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11 months agoI think it was a forerunner, I kept seeing it referred to as “the New Weird”, and in that sense I can see that it was influential. More influential than good, I think.
But the followup, “The Scar”, I thought was excellent, and was just as “New Weird” as Perdido Street Station. All round a better book, really blew my mind at the time - but seems to be rarely as mentioned because Perdido Street Station gets all the attention for being first.
No Robin Hobb?!