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Title: Surprisingly Awful
Review: China Mieville's novels are intoxicatingly well written, so I jumped at the chance to read some of his short fiction as well. It was, as the rating suggests, seriously disappointing. Almost all of the stories lack Mieville's characteristic voice and he seems to be fundamentally perplexed by the short fiction form - all but perhaps one or two of the stories lack the "punch" that I expect when reading short fiction. Steer clear unless it's just out of morbid curiosity; your time would be far better spent rereading The Scar or Perdido Street Station.
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