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Just because you like China Miéville's books....

China Miéville is one of my favorite authors, but oh! His taste in other writers is atrocious.

I'm reading M. John Harrison's Viriconium, a collection of novels by a guy that Miéville says "is one of the very great writers alive today."

Well, I can't tell it from the stuff I've read so far. The first novel, The Pastel City, was pretty good, but A Storm of Wings was much too oblique, and In Viriconium committed the cardinal sin: it was boring.

Of course, I should have suspected Miéville and I wouldn't agree on other writers when he described JRR Tolkien as "a wen on the arse of fantasy."

Read this for more on Miéville and Tolkien.

Posted by Carey on November 25, 2007 07:50 PM |

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John M Harrison wrote one great book the centauri devise (spelling may be off) for the rest agree with you!

Posted by: Peter | June 3, 2008 04:53 PM

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