Jun 25
Today I finished reading the famed Perdido Street Station. It has quite a reputation around the “speculative fiction” genres as being quite a book, the debut novel for Miéville. And it didn’t disappoint.
PSS was the winner of the 2001 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2001 British Fantasy Award. The reason it took a sci-fi AND a fantasy award is because it does a lot of genre bending. That was one of the reasons it has become so acclaimed. It reads at times like a hard sci-fi novel, and at others like a vast epic fantasy. The plot and descriptions are very gritty, yet also ornate. Miéville has gotten a lot of ink simply on his writing style, one that is very metaphorical and has you scrambling...
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