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The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.
China Mieville
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China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
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The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.
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My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.
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A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.
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Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.
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Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
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PEOPLE HAVE WANTED TO narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.
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If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.
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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, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.
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I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
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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 differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.
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My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
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I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.
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A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.
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Remember the movements that don't look like moving.
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One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.
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What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.
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Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
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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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I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.
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