin-ing it up
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Ccs posted:I hope you like the word puissance! Yknow I once did a word search in an ebook of the scar and the word puissance/puissant appears like a dozen times tops over 700 pages and always in context of talking about the grindylow’s magic, dude picked a word he liked for their magic, get over it
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andrew smash posted:Somebody's salty today! Sorry if I seem a little puissed off
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It's like if my DM stopped running the really awesome D&D campaign we'd been doing for years and just started inviting me to socialist meetings I don't want to go to those, I just want to keep playing the campaign I was enjoying with you, man
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Oasx posted:I see no reason to think that he has stopped doing fiction, but he is obviously just doing the stuff he wants, instead of making quick money by pumping out Bas-Lag books. drat it if only he was a capitalist 
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Perdido is great but The Scar is a masterpiece, it's still my favourite fantasy novel of all time. A fever dream of a setting with the most intruiguing twisting turning plot. It's like if Pirates of the Caribbean was way weirder, had way more horror, had as many weird monster races as a D&D setting, and was set on another planet
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gently caress I'm going to read The Scar again Or get the audiobook, yeah
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TGG posted:I'm a fan of all his stuff, some more than others; however I find that the romance plot in PSS turns off a pile of people who are not super ready to read about pseudo-explicit xenophilia in the start of their new fantasy series. I rolled with it without a blink but I have several friends who just said nope. For other people that's a huge draw
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In some interview last year he said finishing this book was his "white whale"
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Idk if this tempers expectations at all but the new book is publishing under Pan Macmillan's literary imprint Picador so it might not be as outwardly sf/f as we hope Might be more like Census Taker/New Paris
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FPyat posted:So is Looking For Jake better or worse than Three Moments taken as a whole? Three Moments throws a ton of really cool ideas out there but stories more often than not feel like unfinished sketches. Overall it has a colder, more opaque and more literary weirdness. Looking For Jake has far fewer stories but mostly they're all super solid. It's full of much more straightforward sf/f and horror. Both are good. Both have truly weird poo poo in them. I'd probably prefer to read LFJ cover to cover right now than TMOAE
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