China Miéville doesn’t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer—and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field—with Embassytown, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not...
In Deuce’s world, people earn the right to a name only if they survive their first fifteen years. By that point, each unnamed ‘brat’ has trained into one of three groups — Breeders, Builders, or Hunters, identifiable by the number of scars...
«Ever read The Lord of the Rings? I knew it! You look like a reader, you have that kind of face. Remember they had a race in there — the Ents? Tree people, all of them male, who had lost their women. Oh, yes, you know what I’m talking about.
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