![]() ![]() Beszel is a rather downtrodden, technologically backward country where precious investment from the U.S.A. It is an interesting concept and Mieville manages to create distinctive differences between the two metropolises. People can be disappeared for just looking at the other city. Rules are strict in Mieville’s cities laws are enforced by not only the respective police forces but by a shadowy force known as the Breech. The citizens of both countries have been trained to unsee each other and to pretend that for the most part the other city doesn’t exist they are foreigners even if they live next door. They are separate countries even though their dark and twisted streets interlink with each other and buildings can be both part of Beszel and Ul Qoma at the same time. Somewhere on the edge of Eastern Europe, lies the city of Beszel intertwined with it is the city of Ul Qoma. The story is set in two cities unlike any other. So it was with some anticipation that I picked up The City and the City. ![]() He also writes highly respected non-fiction about Marxism, clearly a clever chap. Clarke award (which he has won three times) to name a few. He is a multi award winning author, the World and British Fantasy awards and the Arthur C. ![]() His books are intelligent, highly original and very different from most of what’s currently available in the science fiction and fantasy market. China Mieville has for quite some time now been one of the best science fiction writers that this country has produced. ![]()
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