China Miéville

“I don’t generally publicly respond to reviews, no matter how wrong-headed or perspicacious I think them. Nine times out of ten, writers’…

— China Miéville

Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a…

— China Mieville

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

— China Mieville

My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came…

— China Mieville

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

— China Mieville

“It had acquired a name, Spatters, that reflected the desultory randomness of its outlines: the whole stinking shanty-town seemed to have dribbled…

— China Miéville

“The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of…

— China Miéville

“A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?”

— China Miéville

Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against…

— China Mieville

“There was a time when wen we did not form all our words as we do now, in writing on a page.…

— China Miéville

“A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like throwing grenades and pulling out…

— China Miéville

“There's something intrinsically radical about the fantastic aesthetic - starting from the premise that the impossible is true, attempting to undermine expectations.”

— China Miéville

“They hammered it with sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.”

— China Miéville

“The revolutionaries want a new country in a new world, one they cannot see but believe they can build. And they believe…

— China Miéville

“There was one panicked moment. He picked a book from the wall, and the shapes inside, all the letters, were friends to…

— China Miéville

“Outside the wind had picked up a little. Isaac sheltered his prize and walked quickly up the little alley that adjoined The…

— China Miéville

The dead are way more organized than the living.

— China Mieville

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

“They are too stupid to fear. Vertigo is too complex for them.”

— China Miéville

“So many truths have been kept from me. This violent, pointless voyage has been sopping with blood. I feel thick and sick…

— China Miéville

“Now the Ariekei were learning to speak, and to think, and it hurt.”

— China Miéville

“Walls and ceilings moved with ratcheting mechanical life like the offspring of chains and crabs.”

— China Miéville

“Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.”

— China Miéville

In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their…

— China Mieville

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

— China Mieville