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Oasx posted:What is the general opinion on The Last Days of New Paris and This Census-Taker? They seem a little short compared to the rest of his work, but that doesn't really matter if they are good. I didn't like This Census-Taker at all. Too inscrutable for me. Easily my least favorite Mieville book, secret Bas-Lag connection or no. Haven't read Last Days of New Paris yet and would be interested to hear what the consensus is.
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Tekopo posted:So I’ve read PSS, The Scar, Iron Council, Embassytown and TC&TC. What next? Three Moments of an Explosion.
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Oasx posted:That is the only one of his books that haven’t done anything for me, i would be prepared for disappointment.  I would not say it was bad but I think that’s a good way to put it, it just didn’t do anything for me. It’s kind of inscrutable. There are fan theories that it is set in Bas-Lag.
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uber_stoat posted:it is a Wolfe type thing. he isn't using fancy archaic words to sound like a smarty pants. he does it to instill a sense of strangeness and distance to the setting. I dig the puissant/thaumaturgy/etc. stuff for this exact reason - it’s Wolfe-esque worldbuilding. At the very least I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on it. 
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Quandary posted:What did people think of Three Moments of an Explosion? I've read a number of the stories and it seems like most have a really fascinating premise, but kinda fizzle out without much closure or attempt at an ending. I guess that's by design? I liked Three Moments and would recommend it to someone who is already a fan of Mieville. I basically agree with Saul Goode - there are a lot of creative and memorable ideas in it that don't always go anywhere. I think it's fine for a short story to fizzle plot-wise in a way that would be frustrating in a longer work, though. If I read 20 pages and there are a couple interesting images in there and maybe an "aha!" moment when I figure out what is actually going on, but not a lot else, I'm okay with that. Still, the best stores in the collection are the ones that actually have a bit of an arc, like the Dowager of Bees or Sacken. Bold Robot fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Jun 9, 2019 |
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pseudanonymous posted:Also, it seems like he's mostly just writing non-fiction right now. I think this is really all there is to it. He’s still writing and publishing, so I don’t get the impression he’s trying to keep his head down because of the allegations and such (which, as noted, are from a while ago). He’s just not writing and publishing the stuff that fans of his fiction necessarily want to read. It’s a bummer but
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