China Miéville is a fantasy fiction author from Norwich, England. His novels include Perdido Street Station, Un Lun Dun, and Embassytown. He teaches creative writing at Warwick University.
"Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a thousand men or to leave it be, or whether a particular dandelion should or should not be plucked. For a Weaver, to think was to think aesthetically. To act — to Weave — was to bring about more pleasing patterns. They did not eat physical food: they seemed to subsist on the appreciation of beauty."
– China Miéville, Perdido Street Station
ARTICLES FEATURING CHINA
Red Dawn: On China Miéville’s Urgent Retelling of the Russian Revolution
Alci Rengifo is stirred by “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution” by China Miéville....
Russia 1917: You Are There
China Miéville makes the Russian Revolution come alive in an excellent popular history....
Political Surrealism, Surreal Politics
China Miéville takes on Surrealism, exploring how to be as radical as reality in art and in politics....
Accounts and Accountability
Transcending hate and hope in China Miéville's "This Census-Taker"....
The Stuff Reading Is Made Of: Miéville’s YA and Materiality
I HAVE NEVER been much of a reader of fantasy, which is likely why it took me so long to get ...
Wake Up and Smell the Weird
"Three Moments of an Explosion" is not a manifesto, and it is in no way overtly politically didactic....
SalvagePunk: China Miéville's "Railsea"
"In 'Railsea,' Miéville uses salvage itself as a mode of writing."...
Language and Monsters
China Miéville is in it for the monsters, and for the philosophy of language, in his latest novel....
