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The City and the City by China Miéville

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Author China Miéville has described his novel The City and the City as a work of crime fiction. Yet this same book was honored with the Hugo as best science fiction novel of the year. And readers might be equally justified in describing this story as an extravagant exercise in fantasy literature. On the other hand, a close reading of this strange novel …

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