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The Man Who Lost His Wings in the City of New Crobuzon

Yesterday I mentioned that China Mieville's novel Perdido Street Station could change your life. Here's how artist Gordillo imagined the city of New Crobuzon, where the novel takes place. This is very much how I imagined it too, with the huge central train station of the novel's title hulking over everything.

7:00 AM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Annalee Newitz
2,525 views, 13 comments

Latest by n/a: I loved this book. I hope the artist does more of that world with more of the characters, especially Lin. I had a hard time visualizing her character in my mind. I also really enjoyed the Scar from more »

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Dream-Eaters and Three-Sexed Aliens in the Five Greatest World-Building Novels

What would weather be like if you lived in a planet-sized bag of oxygen? What would reproduction be like if there were a third sex who combined the genetic material of two other sexes by linking them at the neurological level and giving them braingasms? What would scientific progress be like in an anarchist-feminist society? One of the ingredients in many great science fiction novel is world-building, the practice of creating an entire unfamiliar (yet familiar) world whose strange permutations allow us to explore how unfathomable environments can dramatically reshape events that happen all the time in our own lives. Here are five cool world-building novels to suck your attention away from the misery of cooling weather and impending turkey day doom. More »

9:00 AM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Annalee Newitz
394 views, 1 comment

Latest by puckrod: What about 'The Smoke Ring', also by Niven, which is basically if worlds #4 and #5 had a baby? more »