Welp, I'd been hoping/intending to read this forever, because, like, everyone recommended it, and it was indeed awesome. One of those books that for weeks and weeks afterward, it is still informing your reactions to /perspectives on lots of sorts of things that happen to you every day. A really...
It had that great sense of disorientation that I love about the authors other books. Dropping you in over your head in a new and highly creative premise and letting the reader figure out how to swim. I love that. But somewhere in the middle things lose momentum and urgency and it gets a little b...
Okay so I read a couple of the single issues and thought I wasn't a Dial H fan, but reading the graphic novel was a whole different ball game. It was super interesting reading a bunch of issues at once and having the story of the history of the dials and how they work slowly unravel. This isn't t...
Not sure how I feel about this one. I think I expect more and feel like I'm supposed to view the oddly-worded dialogue every character seems incapable of spitting out in a readable manner.This also feels really Grant Morrison-y in that there's little explanation of the surreal elements, which I f...
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 ...
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...
If (for whatever strange reason) you ever wondered what a love child of "Alice in Wonderland" and Gaiman's "Neverwhere" would look like if it were raised by the Master of Weird - well, say hello to Un Lun Dun. 'I know you're not a sidekick.''No one is!' Deeba shouted. 'That's no way to talk about...
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...
What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Now from this brilliant young writer comes a groundbreaking collection of stories, many of them previously unavailabl...
He cooked, glancing at me as I waited speechless and deflated like an empty bag. I almost felt too empty to be afraid until the night came all the way on and I lay in my cubby room listening for the sound of my father coming up the stairs, imagining him at my door, between his and my mother’s emp...
The Surrealists were playing a game. He watched them sourly. Varo drew a snake coiled on a wheeled cart. She scribbled it in seconds. From where he was sat, Jack alone could see what she was drawing. “Allons-y,” she said. She held it up and turned it around, for one second, to show it to Lamba, w...
Everyone'll tell you how they or their friend, which you can see in the way they say it they want you to think means them, knew Jack. Maybe even how they helped him, how they were part of his schemes. Mostly though of course they know that's too much and it'll just be how they or their friend was...