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I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.
China Mieville
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China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
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Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.
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I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.
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To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.
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I'm a very friendly socialist.
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Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
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The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.
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