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... Finney 4. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells 5. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury 6. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville 7. Dune by Frank Herbert 8. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 9. Foundation by Isaac A ...

... for two days, feeling stuffed up and sorry for myself. I am a fan of China Mieville's adult fiction, in particular Perdido Street Station, so I was curious to see how he'd go with a young adult book. I do have to admit that the opening chapters were a bit too young for my tastes and ...

... However, I'm not a big fan of sword and sourcery fantasy, so perhaps its just the wrong book for me. Why don't you try Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It's normally classified as 'new weird', but it certainly has many elements of dark fantasy. I thought it was brilliant, dark, ...

Splitting my time between New Crobuzon in Perdido Street Station and Tombstone in Territory.

... July Fiction: Killing Floor Nonfiction: The Cave Painters, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times August Fiction: Perdido Street Station, The Name of the Wind Nonfiction: none September Fiction: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Nonfiction: Dangerous Knowledge October Fict ...

... Fiction: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny Nonfiction: Columbine by Dave Cullen September Fiction: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Nonfiction: No nonfiction October Fiction: An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris Nonfiction: No nonfiction ...

These are the common books tagged as steampunk: The Difference Engine by William Gibson (324) Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (271) The Scar by China Mieville (150) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 1 by Alan Moore (114) Iron Council by China Mieville (105 ...

Start with the best of the best: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville!

GirlMisanthrope@22, Well, Perdido Street Station has steam and airships, and New Crobuzon has a certain Victorian feel, but I don't think Mieville was consciously aiming at steampunk as a genre. It is a terrific novel; Mieville is among the best fantasists now writing.

... the group's recommendation, I just picked up The Affinity Bridge by George Mann. Also, got China Mieville's Perdido Street Station. (Is this truly steampunk?)

... great ideas, and I'm sure it'll settle down (or I'll settle into it). I'm a big fan of his adult fiction, in particular Perdido Street Station.

... be to your tastes. Again, not what I would typically term 'epic', but the suggestion for Mievelle and specifically Perdido Street Station is certainly worth a read. Although I don't love everything about it, I admire it a great deal for what it does do. (Wait, nevermind, I checked your ...

... enough will to finish it. Every time I cracked it open my eyes would glaze over. This is after being totally bowled over by Perdido Street Station and The Scar and chomping at the bit for Iron Council to arrive in the local bookstore.

46/50 Perdido Street Station by China Mieville I have two main pet peeves with fantasy novels, particularly ones that take place in an imagined fantasy world with huge casts of characters. One is that they tend to slip into their own fantasy-speak without properly explaining what the words ...

I just ran through the Kindle Top 100 on Amazon.com and 48 of them were free. Including stuff like Perdido Street Station. More copyrighted stuff than public domain stuff.

WRT the aforementioned Perdido Street Station I just scored a FREE copy at the Sony Reader ebook store site. I know, I know, I'm a heretic and read ebooks. No dead trees for me if I can help it, t least until I clear off some shelf space!

... watch out for. Her new book Boneshaker is supposed to be *big* (I have it on order). What have I tagged steampunk? Perdido Street Station (China Mieville) The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick) League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (vols 1 and 2) (Alan Moore) The Glass Books ...

... .wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_steampunk_works Items in my catalog I've tagged steampunk: The Island by Tim Lebbon Perdido Street Station by China Mieville The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt Steampunk by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Mainspring by Jay Lake The Gnome's ...

... to a younger age group, and to me it's the weakest of his books. His new one, The City and the City, is good, and Perdido Street Station is another standout.

... E. Pearson A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny Columbine by Dave Cullen Closing Time by Joe Queenan Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Hmmm. A better quarter than I remembered.

I finally finished Perdido Street Station which was very, very good but also very, very long. I'm about to begin the third Three Pines mystery The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny. I love this series thus far.

52. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville This guy has lots and lots of words. I actually felt drunk on them sometimes as I was reading this. He also has an amazing imagination and world building skills. New Crobuzon is easily the most well-developed 'other' world I've ever read. It ...

China Mieville's Bas Lag novels (Perdido Street Station, The Scar and The Iron Council) are New Weird with a dash of Steampunk. You may also want to check out my thread ("So what exactly is Urban Fantasy?") here. Several ...

... Lag books, even if I find his protagonists rather unlikeable. I suspect that is by design, as the main characters in both Perdido Street Station and The Scar are really unpleasant people. I read on, intrigued and just a little bit hooked, nonetheless.

... Box 2. Clive Barker: The Thief of Always 3. Richard Matheson: Hell House 4. China Mieville: Perdido Street Station 5. Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby 6. Chuch Palahniuk: Diary 7. Cory Doctorow: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom 8. Chuck Palahniuk: Haunted 9 ...

35% of the way through Perdido Street Station. It is one of those books that make me feel drunk on words when I'm reading it but leave me strangely unwilling to pick it back up when I'm not. All told, I'm enjoying the amazing world building, but can't believe I'm not even halfway through yet.

Reading Perdido Street Station by China Mieville which was a Kindle freebie and at 5% read is mind blowing. I echo the recommendations to visit avaland's www.belletrista.com.

21. Perdido Street Station - China Mieville Like nothing I've ever read before, and in a good way. The city of New Crobuzon is the main character, and its ugliness is described in loving and beautiful detail. Amazingly good SF. I'll refrain from any more explanation other than: very worth a ...

omaca, I am a fan of Perdido Street Station, and I highly recommend Mieville's other books (the next is The Scar). I'm not a huge fan of urban fantasy though. Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere was already mentioned, it's pretty good. Charles de Lint is another author to consider. Moonheart ...

... Felport (which is the very real world, just it is not a real real world location) I do not think that anyone said that Perdido Street Station is urban fantasy though.

Thanks Hieremias, That's as good as an explanation as any. Good point about Mieville's Bas Lag stories (ie, Perdido Street Station) So, are you a fan? If so, what do you recommend?

... world. I think some of the works mentioned here as examples are definitely not urban fantasy. Lord Foul's Bane and Perdido Street Station are not set in our world or anything resembling it (yes, I know where Thomas Covenant comes from).

