China Mieville

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

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.

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.