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I just found it myself actually, after reading a description of it. The magazine it was published in rather nicely has it on their site. http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4274:china-mieville-the-rope-is-the-world
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That dividing line across all of them is the perfect unifying touch to his work.
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Feb 23, 2011 16:30
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http://deannahoak.com/2010/10/18/fake-facebook-profiles-featuring-china-mieville/ According to his copyeditor, Facebook did take them down eventually.
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Apr 7, 2011 05:40
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MikeJF posted:And now, a shiny new short story in the Guardian! Look! Isn't that lovely! Go read it! I haven't read Cyclonopedia, but from what I've heard of it I can't help but detect shades of it in this story.
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Apr 22, 2011 17:41
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Just finished reading Embassytown. I think that may have been the most... Mieville-ish book he's written to date. It's like his love of language, alien-ness, disdain for narrative, all on full throttle. The speech that Spanish Dancer gives at the end was probably one of the best bits of prose he's ever written for that matter.
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May 4, 2011 21:35
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Paragon8 posted:Is it not out in a lot of places yet? I was a little disappointed by the lack of discussion on it. It's not out in the US until the 17th.
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May 6, 2011 15:01
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This has to be the gimmickiest idea for a blog ever: http://couldtheybeatupchinamieville.wordpress.com/
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May 19, 2011 05:11
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quote:Did anyone else think it was a little weird that as much as Mieville likes to explore and exult in "the Other", there's something fundamentally colonialist and anthrocentric about the proposition that the aliens need to be fixed by learning how to communicate like we do?
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Sep 2, 2011 18:47
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Duck and burger posted:I just finished the first chapter of The City & The City for my first Mieville book and I'm extremely confused. What is up with the faux foreign prose? Between the bizarre/straight up wrong diction and disjointed train of thought (especially the last few paragraphs of that chapter), I'm having a tremendous amount of trouble slogging through just the words themselves, but this book gets rave reviews. If anyone's got some suggestions on how to approach this work, I'm all ears. The prose was purposefully written to sound like an awkward translation from a Slavic language. I remember thinking just this when I first read it, then I looked up some interview where Mieville said as much.
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Jan 23, 2012 21:58
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I just lost it when (late-ish spoiler) you find out that Naphi didn't actually lose her arm to Mocker Jack. Naphi in general is too good.
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May 19, 2012 19:59
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I like the Cabinet of Curiosities a lot more personally, though I think both of them suffer if you try and read more than 2 or 3 stories a day.
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Nov 6, 2012 01:49
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Hedrigall posted:Does anyone buy McSweeney's? The new issue (#45) has a new China Miéville short story called "The Design". I need to get my hands on it Got a copy of it today, haven't read the story yet though.
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Dec 18, 2013 20:04
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taser rates posted:Got a copy of it today, haven't read the story yet though. Ended up reading the new short story yesterday, and it was, well, pretty Mieville. It's about a surgeon in training who finds that the body he's practicing on has a scrimshawed skeleton. As weird as that sounds, it's actually pretty restrained and melancholy, can't recall if he's written something in that mood before.
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Dec 19, 2013 16:24
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Dirty Frank posted:For me one of the best things about written fantasy is imagining the characters and settings, I quite like seeing other peoples ideas after I've formed a mental image, but not before I've been able to. Having said that though I never had a good mental image of the Hosts, probably because the internet has killed my imagination. Well to be fair, he pretty intentionally never describes the Hosts in detail, from what I recall. There are only descriptions of individual body parts or overall impressions (horse bird bug or something like that).
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Mar 5, 2014 17:52
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NEW SHORT STORY http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/07/polynia
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Jul 1, 2014 14:47
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Pfft, I thought it was all right back when I read it. As far as favorites go, definitely agree with Embassytown being his best, but Railsea and The Scar are up there for me as well.
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Jan 12, 2015 16:32
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Yep, I always like characterizing it as social science fiction because of that, it's really unique.
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Jan 14, 2015 02:22
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lol, that should have been the cover on the normal release, jesus christ.
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Jun 10, 2015 15:58
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thehomemaster posted:IT'S SOLD OUT ALREADY?!?! It went on preorder like a month ago, but without cover art.
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Jun 11, 2015 04:58
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Got my copy of Three Moments in today, now if I can just tear myself away from Bloodborne...
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Aug 5, 2015 03:10
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Ha yea, I got the same Cyclonopedia vibe from The Dusty Hat as well, it's kind of making me want to re-read it now.
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Aug 12, 2015 21:51
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Yea, I don't really blame anyone for not being able to finish Cyclonopedia, it must have taken me at least a month of on and off reading and backtracking. What brought it to mind while reading The Dusty Hat was more of a vague feeling on my part than anything concrete, but there is some similarity, in my recollection, between the sentience of the dust vs the role that the desert and oil play in Cyclonopedia.
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Aug 13, 2015 20:13
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Reason posted:Dang I just finished Kraken and start tc&tc hoping it was going to be better, ohhh well. Was pretty disappointed with Kraken after Embassytown. I like TC&TC a lot more than Kraken for what it's worth.
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Apr 29, 2016 20:51
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I would name Felix Gilman, specifically The Half Made World, the semi-sequel The Rise of Ransom City. They're "weird westerns", like semi-mythical retellings of American history. Extremely good poo poo.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:is there such a thing as non-mediocre gaiman I've like a few of his short stories.
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Social science fiction.
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Gertrude Perkins posted:Literally punched the air in excitement. Hell yeah. Thanks for linking that, really enjoyable listen.
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