... it?) adult, and not the usual infantile nonesense you sometimes find in "popular" fantasy. I also enjoyed China Mievile's Perdido Street Station, though it certainly has its flaws. One genre I've seen mentioned quite a bit here is "Urban Fantasy". So what exactly is this? Does Mieville's B ...

That's a great list BehomothCat. many thanks. I'm still not sure if I like UF. I really enjoyed Perdido Street Station, but I'm put off by some of the pseudo-romantic, semi-erotic vampire drivel that is guised as Urban Fantasy.

... that. I second #20 in saying Trainspotting is one great book, and how I envy you for still not having read the fantastic Perdido Street Station, and all those other New Weird books it could lead you on to. Star on this thread!

Science-fiction 1. The Difference Engine by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling 2. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville 3. Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card 4. Dune by Frank Herbert 5. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 6. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 7. The Hitchhiker's Gu ...

I've got Perdido Street Station sitting here in the TBR pile. Someday...

69. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville This one was a re-read of a favorite. I've been busy doing other things lately, so the reading has been falling off. I needed an old friend to jump-start me again, and this is a good one. Perdido Street Station is a steampunk classic with ...

... in. The latest I've found is Mainspring, but there's a bunch of others as well. China Mieville's series starting with Perdido Street Station is set on another world, but it's a classic. Blaylock's Lord Kelvin's Machine and Powers' The Anubis Gates are also excellent.

... I'm not sure if it will ever happen. I would love to see China Mieville publish another Bas Lag book (after Perdido Street Station, The Iron Council and The Scar). Another Culture novel from Iain M Banks would be very welcome (and I haven't even read Matter yet!). ...

perdido street station

... fiction, you'd probably like steampunk. A good recent example is Jay Lake's Mainspring. China Mieville's Perdido Street Station is also very good. If you're into more modern urban settings, Charles de Lint's Moonheart is great.

... or duologies, and are excellent. The Curse of Chalion and Moonheart are very good stand-alones. Anything by China Mieville is excellent. I've come to believe that if a story can't be told in a maximum of 3 books (and even many trilogies are too long), it's not worth telling. A ...

... one, it's over 700 pages, and for another it's fantasy/sci fi/steampunk which may or may not work), but China Mieville's Perdido Street Station does most of those very well. The only one I'm unsure about is 6... although if you're willing to stretch your definition of 'person', there is in ...

... friend's gifted copy of World War Z actually. I think you're right about Mieville's 'affect', and although I enjoyed Perdido Street Station well enough, I don't know that I'd ever love it enough to want it on my shelf. He doesn't seem like a 'rereadable' author to me, and those are the ...

... worst-an insipid rehash of The Last Colony told from the point of view of yet another unbelievable female teen; Perdido Street Station: been avoiding it for a while now, but I was pleasantly surprised-baroque as hell but just as inventive, tragic as all get out-with all the grit, ...

I'm reading Perdido Street Station and finding it baffling, bizarre, and wonderful. It's my first Mieville. I have The City & The City on my shelf as well, RBeffa!

... New Weird or not? If not, Un Lun Dun is a good book to ease into China's style. If you have read some then jumping into Perdido Street Station is excellent advice for jumping head first into Mieville madness. clfisha again, I recieved a book from the LT Member Giveaway program that is ...

... if his previous books coloured my experience when reading it. oh well I will say if you enjoy a richly imagined fantasy try Perdido Street Station (a wonderful piece of world building that gets quite bizarre about half way in) otherwise head straight for The city & the City.

>104: I've wanted to read more Miéville ever since I read Perdido Street Station, but just haven't gotten around to it. I think I'll make The City and the City my next one. Thanks.

... the fact that I should have been writing an essay when I read it may have contributed to the 'unputdownable' factor. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Well, once I got into it. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. I became just as obsessed as the narrators. Garden ...

93: Perdido Street Station was really cool, I'm re-reading it at the moment. A tad thick, but well worth it. The second novel, The Scar is not quite as good, but still a great read. I'm planning to start Iron Council sometime soon too. I just finished The Book of Laughter and Forgetting ...

... been cramming into my head (though I love every second of it) to read Needful Things. Once I'm done, I hope to start Perdido Street Station. Heard lots of good stuff about that one. I'm pretty excited.

Perhaps you would like Un Lun Dun, Perdido Street Station and Iron Council by China Mieville. Or The Fade by Chris Wooding.

#9 - It may be heresy around these parts, but despite some overwrought prose I really liked Perdido Street Station and The Scar. Neat ideas at least. Still plugging away at War and Peace, and My Name is Asher Lev is actually starting to get some attention when I can take no more of 30 ...

... agree that it should be highly recommended. Thank you nemoman - I owe you one for that. I've also gone ahead and purchased Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and King Rat; all by Mr. Mieville. Another I have picked up and am in the process of reading is Court of the Air, which is a very ...

China Mieville's Perdido Street Station.

... cover looks very familiar - I think it might be one of my parents' books! I'll have to check next time I visit them. 37. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. This is a monumental steampunk/fantasy novel set in the squalid and pullulating city of New Crobuzon, where humans mix with ...

Les Scarifiés de China Miéville. J'avais bien aimé Perdido Street Station.

... against a sinister foe. This is clearly an early novel, as Mieville's writing is less polished than in novels like Perdido Street Station and The Scar, and he's clearly developing his voice and writing style. There were some scenes which didn't need to be described in so many words. ...

... Box 2. Clive Barker: The Thief of Always 3. Richard Matheson: Hell House 4. China Mieville: Perdido Street Station 5. Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby 6. David Morrell: Creepers 7. Cory Doctorow:Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom 8. Chuck Palahniuk: Haunted 9 ...

... Engine, Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates, and Blaylock's Lord Kelvin's Engine. Some more recent books are Mainspring, Perdido Street Station and Steampunk, an anthology of short stories.

