Those who follow me on Twitter may have seen me bewailing the fact that my Kindle tragically expired last week with FIVE DAYS left in the trip and NO PHYSICAL BOOKS ( Read more... )

If nothing else, I probably have Snowpiercer to thank for reminding me about reading Railsea, China Mieville's MOBY DICK ON A TRAIN ( Read more... )

I still have no idea what I thought about China Mieville's Kraken, except that, man, I am REALLY IMPRESSED he managed to maintain five hundred pages of this book with a straight face. (I mean, the straight face is necessary to the joke. I think. Probably.)

So Kraken kicks off with the mysterious disappearance of a PRESERVED GIANT SQUID from the ( Read more... )

I have read most of China Mieville's adult novels, so I would probably have read his YA Un Lun Dun even without shati's recommendation, but it certainly did not hurt ( Read more... )

I've read all China Mieville's New Crobuzon books, and I actually like him a lot. He's totally allergic to happy endings, but he consistently wins me over with these fantastic dream/nightmare images that linger in your head - a city made of ships, a stolen train with rails being constantly laid down in front of it. King Rat is his first book, ( Read more... )