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Easily The City & The City by China Miéville.

The premise is great, the characters are fun, the plot will keep you engaged.

A noir detective story about a murder that happens in the space between two cities which are in superposition. That is, they share the same geographic space, but citizens are forced to live in only one of the cities by a seemingly omnipotent power called Breach that maintains the borders of the two cities.

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Besides The City & The City I really enjoyed Kraken and Un Lun Dun by China Miéville.

Kraken is the hunt for a giant squid after it vanished from a London museum.

Un Lun Dun is a young adult story of two friends who end up in a whimsical version of London.

I'll have to check them out!

I was first drawn to TC&TC because I was told Disco Elysium draws from it, and boy howdy was that right. Something is so wonderful about a crime procedural in an entirely fantastic universe.

That's funny, I just added Disco Elysium to my Steam wish list yesterday.

You will not be disappointed! Possibly my favourite game of all time.

IIRC Kraken was described as 'an explosion in an ideas factory'. I liked the ideas but about half way through began to wish that Miéville would calm down and explore in more detail some of the characters / concepts he'd introduced earlier in the novel.

Amazing book. I would love to see a film adaptation. I also recommend his Bas-Lag series starting with Perdido Street Station.

I've not seen it but there's a mini-series adaptation

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7205264/

Great BBC mini series. Faithfully follows the book.

Great book. I read it a few years ago and still think about it often, especially when I’m walking by a homeless person on the street

I have heard good things about this book. I have it on my Kindle and plan to read it next year.

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