I would place Mieville's first published novel (King Rat) in the 'gritty urban fantasy' sub-genre. There are predecessors, like the wonderful Borribles series by Michael de Larrabeiti, in which semi-immortal elven-esque 'children' do battle under the streets of London with giant intelligent rats. Have you read Perdido Street Station, the next novel Mieville published after King Rat? Wonderful stuff. (Also a bit gross-out, but a gorgeously-imagined fantasy/sf world.) I'd put his third novel, the Scar, lower on my interest scale, and I couldn't get into The Iron Council.
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Date: 2007-11-27 02:14 am (UTC)