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China Mieville
English Writer
Born: Sep 6, 1972
About Book Fiction Like Science Think
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek. China Mieville
People World Big Military Rumsfeld Run Geek Geeks About Writers Clearly Talk Knows Heard Condoleezza Lots Condoleezza Rice Donald Anyone Rice Bill Bill Gates Who Many Presence Hardware Gates Filmmakers
'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom. China Mieville
Think Slightly Kind London Kingdom More Abstract Like Lot Fantasy Riffs Set
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction. China Mieville
Science Think Bad Science Fiction Very Fiction Prediction
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. China Mieville
People Become Books Way About Excess Writers Like Read Personally
I love it when people want to interpret my books. China Mieville
Love People Books Want Interpret
I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek. China Mieville
Science Geek Science Fiction Fiction Fantasy
Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing. China Mieville
Writing Sometimes Become Way Sectarian About Feel Well Although Norm Get Literary Against Little Certain Notion Resent
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real. China Mieville
Failure Quality Own Awareness Think About Touch Something More Prose Self-Conscious Almost Because Real Lot Tragic Quite Interesting Much
In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart. China Mieville
Heart Field Question Up Very Close Dungeons Fiction Grew Fantastic Whole Thing Dragons
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. China Mieville
Writer Never Until Became Been Convention Professional Professional Writer
I don't like allegory. China Mieville
Allegory Like
I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction. China Mieville
Job Sense Strongly Scholarly Feel Piece Non-Fiction However Same Fiction Reasonably
I'm a very friendly socialist. China Mieville
Friendly Very Socialist
There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings. China Mieville
Problem Tea Plenty About Feel Stuff Like Lots Any Really Paintings
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate. China Mieville
Beautiful Me Parents Looking Few Through Name Mate Came Dictionary Rhyming Which China Pages Cockney Slang Nearly
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. China Mieville
Science Horror Attention Science Fiction Covers Get Fiction Fantastic Fantasy Deserves

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