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Originally Posted by Ursa major  His political sympathies are most obvious in Iron Council, but I've always put his hatred of New Crobuzon (or, rather, the feelings this city state evokes in Miéville's characters in all three Bas Lag books) down to his view of the society in which he lives, i.e. antipathy. As he's a good writer above anything else, it doesn't intrude in a way that would drive a non-socialist away, i.e. it's easy to forget his political leanings and simply immerse oneself in the books. |
Well, I was unable to tell Orson Scott Card was a fundamental Mormon until I started reading Alvin Maker...so my aptitude for deducing the character of the author from his works is not excessively high.