Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories, (Paperback)

from JosephCamilleri

I always find it wryly amusing when critics impressed at China Miéville rush to compare him to authors such as Zadie Smith or David Mitchell. As if Miéville were brilliant despite the fact that he writes fantastic fiction. Or as if the "weird fiction" tag attached to his books were somewhat disho...

from AltheaAnn

A brief piece - but it's got a lot in its few pages: original and weird science-fictional ideas, and a beautifully conjured sense of angst at the zeitgeist.It reminded me of an incident when I was a child: my father took me to see the controlled demolition of a building. The charges were set wron...

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I always find it wryly amusing when critics impressed at China Miéville rush to compare him to authors such as Zadie Smith or David Mitchell. As if Miéville were brilliant despite the fact that he writes fantastic fiction. Or as if the "weird fiction" tag attached to his books were somewhat disho...

from jonfaith

She felt her heart speeding as she went through these motions, not expecting to understand more but desperate to do so, here in what she could feel through her skin was a locus. She was an antigen here, perhaps. She was something.The citation reveals it all. These exercises didn't work for me. Th...

from jonfaith

She felt her heart speeding as she went through these motions, not expecting to understand more but desperate to do so, here in what she could feel through her skin was a locus. She was an antigen here, perhaps. She was something.The citation reveals it all. These exercises didn't work for me. Th...