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China Miéville

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Born

in Norwich, England, The United Kingdom

Website

http://chinamieville.net/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Weird Fiction

Influences

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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‘ Genre fans – accept that works of art are works of art and not anthropological documents about a real place that just happens to not exist: Challenge difficulty – Impossible.’
— James Holloway

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China Miéville’s books

Average rating: 3.85 · 435,022 ratings · 43,963 reviews · 161 distinct works • Similar authors

	The City & the City 3.90 avg rating — 78,693 ratings — published 2009 — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 75,398 ratings — published 2000 — 89 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2) 4.19 avg rating — 34,766 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Embassytown 3.90 avg rating — 34,619 ratings — published 2011 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kraken 3.62 avg rating — 28,724 ratings — published 2010 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Un Lun Dun 3.83 avg rating — 19,469 ratings — published 2007 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iron Council (New Crobuzon, #3) 3.73 avg rating — 16,855 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Railsea 3.89 avg rating — 13,581 ratings — published 2012 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King Rat 3.56 avg rating — 10,002 ratings — published 1998 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Census-Taker 3.35 avg rating — 8,253 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by China Miéville (?)

“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

tags: challenge, trap

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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

1247 likes

“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”
― China Miéville, Embassytown

tags: gossip, secrets, stories

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NOVEMBER FANTASY: This poll decides which book will be our November BotM in Fantasy.

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

62 votes, 68.9%

Homeland by R.A. Salvatore

28 votes, 31.1%

90 total votes

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