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Looking forward to eight pages of intimate mechanical detail describing someone making love to Bellend Mountain
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So I just finished (and loved) Iron Council, meaning I've finished the Bas-Lag trilogy completely now. Where do I go with Miéville from here? The only other book of his I've read (and also loved) was London's Overthrow, and I own the essay collection Red Planets.
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Sep 16, 2015 20:35
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I have Embassytown on order at my local bookshop, and I'm excited. Speaking of Dial H, I only have the first trade - is the second one also China's writing? Is it worth getting either way?
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Sep 19, 2015 17:54
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I now own a copy of Embassytown! So that'll be my next Miéville~
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Sep 25, 2015 02:36
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Eiba posted:I thought Iron Council's anti-climax was fantastic. It ended with the defeat of the revolution, but an vivid and visceral promise of a future revolution in the form of that incredible frozen train, motionlessly poised to hurtle once more towards the city. It might be because I really liked that image, but I was left really satisfied with Iron Council. Yes! It really got to me when I read it - I should see how I feel a few years later, given how much more radicalised things have become.
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May 23, 2019 00:50
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I agree with the above posts - his essays and nonfiction are good (London's Overthrow was particularly puissant for me when I first read it) but I want a nice chunky brain-scrambling novel. I've found I'm rationing the remaining books of his I haven't got to yet.
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Jun 6, 2022 14:08
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I agree about the endings - Iron Council is my favourite of the three but it wouldn't have meant nearly as much, thematically, without PSS and The Scar before it. I might have posted about this when I first read it, but taking the concept of a Permanent Revolution and making it text really got to me. The collision is always imminent, the vision of a better world is always visible. After 2,000 pages of strife and failure and torment, peppered with smaller victories, it felt like the most fitting way to wrap things up. I do wonder what a hypothetical fourth Bas-Lag book would look like, and even where/when it would take place. I don't think Miéville would be satisfied with another side story set during the events of the trilogy, but I don't know how far into the "future" a sequel might be set. Dieselpunk with crisis engines? Whatever warped form of hyper-globalism emanates from New Crobuzon or one of its rival city-states? A feel-good road trip with a plucky band of misfit teens exploring the ruins of the fallen empires? Gertrude Perkins fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Sep 29, 2022 |
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Jun 27, 2022 09:29
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Literally punched the air in excitement. Hell yeah. Also I didn't see anyone posting about this before, but back in December of last year, Miéville was on Chris Hayes's podcast Why Is This Happening?, of all things. They had a rather nice and respectful conversation about the Communist Manifesto.
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Jun 1, 2023 03:24
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Open Source Idiom posted:Special hole stories. Chuck Tingle has this genre on lock
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I am so confused and so excited for this
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