![]() ![]() Of the two, The City & the City is probably the better novel, partly because it is more formally ambitious. ![]() Evidently, it's the wisdom of SF crowds that these two novels represent the best contemporary writing the genre has to offer.Īccordingly, readers interested but not expert in contemporary SF and wondering where to start – the sci-fi-curious, we might say – could do a lot worse than these titles. The duopoly of merit was reinforced when the genre's biggest prize, the Hugo, split its novel award between Miéville and Bacigalupi: a pretty much unprecedented event. China Miéville's fable of urban duplicity, The City & the City, won the BSFA and Arthur C Clarke awards and Paolo Bacigalupi's energetic future-thriller The Windup Girl won the John W Campbell and the Locus first novel. L ast year, two novels divided pretty much all the big SF literary prizes between them. ![]()
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