Apparently it's due to him deciding to write shorter books (300-450 pages rather than the 700-800 pages of his first few books) and to him arranging it so that he is a book ahead of schedule the whole time. He actaully delivered RAILSEA around the time EMBASSYTOWN was coming out. And IIRC he delivered KRAKEN and THE CITY AND THE CITY simultaneously with the original plan being to release KRAKEN first, but the publishers were so impressed with TC&TC that they released it first instead.
Railsea by China Mieville
07/05/2012 04:06:59 PM
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He's been very prolific recently.
07/05/2012 05:42:51 PM
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Yup, a book every May for the last 4 years.
07/05/2012 09:21:22 PM
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Sounds like a cross between The Scar and Iron Council. Is that at all accurate? *NM*
07/05/2012 09:51:17 PM
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So would you recommend it to someone that wasn't a big fan of his non-Bas Lag novels?
09/05/2012 10:04:15 AM
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sounds good, it's certainly seems more interesting than embassytown
21/05/2012 10:43:10 AM
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I just wanted to revive this post in order to say that I've read it.
12/07/2012 05:33:12 PM
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