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 British wunderkind China Mieville dazzles and astonishes in his remarkable Perdido Street Station. With influences ranging from Mervyn Peake and Jack Vance to M. John Harrison, Mieville creates a dark, rich, and bizarre world inhabited by one of the most unlikely collection of characters ever assembled in one novel, let alone one city. For, like fellow Brit Alan Campbell's splendid Scar Night, Mieville's sprawling story is set within an ancient, decaying city (in fact, there are other similarities between these two novels). Mieville's New Crobuzon is a city like few others... More soon... |
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 Picture this: an ancient, crumbling city hangs suspended above a seemingly bottomless abyss on a series of gargantuan chains ... This is Deepgate, which lies at the heart of Campbell's world.
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