{"id":3176,"date":"2010-03-08T09:34:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2010-05-13T09:05:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T17:05:28","slug":"free-readin-kraken-by-china-mieville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/news\/free-readin-kraken-by-china-mieville\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Readin’ | Kraken by China Mieville"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Kraken<\/a>\n
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The sea is full of saints. You know that? You know that: you\u2019re a big boy.<\/p>\n

The sea\u2019s full of saints and it\u2019s been full of saints for years. Since longer than anything. Saints were there before there were even gods. They were waiting for them, and they\u2019re still there now.<\/p>\n

Saints eat fish and shellfish. Some of them catch jellyfish and some of them eat rubbish. Some saints eat anything they can find. They hide under rocks; they turn themselves inside out; they spit up spirals. There\u2019s nothing saints don\u2019t do.<\/p>\n

Make this shape with your hands. Like that. Move your fingers. There, you made a saint. Look out, here comes another one! Now they\u2019re fighting! Yours won.<\/p>\n

There aren\u2019t any big corkscrew saints any more, but there are still ones like sacks and ones like coils, and ones like robes with flapping sleeves. What\u2019s your favourite saint? I\u2019ll tell you mine. But wait a minute, first, do you know what it is makes them all saints? They\u2019re all a holy family, they\u2019re all cousins. Of each other, and of . . . you know what else they\u2019re cousins of?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. Of gods.<\/p>\n

Alright now. Who was it made you? You know what to say.<\/p>\n

Who made you?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Thanks to Speculative Horizons<\/a> for the tip.<\/p>\n

I was first introduced to China Mieville with The City & The City<\/strong>, a novel I never reviewed, but only barely missed my Top 5 of 2009<\/a> list. A slim, quick novel, The City & The City<\/strong> gave me a taste of Mieville’s writing and left me wanting more. All said, I’m greatly looking forward to Kraken<\/strong>, a novel turned in to Mieville’s publisher at around the same time as The City & The City<\/strong>, which, by all signs, looks to be Mieville’s most accessible novel yet (outside Un Lun Dun<\/strong>, his Young Adult novel, perhaps). <\/p>\n

Mieville’s best know for his New Crobuzon<\/em> novels (including Perdido Street Station<\/strong> and The Scar<\/strong>), but, as The City & The City<\/strong> proved, it’s always interesting to have his eye for weirdness aimed at the world we live in.<\/p>\n

You can read the sample of Kraken<\/strong> HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sea is full of saints. You know that? You know that: you\u2019re a big boy. The sea\u2019s full of saints and it\u2019s been full of saints for years. Since longer than anything. Saints were there before there were even gods. They were waiting for them, and they\u2019re still there now. Saints eat fish and… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n