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I recently read Perdido Street Station too and enjoyed it. Mieville has a hell of an imagination, that's all I've got to say. I think I read somewhere that he considers his genre to be "weird fiction," which I think is appropriate. Just when I felt like I'd gotten a grip on the atmosphere of his world, the next page would throw in some new element straight from the depths of his id. Steampunk cyborgs? OK. A race of cactus people? Sure. Giant flying jellyfish? Why not? And the amazing thing was that he actually made it all work. I definitely want to check out more of his stuff in the future.
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