Perdido Street Station

... was good for) Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey.....sublime in story, word, and all the rest...the DVD ain't bad either Perdido Street Station by China Mieville...totally from left field...but for sci-fi/speculative fiction it can't be beat...there's a lot in here for good discussion... lo ...

... wood Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks Roadside Picnic by Arkadi & Boris Strugatsky The Invincible by Stanislav Lem Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

I'm almost done with Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, which I like a lot. I'm not sure what I'm going to read after that--either World War Z by Max Brooks or Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel.

... does look interesting. Although I was thinking about picking up The Scar next... That's set in the same universe as Perdido Street Station, yes? It did seem to me like a world worth revisiting.

Reading_fox: Yes, "eclectic" is probably the word. :) I had a few words to say about Perdido Street Station on my blog after somebody else asked me the same question, so, being lazy, I'll just cut and paste my response from there: I'm actually not entirely sure what to say about it... On ...

Nice eclectic mixture of books! How did you fiind Perdido Street Station. I was impressed by the world, but rather turned off by the imagery.

... £10,000 a book, paid in three parts. New Weird is pretty much dead. None of Miéville's books ever matched the sales of Perdido Street Station - although it remains to be seen how successful The City and the City will be. Other New Weird authors have seen their sales drop. Authors that are ...

China Mieville nope Mieville nope Iron Dream Norman Spinrad Perdido Street Station Isaac Asimov Seem to be some and not others. ETA: XP/IE

... and start with dragonlance Then there's the whole field of Urban fantasy for you to explore from the dark and surreal perdido street station through investigations of Harry dresden into the more paranormal romances and werewolves of which Maneater is less romancy and more gritty than ...

I'm in the wolfhaell with Isolfr in A Companion to Wolves, and also wandering the streets of New Crobuzon in Perdido Street Station!

I'm not sure this totally fits the Urban Fantasy classification, but I really liked Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. His other books The Scar is maybe a bit outside of Urban and more a Maritime Urban Fantasy.

I took a quick look at the books in your catalogue so... Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, seeing as you've alreadty got Iron Council listed. I haven't read that one, but Perdido is the most popular of that series. It's an excellent book, with elements of fantasy and horror, ...

I just left the Nexus Islands in Wolf's Blood, and am about to visit New Crobuzon in Perdido Street Station!

... wrong with me that nothing sparks a conversation? An occasional "nice review", but no real discussion. I've only read Perdido Street Station by Mieville. I'd like to read more, but there are so many books pouring into the house...

... definitely a Lovecraftian air to a few of the stories in Looking For Jake but I was mainly referring to his writing in Perdido Street Station. Whilst Lovecraft wasn't the only influence I thought it was clear to see in the work.

... of acceptable writing lately but even before that he influenced some great writers (Peter Ackroyd for one). For me Perdido Street Station is the weakest (in terms of writing) of Miéville's work, however I enjoyed it more than Iron Council.

... what I thought of The Road. I have read Perdido Street Station but I couldn't get as excited about it as everyone else seemed to be.

... when I was a kid. Life is too short and too full of mediocrity to do much of it now. And don't even get me started on Perdido Street Station. I guess that's more a matter of style, but what a style—it's excrement! He'd probably call it excrement with a loogie on it. I can take the dark-pu ...

I just read Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. That was a great read. Really fantastic imagery. I'm looking forward to checking out The Scar. I am a huge Clive Barker fan so I would definitely recommend Weaveworld, Imajica or The Great and Secret Show. There are ...

... do some new weird/weird fantasy perhaps, given his penchant for bizarre creatures. I haven't read any Gaiman, but maybe Perdido Street Station by China Mieville? I'd love to see a slake moth on screen. A post on the IMDB books board says they're adapting Hyperion and The Fall of Hyp ...

... connected via TV, Internet and mobile phones to the rest of Earth - is well done. In contrast with his earlier novels, e.g. Perdido Street Station, Mieville uses a sparer, clipped prose style here, reminiscent of some of his short stories. But the detection is perfectly integrated with the ...

... connected via TV, Internet and mobile phones to the rest of Earth - is well done. In contrast with his earlier novels, e.g. Perdido Street Station, Mieville uses a sparer, clipped prose style here, reminiscent of some of his short stories. But the detection is perfectly integrated with the ...

... of a domicile that eats people is as much a parody of academic inquiry as it is a scary story. China Mieville's Perdido Street Station features a city with a pretty healthy monster population, from the cruel politicans and crime lords who run it to the strange god-like being who ...

... 4. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin (whoever said this was one of the best social-sf books ever -- ditto!) 5. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (science fiction almost-but-not-quite-fantasy weird-and-wonderful goodness) 6. The Giver by Lois Lowry (it's YA, but it really ...

... Mieville and Jeff Vandermeer and I MUST HAVE MORE. This group looks like a good place to find it. So I'll suggest Perdido Street Station and The Scar by Mieville as well as Veniss Underground by Vandermeer. If anyone here has read those can you suggest anything equally twisted ...

... I think they're awesome, but this year, I think it might be time to branch out and try some new fantasy writers. 1. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (finished. Very complex, but in a good way) 2.The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (finished) 3.Palimpsest by ...

... re. The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Fledgling by Octavia Butler Perdido Street Station by China Mieville A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Ulysses also by James Joyce Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

>19: tiffin Have you read Perdido Street Station and, if so, how did they compare? I've only read that one so far.

... talk about what's about to be published and how the book biz is tanking. Or how he thought up all the amazing creatures in Perdido Street Station. >50 Mmm, they ARE good, but Brunner and Aldiss are not "thin". >51, 52. Oh, yes. Ian MacLeod is a guaranteed good read. > 53 You ...

I like China personally, but I could not finish Perdido Street Station or Iron Council. Instead I would suggest The Scar, much more accessible. Having just reread Stranger in a Strange Land (horrible, horrible, babel) and Gateway (whiny, whiny, stupid), I really liked Neuromancer. ...

If you like really fucked-up weird shit that will blow your socks off, read Perdido Street Station. It's steampunk fantasy sci-fi with hypnotic monsters escaped from a lab and running amok. That's right, you heard me, monsters escaped from a lab and running amok. However, while it does a little ...

