They were presented by the writer Sarah Hall, and produced in Manchester by Nicola Swords; they featured a number of British writers including Iain M. Banks, China Miéville, and Nicola Griffith.
The novel has a style often described as New Weird, similar to the works of China Miéville, set in a society with a vaguely Victorian technology level.
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Pagliassotti's writing was compared to the work of China Miéville and D. M. Cornish.
The Tain, a novella by China Mieville contained in the 2005 collection Looking for Jake, portrays a post-apocolyptic London in the aftermath of the events predicted in the "Fauna of Mirrors."
The 'Khepri' are featured prominently as a race in China Miéville's Bas-Lag novels.