294 – China Miéville & A Million Dreaming Words for Ghost
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There are big books and big books. This week we cover a HUGE book.
China Miéville is the guest. The award-winning author of Perdido Street Station, Embassytown, The City & the City, and other modern speculative classics – and he’s back with a book two decades in the making.
The Rouse is an epic of true proportions, a 1300-page saga of the twentieth century, rife with war, atrocity, tragedy, and a secret war fought with ghosts?? That’s the premise but it barely touches the sides of this ginormous undertaking.
This is not just a conversation, it’s a search for answers – in which we plumb the personal, political, and supernatural influences behind this story of shady military conspiracy and ghosts of many strange kinds.
I hope you enjoy, ‘cos I worked my ass off for this one!
Other books mentioned:
- King Rat (1999), by China Miéville
- The City & The City (2009), by China Miéville
- Ducks, Newburyport (2019), by Lucy Ellman
- Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), by Thomas Pyncheon
- Against the Day (2006), by Thomas Pyncheon
- House of Leaves (2000), by Mark Z. Danielewski
- “The Ash Tree” (1904), by M.R. James
- A Dark Corner (1971), by Celia Dale
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