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Three Moments of an Explosion is his latest collection of short fiction, twenty-eight pieces of such varying length and stylistic variety that you could be forgiven for thinking that you were reading an anthology, if not for the consistency of his voice. His prose is unique as well. The spiraling complexity of the language of his novels is a bit more spare here, but the virtuosity is still intact.
1. Aug. 2015 · What I can say is that Three Moments displays an impressive range and a vivid imagination at work, as befitting one of the genre’s enfant terribles. Conversely, Three Moments of an Explosion is also frustrating and annoying by turns, for some tales tend to be little more than fragments, mood pieces with no real beginning or ending of merit – written in that post-modern, knowing way that ...
7. Juni 2016 · His latest collection of short stories, Three Moments of an Explosion, crowds virtuosity into every sentence…even when Mr. Miéville goes too far, cramming too much into too small a space, you can only marvel at the suppleness of his imagination, the inventiveness of his language…There are things to admire in every story, even the ones you can't quite grasp. The book left me feeling ...
7. Juni 2016 · Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories : Miéville, China: Amazon.ca: Books. Skip to main content .ca. Delivering to Balzac T4B 2T Update ...
4. Aug. 2015 · By turns speculative, satirical, and heart-wrenching, fresh in form and language, and featuring a cast of damaged yet hopeful seekers who come face-to-face with the deep weirdness of the world—and at times the deeper weirdness of themselves—Three Moments of an Explosion is a fitting showcase for one of literature’s most original voices.
1. Jan. 2016 · Three Moments of an Explosion is Mieville's literary career to date; writ small. Written with elegance, flair and above all a vivid imagination; I found this nevertheless an uneven collection. Featuring just over thirty short stories in four hundred pages; Three Moments tends towards the shorter end of the medium. This belies a fairly even ...
All in all, Three Moments of an Explosion is a brilliant collection of short stories, often breathtaking and mind-bending, and at all times thrilling and horrific. Like all the best Weird short fiction, the stories often start with something very mundane, followed by the realisation that the world just doesn't work in the way their characters had always assumed, and that there's no coming to ...
