No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it. — 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
“When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking for such a job.… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“What can we get on with while our consciousness rests? A researcher into the mind, a psychonomer , a thought-mapper , might… — China Mieville 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 Copy Share Image
“Technically, our name, to those who speak science, is Homo sapiens— wise person. But we have been described in many other ways.… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“[...]i’m not a leftist trying to smuggle in my evil message by the nefarious means of fantasy novels. I’m a science fiction… — China Miéville 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
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange… — 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
![“[...]i’m not a leftist trying to smuggle in my evil message by the nefarious means of fantasy novels. I’m a science fiction and fantasy geek. I love this stuff. And when I write my novels, I’m not writing them to make political points. I’m writing them because I passionately love monsters and the…” quote by China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d4/china-mi-ville-1303_science_i-m-not-a-leftist-trying-to-smuggle-in-m_343278.jpg)
