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What's the best introductory work of China Mieville? Seen /lit/ talking about him frequently so I thought I'd take a look. Should I start with his earlier work like Perdido Street Station or something more modern?

>> No.6718847

>>6718842
Yeah Perdido Street Station was his 'breakthrough' novel, it was his second I think. The first in a loose trilogy.

>> No.6718858

Perdido Street Station or The Scar. The City and the City is good too. I would say any of those three, if you enjoy it, read another. But those are the only decent ones in my opinion.

>> No.6718877

the kraken is his best work. not the easiest to read though

>> No.6718883

>>6718842
Perdido is a fine place to start and possibly his best book, too.

>> No.6718893

why would anyone name his kid china?

>> No.6718897

I would "fuck" Meiville.

>> No.6718918

Honestly, I wouldn't go with Perdido Street Station.

If you want to read a fantasy novel, read The Scar. Yes, it's the second of the three Bas-Lag novels, but they're all stand-alone, and frankly The Scar is the best of the three.

Otherwise, read the City and the City.

>> No.6718931

>>6718897
Because they knew with an effeminate faux aristocratic family name, he would need a proper working class 'andle if he was to fulfill his destiny and grow up to be a well 'ard Marxist intellectual.

China = china plate
China plate = Cockney rhyming slang for mate. Mate = friend / chum / a companionable gentleman.

One with the common man in 3 easy steps.

>> No.6718962

Poor man's Mervyn Peake

Left Perdido street station halfway through due how cliched it was and how the descriptions were written.

>> No.6718966

>>6718931
Shit. That was meant for this one. The question about his name not the comment about fucking him.
>>6718893

>> No.6718990

>>6718931
>>6718966
lmao, /pol/fag tripping up on a freudian slip.

anyway op you'd want to start out with perdido and then try the city and the city to get a feel on him. if you don't dig either work then he's probably not for you

>> No.6718991

>>6718966
It's okay if you want to fuck him too, m8. We all do.

>> No.6719003

>>6718962
Francophile pls go.

>> No.6719005

>>6718962
Mieville pretty freely admits that his main inspirations were Peake and Moorcock.

>> No.6719445

>>6719003
>Mervyn Peake
>france
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