China Mieville audio interview

[Jasper Fidget]

I liked Perdido a lot.  The Scar was a little too 
Super-Mutant-Vampire-Pirate-Ninja over the top for me.  Definitely an 
interesting writer though.  He was at the center of some kind of 
anti-Tolkien squabble a few years ago:

http://www.boingboing.net/2003/11/02/mieville_on_tolkien.html

the Robot Vegetable wrote:
> Recommended, good stuff.  I liked _The Scar_ more, but you should read
> them as he wrote them.  Perhaps I an inured - they are not as grotesque
> as some have characterized them.
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> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Ya Sam wrote:
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>> I haven't read anything by him, but how can he, in this age, not be 
>> influenced by Pynchon? I am fantasy sceptic, but maybe I'll take a shot at 
>> his 'Perdido' book one day.
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>> http://www.edrants.com/?p=5824#respond
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