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  1. China Miéville _ Perdido Street Station

    their officer. The acid and powder in the
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  2. China Miéville _ Railsea

    In North Pittman is a particularly striking theology. There, one church memorably teaches that if all the trains were to be still, together, for one moment, if there were no rails percussing the iron road, all human life would wink instantly out. Because such noises are the snoring, the sleep-breathing of a railsea world, & it is the rails that dream us. We do not dream the rails.
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  3. China Miéville _ Un Lun Dun

    In the streets of Un Lun Dun: a group of a girl, a half ghost, a talking book, a piece of rubbish, and two living words was unusual but not very.
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  4. China Miéville _ Railsea

    Fights are much taxonomised. They have been subject over centuries to a complex, exhaustive categoric imperative. Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.
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  5. China Miéville _ This Census-Taker

    The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.
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  6. China Miéville _ Kraken

    An everyday Doomsayer in sandwich board abruptly walked away from what, over the last several days, had been his pitch, by the gates of a museum. The sign on his front was an oldschool Prophecy of the End. The one bobbing on his back read 'forget it.
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  7. China Miéville _ The Last Days of New Paris

    In Paris you had to be ready to fight art and the Hellish-not to mention Nazis-so they labored under weapons for all eventualities.
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  8. China Miéville _ The City & the City

    There are parts where even individual trees are crosshatched, where Ul Qoman children and Besz children clamber past each other, each obeying their parents' whispered strictures to unsee the other.
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  9. China Miéville _ October: The Story of the

    In those late days of summer, as the right ruminated a cleansing, there flourished a millennial indulgence.
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  10. China Miéville _ October: The Story of the

    As in Kiev, so across the cities of Russia, among the dreaming rich.
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  11. China Miéville _ Embassytown

    I admit defeat. I've been trying to present these events with a structure. I simply don't know how everything happened. Perhaps because I didn't pay proper attention, perhaps because it wasn't a narrative, but for whatever reasons, it doesn't want to be what I want to make it.
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  12. China Miéville _ Kraken

    Billy felt like a lid unsecured and banging in the wind."
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