The Bastard Prompt
In this story, Miéville creates a new word. A word that – until this story – I hadn’t realized I needed. As I kept reading, it’s necessity became apparent. That word, is bund: a word that means both but and and at the same time. Readers who love the flidity of language, will be drawn to China Miéville’s work.
The Dowager of Bees
The rules of reality are bent in this story of professional card-game players, and the hidden suits that emerge under just the right circumstances. New rules, regulations, and punishments apply to the playing of these mysterious cards. Will you be initiated?Watching God
An interesting tale built of madness, conquest, faith, and truth. What would you do, if you were a rebellious slave, tasked with taking care of foreign gods until their countries have been conquered?The Dusty Hat
While the protagonist spends most of her time relating occurrences related to politics in the fiction London in which she resides, The Dusty Hat has some great paragraphs that express what paranoia really feels like. Miéville is great at personifying inanimate objects.
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