China Miéville

English writer, critic, and activist

China Miéville

Miéville at Utopiales (2010)

Born| China Tom Miéville
(1972-09-06) 6 September 1972 (age 52)
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Occupation| Short-story writer, novelist, essayist and comic book author
Education| Clare College, Cambridge (BA)
London School of Economics (PhD)
Period| 1998–present
Genre| Urban fantasy
Weird fiction
Steampunk
Literary movement| New Weird
Notable works| Perdido Street Station (2000)
The City & the City (2009)
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (2017)
Website
chinamieville.net

China Tom Miéville FRSL (/miˈeɪvəl/ mee-AY-vəl, born 6 September 1972[1][2][3]) is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. He often describes his work as "weird fiction", and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New Weird.

Miéville has won multiple awards for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, Hugo Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Awards. He holds the record for the most Arthur C. Clarke Award wins (three). His novel Perdido Street Station was ranked by Locus as the 6th best fantasy novel published in the 20th century.[4] During 2012–13, he was writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015.[5]

Miéville is active in left politics in the UK and has previously been a member of the International Socialist Organization (US) and the short-lived International Socialist Network (UK). He was formerly a member of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 2013 became a founding member of Left Unity.[6] He stood for Regent's Park and Kensington North for the Socialist Alliance in the 2001 United Kingdom general election, gaining 1.2% of votes cast.

## Early life and education

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Miéville was born in Norwich and brought up in Willesden, and has lived in London since early childhood. Miéville's parents separated soon after his birth, and he has said that he "never really knew" his father.[7] He grew up with his sister Jemima and mother Claudia. His mother was a translator, writer and teacher, and the daughter of Leo Claude Vaux Miéville, whose wife Youla (née Harrison) was granddaughter of Edward Littleton, 4th Baron Hatherton.[8][9] His parents chose his first name, China, from a dictionary, looking for a beautiful name.[7] By virtue of his mother's nationality, Miéville holds US citizenship in addition to British citizenship. In 1982 his mother married Paul Lightfoot, a maternal descendant of George Charles Mostyn, 6th Baron Vaux of Harrowden; they divorced in 1992.[8][10][11]

Miéville boarded at Oakham School, a co-educational independent school in Oakham, Rutland, for two years. He subsequently attended University College School. At the age of eighteen, in 1990, he taught English for a year in Egypt, where he developed an interest in Arab culture and in Middle Eastern politics. Miéville studied for a BA degree in social anthropology at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating in 1994, and gained both a master's degree and PhD in international law from the London School of Economics in 2001. Miéville has also held a Frank Knox fellowship at Harvard University.[7] After becoming dissatisfied with the ability of post-modern theories to explain history and political events, he became a Marxist at university.[7] A book version of his PhD thesis, entitled Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law, was published in the UK in 2005 by Brill in their "Historical Materialism" series, and in the United States in 2006 by Haymarket Books.

## Literary influences

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Miéville's works all describe fantastical or supernatural worlds or scenarios.[12][13] Miéville has said he plans to write a novel in every genre.[14] To this end, he has "constructed an oeuvre" that ranges from classic American Western (in Iron Council) to sea-quest (in The Scar and Railsea) to detective noir (in The City & the City).[15] His work has been described as new weird fiction.[16]

Miéville has listed M. John Harrison, Michael de Larrabeiti, Michael Moorcock, Thomas M. Disch, Charles Williams, Tim Powers, and J. G. Ballard as literary "heroes"; he has also frequently discussed as influences H. P. Lovecraft, Mervyn Peake, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Gene Wolfe. He has said that he would like his novels "to be read for [his imagined city] New Crobuzon as Iain Sinclair does for London". Miéville has admitted that his books contain some allusions to Russian writers, including Andrei Platonov, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Evgeny Voiskunsky [ru] and Isai Lukodyanov [ru].[17]

Miéville played a great deal of Dungeons & Dragons and similar roleplaying games (RPGs) in his youth. He has attributed his tendency to systematisation of magic and theology to this influence.[7] In his novel Perdido Street Station, he refers to characters interested "only in gold and experience". The February 2007 issue of Dragon magazine interpreted the world presented in his books according to Dungeons & Dragons rules. The Player's Handbook for the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons cited his novel Perdido Street Station as a source of inspiration for the game's designers.[18]

In 2010, Miéville made his first foray into writing for RPGs with a contribution to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game supplement Guide to the River Kingdoms.[19]

Miéville once described Tolkien as "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature".[20] Miéville is also indebted to Moorcock, having cited his essay "Epic Pooh" as the source upon which he is "riffing" or even simply "cheerleading" in his critique of Tolkien-imitative fantasy.[citation needed] Despite his criticisms, Miéville has praised Tolkien for his contributions to fantasy, especially in a 2009 blog post where he gave five reasons why Tolkien was praiseworthy.[21]

He has cited Michael de Larrabeiti's Borrible Trilogy as one of his biggest influences, and he wrote an introduction for the trilogy's 2002 reissue (the introduction was eventually left out of the book, but appears on de Larrabeiti's website).[22]