Well, yesterday I finished Perdido Street Station, which was quite good. I'm hoping to finish El cocodrilo y otros cuentos today and get started with Confessions of a Thug by Philip Meadows Taylor.

... PST, I finished my 888 Challenge. 64. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville - finished 12/31/08 Out of a desire for some degree of dreadful symmetry, I decided to end my 888 Challenge, which began ...

... Keister 18. Fool by Christopher Moore Abandoned: The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene Perdido Street Station China Mieville CarlosMcRey in 888 Challenge : Carlos 888 in '08 (Dec 27, 2008, 4:58pm)

... more entertaining than those in The Magus. With that, I'm down to one book left to go. Five days to finish off Perdido Street Station!

I finished The Magus yesterday and found it sort of a letdown. This week, I'm reading Perdido Street Station and am hoping to be finished before the end of the year.

I'm still working on both Perdido Street Station and The Magus. And I've got El cocodrilo y otros cuentos and The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty Six sort of on the backburner.

I'm still reading The Magus and have really gotten into it. I've also started Perdido Street Station. I was initially going to concentrate on The Magus, then start Perdido Street Station once Magus was finished, but I changed my mind. I find I prefer to luxuriate in long books instead of ...

... Urban Fantasy: Either completely set in an imaginary city with characters who are native to the imaginary world, as in Perdido Street Station, or mostly set in that imaginary city, with some characters from "our world" who have crossed over, as in War of the Flowers.

... same story. I know a lot of people like him, but I just couldn't get into it. I also had trouble with China Mieville. Perdido Street Station sure felt like a lot of hard work. I've read Robin Hobb and really enjoyed those stories, although they do wander at times. Glen Cook is on the ...

Perdido Street Station is sitting in my TBR pile, so I always appreciate reviews to motivate me to move it up.

agis, nice review of Perdido Street Station, particularly the last two lines -very astute and well said.

... West, Vol. 2- by Anthony C. Yu 10. American Gods- by Neil Gaiman 11. Dune Messiah- by Frank Herbert 12. Perdido Street Station- by China Mieville 13. Journey to the West, Vol. 3- by Anthony C. Yu 14. Journey to the West, Vol. 4- by Anthony C. Yu 15. Running ...

I had already read Perdido Street Station which I guess falls into that category and The Anubis Gates is on actually next on my TBR pile when I finish the book I'm reading now.

... aks. However, urban fantasy doesn't have to take place in on of OUR cities, though it usually does. China Mieville's Perdido Street Station is sometimes considered urban fantasy, for example. So, really, urban fantasy is a fairly ill-defined genre that encompasses a lot of very ...

... all the time, and I had difficulty with Wicked. Nor did I particularly care for Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. I have Perdido Street Station on the TBR heap, but it just moved down after hearing you, Arthur. The book that I hated, hated, hated--3 page chapters, ADHD changes of focus, the ...

Perdido Street Station. An overwrought, self indulgent, narcissistic, 600+ page Field Guide for a RPG. An infuriating waste of time. Despite a delirious overabundance of adjectives concerning filth, bodily excreta, morbidity, injury and decay (along with a copious use of the word FLESH) to ...

... this needed a group? I'm definitely interested, bc I just recently discovered China Mieville (impatiently waiting for Perdido Street Station to arrive in the mail) and others of his ilk. Exciting stuff...

... of manners. Up until now, though, I hadn't read a whole lot that could be classified as New Weird. I mean, I gave Perdido Street Station a go around this time last year, but I've got to admit that I couldn't finish it. I actively disliked each and every one of the main characters, and ...

The tag page for Steampunk lists: The Difference Engine by William Gibson (232) Perdido Street Station by China Miéville (183) The Steampunk Trilogy by Paul Di Filippo (46) The Scar by China Miéville (101) Iron Council by China Miéville (80) Agatha ...

... condition someone mentioned on here a while ago, somthing about TBR vs life expectancy? I'm feeling a bit guilty about Perdido Street Station by China Mieville coz its even invaded my dreams, lol... & Feelin a bit guilty bout the DownsLord series too coz I had to hunt for them & they ...

My TBR is growing quickly... It includes: The Technomage Trilogy and the Dark Mirror Fanfic from Babylon 5 Perdido Street Station Neveryona The Baroque Cycle American Gods and Anansi Boys Star Light, Star Bright The Hollow Earth and others I can't even remember at the moment.

... >) 30. Little Brother Cory Doctorow (Review) 31. Perdido Street Station China Mieville (Review) 32. Okami: Official Complete Works Capcom (CarlosMcRey in What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? August, 2008. Number 2. (Aug 31, 2008, 7:05pm)

... Pintadas by Manuel Puig from bookmooch. And some trips to the local used book stores today turned up a bounty: Perdido Street Station Trujillo Pet Food Nation The Mysteries of Udolpho The I Ching for Writers

... light, or a presumption of functionality. It's not a great definition in that it wouldn't include works like Perdido Street Station, etc. But then they don't strictly follow the definition in the list of steampunk works. In spite of the flaws, though, I think one could use the ...

... about in shadows and mist, much buckling of swashes, that sort of thing). Heartily recommended for the adventurous. #31: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville I think this is what "they" mean by "the new weird" these days. Here is a hodgepodge -- one of its characters, Mr. Motley, might ...

... never come,knife of dreams,the curse of chalion,winter rose,winter rose by mckillip,a game of thrones,perdido street station,the eightname of the windquincunx,the magicians and mrs. quent.To add to my 600 other TBR.Oy.

Under the Banner of Heaven by Krakauer The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Main Street by Sinclair Lewis Farriers' Lane by Anne Perry

I thoroughly enjoyed Glass Book of the Dream Eaters - great steampunk. If you like it, you may also like Perdido Street Station.

... I've got 9 Mooches stacked up to go and that'll probably clear me out of cash for 2-3 weeks. #1 mckait, I have Perdido Street Station if you are interested. It's a read copy and a fat book so the spine is creased but it's not in really bad condition, just well-loved! Leave me a ...

