What marks the volume as perhaps more adventurous than (for instance) the superficially similar Tokyo Cancelled (coll of linked stories 2005) by Rana Dasgupta is the degree to which the implications and turnings of plot and characters of each tale interact centripetally with all its fellows (both within this volume, and proleptically in several of Mitchell's later publications). His first novel, Ghostwritten: A Novel in Nine Parts ( 1999), which it would be reductionist to describe as a collection of linked stories, is all the same presented as a set of stories, each of which inhabits a different genre, from chthonic reminiscences of a preternaturally ancient Chinese woman to the Technothriller, from ghost story to Near Future parable set in New York. (1969- ) UK author, in Japan 1994-2000, whose work exhibits a thrusting and muscular (but finely tempered) Equipoise among the genres of Fantastika.
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