As the variety of sources are very important for the movement Miéville represents, let’s start with them. Second on our list, we have the most popular one among all China Miéville books. My only worry is that it could get old in a few more books but hey, so far so good. This is not an issue with New Cruzbon and the setting still maintains the author’s signature absurdity. When you have an author as bold in world-building as this one, trying to figure out or get used to a universe can take you away from the real story. The reason I so confidently declared New Cruzbon as the best China Miéville series is very simple. The most prominent features of New Cruzbon that are handled in these books are the dystopian atmosphere, people who have a lot of things wrong with them, and a cruel economic hierarchy. We also see the setting in the short-story collection “Looking for Jake” but it is just one of the many different settings used throughout the book.

Those China Miéville are in publication order: Perdido Street Station trilogy, The Scar, and Iron Council. There is no actual “New Cruzbon” series but there are multiple books taking place in this setting.

It is a weird fantasy and steampunk hybrid populated with humans who are not very different from us. The name of the series comes from a city-state on the fictional planet of Bas-Lag.

We are starting this article with the best China Miéville book series there is, New Cruzbon.

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