Description: First published in England by Macmillan, 1998.
Brief description: Tim Maughan is an author, a journalist, and a features writer who uses both fiction and nonfiction to explore issues around cities, class, culture, globalization, technology, and the future. His work regularly appears on the BBC and in Vice and New Scientist.
Review Quotes:
"[Miéville's] prose melds James Herbert's nihilistic violence with the metropolitan paranoia of Martin Amis, circa London Fields." --The Times (London)
"China Miéville is a remarkably eloquent new writer who has produced genuine magic here." --Locus "As sharp as a Tokyo comic. It's humane and delinquent. And it bites." --Iain Sinclair "A deep, dark, velvet journey." --Pat Cadigan "A riveting, brilliant novel." --Charles de Lint "A strong first novel in the quirky sub-sub-genre of subterranean fairy tales." --The Onion