New Crozian in perdido Street OK it's a bit of an sf book, but very much a fantasy city. Lothlorien, Minas Tirith or even Moria in the days of old. Colour in Only Forward again abit SF crossovery.

... challenge. So, Bomarzo may have to wait until next year, replaced by that monstrous touchstone of the New Weird known as Perdido Street Station. Robert Heinlein has also been pushed aside for The New Weird, which I've been curious about since first I heard of it. If I do a similar ...

From PaperbackSwap: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

... they had just been to Perdido Street & I got really annoyed that they went without me... I have China Mieville's Perdido Street Station on my TBR list, i think it might have been somehow hinting at me (by invading my dreams) to hurry up & get to it, lol...

... Spanning that river is The Broken Bridge, with The Phantom Tollbooth on the bank Where the Red Fern Grows. Beyond Perdido Street Station, there's The Haunted Bookshop, which is pretty cool -- cooler than The Haunted House up on Hungry Hill, anyway. Even better are The Magic Toysh ...

China Mieville wants to be a good prose stylist. fail. Perdido Street Station is a pointless overwrought, overblown self indulgence. The novel defines the word "pretentious".

... That Appear In More Than One Category 1. Sputnik Sweetheart - Japan, 1001 Books List 2. Perdido Street Station - Fantasy, Cyberpunk etc. 3. Autobiography of a Geisha - Japan, Non-Fiction 4. An Artist of the Floating World - ...

... ampunk 1. Burning Chrome 2. Mona Lisa Overdrive 3. Perdido Street Station 4. Virtual Light 5. Gathering Blue 6. Predator's Gold 7. Mortal ...

... Dragonsong 5. The White Dragon 6. Dragondrums 7. Perdido Street Station 8. Earth Inc

... one of the main protagonists sacrificing his wife and kids (literally) to become more powerful. And I agree with #4, Perdido Street Station just oozes evil.

... light reading most of the time, but with sharp wit, humor, and a keen sense of the weirdly plausible future. 41. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville I can't believe I lived as long as I did without reading China Mieville. No words can describe the sheer imaginativeness, ...

Two places come to mind actually, hazardous as they may be: Perdido Street Station - because I'm dying to see cactus people, amongst the other weird inhabitants of that world. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - I'm not sure why but I keep wanting to visit "england in the time of magic"

In no particular order, this year I have liked: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke A walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson The Other by Thomas Tryon The Alienist by Caleb Carr If I could include just one more (making ...

... nach, sollte man die als eigenständige Werke behandeln. Als Nachteil, verliert man die Verbindung zum anderen Leute die Perdido Street Station besitzen. Aber das gilt genauso für Der Herr der Ringe gegenüber Die Gefahrten. Tim hat erwähnt dass er ein Art "Eltern-Kind" Verbindung ...

... einbändig erschienen sind, vom deutschen Verlag aber in zwei Bände geteilt wurden? Ich nenne als Beispiel einfach mal Perdido Street Station von China Mieville. Die Originalausgabe "Perdido Street Station" wurde geteilt in "Perdido Street Station 01:Die Falter" und "Perdido Street Stat ...

... von Ziegesar 16. All I Want Is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar 17. Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey 18. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville 19. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean Seanie in The Green Dragon : May's New Books - I Got Some! (May 19, 2008, 11:17pm)

... a cat bus??? I got sucked in to another “5 books for $25” sale & got: Divine Endurance by Gwyneth Jones Perdido Street Station by China Mieville The King Imperiled by Deborah Chester Vigilant by James Alan Gardner Beneath an Opal Moon by Eric Lustbader ...

Done. I loved Perdido Street Station!

Perdido Street Station & King Rat by China Mieville

... I seriously tagged it as "depressing" and "never reading again". It is a good book, but it is just heartbreaking. Also, Perdido Street Station greatly disturbed me when I read it. I think it's brilliant, but I don't think I'll be rereading it anytime soon either.

#77 thekoolaidmom: I gave up on Perdido Street Station already - I could not even make myself go to page 50 as I normally do. I may try again at a later date, but for right now, I have put it aside. I started Cry, the Beloved Country and have made it to page 83 and so far, it is very good.

#71 alcottacre I have Perdido Street Station in my TBR pile, and I'm dying to read Cry, the Beloved Country. Let me know how you like those. I might bump them up the list if they're really good. :-D

... for this week: Finishing up both Soldiers of the Night and Deathstalker, then working through The Queen of Attolia, Perdido Street Station, Cry, the Beloved Country, Black Swan Green, Cranford, The Monsters of Templeton, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Shattered Drea ...

... Of Tangible Ghosts and the two sequels. If you're up for something just a little more out there, try China Mieville's Perdido Street Station. Or if you want to dip into something a little more mainstream fantasy, I just finished Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone by Carol Berg ...

... as Stage, Soldiers of the Night, Castle Nowhere, Three Victorian Travellers, The Queen of Attolia, Deathstalker, Perdido Street Station, Cry, the Beloved Country, A Game of Thrones, and Black Swan Green. And yes, they are all library books.

... you tried On a Darkling plain or Drachenfels there's quite a few RPG novelisations some of which are quite good. Perdido Street Station is definetly morally ambiguous, although maybe too SF? Stephen King seems an obvious choice particularly fantasy wise his Dark Tower series. ...

Ditto Perdido Street Station and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell. I didn't make it through either one. Could have been my mood, could have been the characters. Also Emma by Jane Austen, and there I KNOW it was the characters. I love Jane Austen, but I couldn't stand Emma. Now I can say I' ...

... series. I read them all, but they just didn't do it for me. Lyra felt too much like an adult's conception of a child. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. The writing was lovely, but the rest of it left a bad taste in my mouth. What Was Always Hers by Uma Parameswaran. I ...

... by Cyril Wecht The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner Deathstalker by Simon R. Green Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin Black Swan Green by Davi ...

