Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings. China Mieville abandonbuildinghave Change image and share on social
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 bigbillcondoleezza share on social
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 awarenessconsciousfailure Change image and share on social
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 argumentativefeelfiction Change image and share on social
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. China Mieville attentioncoverdeserve Change image and share on social
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction. China Mieville badfictionprediction Change image and share on social
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book. China Mieville bookinhabitpassionate Change image and share on social
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. China Mieville dreamlikefictionintense Change image and share on social
