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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 4496143" data-attributes="member: 48965"><p>Well I've only read Perdido Street Station, but my impression from that book (what I can remember anyway) was that China Mieville often used mundane things to contrast with the very weird fantasy of his world.  The opening chapter starts with two people just having breakfast (regardless of how alien one of them is) with very mundane concerns and actions.  The artist community, the university politics, etc. are a few examples of the mundane that I think make his world much more vibrant in a familiar contratsing sharply with the weird way... that allows it's readers to relate better and highlights the alienness of it all better than if it was just alienness with no anchoring in the mundane.  YMMV of course</p></blockquote><p></p>