Mieville is a bit hit or miss with me. He has great ideas and can write beautifully but sometimes his work seems to run out of steam and limp to a conclusion. I loved The Scar but was bit underwhelmed by Iron Council. Please let me know how The City and The City turns out.
Have you ever read anything by Mark Sumner? He wrote two damned fine books in the late 90s called Devil's Tower and Devil's Engine. They take place in an alternate American West where magic exists due to a apocolyptic event during Civil War. They might be something you'd enjoy. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@...> wrote: > > > Right now, B, I'm reading China Miewille's "The City and The City" (the > second "The City" mirror-reversed), about a detective investigating the > murder of a woman who seems to be a prostitute. The detective soon realizes > that the woman is from a version of the city that exists in the same space as > the city he's in. After that, I've got Brent Weeks' "Night Angel" trilogy, in > which a young boy learns to become an assassin, but only after he masters the > one unique magical gift he has. (Problem is, he doesn't know what the gift is > just yet.) > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody > hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: daikaij...@... > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:50:34 +0000 > Subject: [scifinoir2] What Are You Reading? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > My semi-legendary "To be Read" pile is starting to thin out > just a bit and it needs to be fed before it goes feral. Any suggestions? > > > > My wife has the last book of the John Twelve Hawks Fourth Realm trilogy The > Golden City hanging around and I may add it to the list. > > > > I just finished an urban fantasy by Seanan McGuire called Rosemary and Rue. i > liked it but I figured out the central mystery way too early and it made the > book drag a bit. Plus I was hoping for something a little more gritty. > > > > I have two books waiting to be read that might fit the bill: > > > > Child of Fire by Harry Connolly. It's about a not so nice guy in debt to an > even meaner wizard. I've heard it's a bit grittier than the Harry Dresden > series and I'm in the mood for something similar. > > > > Next is Tom Sniegoski's A Kiss Before The Apocolypse. I first read his work > in a collection called Mean Streets that featured a Harry Dresden story. The > work that hooked me most was Sniegoski's story Noah's Orphans. Remy Chandler > was the seraphim Remiel who gave up his glory after the last war in Heaven. > He lived as a human but apart until the 20th century. He fell in love, got > drawn back into the great game of Heavenly politics and had to hold back an > apocolypse or three. In Noah's Orphans he is drawn into the mystery when > someone kills the "Old Man" Noah. To say more would spoil it. > > > > I came into the middle of the series and mistakenly read the second book of > the series which has some uncanny parallels to the current season of > Supernatural. So now I'm finally reading the first book. > > > > So what's on your list? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/ >
