In the old city, even the buildings have evolved parasites. Disguised as rooms, they enter houses and can stay there for years, undetected.
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Earthworms, larger than buses, latch onto sewer pipes like leeches, sucking the city's lymph fluid. Some have simply replaced the pipes.
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There's always this quarter that never produces news and that nobody has a memory of. It is as if something other than humans lives there.
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Sounds like half-remembered fragments from the . Dancing through the fog, just out of reach.
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City fiction is a rich field: Vandermeer, Schuiten&Peeters, Mieville, etc
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I've just discovered Mieville (via The Dowager of Bees) - what would you recommend of his for city fiction?
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Pretty much all of what I've read from him deals with cities: New Crobuzon 1-5, Embassytown, even King Rat.
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Each of these deals with a different city (two of them mobile): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas-Lag