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* [[Purple Prose]]: Miéville writes beautiful prose, if a bit purple. There's a fine line between "purple" and "exquisite." He has got a lot less purple recently -- more a pale lilac. At least he's stopped using 'ineluctable' every ten pages.

** Miéville writes [http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/china-mieville-and-monsters-unsatisfy-me-frustrate-me-i-beg-you/ in defense of purple prose]:

{{quote| "I think for a lot of people who don’t read pulp growing up, there’s a real surprise that the particular kind of Pulp Modernism of a certain kind of lush [[Purple Prose]] isn’t necessarily a failure or a mistake, but is [[Justified Trope|part of the fabric of the story and what makes it weird]]. There’s a big default notion that “spare,” or “precise” prose is somehow better. I keep insisting to them that while such prose is completely legitimate, it’s in no way intrinsically more accurate, more relevant, or better than lush prose."}}

{{quote|"I think for a lot of people who don’t read pulp growing up, there’s a real surprise that the particular kind of Pulp Modernism of a certain kind of lush [[Purple Prose]] isn’t necessarily a failure or a mistake, but is [[Justified Trope|part of the fabric of the story and what makes it weird]]. There’s a big default notion that “spare,” or “precise” prose is somehow better. I keep insisting to them that while such prose is completely legitimate, it’s in no way intrinsically more accurate, more relevant, or better than lush prose."}}

* [[Steampunk]]

* [[Urban Fantasy]]: Even works not set on Earth are generally set in a fantasy counterpart of [[Victorian London|London]].