Un Lun Dun<\/i> by China Mieville<\/p>\n
Curt Holman loaned me this book, a favorite of his daughter’s.<\/p>\n
My only experience with China Mieville thus far has been Perdido Street Station<\/em>, which is a quirky but engrossing book. Mieville seems like the writer that the term “speculative fiction” was coined for, as one hesitates to call it fantasy or science fiction.<\/p>\n Un Lun Dun is a surprising and creative book intended for kids, but entertaining for adults. <\/p>\n Jumping between what I’ll call an Un-World and this world, it has a down the rabbit hole feel, but more grounded than the Alice surrealism. The world of unLondon thrives on the cast-offs of the real London, where animated garbage and eccentric creatures abound. A crisis that threatens unLondon and London alike can seemingly only be thwarted by a prophesied young girl, but Mieville is not so pedestrian to allow that to play out as you would expect.<\/p>\n The vivid description of the action and oddball characters is crying out for a movie adaptation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Un Lun Dun by China Mieville Curt Holman loaned me this book, a favorite of his daughter’s. My only experience with China Mieville thus far has been Perdido Street Station, which is a quirky but engrossing book. Mieville seems like … Continue reading