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Railsea by China Miéville6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() He is a bumbling, awkward doctor’s assistant on the train, Medes. Our hero, Shamus Yes ap Soorap (Sham for short), is exceptional only in the sense that there is nothing exceptional about him. He also presents something to young adults that is not about wizards or something that seems like a bad knock-off of The Running Man with bows and arrows, or some weak tale about boring vampires that are anything but scary. From using an odd vocabulary and slang, to the use of an ampersand (&) in place of the word “and” throughout the book, to the strange story of how the world changed, Miéville never comes right out and fully explains these things but makes the reader learn on the go. Miéville knows the rules but throws them all to the wind in his latest work and somehow still manages to pull off an amazing novel. Now blend these up nicely, dump them on a train, and try to push it under a PG-13 rating and you’ll have an idea of what Railsea is like. ![]() Take one part Moby-Dick, mix it with one part Kidnapped and one part Treasure Island, and sprinkle in just a bit of The Odyssey. ![]()
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