I recently finished Perdido Street Station, and one minor thing that bothered me is how many of the other races were either a humanoid version of earth life (cactus person, bird person) or a literal combination of a human and something (head of a bug, body of a person). That just seems so fantastically unlikely that I wonder if any of the other books in that setting explain it. Like, is it a future earth and the races are results of generic modification in some prior era?
I liked the book pretty well, through it’s not exactly uplifting. Thought provoking though.
Okay, thanks.
Do you recommend The Scar?
Meiville wrote The City and The City, right? I think that’s the only other one currently on my reading list.
I bounced off Perdido twice, then tore through The Scar then went on to read his whole back catalog. It’s my favorite of the Bas Lag “trilogy”.
I read all three of new crobo books and I feel like Perdido was the best, scar second, iron council I don’t Even remember. It’s been a while though so forgive my memory
I really enjoyed The City and The City, it was a really novel and interesting concept about how far socially constructed concepts can go.
Perdido Street Station I couldn’t get into though.