... love you, whoever you are whose library I was browsing when I saw this. Amazing.) Book of Lost Things by John Connolly Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Favorite authors: Into the Green by Charles de Lint Kissing the Beehive by Jonathan Carroll A Spot of Bother by Mark Had ...

I would suggest China Mieville's following works: Perdido Street Station and The Scar. One sequels the other, but both are stand alone books.

... interesting and although the world was kind of fun briefly it didn't go anywhere. I really loved some of the ideas in perdido but generally disliked it as a book. Wasn't as bad as Queen of Angels though.

Hated Perdido Street Station, also could not finish The Iron Council, but I started them both the year they were published. My stinkers of 2007 are two vampire novels by Erin McCarthy, High Stakes and Bit the Jackpot. I bought them because they were set in Las Vegas, but they were ...

... and Frank Herbert, so I'd never classify Little, Big and Hellstrom's Hive as clunkers. I also read and enjoyed Perdido Street Station, but not enough to bother getting any of China Mieville's other books. Having said that, I defy anyone to claim Sandworms of Dune is NOT a ...

I, too, enjoyed Perdido Street Station and Mieville's later work, The Iron Council, the latter perhaps more. But each to their own. What I didn't get, though, was your comment about PSS being "a fantasy in the masturbatory sense". Er, perhaps I missed a lot of schlocky sex (but I don't think ...

Perdido Street Station sits on top of a large secondary pile of unread books taunting me.

... Books 1 The Alienist 2 Gravity's Rainbow 3 The Magus 4 Perdido Street Station 5 Los Detectives Salvajes 6 Cien años de soledad (A Hundred Years of Solitude) 7 Moby Dick

... and others, in preparation for the new units. But in personal reading, I'm going to work on, and hopefully finish, Perdido Street Station by China Mieville.

Try China Miéville's Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council. Bas-Lag is populated with a fascinating variety of "alien" races... Cheers, Ant

Currently reading: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley

... done. He was rehashing his wonderful Pattern Recognition to ill effect. I was glad to see some other folks enjoying Perdido Street Station - every friend i suggested it to who usually share my tastes - put it down; the main problem being the unlikability of the characters. But I've liked ...

... Paterson 107. The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving 108. Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs 109. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville 110. The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley

... by Katherine Paterson 4*/5 (great) The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving 4*/5 (great) Currently reading: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley

... - I think I might have liked it better if I'd read it when I was six, but now it just seemed silly and poorly-developed. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville - I really, really wanted to like it, but I just couldn't. I actively hated all the main characters. The setting left a bad ...

... fiction! He writes fantasy with horror overtones, and he purposely tries to make it as weird as he can. I read part of Perdido Street Station, but it drove me crazy because the aliens didn't make any sense scientifically. I mentioned this to a friend, and he chided me that it was fantasy, ...

I found Perdido Street Station in a pile of streetbooks about two months back, so I think I'm going to try that one out this quarter. Also? More Star Wars. Gods, there's too much!

... because it sustained a very high level of suspense pretty much the entire way through. I really recommend it. And Perdido Street Station--I couldn't stand it either. I know it is a fantasy, but I could not get past the bug characters being fully compatible with human males for sex, ...

hmm..reading (finished Perdido Street Station today), cleaned a bit, played with the dog. And of course, I'm a horrible lurker that has to be shamed into posting. Damn shyness.

... girl Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy Jeffrey Vandermeer's City of Saints and Madmen China Mieville's Perdido Street Station and The Scar Alastair Reynolds's Century Rain and Pushing Ice Iain M. Banks's Feersum Endjinn and Against a Dark Background As ...

Perdido Street Station - I'll start it in a while, I've just picked up some brand new reads which will keep me occupied for a week or two. Station will be on the stack after them.

... reason I thought you did, but I cannot find that tag now. If it's open season, I'd be interested in seeing your review of Perdido Street Station. Otherwise, let me know, and I'll pick something else.

... wide open, huh? For speculative fiction I would recommend: All of China Mieville's books - but especially Perdido Street Station and The Scar. King Rat is also great as a debut novel and not as widely known. The Etched City by K.J. Bishop is also excellent if you ...

... followed and now I’m hooked. On the other hand, I still wait with bated breath for China Mieville’s next tome (Perdido Street Station is still my favorite)! Although I can’t get enough Gladiator movies (does anyone remember gladiator movie TV show host David the Colossus? Note: ...

I also tried to read Perdido Street Station but just couldn't seem to get into it. Perhaps I will try again, Avaland, after what you've written about it. As soon as I get home from vacation on Sunday, I'm starting The Margarets by one of my very favorite authors ~ Sheri Tepper. Looking ...

>11 I'm sorry to hear you have abandoned Perdido Street Station. It does start out slow but eventually picks up in intensity (at one point I had to put the book down because I was practically breathless). It is indeed a fantasy, although it certainly has an affinity to steampunk (i.e. the steam-po ...

I am reading Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, who I heard about around here somewhere. It is different, but very good so far. Edited to say: Eh, nevermind. I was expecting more science, less fantasy. His aliens don't make sense to me. I decided not to finish this. The ...

... and other titles Ursula K. LeGuin, Always Coming Home James Morrow, Towing Jehovah, City of Truth China Mieville, Perdido Street Station (fantasy) Jeff VanderMeer, Veniss Underground, Shriek! (also fantasy) Conventions Cliff might like: Readercon www.readercon. com >110 ...

... of all that I've read, and please note that my goal is now 100 books: January 1. Ship of Magic - Robin Hobb 2. Perdido Street Station - China Mieville 3. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell 4. Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon 5. Mad Ship - Robin Ho ...

... I found it rather blah. I was a bit surprised, as I normally like that sort of humour, but Adams did nada for me. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Again, I wouldn't say I hated it, but I strongly disliked it. I initially disliked all the characters; while this ...

... Thomas Hardy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I'll be back with more) FAVORITE BOOK(s): The Blind Assassin, Perdido Street Station, The Talisman FAVORITE DRINK: So hard to pick just one...Vodka & Club or Dry Champagne FAVORITE CHEESE: Triple cream brie FAVOU ...

