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Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
I have a tough time reviewing this book. On the one hand, it's full of creative and interesting ideas that do a good job of sucking you in to a world that is very clearly not our own. Where many books take a few good ideas and base a world around them, Mieville throws new ideas at you on every page. On the other hand, however, the story itself suffers as a result of this. When I was continually getting distracted by new shiny objects, it was difficult to focus on the storyline, which seemed at times to be only a way to show off the next idea.