Thanks. Another enjoyable conversation with you. What else should I read by Mieville?
I read Perdido Street Station and The Scar when I was younger- they're both fit for YA, I'm not sure how they'd hold up now. Definitely not as subtle as TC&TC. If you're looking for something else by Mieville that matches the tone of that one, you might be disappointed...
Don't get me wrong, they might be worth checking out if you're just into SF and looking for some light reading. It's been a while, I might go back to them if I want to turn my brain off for a while. Could be because I read it roughly at the same time as TC&TC, but I seem to remember Neil Stephenson's Anathem as being somewhere along the same lines of brain-fuckery. You have to get over his writing sometimes, which draws a lot of attention to its own cleverness, but it was pretty enjoyable and marginally thinky.