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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by lianna-vba on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:04PM (#34056172)
Besides The City & The City I really enjoyed Kraken and Un Lun Dun by China Miéville.

Kraken is the hunt for a giant squid after it vanished from a London museum.

Un Lun Dun is a young adult story of two friends who end up in a whimsical version of London.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by jszymborski on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:05PM (#34056191)
I'll have to check them out!

I was first drawn to TC&TC because I was told Disco Elysium draws from it, and boy howdy was that right. Something is so wonderful about a crime procedural in an entirely fantastic universe.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by lianna-vba on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:22PM (#34056399)
That's funny, I just added Disco Elysium to my Steam wish list yesterday.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by jszymborski on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:25PM (#34056440)
You will not be disappointed! Possibly my favourite game of all time.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by KineticLensman on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:36PM (#34057304)
IIRC Kraken was described as 'an explosion in an ideas factory'. I liked the ideas but about half way through began to wish that Miéville would calm down and explore in more detail some of the characters / concepts he'd introduced earlier in the novel.
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