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Post by Doul on Sept 26, 2004 15:04:53 GMT -5
so, i read somewhere that mieville wont be writing anymore bas-lag books for a while. What do you think of this? good? bad? what do you want to see from him? eh? eh? WHAT?
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Post by greyfing on Nov 5, 2004 1:05:35 GMT -5
I would love to see atleast a few more bas-lag books, yet, i too remember a quote of his stating there will be a two book hiatus between bas-lag titles. Whether or not this still stands we will have to wait and see (perhaps Cheryl has some news?). IMO, bas-lag is so heterogeneous that stories set in new areas (High Cromlech please) can remain fresh and free of baggage. perhaps he wants to return to the semi-real, set on earth again. as much as i liked king rat, i would really rather see CM's imagination unleashed on world building. so a brand new world (not one connected to earth) would get a big grin from me also.
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Post by chani on Jun 8, 2005 21:24:54 GMT -5
Oooh....
more stories with High Cromlech would be wonderful! High Cromlech was to me one of the most alluring of the lands that characters in PSS and (not so much) TS treat as mythic and fantastical within their own setting - which just makes me as a reader want to know and read more, more about them.
The descriptions of Bas-Lag's 'other lands' in Mieville's writing are some of my favorite parts of the narrative. Storytelling within the story and done so well with only shards and shreds of details about any one place in any one part of the novel, but taken all together create a facsinating place you feel like you know only though something akin to gossip from the characters and the narrator.
I am lucky that I still have IC to read (can't look around this part of the board too much!) so I have more to look forward to. Some bas-lag short stories would be a great addition.
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Post by Curufea on Jun 9, 2005 18:30:49 GMT -5
I want him to start working on the roleplaying game
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Post by Deweb on Jul 7, 2005 10:42:37 GMT -5
hmm, maby it isn't so bad? Now he can show us a book like king rat, and don't become famous as "the bas lag guy".
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Post by westroxel on Jul 11, 2005 23:52:22 GMT -5
I agree w/ Deweb...CM is too good to be filed into a slot. I definitely want more Bas Lag (High Cromlech is a great example or maybe Uther Doul's tale), but type-casting is for writer's without vision or imagination, not CM.
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Post by shadoth on Jul 12, 2005 15:40:07 GMT -5
I think it's great that he's going to write outside of the PSS universe. The last thing any writer wants is to get stuck in a rut, writing permutations of the same work. I hope he returns to Bas-Lag, though
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Post by ronin on Jul 21, 2005 10:41:06 GMT -5
Sounds like a good idea to me. Let him stop Bas-Lag for a while. At least it won´t be some kind of an endless saga. Everybody needs change sometimes, why not Mieville?
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