[lbo-talk] Lovecraft's fears

[wrobert at uci.edu]

The moments I was thinking about was the strange sense of communal
unconscious developed through the use of the drug and the figure of the
Weaver more than anything else (although the slake moths fall into that as
well)  I definitely agree with you about the Iron Council.  It loses the
richness that Perdido Street Station exhibits.  On the other hand, I
thought the Scar was really enjoyable.

                                 robert wood


> I read Perdido Street Station recently. When you say
> it borrows from Lovecraft (as it borrows from a lot --
> the Dungeons and Dragons parody was pretty funny), are
> you refering to the sanity-destroying Slake-Moths?
>
> That is definitely the best of the Bas-Lag books. Iron
> Council spent too much time hitting you over the head
> with Mieville's politics ("This book is about the
> Russian Revolution, get it?" THWACK!). Well he's a
> Trot, maybe he can't help it. ;)
>