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IIRC from a mailing list post, amazon made a page for Kraken based on a rumor. China himself said he doesn't have any plans to write a book called that, and doesn't know what gave amazon the idea that he did.
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Slothapotamus posted:Got a link to that interview (if it was on the web that is)? I think the other book may have been "Kraken"; http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kraken-China-Mieville/dp/0333989511/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242830601&sr=8-8. It's the only book of his that isn't out currently. some guy on a mailing list in 2007, re: Kraken posted:Someone asked China about this at the signing in Washington D.C. in withak fucked around with this message at 16:25 on May 20, 2009 |
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I think the whole point was that it could only move as fast as they could pick up and re-lay the track.
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I don't know what planescape is, but having things that can jump back and forth between multiple dimensions probably wasn't invented by whoever invented planescape.
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Sexpansion posted:If I didn't like Perdido Street Station, should I still read Kraken? It's definitely peaking my interest. Yes, they are different. Also it is piquing your interest.
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I think the London School of Economics gives away PhDs to any fantasy author who wanders up to their door.
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MikeJF posted:And now, a shiny new short story in the Guardian! Look! Isn't that lovely! Go read it! Holy poo poo, this is awsome.
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FreudianSlippers posted:However I'm a bit too busy studying right now to start reading a book, especially one as thick as Iron Council. Studying is overrated, start it anyway.
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May 1, 2011 03:03
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What a dreamboat.
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IMO if you like sci-fi but didn't like Perdido Street Station then you might like King Rat even less. The ratio of sci-fi to weird is a lot higher in Perdido Stree Station than in King Rat.
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Paragon8 posted:That despite the supernatural elements separating the cities, it's essentially a common human problem with just a touch of flair. Doesn't it turn out that there is nothing at all supernatural about the situation?
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Could be either reference books about imaginary creatures, or else peoples attempts to classify writing similar to his.
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If anyone could do a Bioshock novelization...
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May 17, 2013 02:54
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If you are hoping for monsters in The City and The City then you will be sorely disappointed.
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Hedrigall posted:Are you confusing TC&TC and Embassytown? I haven't heard the audio book but it wouldn't be unexpected for the name of the city from TC&TC to be handled like that. For Embassytown they would have to do that overdub thing for a lot of stuff, wouldn't they?
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BananaNutkins posted:Anyone got a good New Weird YA recommendation? Not including Railsea. What about Un Lun Dun by China Mieville.
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European people can't read long books.
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The people demand more books.
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ZorajitZorajit posted:I'm thinking about picking up Mieville because I'm increasingly exhausted with gibbering right-wingers taking up all the space on the SF&F shelf. I'm looking at you Baen publishing. Should I start with Perdido Street Station? Yes.
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May 14, 2014 18:44
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But I want it now 
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Mike N Eich posted:There's so many little nods to leftist politics that I appreciated as well. The seditionist paper reads like every boring Socialist Worker article, and Derkhan and Isaac are both lovable swipes at the type of radicals you'll run into at universities or in the streets. If you like nods to leftist politics then keep reading.
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There is nothing supernatural.
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Not until January 2016 :-/
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Jun 4, 2015 15:23
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Just be prepared to forfeit major internet street cred.
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Jun 6, 2015 02:21
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Maybe that is exactly what it is supposed to look like.
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Benson Cunningham posted:
Don't believe his lies.
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Don't be an idiot.
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I also don't remember any actual scifi.
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Dienes posted:There you go mixing up khepri and anophelii, you racist. Lol khepri are the beetle-women dude. Anopheles are the mosquito people who are exiled on a desert island.
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May 16, 2019 14:25
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I though the beetle-women communicated with each other through smells and with humans through sign language.
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May 16, 2019 15:13
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Additional study is required.
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May 16, 2019 18:26
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It's a pretty good word IMO.
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I predict that the Spectre Haunting book will be sorely lacking in puissance.
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