Building a Zen Garden Diorama

This is a great fifteen minute video depicting the building of a Zen Garden.

Oceans and Seas of Bas Lag

This is not an exhaustive list of the Oceans and Seas of Bas Lag, but only a first on the geography of the BasLag "the straights, sounds,channels, bays and the bights":

Rime
Boxash
Vassilly
Tarribor
Teuchor
Muted
Swollen
Gentlemens Sea
Spiral Sea
Clock
Hidden...

The Scar, China Mieville

Other Books: Miéville’s Bas-Lag/ New Crobuzon Series (The Scar)

 

I started this category, labeled Special Books back in 2015. This is where I can record lists of books that are mentioned within the story. Most are fictitious in nature, but I still find them intriguing.

I found these titles listed within China Miéville’s , The Scar which the second in his Bas-Lag/ New Crobuzon series. The second volume is has thick as his previous volume (638 pages) in a large format. I would say that you would have close to 1200 pages if it had been published in regular sized book.

This is heady stuff:

Against Bendamburg: A Radical Theory of Waters
Maritime Ecologies

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The Biophysics of Brine
Predation in Iron Bay Rock pools
Sardula Anatomy
Essays on Beasts
Theories of Megafauna
Trans-plane Life as a Problem for the Naturalists

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Caudexes of the Wormseye Scrub
High Kettai Grammatology

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Kriiach Aum