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Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories Hardcover – August 4, 2015
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“Even when he is orbiting somewhere in a galaxy too far away for normal human comprehension, the genre-subverting English novelist China Miéville is dazzling. His latest collection of short stories, Three Moments of an Explosion, crowds virtuosity into every sentence. . . . There are things to admire in every story, even the ones you can’t quite grasp. The book left me feeling unsettled, uneasy, nervous, and I think that is Mr. Miéville’s point. He wants to draw attention to the scratching under the floorboards, the panic in our heads, the rebellion of nature and inanimate objects. As he says, ‘These days there are so many odd and troubling noises in the city.’”—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times
 
“You can’t talk about Miéville without using the word ‘brilliant.’ . . . His wit dazzles, his humour is lively, and the pure vitality of his imagination is astonishing. . . . My favourite of all these tales is ‘The Rules,’ two and a half pages long. Read it. You won’t regret it, or forget it.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian (U.K.)
 
“Three Moments of an Explosion is a book filled with fabulous oddities.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Horror, noir, fantasy, politics, and poetry swirl into combinations as satisfying intellectually as they are emotionally. . . . Bradbury meets Borges, with Lovecraft gibbering tumultuously just out of hearing.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
 
“Miéville moves effortlessly among realism, fantasy, and surrealism in this dark, sometimes horrific short story collection. . . . His characters, whether ordinary witnesses to extraordinary events or lunatics operating out of inexplicable compulsions, are invariably well drawn and compelling. Above all, what the stories have in common is a sense that the world is not just strange, but stranger than we can ever really comprehend.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

About the Author

China Miéville is the author of numerous books, including The City & The City, Embassytown, Railsea, and Perdido Street Station. His works have won the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award (three times). He lives and works in London.

Hardcover: 400 pagesPublisher: Del Rey; 1St Edition edition (August 4, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 110188472XISBN-13: 978-1101884720 Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.6 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #90,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2461 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Short Stories & Anthologies > Short Stories #3755 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban #7446 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary
China Mieville is a writer that I admire greatly. I’ve read all of his previously published books including his first collection of short stories Looking for Jake. His writing style has been described as "Baroque" with its complexity of language, its density of visual imagery and the extensive use of similes and metaphors. Perdido Street Station may be one of the most imaginative fantasies ever written. The City and the City is perhaps the most inventive detective procedural novel ever devised.

Three Moments of an Explosion is a collection of stories written in a much simpler style. He is essentially picking up were he left off in Un Lun Dun, Mieville appears to be consciously simplifying his writing style, perhaps as a way of attracting a more mainstream audience by increIDg his accessibility. His writing is direct and to the point. The content of these stories emphasize the weirdness that Mieville loves to celebrate in his work. Floating icebergs in the skies over England, multi-armed aliens frozen in a moment of time, strange, inexplicable card games whose stakes may be deadly, academic life gone bizarrely, violently haywire: these are some of the events that fill this collection of stories.

Mieville is fascinated by the enigmatic aura that surrounds us even as we wander through life’s banalities. Mieville lives and writes where the arcane and incomprehensible bisect the mundane and ordinary. His stories revel in that murky zone of strangeness. This collection seems most gripping when reading Mieville’s longer stories, which give him an opportunity to stretch his sinews and delve deeply into his dreams and nightmares, reporting to his readers the uncanny events he discovers there. What he discovers is often provocative, disturbing and remarkable.
I almost gave this book one star, but I didn’t hate it. I was just bored with it. I wanted to like it. I liked the last two books I read by China Mieville but those were novels and this faults weren’t so glaring in those novels.

His main fault/virtue is that he’s clever. He’s very clever. The City & The City set up a dystopian city where there were two cities on top of each other and only residents knew the borders. Residents would never cross the borders. They would purposefully ignore the other city to the point where they forgot that there was another city even there. For me, it was the perfect Dystopian novel since it described city life, particularly large cities like London and New York where people limit the kinds of neighbors that they interact with, sometimes without even realizing it. For example, I live in Washington Heights (in Manhattan) and I know almost all of the Jewish residents. I don’t know any Dominicans and I really wish that the white hipsters would just leave the neighborhood. By that same token Un Lun Dun turns the chosen one hero trope on its head by getting rid of the chosen one on page 40.

These are great books and I would still recommend them, but the fact that they are novels allows Mieville to paint a larger painting and lets his clever games play out over an actual story (as thin as that story might be).

No such luck with his short stories. His short stories are just clever. Like the one with four perspectives on Orpheus (in the last one he just hates Eurydice). Or "The Condition of the New Death" where everyone dies like videogame characters. The implications of these clever conceits are never truly explored and just kind of lay there.

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