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I thought TC&TC was a fun read, although pretty badly written. It seems like China is never sure what voice to use in any of his books and always picks one that is never quite natural. I really liked that there was nothing supernatural, although it took some suspension of disbelief to accept this city could ever exist - it would have been pretty easy to cross from one city to the other without being detected, and smugglers especially would have done it all the time with impunity, and people would commit crimes in one city and then go back to their own to evade police all the time as well.
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Team Black Zion posted:I love that people read loads of speculative fiction written from a propagandized Western world/capitalist mindset without question but as soon as an author decides to mirror real life class struggle and civil rights issues in his fiction they go screaming about communism and socialism. Books aren't meant to provoke thought, they're meant to masturbate your nerd boner.
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McCaine posted:Oh I just found this thread. Thanks Hedrigall for the great thread and making me finally read The Iron Council! Unsurprisingly, I loved precisely the political stuff the best, unlike most people in this thread apparently. I have to admit I don't care at all for horror though so the 'new weird' doesn't appeal to me. Aren't you in different countries?
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quote:It starts to hail ferociously from what has been a warm(ish) blue sky minutes after I arrive at China Miéville's home in north-west London. I am startled, but Miéville takes it in his stride; after all, this is exactly the sort of thing which goes on in his particular brand of monster-ridden, literary urban fantasy. Hahaha 
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Kraken is one of the worst books I've ever read. The characters are cartoons, the story is derivative and boring and the writing is horrible. Here is some of it.quote:"Vardy, you reading lolcats?" She peered over the edge of his computer screen. He looked at her without warmth. "I can has squid back?" she said. "Nooooo! They be stealin my squid!" quote:Ornerily, it was not the fantasies that inspired most knackers, not Buffy, Angel, American Gothic or Supernatural. It was the science fiction. Time travel was out, the universe not having fixed lines, but sorcerer fans of Dr. Who made untraditional wands, disdaining willow for carefully lathed metal and calling them sonic screwdrivers. Soothsayer admirers of Blake's 7 called themselves Children of Orac. London's fourth-best shapeshifter changed her name by deed-poll to Maya, and her surname to Space1999. quote:You actually said "toerags", Collingswood said. "Are you auditioning for something?" quote:"Alright, I'm going back to the museum," Vardy said. "See if I can make a little more sense of this. Just once," he said with abrupt savagery, "in a goddrat while, it would really be a pleasure if the goddamn world worked the way it's supposed to. I am tired of the universe being such a bloody aleatory frenzy all, the bloody time." quote:There were a few pedestrians on the street, but far too few for what was still not yet night. Those out moved like what they were - people in a regime at war. There was police tape around the building. Armed officers waving them back, cauterising the area.
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This page is a pretty good illustration of why books about spaceships and elves being raped are so lovely. It's because the people who read them only want to be jerked off by the books and complain about anything that doesn't stroke their nerd boner. Just imagine the books about elf rape we could have if it wasn't for the nerds.
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SaviourX posted:There was elf rape as backstory in Dragonlance In that case I am forced to retract my argument vis a vis nerds.
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