## Politics

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Miéville has previously been a member of the International Socialist Organization (US) and, until 13 March 2013, was also a member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP, UK).[23] He stood unsuccessfully for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in the 2001 general election as a candidate for the Socialist Alliance, gaining 459 votes, equivalent to 1.2%,[24] in Regent's Park and Kensington North, a Labour constituency.[25]

In January 2013, he emerged as a critic of the SWP's leadership and in March resigned[23] over the leadership's handling of rape allegations against a leading SWP member.[26][27]

In August 2013, Miéville was one of nine signatories (along with veteran film-maker and socialist Ken Loach, academic Gilbert Achcar, General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Kate Hudson, fellow novelist Michael Rosen, and actor Roger Lloyd Pack) of an open letter to The Guardian announcing the foundation of a "new party of the left", to be called Left Unity. The letter, which claimed that Labour policies on austerity and the breaking of ties with trades unions amounted to a "final betrayal of the working-class people it was founded to represent", stated that Left Unity would be launched at a "founding conference" in London on 30 November 2013 and would provide, as an "alternative" to Labour, "a party that is socialist, environmentalist, feminist and opposed to all forms of discrimination".[6]

In 2014, together with Richard Seymour and others, Miéville quit the International Socialist Network, a Left Unity faction, over a dispute concerning the acceptability of sexual "race play"[28][29] that was prompted by discussion of a controversial art piece owned by Dasha Zhukova.[30]

In 2015, he was announced as one of the founding editors of a "bi-annual journal of revolutionary arts and letters", Salvage.[31] He has been the director of Salvage Publications since 2014.[32]

October, published in 2017, documents the dramatic events of the Russian revolution. Jonathan Steele reviewed it for The Guardian. Steele considers it an ideological though nuanced retelling: "Known as a left-wing activist, [...] Miéville writes with the brio and excitement of an enthusiast who would have wanted the revolution to succeed. But he is primarily interested in the dramatic narrative – the weird facts – of the most turbulent year in Russia's history".[33]

In a letter to Joybrato Mukherjee on 22 April 2024, Miéville rejected his nomination for a DAAD fellowship, citing Mukherjee's role in the cancelling of Jewish-American political theorist Nancy Fraser's Albertus Magnus Professorship at the University of Cologne because Fraser signed a pro-Palestine letter during the Hamas-Israel war, and his lack of "faith that the institution will stand against such a shameful program of repression and anti-Palestinian racism."[34]

## Personal life

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In the early 2000s, Miéville lived in London with his partner Emma Bircham.[35] They were both cast as extras in the 1999 film Notting Hill,[36] which he jokingly described as a dystopian alternate history of an ethnically cleansed city.[37]

In 2013, Miéville denied allegations of emotional abuse made by an ex-girlfriend. He acknowledged having had a brief affair with the woman, but stated that her account of it was untrue. According to Miéville, he was in a non-monogamous relationship at the time, about which she was aware.[38]

Since 2018, he has taken steps to defend his privacy, following what he described as a campaign of harassment and online defamation.[39]

Miéville is married to artist Season Butler.[40]

## Writings

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A comprehensive list of Miéville's work is available at the ISFDB.

### Fiction

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#### Bas-Lag series

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* Perdido Street Station (2000)
* The Scar (2002)
* Iron Council (2004)

#### Stand-alone novels

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* King Rat (1998) ISBN 978-0312890735
* Un Lun Dun (2007) ISBN 978-0230015869
* The City & the City (2009) ISBN 978-1405000178
* Kraken (2010) ISBN 978-0333989500
* Embassytown (2011) ISBN 978-0230750760
* Railsea (2012) ISBN 978-0230765108
* The Book of Elsewhere (2024), with Keanu Reeves[41]
* Untitled novel (2025)

#### Novellas

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* The Tain (2002)
* This Census-Taker (2016)
* The Last Days of New Paris (2016) ISBN 978-0345543998

#### Short story collections

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* Looking for Jake (2005)
* Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories (2015)

#### Children's picture books

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* The Worst Breakfast (2016), co-written and illustrated by Zak Smith

#### Comic books

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* Hellblazer (1988 series) – #250 "Holiday Special": "Snow Had Fallen" (feb. 2009)
* Justice League (2011 series) – #23.3 "Dial E #1: Dial Q for Qued" (nov. 2013)
* Dial H (2012–2013 series) – #1-#15

#### Other

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* Pathfinder Chronicles: Guide to the River Kingdoms (2010), with Elaine Cunningham, Chris Pramas, and Steve Kenson. Paizo Publishing.

#### In an anthology

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* "Watching God" (first publ. in Three Moments of an Explosion, 2015), in Out of the Ruins, edited by Preston Grassmann, Titan Books, 2021 ISBN 978-1789097399

### Nonfiction

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#### Books

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* Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law (2005). Leiden: Brill. ISBN 1-931859-33-7
* Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (2009), with Mark Bould. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press.
* October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (2017). Verso.
* A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto (2022). Head of Zeus. ISBN 1786692031

#### Essays

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* "London's Overthrow" (2011).[42] Reprinted in a shorter version as "Oh, London, You Drama Queen", The New York Times Magazine 2012-03-01: 42.
* "Preface to a Book not yet Written nor Disavowed" (2015). China Miéville: Critical Essays, eds. Caroline Edwards and Tony Venezia.

