I kept thinking it was written just for me, as it centers on the parts that of London that I know best and I keep getting even little in-joke asides.
Nice! I take it I should read the sequels?
He writes an incredibly good sense of place. Which can be faked; see M. John Harrison's Viriconium or most of the novels of Jeff VanderMeer. But he's good about giving directions both by history and the newsagent's on the corner and the combination does not feel like an author plotting out a map for verisimilitude, it just feels like a city in all its dimensions. Including the ones that aren't there for most people.
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Nice! I take it I should read the sequels?
He writes an incredibly good sense of place. Which can be faked; see M. John Harrison's Viriconium or most of the novels of Jeff VanderMeer. But he's good about giving directions both by history and the newsagent's on the corner and the combination does not feel like an author plotting out a map for verisimilitude, it just feels like a city in all its dimensions. Including the ones that aren't there for most people.