I recently finished Perdido Street Station, and one minor thing that bothered me is how many of the other races were either a humanoid version of earth life (cactus person, bird person) or a literal combination of a human and something (head of a bug, body of a person). That just seems so fantastically unlikely that I wonder if any of the other books in that setting explain it. Like, is it a future earth and the races are results of generic modification in some prior era?
I liked the book pretty well, through it’s not exactly uplifting. Thought provoking though.
Okay, thanks.
Do you recommend The Scar?
Meiville wrote The City and The City, right? I think that’s the only other one currently on my reading list.
I read all three of new crobo books and I feel like Perdido was the best, scar second, iron council I don’t Even remember. It’s been a while though so forgive my memory
I really enjoyed The City and The City, it was a really novel and interesting concept about how far socially constructed concepts can go.
Perdido Street Station I couldn’t get into though.
I can see how it wouldn’t be for everyone.
One weird thing about reading ebook versions is in not always aware of how long they are, at least at the start. With PSS, I was thinking it strange that so little happened, then I realized that, even though I was a couple hundred pages in, I was less than a third of the way through.
An IRL friend who’s very into SF also recently recommended The City And The City, so I’ll probably read it soon.
I bounced off Perdido twice, then tore through The Scar then went on to read his whole back catalog. It’s my favorite of the Bas Lag “trilogy”.