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e_phemerart53) Mieville, China. KRAKEN: an Anatomy. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2010.
British author Mieville creates a fantasy London where anything is possible and where something threatens to end the world and burn the city out of existence. When a nine-meter-long dead squid is stolen, tank and all, from a London museum, curator Billy Harrow finds himself swept up in a world he didn't know existed. Being chased by various magical cults, crazies and criminals (including a talking tattoo), and the police/sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, Billy holds the key to finding the missing squid--that just may be an embryonic god...
Miéville's dark urban fantasy is a rich, dense literary work, full of wordplay and imagery. I quite enjoyed it.
British author Mieville creates a fantasy London where anything is possible and where something threatens to end the world and burn the city out of existence. When a nine-meter-long dead squid is stolen, tank and all, from a London museum, curator Billy Harrow finds himself swept up in a world he didn't know existed. Being chased by various magical cults, crazies and criminals (including a talking tattoo), and the police/sorcerers of the Fundamentalist and Sect-Related Crime Unit, Billy holds the key to finding the missing squid--that just may be an embryonic god...
Miéville's dark urban fantasy is a rich, dense literary work, full of wordplay and imagery. I quite enjoyed it.
