That is so true about Embassytown. I remember someone posted they couldn't get into the audio book of Railsea and I immediately remembered Embassytown. If all those onomatopoeic sounds from Railsea were a bother, how the heck could anyone read Embassytown? Unless they used studio trickery and overlapped two voices at the same time, it's impossible to say those words out loud. As for Railsea, I suggested that one because it's easiest to get into, not because it's his best. I feel like an average The Hunger Games reader would commit suicide via self-smacking of own head with the hardcover copy of Perdido. It's not an easy read but it's rewarding, not just for the payoff but the entire read. It's extremely well-crafted and rich in language. I think Mieville was an English professor when he was 19 or something crazy like that.

The last thing he published was The Apology when he bailed on some convention. It's a chapbook with new and unpublished short stories.