Apr
13
2010
China Meville
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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 $12.00 “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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