Prime Junta
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Just finished "Kraken" by China Miéville. It's about a pickled giant squid that gets inexplicably stolen from the Darwin Institute in London, and a whole mess of supernatural intrigue that follows, including a bunch of competing apocalypses (apocalypsi?), a crimelord who's actually a tattoo, and is therefore known as the Tattoo, Londonmancers, the Sea, a special police unit that deals with cult crime, a church that worships cephalopods, some Angels of Memory, a trekkie teleporter with a tribble for a familiar, an origamist, Chaos Nazis, another crimelord who's dead, some professors, an ancient Egyptian spirit who has unionized familiars, and a guy called Billy who's sort of in the middle of it all.
Confusing as hell, but a pretty good read, if you're into that sort of thing. I'd say that if you dig Neil Gaiman, you might also dig this.
Confusing as hell, but a pretty good read, if you're into that sort of thing. I'd say that if you dig Neil Gaiman, you might also dig this.
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