China Mieville’s latest novel is sitting on the Hugo ballot right now, and he’s had several good stories out in the last twelve months (most notably in a McSweeney’s anthology). It now looks like we’ll see his first short story collection, Looking for Jake in August. It’ll feature a comic strip, his wonderful novella “The Tain”, and eleven other stories. According to some of the descriptions I’ve seen, there will be original stories in the book, some set in New Crobuzon. Sounds terrific, and definitely high on my ‘to read’ list. Can’t wait to see it, or the galley.