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
jobs fiction pieces
I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.
people proud geek
I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it.
cutting dancing mad
I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.
ideas ridiculous fantastic
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
fighting winning secret
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
revenge should-have creative
We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge
running military people
Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.
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.
attention fiction fantasy
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
hero skills destined
...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?
fate long care
So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
jobs writing giving
My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.
pain numbers way
There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.