China Miéville

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

131

Total plays

3,307

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/China+Mi%C3%A9ville">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · China Miéville

Quotes

• “I am often asked is [my work] science fiction or fantasy and my answer is usually ‘Yes’.”
• “The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism.”
• “The thing about good pulp is that you trust the reader and you know that the mind is a machine to process metaphors so of course all those connections will be there. But you've also granted the fantastic its own dynamic and allowed that awe. There's no contradiction. So I want to have monsters as a metaphor but I also want monsters because monsters are cool. There's no contradiction.”
• “That’s the trouble with trying to counter clichés—the counterclichés cliché quicker than shit off a shovel, and with that comes domestication. Either you lose any subversive gloss at all—the hip-hop which now sells us jeans and cheese once fought the power—or, what’s perhaps worse, a horrible zombie gloss of radicalism is retained while you shuffle into the corridors of establishment, rotting.”
• “New Weird—along with the other mo(ve)ments of which it’s some kind of cousin, the Ratbastards, the Interstitial Arts, the New Space Opera and others—reflected a major cultural shake-up. Soon, though, if not already, those groups will have their epigones, and will probably be the very fantasy mainstream they were railing against. At which point, doubtless, some new punkass radicals will come along and subvert us all, by writing about hobbits.”
• “Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.”