Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape. — 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 good people… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape,” — China Miéville 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 soviet opponent… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
