![]() ![]() Our prime POV is Bellis Coldwine, a language scholar forced to leave New Crobuzon to a colony far. So where to begin?Īs with all reading decisions, this one is up to you. Another evocative story from the mind of China Mieville. THE SCAR by China Mieville No Spoiler Review - Better than Perdido Street Station - YouTube 0:00 / 10:41 THE SCAR by China Mieville No Spoiler Review - Better than Perdido Street. A Miévillian book provides glorious entertainment, powerful themes, intellectual depth, joyous wordplay, subversive approaches and with a few rare exceptions, monsters.Įach and every one of his books is an award-winner, a critical darling, and a reader favourite. The trick is to look at the books' shared qualities. The Scar China Miville 4.18 30,841 ratings1,964 reviews Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of Nova Esperium. The man is a category unto himself.Īnd what is Miévillian? ‘Tremendous', ‘mind-blowing' and ‘unmitigated brilliance' are all true, but they're not very helpful. Although many thousands of words have been written trying to put Miéville's work into neat buckets, a China Miéville book is ultimately, well – Miévillian. He addresses, dances with and ultimately departs from the traditions and expectations of every genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() China Miéville's books range freely across categories and classifications – epic and urban fantasy, hard and squishy science fiction, crime, horror, young adult and more. ![]()
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