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<blockquote data-quote="Kramodlog" data-source="post: 6973976" data-attributes="member: 55961">The Scar and Iron Council aren't the same quality as Perdido Street Station. Read them if you're a completionist, but I felt they didn't have the same impact as the first. Characters were stale and plots were muddled. You do not learn much about Bas-Lag in them. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9265453-embassytown?from_search=true" target="_blank">Embassytown</a> is Miéville's best novel I've read since Perdido, althought I haven't read all his novels. Embassytown is a sci-fi novel that I enjoyed a lot.Ursula K. Le Guin said this about the novel: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/08/embassytown-china-mieville-review" target="_blank"> &quot;Embassytown is a fully achieved work of art...works on every level, providing compulsive narrative, splendid intellectual rigour and risk, moral sophistication, fine verbal fireworks and sideshows, and even the old-fashioned satisfaction of watching a protagonist become more of a person than she gave promise of being.&quot;</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kramodlog, post: 6973976, member: 55961"] [I]The Scar[/I] and [I]Iron Council[/I] aren't the same quality as [I]Perdido Street Station[/I]. Read them if you're a completionist, but I felt they didn't have the same impact as the first. Characters were stale and plots were muddled. You do not learn much about Bas-Lag in them. [I][URL="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9265453-embassytown?from_search=true"]Embassytown[/URL][/I] is Miéville's best novel I've read since [I]Perdido[/I], althought I haven't read all his novels.[I] Embassytown[/I] is a sci-fi novel that I enjoyed a lot. Ursula K. Le Guin said this about the novel: [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/08/embassytown-china-mieville-review"][COLOR=#252525][FONT=sans-serif] "[/FONT][/COLOR][I]Embassytown is a fully achieved work of art...works on every level, providing compulsive narrative, splendid intellectual rigour and risk, moral sophistication, fine verbal fireworks and sideshows, and even the old-fashioned satisfaction of watching a protagonist become more of a person than she gave promise of being."[/I][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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