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China Miéville

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Born
in Norwich, England, The United Kingdom
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Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Weird Fiction

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J.G. Ballard, Michael de Larrabeiti, Thomas Disch, William Durbin, Joh ...more

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A British "fantastic fiction" writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" (after early 20th century pulp and horror writers such as H. P. Lovecraft), and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird who consciously attempt to move fantasy away from commercial, genre clichés of Tolkien epigons. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party. He has stood for the House of Commons for the Socialist Alliance, and published a book on Marxism and international law.

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‘Mathematical models are, after all, bricolage constructions inscribed with curdled utopias, with arms and with rights – so many scraps of social history.’
— Alice Bamford and Donald MacKenzie, ‘Counterperformativity’, New Left Review 113

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“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
― China Miéville, King Rat
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“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
― China Miéville, The City & the City
tags: books, ideas, stories
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“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”
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