ElectricBlue
Joined 10 Years Ago
- Joined
- May 10, 2014
- Posts
- 16,363
China Mieville is the best world builder I've come across.
His parallel universe City and the City is very clever, with its seeing and unseeing; his Rail Sea world, where trains move over the landscape like ships over the sea; and his brilliant city, New Crobuzon, is worth reading repeatedly. And anyone who can portray surrealistic art fighting Nazis I pretty clever in my book. Mainstream author, not here.
In terms of traditional "other world" fantasy, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy is my favourite novel.
His parallel universe City and the City is very clever, with its seeing and unseeing; his Rail Sea world, where trains move over the landscape like ships over the sea; and his brilliant city, New Crobuzon, is worth reading repeatedly. And anyone who can portray surrealistic art fighting Nazis I pretty clever in my book. Mainstream author, not here.
In terms of traditional "other world" fantasy, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy is my favourite novel.