Nov
12
2011
China Mielville
Your Mom’s Basement Interviews author China Miéville.
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Embassytown $11.54 China Miéville doesn’t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writerâand in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire fieldâwith Embassytown, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping adventure of alien contact and war. In the far future, humans have colonized a distant plane… |
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Perdido Street Station $4.39 When Mae West said, “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful,” she could have been talking about China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station. The novel’s publication met with a burst of extravagant praise from Big Name Authors and was almost instantly a multiaward finalist. You expect hyperbole in blurbs; and sometimes unworthy books win awards, so nominations don’t necessarily mean much. But Perdi… |
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Kraken $5.00 “The Soft Intelligence”: 5 Underrated Literary Cephalopods by China Miéville It was Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Philippe Diolé who named cephalopods ‘the soft intelligence’, in the subtitle to their 1973 book Octopus and Squid. At first, the adjective seems vaguely simpering, as if these ambassadors of alterity are in fact safe, unthreatening, cuddly. But immediately comes a strangeness. I… |
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