China Mieville is one of the few writers whose fantasy books are truly fantastical, and Railsea, an odd mesh of Moby Dick and Waterworld is no exception.
| Positive: | Negative: |
| Well-crafted and deeply intriguing phantasmagoric setting of a world of railseas | In retrospect the plot feels pretty simplistic |
| Fairly engrossing plot | Pace is a bit on a slow side sometimes |
| Sense of adventure | |
| Interesting,likable ,wacky characters | |
| Pirates |
