Really good. Not perfect, and I found some of the action scenes a little confusing, but well-written, with a sufficiently sophisticated vocabulary to keep it from getting boring.

The world that Mieville made is definitely rich and full and ambitious, but maybe a little too much was introduced for the one novel. Also, I sometimes found myself analyzing the “sciency” bits, but I tried to keep that to a minimum as they really weren’t intended to be rigorous and I’m only hurting myself.

Very enjoyable, and I’m hoping to get to [b:The Scar (Bas-Lag)|68497|The Scar (Bas-Lag) (New Crobuzon, #2)|China Miéville|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1285272320s/68497.jpg|731674] real soon now.