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Finished China Miéville's Railsea -- an imaginative, but shallow, recasting of Moby Dick in a dystopian future world. The restaging of the hunt on land for giant subterranean creatures, and from a train, is a brilliant morphing of the classic sea tale of obsession and vengeance, but the book was WAY too short, with no real character development. It would require a book the size and complexity of Iron Council to fully realize the potential for this new vision.
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