recent reading, highly recommended
1. N. K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: best new fantasy I've read in a long time. A tale of power and betrayal and inheritance and theomachy, in the epic fantasy mould - except, well, not, because a) it insistently rejects and moves away from the stale eurocentrism of most epic fantasy, b) it exposes and questions the dynamics of
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I've read three of Mieville's now: this one, Un Lun Dun which I ADORED but found a little bit shallow (which is fair enough, because it was written as YA for the young end of the market, I think), and Perdido Street Station which I found deeply satisfying right up until the kind of bothersome and disappointing end. That's enough to make me happy to give anything by him a chance, though.
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