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There's a short story in looking for jake which fits and it would add a certain weirdness to the more traditional story (yes it's much weirder than sitting in a kitchn sink). The rest of the stories are all non-epistolary though. ... that: M.R. James wrote about a few, and if you can't find his writings, surprisingly similar, a few stories can be found looking for Jake ... scientist meets the aliens set against a background of the universe coming to an end. Actually it's really quite good.
looking for jake dark/weird sf horror short stories some in the style of MR James' classics, others just odd. Touches of Michael Marshall Smith there too. ... so well. Until we met Forbidden Planet. SO so dangerous shop.
dragonhaven
species imperative
the black company
looking for jake
the myriad
the dispossessed
blood music
fevre dream
and 1 non-fiction, from a massive Waterstones. I was heading to cookbooks but didn't get ... Updated with Looking for Jake: And Other Stories by China Mieville.
I have always been a big fan of Mieville's writing style and really enjoy his books. clfisha, I haven't finished City yet but I am enjoying it. I still haven't read Looking for Jake though I've probably read some of the stories in anthologies and such.
avatiakh, I'm not sure if you've read any New Weird or not? If not, Un Lun Dun is a good book to ease into China's style. If ... ... I do love his ideas & his polictical themes they add an extra edge to his fantasy. Have you tried his short story book Looking for Jake? It has mixed reviews but I heartily enjoyed it.
avatiakh: I was pondering which book I would recommend to start with yesterday. It's an odd one ... ... Volume 1 - Robert Kirkman
16. Earth Abides - George R. Stewart
17. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
18. Looking for Jake: And Other Stories - China Mieville
19. Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography - Edward Rice
20. The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
21. Ubi ... I've just entered a strangely apocalyptic London. My guide is China Miéville and he's Looking for Jake and other stories. ... Library
42. Count Zero, William Gibson
43. Anatham, Neal Stephensen
44. Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
45. Looking for Jake, China Mieville
46. Burning Chrome, William Gibson
47. The Dreaming Void, Peter F. Hamilton
48. King Rat, China Mieville
49. Decl ... #48
Yes there was 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.
... is obviously Lovecraft influences in his early writing."
You're referring, I take it, to a number of the stories in Looking for Jake? There are a couple in there which go way past 'influenced' and skip directly to 'homage'.
Indeed, I recall those being some of the stories I enjoyed ... ... my expectations were probably set too high. Expectations duly lowered, I will take dukedom_enough's recommendation and try Looking for Jake. Thanks! timjones,
You could sample his alternate mode, I think, in some of the stories in Looking for Jake, without waiting for the new novel.
I'm rather a fan of his invention - don't know if that's what you mean by grotesquerie. There will definitely be people for whom the conceit of the new ... ... seeing how we don't have that sound. I haven't even started reading it and I'm already nitpicking. Oh, dear.)
Looking for Jake and Other Stories by China Miéville (made a friend go "o_O" so now I'm wary)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin (I'm finally losing the ... ... uis
The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The Conflict between Animal Research and Animal Protection by Deborah Rudacille
Looking for Jake and Other Stories by China Mieville
The Old Stories by Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Reliquary Ring by Cherith Baldry
The Roses of Roazon ... ... Brian Ruckley
27. Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling
28. The New Weird edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer
29. Looking for Jake by China Mieville
30. Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
31. Whitechapel Gods by S.M. Peters
32. Death's Head by David Gunn
33. Reaper's G ... ... by Steven Brust
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
Spin State by Chris Moriarty
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Looking for Jake by China Mieville
Like my TBR pile needed any new additions. Oh, I was bad today.
Looking for Jake by China Mieville
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
Spin State by Chris Moriarty
Dzur by Steven Brust
... only come to understand. I am sure it would take many readings to sort it all out. Mind-bending and brilliant.
#31 Looking for Jake by China Miélville (October): This collection of short stories takes fantasy to levels I never imagined and have not read before. Some of the tales ... ... level of understanding that I like.
There are two authors that I'd like to recommend as well though: China Miéville's Looking for Jake is awesome and any short story collection by Haruki Murakami (they're all wonderful but I do especially like the new one Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.)
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