... Anyhoo...yesterday, happily received in a lovely Amazon box (must buy more books to get the free shipping, after all!): Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart Both recommendations from Powell's Daily Dose which is as bad for my budget as the year I ...

#149 - I read Perdido Street Station a couple of weeks ago and was very disappointed. I was really expecting to like it, but I just couldn't stomach it. There are two things that either make or break books for me: characters and setting. I actively disliked the main characters in the beginning, ...

... the beginning of this month: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Wittgenstein and Derrida by Henry Staten Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Some big dialogue thing about Determinism/Free Will I'm into Studs Lonigan by Jam ...

#27 xicanti - I started Perdido Street Station, but I have not finished it. There were several other things I wanted to read so I decided to put it aside until I have more time to devote to the book. I'll probably read it over the summer. Please let me know what you think of it.

73. Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay - keeper 74. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville - library 75. Walking After Midnight by Karen Robards - seller 76. Fables: Homelands by Bill Willingham et al - library 77. Magician: Master by Raymond E. Feist - ...

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It's an LT recommendation; I probably wouldn't have picked it up if I hadn't heard so much about it on here.

Try the Urban Fantasy group. Perdido Street Station Storm Front Kim Harrison, for a wide range.

... Rye by J.D. Salinger. And I haven't read the rest of the book yet, (it's up next), but I love the first line from Perdido Street Station by China Mieville: "Veldt to scrub to fields to farms to these first tumbling houses that rise from the earth."

I'm reading The Scar right now. Perdido Street Station is one of my favorite books.

... hits and some misses but worth checking out. China Mieville is another new author of note. I didn't much care for perdido Street Station but I appreciated the talent he has. Sean Williams might be hard to find, but I enjoyed his The Dark Imbalance series. Of course Neal Steph ...

... couple of things come in. I borrowed When Darkness Falls by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, then came across Perdido Street Station by China Mieville in the paperbacks. I figured I'd better grab it while I saw it, since you can't request paperbacks through my library system. ...

After finishing Perdido Street Station I was in the mood for some YA fiction so I picked up The Amulet of Samarkand, So You Want To Be A Wizard and The Golden Compass. I finished the first two (and really enjoyed Samarkand) but have yet to read the Golden Compass (which everyone seems to ...

I bought more books this past week, showed up from Amazon on Saturday. Oh, the shame. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, based on the discussion about it in here Eldest by Christopher Paolini just came out in paperback Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold - read Curse of Chal ...

China Mieville's Perdido Street Station for the munificent sum of $2.95 at the local used bookstore. It's in wonderful condition, too. I've heard so much about it that when I saw it I thought "why not?" It's got 20-something reviews on LT alone.

... Roombas to clean it up for me. I guess I should actually post something that pertains to this thread. I'm STILL reading Perdido Street Station. I really like that book, but I've had very little time to read this week. I'm also reading Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer.

I'm still reading Perdido Street Station and Lisey's Story. I have had very little reading time this week. I hope to finish both of these over the weekend. I am not familiar with Trollope, but after reading the above posts I'm very interested. I'll see if my local library has anything by ...

I just finished reading Perdido Street Station and was looking to start someing new that was a little lighter and more escapist. After looking over some of the posts I have put together a list of some books I am thinking of starting. Does anyone have an opinion? The books are as follows: -The ...

I just finished reading Perdido Street Station and was looking to start someing new that was a little lighter and more escapist. After looking over some of the posts I have put together a list of some books I am thinking of starting. Does anyone have an opinion? The books are as follows: -T ...

>61 The Scar is indeed subtler, more accomplished, than Perdido Street Station in my opinion as well, mdbenoit. I don't really feel it would make as many converts as Perdido Street Station does, however, precisely because it's subtler. THe style is so much more raucous, more vivid, in Perdi ...

I am finally into Perdido Street Station. I'm also reading Lisey's Story by Stephen King and, on a lighter note, Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie. I read alot during the night when I can't sleep. King and Mieville aren't really "read in the middle of the night" books. I ...

>12 richardderus, I'm also a fan of Mieville. Perdido Street Station was my first. I've read all of his now. The Scar wasn't as impressive (maybe because I was by now familiar with his style) but I found it much subtler. I preferred it to Perdido.

>9, GeorgiaDawn, I loved Perdido Street Station and would love to hear your response! Is this your first read by Mieville? It was mine...and made me a fan. I hope you feel the same way.

I am almost finished with Hybrids by Robert J. Sawyer and Chill Factor by Rachel Caine. I will begin Perdido Street Station by China Mieville later today.

I liked Perdido Street Station for its unusuality (is that a word?), for its world, and because it was really interesting. I didn't actually enjoy it that much in retrospect and I probably won't ever read it again, but I think it was a worthy read since Mieville went in what felt to me a ...

#16 - I wouldn't call that a spolier for Perdido Station dbeyer's which appears close by, is a bit, but yours just picks a few details without giving away anythign about the plot or how they interact. I found parts of station utterly absorbing, parts very weird and parts just unplesant. I ...

Msg#'s 11,12,14,16,18 You guys have my interest piqued about Perdido Street Station. I haven't read anything by Mieville before but I've heard him mentioned before. Another to add to the TBR list!

#11 and #12 - Perdido Street Station is at the top of my "to be read" stack. What do you suggest?

I am reading Perdido Street Station. Kind of wacky mix of Sci-Fi, steampunk, fantasy and horror. I am over half way through and still not sure what I think about the book.

... everyday, haunting the sunlit realm, drying conversations in the throat and stealing friends away. China Mieville, Perdido Street Station

... the author. Thanks for telling me, Atomicmutant. You just made my reading experience better. :) >#201 I liked Perdido Street Station better than the other books I've read of his, but I've only read King Rat and The Scar. The Scar I only made it about a quarter of the way in ...

... the books are very good. Must get around to reading some more of le Guin's other work. #189 - I loved the world in perdido street station but I wasn't that taken by the plot/characters. I'm not sure why, but I've relegated buying more of Mieville's work to a long way down my list. Ho ...

