china mieville

29th April 2010 07:10 AM Elaine Frei The City & The City, by China Miéville, was awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award at the opening night festivities of the SCI-FI LONDON Film Festival, in London. Miéville previously won the Clarke Award for Perdido Street Station in 2001 and for Iron...

2nd October 2004 11:20 AM Jayaprakash Satyamurthy chronicles: When did you start writing, telling stories, possibly with the aim of being published eventually? China Mieville:: I always loved writing, but it was when I was about 15 that I decided I’d like to do it professionally. I sent...

Rather than turning the Book Hauls into a discussion thread I thought I'd start a new one for this book I've just ordered. Now as some of you know I'm currently making my way through the SF Masterworks series so this is a bit of a deviation from that but I happened to be in Waterstones today and...

Well this is a strange one!I had this book for Christmas one year as I thought it might be interesting. It certainly started well and at one point it was hard to put down, but Mieville appears to have a weird writing style, inventing words and phrases out of nowhere, and using ' big clever...

The railsea: a network of metal rails and wooden slats which extends in all directions, covering the hostile, animal-filled earth which is too dangerous to walk on. Great islands and continents of rock rise between the rails, on which cities, towns and people exist. Sailing the railsea are...

I realize there is already a thread about 'Looking for Jake' to discuss the stories within the collected work itself, but this question is regarding the story itself. While I loved almost all of the stories within the collection (except for 'On the Way to the Front' perhaps), the title story...

Iron Council by China Mieville

Avice is an immerser, a person who flits between worlds by sailing the immer, the strange sea of time and space that underlines our own. To satisfy his curiosity, she takes her new husband to see her homeworld of Arieka, where the native Hosts communicate in a language unlike any other known to...

Amazon is listing a forthcoming YA novel called Railsea, to be published in 2012. No more information at the moment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13462771 :D

There's a short story by Miéville, Covehithe, on the Guardian website. Read it here: Short story: Covehithe by China Miéville | Books | guardian.co.uk. * Disappears off to read the story.... *

Mieville's first SF novel is due this May. I can't wait! Embassytown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Looks like Mieville's gone and done a Space Opera. I believe the word is Squeeee!

The Scar

After very briefly perusing the threads on Mieville here I've yet to hear anyone mention Iron Council, for better or worse. Personally I thought it was his best book by far. It wasnt the characters, it wasnt the action sequences, and it also was not the juicy homosexual relationships of one Mr...

Perdido Street Station -- brilliant, unique. The Scar -- hard to imagine how this exceptional novel could be better. Iron Council -- well, let me resort to an analogy. If Perdido Street Station was Mieville's Revolver and The Scar was his Sergeant Pepper, this third novel is his Magical Mystery...

Spoiler free review. I’m in a bit of an unusual, and perhaps lucky situation, because Kraken is only the second China Miéville novel I’ve ever read. The first was The City & The City. I knew it was a departure from his normal style, so I had no preconceptions of what to expect and measured it...

Mieville's latest, in all its brine-drenched, tentacular glory:

Mr. Mieville has been touring India as part of the British Council's Lit Sutra program, and he was in my town last night. He read to us from Kraken - which was an absolutely stunning experience. Amongst other things there's a worker's revolt in the afterlife. After that, there was a panel...

Here are my first impressions of the book, written earlier this year (I've revised my rating of this one upwards since then, it has a way of staying in your mind and making you think beyond the first reading which is one of the marks of a good book): I really like China Mieville's New Crobuzon...