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I recently finished China<\/a>
\nMieville<\/a>‘s second novel, Perdido Street Station<\/i>
\n(on a generous recommendation from CGB<\/a>). 
\nDifficult as it was to put it down, I read it in several delightful
\ninterludes over many weeks, just chipping away at it between the reading I was
\ndoing for coursework. And I’ve never identified as a genre-fan of science
\nfiction or fantasy, but all of that’s changed now (it’s in crisis<\/i>).<\/p>\n

In and around the complex sci-fi\/fantasy cityscape of New Crobuzon, Isaac Dan
\nder Gimnebulin, a self-described "dilettante" scientist working on a crisis
\nengine, dodges close-call after close-call after he accepts a project
\ncommissioned by a nomadic Garuda (bird-person) named Yagharek.  Yag
\nlost his wings as recompense for a crime we only learn about at the end of the
\nnovel; he walks many miles to the city where he recruits Isaac’s assistance in
\nrestoring him to flight.  Isaac accepts the difficult assignment.  He
\nimmerses himself in research on flight, and in doing so, circulates a call
\nfor winged things to observe (develop a heliotype, model, etc.).  Several
\nroguish figures want in on the money.  They bombard his lab with winged
\nspecimens.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

And this is just the start.  Perdido Street Station<\/i> is
\nunrelenting with its startlingly fast pace, vividly developed figures and
\nterrain, and wild, shocking twists.  I don’t want to give too much of it
\naway; I suspect that if you read this entry and you haven’t yet read Perdido
\nStreet Station<\/i>, you’ll be tempted to run out and pick it up. 
\nMieville’s fiction, here overflowing with eccentricity and imagination, is so irresistibly, punishingly smart, the pages threaten to drink your mind like the antagonist
\nslake-moths.  A taste:<\/p>\n

     The construct jerked.
\n     Deep in the construct’s intelligence engine circulated
\n the peculiar solipsistic loop of data that constituted the virus, born where a
\n minute flywheel had skittered momentarily.  As the steam coursed through
\n the brainpan with increasing speed and power, the virus’s useless set of
\n queries went round and round in an autistic circuit, opening and shutting the
\n same valves, switching the same switches in the same order.
\n     But this time the virus was nurtured.  Fed. (210)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s so much more here that I’m afraid I can’t really do it justice: Weaver, a plane-traveling spider-figure who wields razor-honed scissors; an army
\nof remades who follow the orders of their pieced-together crime boss, Motley; a
\nvodyani watercrafter, Lin, who dates Isaac; a Construct Council self-foraged
\nfrom a heap of rubbish; and a bad-ass team of slake-moths who play havoc on the
\npsychosphere of New Crobuzon. Oy.  I heartily recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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