China Mieville's The House and the House (and the Cat).
February 19, 2026 at 11:57 AM
China Mieville's The House and the House (and the Cat).
I discovered today that China Mieville’s scifi masterpiece The City and The City was made into a series on Prime. Whoah! I watched the first episode, it’s quite interesting how they filmed and juggled the conceit of the novel. There are two rival https://baronfrosti.com/2026/02/18/city/
February 19, 2026 at 1:51 AM
I discovered today that China Mieville’s scifi masterpiece The City and The City was made into a series on Prime. Whoah! I watched the first episode, it’s quite interesting how they filmed and juggled the conceit of the novel. There are two rival https://baronfrosti.com/2026/02/18/city/
just finished: mieville's City & the City
starting: The Life & Thought of Alexandre Kojeve + the last days of new paris + the sleepwalkers
starting: The Life & Thought of Alexandre Kojeve + the last days of new paris + the sleepwalkers
February 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM
just finished: mieville's City & the City
starting: The Life & Thought of Alexandre Kojeve + the last days of new paris + the sleepwalkers
starting: The Life & Thought of Alexandre Kojeve + the last days of new paris + the sleepwalkers
If any of you fall into the venn diagram of "really enjoyed China Miéville's October" and "played through Citizen Sleeper in one sitting because it hooked you deep in your soul" then I cannot stress enough how highly I recommend Duskpunk store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...
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A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust. Choose carefully: you might just spark a revolution...
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February 16, 2026 at 11:55 PM
If any of you fall into the venn diagram of "really enjoyed China Miéville's October" and "played through Citizen Sleeper in one sitting because it hooked you deep in your soul" then I cannot stress enough how highly I recommend Duskpunk store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...
China Mieville’s The City & The City. Two cities within one. Moving between dimensions.
February 14, 2026 at 11:25 PM
China Mieville’s The City & The City. Two cities within one. Moving between dimensions.
@hannah
I have to admit I preferred China Miéville's steampunk retelling of the story.
Railsea.
Similar, except instead of a whale, it's a giant mole.
And a train rather than a ship.
And earth covered with interlinked rails rather than a sea.
But other than that…
I have to admit I preferred China Miéville's steampunk retelling of the story.
Railsea.
Similar, except instead of a whale, it's a giant mole.
And a train rather than a ship.
And earth covered with interlinked rails rather than a sea.
But other than that…
February 14, 2026 at 2:51 AM
@hannah
I have to admit I preferred China Miéville's steampunk retelling of the story.
Railsea.
Similar, except instead of a whale, it's a giant mole.
And a train rather than a ship.
And earth covered with interlinked rails rather than a sea.
But other than that…
I have to admit I preferred China Miéville's steampunk retelling of the story.
Railsea.
Similar, except instead of a whale, it's a giant mole.
And a train rather than a ship.
And earth covered with interlinked rails rather than a sea.
But other than that…
perdido station - possible reference to china miéville's "perdido street station"?
February 13, 2026 at 3:36 PM
perdido station - possible reference to china miéville's "perdido street station"?
China Mieville's The City & The City: 2 cities in same geography: "A denizen of one city must dutifully "unsee"...denizens, buildings, events in the other city."
MN as a whole feels like this right now - especially wrt outstaters like my parents who pretend/behave as tho this siege does not exist.
MN as a whole feels like this right now - especially wrt outstaters like my parents who pretend/behave as tho this siege does not exist.
Living in Minnesota right now feels like being in the emergency room. Literally everyone is suffering in different ways, even if it's "just" a badly twisted ankle rather than a kidney stone or a full-on heart attack. The staff are working as hard as they can but energy and resources are dwindling.
February 10, 2026 at 8:48 PM
China Mieville's The City & The City: 2 cities in same geography: "A denizen of one city must dutifully "unsee"...denizens, buildings, events in the other city."
MN as a whole feels like this right now - especially wrt outstaters like my parents who pretend/behave as tho this siege does not exist.
MN as a whole feels like this right now - especially wrt outstaters like my parents who pretend/behave as tho this siege does not exist.
It gave me big vibes of China Mieville's Embassytown, with the idea of language as a sort of infection
February 10, 2026 at 6:20 PM
It gave me big vibes of China Mieville's Embassytown, with the idea of language as a sort of infection
Read China Mieville’s City and the City. Brilliant! Plunging back into Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat (this time ‘Goes to Hell’). I needed a non-lingering book, no justification, nor moral ambiguity. Harrison’s work just believed in escape, money, pride, & survival. And that can be sci-fi fun.
February 10, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Read China Mieville’s City and the City. Brilliant! Plunging back into Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat (this time ‘Goes to Hell’). I needed a non-lingering book, no justification, nor moral ambiguity. Harrison’s work just believed in escape, money, pride, & survival. And that can be sci-fi fun.
Still thinking about Mieville’s Embassytown.
Some online reviewers found it wildly implausible that the aliens could have a language where only ”true” concepts can be expressed & that they were unable to think what they cannot say.
To me the hyperspace dimension felt more at odds with our reality
Some online reviewers found it wildly implausible that the aliens could have a language where only ”true” concepts can be expressed & that they were unable to think what they cannot say.
To me the hyperspace dimension felt more at odds with our reality
February 7, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Still thinking about Mieville’s Embassytown.
Some online reviewers found it wildly implausible that the aliens could have a language where only ”true” concepts can be expressed & that they were unable to think what they cannot say.
To me the hyperspace dimension felt more at odds with our reality
Some online reviewers found it wildly implausible that the aliens could have a language where only ”true” concepts can be expressed & that they were unable to think what they cannot say.
