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China: it's not just for grownups anymore.
Sep. 2nd, 2007 08:24 pmJoy is one part simple carbs, two parts coffee, three parts incredible book and two parts weightlifting.
Consider this a high recommendation for China Mieville's new young adult book Un Lun Dun (say it with me: un-London), which is basically Neverwhere meets The Phantom Tollbooth. Mieville's talent for world-building is on full display here. "Oh, they've done a good job convincing you people that the hippies in zoos are the typical giraffe. I suppose they've convinced you that the long necks are for reaching high up into trees for leaves, too, haven't they? Got nothing to do with waving the bloody skins of their victims in the air, oh no."
Some people seem to be on Amazon complaining that this isn't Perdido Street Station or The Scar, and hoping Mieville goes back to Bas-Lag... as if he's terribly likely to stay away from there. But I'd like to see more of this, actually; maybe something set in Lost Angeles or Sans Francisco. Un Lun Dun is perfect long-weekend reading -- and with Mieville's nasty-ometer dialed down to YA level, the reader doesn't have to flinch all the way through.
Consider this a high recommendation for China Mieville's new young adult book Un Lun Dun (say it with me: un-London), which is basically Neverwhere meets The Phantom Tollbooth. Mieville's talent for world-building is on full display here. "Oh, they've done a good job convincing you people that the hippies in zoos are the typical giraffe. I suppose they've convinced you that the long necks are for reaching high up into trees for leaves, too, haven't they? Got nothing to do with waving the bloody skins of their victims in the air, oh no."
Some people seem to be on Amazon complaining that this isn't Perdido Street Station or The Scar, and hoping Mieville goes back to Bas-Lag... as if he's terribly likely to stay away from there. But I'd like to see more of this, actually; maybe something set in Lost Angeles or Sans Francisco. Un Lun Dun is perfect long-weekend reading -- and with Mieville's nasty-ometer dialed down to YA level, the reader doesn't have to flinch all the way through.
