''Looking for Jake'' is a collection of science fiction, horror and fantasy stories by British author

China Miéville China Tom Miéville ( ; born 6 September 1972) is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. He often describes his work as ''weird fiction'' and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called '' New Weird''. Mi ...

. It was first published by

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and

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in 2005.

Stories

The book contains eleven short stories, a novella (" The Tain"), a novelette ("Reports of Certain Events in London"), and a comic book-esque tale ("On The Way to the Front"), which was illustrated by British comic book artist

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. Eleven of the stories were originally published between 1998 and 2004, and the remaining four ("The Ball Room", "Go Between", "Jack", "On the Way to the Front") had never been published before. The short story, "The Ball Room" was co-written by Miéville, Emma Bircham and Max Schaefer, and the novella, " The Tain" was published as a free standing book in 2002. All of the stories are set in London, with the exceptions of "Jack", set in Miéville's created world Bas-Lag, and "Foundation", the setting of which is not specified. The stories are as follows:

Adaptations

In 2006 it was announced that the story ''Details'' was turned into a script by Dan Kay, and subsequently picked up by studio

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. The script was said to expand upon the original story's exploration of

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and rework the plot to feature a father and daughter. As of November 2008, ''

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'' director

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is attached to direct.

References

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