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Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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China Miéville may be the least predictable genre writer of them all. He defies almost every generalization you've heard about genre fiction. Do you think popular fiction is all plot and devoid of ideas? Miéville will surprise you with the philosophical implications and sociological angles constantly at play in his stories. Do you think genre authors du…

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