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Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#26: Jul 8th 2013 at 3:39:54 PM

[up][up] Ornate prose, put me off? He can't be any denser than Umberto Eco, can he? :D

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Yuanchosaan antic disposition from Australia Since: Jan, 2010
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#27: Jul 9th 2013 at 3:09:30 AM

Less of the foreign languages, but the prose is intoxicatingly rich.

I think it is best compared to Poe: the richness of a Gothic, opium-soaked pudding.

edited 9th Jul '13 3:24:03 AM by Yuanchosaan

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Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#28: Jul 9th 2013 at 7:17:08 AM

[up][up]Conceptually, no. Verbally, oh hell yes.

Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
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#30: Jul 11th 2013 at 1:34:30 PM

New Crobuzon springs to mind, as does UnLondon. Indeed, the most intriguing character in Perdido Street Station is New Crobuzon itself.

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Laura from Shintolin Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
#31: Jul 11th 2013 at 6:46:19 PM

I've never read the books, but I believe the City of the Saved qualifies if anything does. The inhabitants are every human, near human, transhuman, et cetera ever. None of them can die. It something like the size of an entire galaxy, and there isn't anywhere else left.

He's the Doctor. He could be anywhere in time and space.
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#32: Jul 11th 2013 at 11:02:03 PM

I guess this is sort of low key, but I'm currently writing a novel and a minor location is Isambard, the Locomotive City. In an alternate history, the Panama Canal was replaced by the Panama Railway and when the number of goods being sent through continued to increase, Earth asked an alien construction company to figure out what to do. The alien company proceeded to build a huge Victorian city on rails that picks up ships and sticks them in cradles attached to the sides of the city. And the whole city is run by an A.I. called Kingdom Brunel.

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