“Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.” — China Miéville Betting Copy Share Image
“For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.” — China Miéville Politics Copy Share Image
“It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.” — China Miéville Persuasion Copy Share Image
My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Walls and ceilings moved with ratcheting mechanical life like the offspring of chains and crabs.” — China Miéville Life Copy Share Image
A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“At dawn a great shark mouth appears at the horizon smiling like a stupid angel and chewing silently on the sky.” — China Miéville Fish 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 Science Copy Share Image
“My father passed me. He looked briefly at me as you might at a stump or a broken machine or anything that’s… — China Miéville Computers Copy Share Image
“The children from the bridge were often waiting there, eyeing me. They congregated by the stump and played a game involving motions… — China Miéville Children Copy Share Image
Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed… — China Mieville Apples Copy Share Image
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can… — 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
“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
“I've no interest in this city. I do not want to live in a curio , Johannes. This is a sideshow! This… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Outside the wind had picked up a little. Isaac sheltered his prize and walked quickly up the little alley that adjoined The… — China Miéville Child Copy Share Image
“You cannot train yourself to successfully and sustainedly unsee and unhear you do them all the time, but they also fail,… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Teafortwo was a wyrman. Barrel-chested creatures like squat birds, with thick arms like a human dwarf’s below those ugly, functional wings, the… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Dane discarded his speargun with visible relief. As a paladin of the Church of God Kraken, he had few options. Like many… — China Miéville Guns Copy Share Image
When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and… — China Mieville Books Copy Share Image
“The boy went to the low-down part of the attic where he drew, and drew a lizard in a bottle between the… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“My job is never boring," Staples said. "There's nuts-and-bolts stuff like getting the tarpaulin over the shaft when it rains, and so… — China Miéville Book Copy Share Image
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book. — China Mieville Book Copy Share Image
'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract… — China Mieville Abstract Copy Share Image
“I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore.” — China Miéville Gravity Copy Share Image
I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked,… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I… — China Mieville Artist 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
