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Title: Mieville short fiction... different from novels but recommended
Review: Although I have not read "King Rat", I have read the 3 other novels of Mr. Mieville, all of which are quite different from the short stories contained within this collection (with the exception of one of the pieces ("Jack") which is set in the world of "Perdido Street Station", "The Scar", and "Iron Council"). There is a bit of variety here in the stories told. While Mr. Mieville does have his own style (especially in his novels), his short stories show many stylistic similarities to that of Thomas Ligotti. The pieces "Looking for Jake", "Different Skies", and "The Tain" are especially so. My favorite work is without a doubt "Reports of Certain Events in London", which is easily worth the price of the whole collection by itself. I don't think there is much that I can compare this particular piece to, but I would say that it has qualities similar parts of Danielewski's "House of Leaves" and Vandermeer's "The City of Saints and Madmen".
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