“I know your job's to channel the bleeding divine, and when have I ever stood in your way? Aren't I the bloke… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“How do you...? What is it you're doing?" he said to Vardy as the man took a breath, mid-insight. What do you… — China Miéville Theology Copy Share Image
“The Romanovian method becomes one of appointing adventurer after incompetent after nonentity to grand offices of state. The liberals and the sharper-witted… — China Miéville Adventure Copy Share Image
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange… — China Mieville Dreams Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“This was the first time any adult had hit me. The window-cleaner winced with every strike. I felt better and worse that… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then... what if she had… — China Miéville Children Copy Share Image
“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a… — China Miéville Time Copy Share Image
“Some midnight-of-all or other [apocalypse] was predicted every few days or nights. Most came to nothing, leaving relevant prophets cringing with a… — China Miéville Apocalypse Copy Share Image
In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their… — China Mieville Algae Copy Share Image
Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think,… — China Mieville Book Copy Share Image
Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see… — China Miéville Bad people Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“I turn away from him and step into the vastness of New Crobuzon, this towering edifice of architecture and history, this complexitude… — China Miéville God Copy Share Image
“You see what’s going on,” Dane said. Miserably he ran his hands over his head. “That is a picket line, and I… — China Miéville Picket Copy Share Image
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant… — China Mieville Allegorical Copy Share Image
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