Tag: China Mieville

• Now’s a Good Time for a Dystopia

  Today’s reading list features that stalwart genre of anxious times: the dystopia. I’ve tried to collect some newer and more unusual examples for this list, rather than the old standards that you see on every list. Not only are these novels prime escapist fare, but they serve as a helpful reminder that things could always…

  Shannon Turlington

  April 9, 2020

  Notebook, Reading

  Books, Cherie Priest, China Mieville, Claire Vaye Watkins, Dave Eggers, David Mitchell, Dexter Palmer, Dystopia, Hanya Yanagihara, Margaret Atwood, Michel Faber, Paolo Bacigalupi, PD James, Reading list, Science fiction

• Disaster Reading for Disastrous Times

  I’m stuck at home bored, like almost everyone else, so I thought I’d indulge in my favorite pastime and put together some reading lists! I see a lot of lists like this one on Electric Literature and Book Riot — some of them really good, some of them just frankly a hodgepodge of books the…

  Shannon Turlington

  April 7, 2020

  Notebook, Reading

  Alexandra Oliva, Apocalypse, Ariel Djanikian, Ben H Winters, Books, China Mieville, Disasters, Jeff VanderMeer, John Joseph Adams, John Lanchester, John Scalzi, Max Barry, Nathaniel Rich, Reading list

• Favorite Books of the 2010s: Embassytown by China Mieville

  The is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Embassytown by China Miéville (2011) Avice is a human colonist on a planet at the farthest edge of navigable space populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, who returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 15, 2019

  Best Books of 2010s

  2010s, China Mieville, Embassytown, Science fiction