Series: New Crobuzon
by Author China Miéville
The Scar (2004)
I was very, very disappointed with this – I was looking forward to another dense, dizzy ride that I had enjoyed in his previous three novels I’d read. By now, I was sufficiently familiar with his method – there would be some amazing, ridiculous, wild, but immensely interesting world-building. May...
Iron Council (2005)
A profoundly beautiful novel, perhaps the best speculative fiction that I've read, but likewise certainly enriched by reference to its close companion text, The Scar, which parallels it in important ways, as well as to Perdido Street Station, which introduces its setting.As in The Scar, the narra...
Perdido Street Station (2003)
I Love You, I Love You, I Love YouFor the fortnight it took me to read this novel, I was in another world and I was in love.Perhaps, now, I’ll retreat from that world and substitute another or others (or perhaps even return to my own world), but I will remain in love.Is this a fantasy love or is ...