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Question about Perdido Street Station (minor spoiler) (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
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I recently finished Perdido Street Station, and one minor thing that bothered me is how many of the other races were either a humanoid version of earth life (cactus person, bird person) or a literal combination of a human and something (head of a bug, body of a person). That just seems so fantastically unlikely that I wonder if any of the other books in that setting explain it. Like, is it a future earth and the races are results of generic modification in some prior era?

I liked the book pretty well, through it's not exactly uplifting. Thought provoking though.

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[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm charmed to see Perdido Street Station come up! I was talking to my wife about this very book earlier this evening.

[–] YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's so good! One of my favourites!

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yep, it had lots of cool ideas. I'm glad to have read it.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I take it you enjoyed it then?

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Definitely! It was an excellent read. I do think you hit the nail on the head with

it’s not exactly uplifting. Thought provoking though.