China Miéville has won
the Arthur C Clarke award, Britain's most prestigious science fiction prize for the third time. His novel
The City and the City is
described by Alison Flood in The Guardian as a "straightforward" crime novel with
"a fantastical edge" :
... in the dilapidated city of Beszél in eastern Europe, Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad is trying to solve what initially looks like a routine case. But as he looks deeper into the murder of a mysterious woman, he discovers that she has links to Ul Qoma, a city that exists in the same physical space as Beszél but whose inhabitants studiously ignore any sign of overlap.
Flood also points out that the novel won the
British Science Fiction Association prize for best novel earlier this month.
2 comments:
Saw a video of his interview on his Amazon.com page.
How nice for a writer to speak with such easy confidence!
He's also kinda hot.
Oops the video is here instead.
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