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book cover showing a black ilustration of tower blocks and the London Eye surrounded by flowers - a dustbin with arms and legs is leaping into the air and striking a ninja pose


“Un Lun Dun” is the fifth China Miéville novel I’ve read in, what, two years? Wow, how did that happen? Oh right, I owe all this author consistency to what has turned into an ongoing ‘read all the books and don’t talk about the arms too much’ Miéville read along project with maree. We pretty consistently fail at the last part of the project but we are rocking the first part like good and true fangirls - everything probably evens out.

After maree and I talked about Miéville’s latest book, the young adult novel “Railsea”, she wanted me to read his other YA novel “Un Lun Dun” so we could compare the two. Going it alone this time was a little daunting; “Un Lun Dun” is over 500 pages long and Miéville is generally one of those authors whose work makes me want to send emails full of awed caps lock after I read 200 pages of his work. I’m still not sure if I’d have tackled Miéville’s books if we hadn’t decided to team read “The City and The City”.



All to say I <3 you maree and I’m so glad we started this crazy SFF journey together.

Now, the book!(with some spoilers) )

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