China Mieville
China Mieville
China Tom Miéville FRSLis an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer and academic. He often describes his work as "weird fiction", and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 September 1972
book thinking important
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.
thinking fiction science-fiction
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
fiction fantasy weirdness
One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.
book years passionate
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
book people want
I love it when people want to interpret my books.
attention fiction fantasy
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
sex fiction prestige
No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.
hero skills destined
...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?
gold
Anything for gold and experience.
recovery yes-we-can smell
While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.
real thinking self
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.
way members feels
I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.
mean reality actions-have-consequences
To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.
two fundamentals influence
Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.