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'Escapee'

The internecine battles of the elemental Left. Well hey, at least this time the story that focuses of Mieville's political leanings was interesting. Batshit crazy, sure. But interesting.

'The Dusty Hat'

A surprisingly enthralling story despite my having no goddamn idea what was going on. A music festival, the slaughter, consumption, and wearing of animals, and 'intrusion' through the vector of the carcass, infecting the wearers... No idea.

'After the Festival'

A controversial form of therapy wherein the therapist removes harmful vectors from their patients' lives by killing those responsible... A unique premise indeed!

'Dreaded Outcome'

A syllabus fire the three-week higher-level course, 'Humanity, Introspection and Debris'. Touches briefly and teasingly on a fee ideas.

'Syllabus'

'Syllabus'

A pretty decent ghost story based on an account of a strange old death punishment.

'Säcken'

A pretty lacklustre story about a slave whose job is caretaker for the worshipped gods and idols of cultures that his captors take when subjugating other cultures.

A pretty lacklustre story about a slave whose job is caretaker for the worshipped gods and idols of cultures that his captors take when subjugating other cultures.

'The Buzzard's Egg'

'The Buzzard's Egg'

An exploration not of the science of space elevators, but of their cultural and socio-political ramifications many years and generations from their initial inception.

'The Rope is the World'

A story of desperation and hubris amid the para-economy of war-wrought artefacts and the power of insect time-tinkering.

A story of desperation and hubris amid the para-economy of war-wrought artefacts and the power of insect time-tinkering.

'The 9th Technique'

A curious story of a remote village and its almost religious relationship with the ships that pass nearby, but which never make land and which occasionally - intentionally? - wreck themselves near the shore.

'Watching God'

A curious format - that of a cinematic trailer for a Zombie movie. But it feels too cliche to be much good.

'The Crawl'

The least focused and subsequently least enjoyable of the stories which have otherwise been great so far. Concerning two archaeological digs on a remote island renowned for housing evidence of ancient peoples alongside other (alien?) 'things', and some personal drama, and some confusing weirdness.

'In the Slopes'

A great read and a brilliant premise - suits of playing cards hidden from all reality until the hand they appear in, and disappear from just as swiftly. The rules for hands involving these suits similarly appear and disappear as necessary. And the stakes won and lost with a hidden suit in play are juicy indeed.

The Dowager of Bees

The Dowager of Bees