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Old 24th May 2005, 04:52 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Perdido Street Station

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Originally Posted by Estelthea
like it (having a few problems imagining Lin with a bug for a head but I guess that makes it easy to see why the khepri are looked down on)
Yes.

I'd like to make this clear - Mieville is playing with our minds here, and it's a challenge. In a world with sentient half-human races, these races are analogues to the different races within humanity, for all purposes, and if we can't imagine intimate relations between them, it shows a failure of imagination that's rather akin to real-world racism. I hope you enjoy the book.
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