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China Mieville
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China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
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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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