To me the hyperspace dimension felt more at odds with our reality
This one has me blushing and kicking my feet all over again
February 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
This one has me blushing and kicking my feet all over again
Most of China Mieville’s books, starting with Perdido Street Station.
February 7, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Most of China Mieville’s books, starting with Perdido Street Station.
China Miéville's Bas-Lag!
February 6, 2026 at 12:16 AM
China Miéville's Bas-Lag!
The Folio Society's spring collection includes some outstanding SF/F titles: Andy Weir's The Martian, Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, China Miéville's Perdido Street Station, and more.
www.andrewliptak.com/folio-societ...
www.andrewliptak.com/folio-societ...
The Folio Society unveils 2026 spring collection
Lots of SF/F titles to look forward to
www.andrewliptak.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
The Folio Society's spring collection includes some outstanding SF/F titles: Andy Weir's The Martian, Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, China Miéville's Perdido Street Station, and more.
www.andrewliptak.com/folio-societ...
www.andrewliptak.com/folio-societ...
Love this excerpt from China Miéville’s “A Spectre Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto”
![As mentioned, an excerpt from a great book.
I’ve indicated highlighted portions with bookend parallel lines like so ||
“Stephen jay Gould, the evolutionary biologist, cheerfully allows that 'general nastiness' is a biological reality and
'represent[s] one subset of a possible range of behaviours.
But peacefulness, equality, and kindness are just as biological
- and we may see their influence increase if we can create social structures that permit them to Hourish? ||A sense that communism is a wager worth making doesn't imply the end of all individual bad behaviour", nor does it presume the innate goodness of humans: only their variability and changeability.||
And it's not, or should not be, controversial that selflessness and social solidarity exist as well as their opposites, that human behaviour is anything but rigid. ||The 'human nature' critics of the Manifesto, for all their cherished self-image as hard-headed realists, are negative sentimentalists who must pathologise vast ranges of actually existing human behaviour - kindness, unselfishness, decency - or at the very least dismiss them as epiphenomenal, on the basis of nothing but belief.||](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ke4hki3el2vwoyrlgyaicr6c/bafkreicekasfehnbajwjwjslkhiswpjjn2l7tspix27g2bgr4sod2edqea@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Love this excerpt from China Miéville’s “A Spectre Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto”
i finished China Miéville's The City & The City. hard to imagine the high he must have felt when he came up with the word topolganger
February 4, 2026 at 6:58 PM
i finished China Miéville's The City & The City. hard to imagine the high he must have felt when he came up with the word topolganger
I'm not too sure what genre these next ones belong to, but I'll suggest them anyway.
Terry Pratchett was a genius.
China Miéville's Bas-Lag series was like nothing else I have ever read.
Angelmaker and The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway are two hugely imaginative and entertaining books.
Terry Pratchett was a genius.
China Miéville's Bas-Lag series was like nothing else I have ever read.
Angelmaker and The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway are two hugely imaginative and entertaining books.
February 3, 2026 at 6:46 PM
I'm not too sure what genre these next ones belong to, but I'll suggest them anyway.
Terry Pratchett was a genius.
China Miéville's Bas-Lag series was like nothing else I have ever read.
Angelmaker and The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway are two hugely imaginative and entertaining books.
Terry Pratchett was a genius.
China Miéville's Bas-Lag series was like nothing else I have ever read.
Angelmaker and The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway are two hugely imaginative and entertaining books.
I liked Miéville’s account of the Russian Revolution www.versobooks.com/products/169...
October
In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world’s first workers’ state, straining to b...
www.versobooks.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I liked Miéville’s account of the Russian Revolution www.versobooks.com/products/169...
Reading China Mieville’s ”Embassytown” right now and without spoiling I’d say it has some fun parallels to the current AI debate and reactions to it, with regards to language and reactions to language use making realities.
February 2, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Reading China Mieville’s ”Embassytown” right now and without spoiling I’d say it has some fun parallels to the current AI debate and reactions to it, with regards to language and reactions to language use making realities.
We’re reading all of China Miéville’s works and watching all of Jane Schoenbrun’s films in preparation for them releasing stuff this year
January 31, 2026 at 4:20 AM
We’re reading all of China Miéville’s works and watching all of Jane Schoenbrun’s films in preparation for them releasing stuff this year
finished china miéville's book about the russian revolution and the thing I learned most is how much of the revolution was "we formed a committee and voted on stuff"
January 30, 2026 at 3:59 AM
finished china miéville's book about the russian revolution and the thing I learned most is how much of the revolution was "we formed a committee and voted on stuff"
I think this is interesting from the perspective of educating people about the soviet union. Like for instance, when I was trying to learn about the revolution, I read China Miéville's book October. And it's an otherwise excellent historical overview of the revolution, well-cited and all that.
January 28, 2026 at 11:59 PM
I think this is interesting from the perspective of educating people about the soviet union. Like for instance, when I was trying to learn about the revolution, I read China Miéville's book October. And it's an otherwise excellent historical overview of the revolution, well-cited and all that.
china mieville's sex & the city & the city
January 28, 2026 at 2:22 PM
china mieville's sex & the city & the city
I’m reminded of china mieville’s wonderful line from “October”, “and this has begun reaction’s sinister comedy of skulduggery and errors”
"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios.""
Anyone paying attentions - it's been President Miler calling the shots.
Now the vipers are going after each other. 🐍🐍🐍
Anyone paying attentions - it's been President Miler calling the shots.
Now the vipers are going after each other. 🐍🐍🐍
January 28, 2026 at 1:07 AM
I’m reminded of china mieville’s wonderful line from “October”, “and this has begun reaction’s sinister comedy of skulduggery and errors”