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Originally Posted by Severian
So I just bought a Kindle copy of The City & the City by China Mieville.
My first foray into this guy's apparently brilliant and twisted universe. Hoping for something mind blowing here.
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I read his novel Perdido Street Station recently. Definitely an interesting read, but not outright mindblowing. The plot is really great for a while until it takes a turn that seriously hamstrings it. There's a pretty interesting bit towards the middle where the lead (a scientist) explains to another character a triangular relationship between the physical, the social, and the occult in relation to crisis energy, the novel's odd manifestation of unified field theory. It was a novel really full of ideas, some better than others. I enjoyed it, enough to be interested in reading more of his stuff. Hope it's at least the same for you and that novel.