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Old 26th April 2005, 09:50 AM   #1 (permalink)
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'Looking for Jake' Cover

Due out in August according to Amazon, just posted the cover on my site [url="http://www.fantasybookspot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=629"]]Here

Awesome! Thoughts?
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Old 27th April 2005, 06:58 AM   #2 (permalink)
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It does look very classy. I'm looking forward to the book coming out too
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Old 27th April 2005, 07:05 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Splendid. This is one I'm really looking forward - to read one of my favouite authors working in my favourite format - the short story (an almost dead art in fantasy circles).
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Old 27th April 2005, 09:04 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: 'Looking for Jake' Cover

Very nice

Do you know who the artist is? Doesn't look like his usual...
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Old 13th August 2005, 04:37 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: 'Looking for Jake' Cover

Great cover. Mieville is very lucky in this - he is one of the few authors who is able to get amazing covers both in the US and the UK. What does this short story collection include, though?
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Old 13th August 2005, 04:47 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: 'Looking for Jake' Cover

I should have checked, I recently ordered it from the UK (canceled the U.S. Order) due to Amazon not offering it in hardcover. Then I went to World Con, and they already had copies there and I should be getting mine in a few days (I mailed like 6 boxes of books back).

At any rate there is at least one Bas-lag story (the descripuion says 1 set, but I'm not sure what that implies). It's Mieville, so I'm sure it will be outstanding.
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Old 26th September 2005, 08:45 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: 'Looking for Jake' Cover

Just got hold of this on Saturday - with a different cover, though. I've read the first 4 stories so far. More once I'm done with the whole book.

These are the contents:

* Looking for Jake
* Foundation
* The Ball Room
* Reports of Certain Events in London
* Familiar
* Entry Taken from a Medical Encyclopedia
* Details
* Go Between
* Different Skies
* An End to Hunger
* 'Tis the Season
* Jack
* On the Way to the Front
* The Tain


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A novella and thirteen short stories of brilliant diversity, from a master of literary fantasy Step into a London ravaged by unearthly creatures at once utterly alien and chillingly familiar. In China Mieville's award-winning novella 'The Tain', we learn the reason for the invaders' terrible revenge. One survivor must trek through the ruins of the city with a desperate plan to stand against their assault. In addition to 'The Tain', this superb collection contains thirteen short stories, of visionary cityscapes and urban paranoia, ghosts, monsters and impossible diseases. Several of the stories are published here for the first time: these include one set in New Crobuzon, the location of the award-winning series of novels that began with Perdido Street Station; and one in comic-strip form, illustrated by top graphic artist Liam Sharp. This collection displays the sheer imaginative scope of China Mieville's work.

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Old 26th September 2005, 04:49 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I've got it with that cover too. I've read the five first. They're really eerie and disturbing, especially "The Ball Room".
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Old 26th September 2005, 05:53 PM   #9 (permalink)
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I'm gonna have to get this book, it sounds fascinating
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