... I'll say it again A Wizard of Earthsea starts off one of the finest fantasy trilogies ever written. I <3 it. >#180 Perdido Street Station had some amazing imagery. What an incredible imagination China Mieville has. I've just started reading House of Leaves and that book is CRAZ ...

... Warden books. I just placed ILL requests for all of them. Are there any in the series that are duds? #180 - I have Perdido Street Station, but it's in my "to be read" stack. Maybe I should move it to the top! I finished The Book Thief and started One Thousand White Women. I ...

I'm reading Perdido Street Station (thanks LT!) and listening to Talk Talk.

Perdido Street Station belongs to my boyfriend, but I own The Scar. It keeps us together. :)

... clothes and other 'stuff', but my library will be epic by the time I'm ready to go. If any of you guys have read Perdido Street Station, I'm like those nomadic bird people who carry their libraries on their backs. For you guys who want a library, how badly do you need a dining room? ...

Mieville's Station though I'm not sure how I'd want to do so - and I'd crtainly not want to live there.

... novels. I enjoyed it quite a bit and am looking forward to finding out more about Dante's world. I wonder does Perdido street station count as Urban Fantasy?

I third the books of China Mieville. Iron Council is still sitting on my shelf waiting to be read, but Perdido Street Station and The Scar were some of my favorites. The Light Ages by Ian R. MacLeod was a good read in the magic/steampunk arena (as opposed to the pure technology ...

... if you like Cold Skin; I've read most of it but I don't think I finished. I'll leave it at that for now. #41 & #48 Perdido Street Station is terrific. It starts slowly but I know I there is a scene later in the book where I actually had to put the book down to catch my breath. Dark, so ...

Used up the rest of my UBS certificate on: Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville The House Rabbit Handbook by Marinell Harriman American Soldier by Tommy Franks They Call Me Naughty Lola by David Rose

... R.R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle 25. Sandkings, George R.R. Martin 26. Jurisdiction Series, Susan R. Matthews 27. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville 28. Salt, Adam Roberts 29. The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell 30. The Lensman Series, E.E. 'Doc' Smith 31. In ...

... which I think enhances the story. I'll let you know what I think when I finish it. mdbenoit, I think I disagree that Perdido Street Station is primarily a love story, but I'm going to have to think about it - that was so many Mieville's ago... (I also am "bugged" a little about describing ...

... when faced with the certain death of the Earth. The science supports the character development, not the other way around. Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville, is the love story between a scientist and a praying mantis-like female, and his struggle to survive in an unfriendly world. T ...

Perdido Street Station is a great, transporting read. I would suggest China Mieville in general as an author. Also, for fun, light reads, the Elizabeth Peters Amanda Peabody mysteries are so great (I listen to them on tape and the characters are wonderful).

... cool. I stole a bunch of stuff for my D&D campaign from there. Almost forgot to mention my favorite book of all time Perdido Street Station also China Mievilles other books The Scar and The Iron Council. All excellent and include many elements of steampunk.

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It's one of the best reads I've had in a while.

... best of his work). Another second to mieville who's recieved a lot of praise though personally I wasn't that taken by perdido. Stephen Donaldson's Gap series - initially written a while ago but the final work can't be 10 yrs old yet? Not to everyone's taste, I warn you now. no ...

... of God by Mary Doria Russell In the Palace of Repose by Holly Phillips Spin by Robert Charles Wilson Perdido Street Station by China Mieville A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore (weird fiction) Old Man's War by John Scalzi

... ie? This follows from a few posts that have included Anne Mccaffery's pern series as fantasy and China Mieville's Perdido Station as fantasy. To me there is a distinction: both types and indeed nearly all fiction are about people and how they behave. To be SF the technology has also ...

OK, I promised myself to go with whatever the rest of you decided, but personally I would like to read Perdido Street Station by Mieville - a book also suggested by Morphidae, and one which is high on my TBR list (although I don't own a copy yet). I'm sure Gene Wolfe is OK, and if you ...

... Caine Warlock in Spite of Himself by Christopher Stasheff Archangel by Sharon Shinn Moon Called by Patricia Briggs Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Rhapsody by Elizabeth Haydon Moonheart by Charles de Lint Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson A Game of Thrones by George R.R ...

China Mieville's Perdido Street Station etc. is most definitely fantasy, as far as I can see, just clearly and unashamedly urban, not high, as there is not an elf or a dragon to be seen. Just cactus men, magical monsters and the odd sorcerer and plenty of thaumaturgically altered convicts. T ...

... tales Fritz Leiber's The Swords of Lankhmar et. al. Glen Cook's The Black Company China Mieville's Perdido Street Station Richard Adams Watership Down L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz etc. Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland C. S. Lewis The Lion ...

Perdido Street Station - China Mieville Rising Stars Vol. 1 - Joe Straczynski The Vile Village - Lemony Snicket The Hide - Barry Unsworth A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley I don't know how varied these are since they are all fiction. One is a graphic novel and ...

Here are mine, in no order of preference: Perdido Street Station The Chronicles of Narnia Imajica Snow White, Rose Red (and the whole series) Bloodsucking Fiends Perfume Jitterbug Perfume The Moor's Last Sigh Grendel The Witching Hour

... of Sterling's list) I would say are plain SF or fantasy. For example it surprises me that anyone considers Mieville's Perdido Street Station and The Scar slipstream. Same for Only Forward and Sundiver.

I too have Perdido Street Station on my bookshelf, though I haven't read it yet. I would love to know what you think of it, when you are finished.

War for the Oaks is pretty close the first thing that springs to mind for me, too. Throw in Perdido Street Station as well.

... my favorite is Hard-boiled Wonderland and the end of the world. Right now though I'm delving into China Miéville's Perdido Street Station I quite like it so far and I'm almost half way through it. And as I am a firm believer in what someone called "the potatoe chip theory of reading" (ni ...

... Pamela Dean though I've only read Tam Lin. Joan Aiken. Susan Cooper. Recently I've read and enjoyed Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. I used to love David Eddings (and will still reread occasionally) and Raymond Feist. I was even delighted to ...