China Miéville

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

— China Mieville

“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

There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the…

— China Mieville

A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is…

— China Mieville

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

— China Mieville

“The air was stained by shadows, a darkness burst by lightning like camera flashes.”

— China Miéville

“the second book’s for readers, he said. But you can’t know when they’ll come, if they do. It’s the book for telling:…

— China Miéville

“Classification may very well not be useless, but it is never analysis, no matter how baroquely detailed and comprehensive-seeming its categories. At…

— China Miéville

“And even if you’re right, the CIA paid millions of dollars to men trying to kill goats by staring at them,” I…

— China Miéville

“Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don’t mean it’s a myth.”

— China Miéville

“Do please,” said Captain Naphi, “expedite this journey relevance-ward.”

— China Miéville

“Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a…

— China Miéville

“utterly human moan started from him, and it grew and grew until it became a bird”

— China Miéville

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several…

— China Mieville

“It had become a chimney poking from a vertical universe of bookshelves. There was motion below her. There were people on the…

— China Miéville

“Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in…

— China Miéville

“ I do not dream , der Grimnebulin. I am a calculating machine that has calculated how to think. I do not…

— China Miéville

Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an…

— China Mieville

“I didn’t move: I had no moving left in me.”

— China Miéville

“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

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so…

— China Mieville

“A boy ran down a hill path screaming. The boy was I.”

— China Miéville

I don't like allegory.

— China Mieville

“Technically, our name, to those who speak science, is Homo sapiens— wise person. But we have been described in many other ways.…

— China Miéville

“Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he…

— China Miéville