With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about—or prevent—the End of All Things. · The set-up of China Miéville's Kraken sounds a bit like The DaVinci Code, but there is nothing derivative about this new novel by the two-time winner of the British Fantasy Award winner. This dark fantasy about a missing thirty-foot giant squid quickly plunges us and its main character Billy into an underground London so strange and horrific that it will boggle the minds of even New York subway Brand: Random House Publishing Group. Kraken by China Mieville is about as predictable and formulaic as a book about a squid sect amidst a London underground teaming with competing cults and all under the shadow of the end of the world can be. Weird, weird book. But then, Mieville is supposed to /5(K).
China Miéville's long-awaited squid epic, Kraken, hits shelves next month. Like his previous novel, The City The City, it's about an urban landscape that forms its own alternate reality. In. China Miéville's Kraken is kind of the ultimate in beach reading, thematically at least. I've been a fan since his editor at Tor thrust a copy of King Rat in my hands and my appreciation for. China Tom Miéville FRSL (/ m i ˈ eɪ v əl / mee-AY-vəl; born 6 September ) is a British speculative fiction author, essayist, comic book writer, socialist political activist, and literary bltadwin.ru often describes his work as weird fiction and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New Weird.. Miéville has won numerous awards for his fiction, including the.
Kraken by China Mieville is about as predictable and formulaic as a book about a squid sect amidst a London underground teaming with competing cults and all under the shadow of the end of the world can be. Weird, weird book. But then, Mieville is supposed to be among the vanguard of the weird fiction group. The exuberant energy and ambition of Kraken make for a complex novel packed with fascinating and original concepts. Miéville powers through that conceptual density with an action-filled plot, a. Title: Kraken. Author: China Mieville. Genre: Urban Fantasy. Publisher: Del Rey (US) / Macmillan (UK) Publication Date: June Hardcover: pages. With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year.
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