Excellent collection of cerebral Mieville weirdness, with each story (some of them are very short) built around something substantial and often fascinating - an idea, an image, a question. Shot through with concerns of class and politics both structural and personal. Icebergs over London, lost oil rigs breeding and returning to shore to feed, slantwise reinterpretations of existing paintings revealing uncanny new objects, people are infected by a condition that manifests in trenches appearing around them if they remain still for too long, several hauntings, and much, much more.