## Adaptations

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* In 2006 Miéville's short story "Details" (collected in Looking for Jake) was adapted as a screenplay by Dan Kay, and subsequently picked up by the studio Paramount Vantage.[43]
* In February 2013, a stage adaptation of The City and the City, written by Christopher M. Walsh and directed by Dorothy Milne, made its world premiere at Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.[44][45] Miéville attended 16 March 2013 production of the adaptation.[46]
* A television adaptation of the novel The City & the City was broadcast on BBC 2 in 2018.
* American artist Mariam Ghani's The City & The City (2015), is a loose adaptation of the novel The City & the City as a video artwork which "maps the conceptual framework of that novel onto the cityscape of St. Louis, melding some of the fictions of the novel's world with elements drawn from past and present histories of the city."[47]
* The short story "Estate" (collected in Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories ) was adapted into a 25-minute movie, released on August 14, 2020,[48] that was described by a review in SciFiNow as "a 25 minute blast of striking imagery, earnest performances and intriguing themes."[49]

## Honours

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Miéville just after winning the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2010

Miéville has won numerous accolades in speculative fiction; he holds the record for the most Arthur C Clarke Award wins (three).[50] Perdido Street Station was featured in Locus's poll of all-time best 20th century fantasy novels, where it ranked 6th place.[51]

Book / Award  | Arthur C
Clarke | British
Fantasy | British
SF | Hugo | Locus | Nebula | World
Fantasy | Ref.

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Perdido Street Station | Won  | Won  | Nom  | Nom  | Nom  | Nom  | Nom  | [52][53]
The Scar | Nom  | Won  | Nom  | Nom  | Won  | –  | Nom  | [54][55]
Iron Council | Won  | –  | –  | Nom  | Won  | –  | Nom  | [56][57]
Un Lun Dun | –  | –  | –  | –  | Won  | –  | –  | [56]
The City & the City | Won  | –  | Won  | Won  | Won  | Nom  | Won  | [58][59][60]
Kraken | –  | –  | –  | –  | Won  | –  | –  | [56]
Embassytown | Nom  | –  | Nom  | Nom  | Won  | Nom  | –  | [56][61]
Railsea | –  | Nom  | –  | –  | Won  | –  | –  | [56]

* Miéville's first novel, King Rat (1998), was nominated for both an International Horror Guild and a Bram Stoker award.
* The Scar received a Philip K. Dick Award special citation.
* "Reports of Certain Events in London" (featured in the anthology McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories) was nominated for a 2005 World Fantasy Award and tied for the 2005 Locus Award for Best Novelette.
* The City & the City won the 2009 Kitschies Award.
* Miéville has been a Guest of Honour at multiple science fiction conventions, including Orbital 2008 the British National Science Fiction convention (Eastercon) in London and Readercon 2006.
* He was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction.[62]

## References

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1. ^ Joan Gordon, "Reveling in Genre: An Interview with China Miéville", Science Fiction Studies, November 2003
2. ^ Keith Chaffee, "A Week to Remember: Happy Birthday, China Miéville!", Los Angeles Public Library, 1 September 2019
3. ^ Justine Jordan, "A life in writing: China Miéville", The Guardian, 14 May 2011
4. ^ "Locus Online: 2012 All-Centuries Polls Results". www.locusmag.com. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
5. ^ "Royal Society of Literature » Current RSL Fellows". rsliterature.org. Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
6. ^ a b "Letters: 'Left Unity ready to offer an alternative'". The Guardian. 12 August 2013.
7. ^ a b c d e Gordon, Joan (November 2003). "Reveling in Genre: An Interview with China Miéville". Science Fiction Studies. 30 (Part 3). DePauw University. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
8. ^ a b Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, ed. Patrick Montague-Smith, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 1995, p. 1264
9. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1823
10. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3983
11. ^ Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law, China Miéville, Haymarket Books, 2006, p. v
12. ^ Hanks, Robert (15 June 2009). "The City and the City by China Miéville: review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 October 2013. "He has twice won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction, but sci-fi purists complain that his frequent breaches of the laws of nature – magic, in other words – place him in the 'fantasy' camp. [...] A more precise category might be 'urban surrealism': surveying his career so far, it looks as if his central concern is life in the modern city, though filtered through dreams and nightmares."
13. ^ Le Guin, Ursula K (7 May 2011). "Embassytown by China Miéville – review". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 April 2020.
14. ^ "A Truly Monstrous Thing to Do: Mieville Interview". Long-Sunday.net. Archived from the original on 12 October 2009.
15. ^ Shurin, Jared (4 August 2015). "A Category Unto Himself: The Works of = China Miéville". tor.com. Tor Books. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
16. ^ Moorcock, Michael (12 March 2017). "What is the "New Weird" – and what makes weird fiction so relevant to our times?". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 6 May 2017.
17. ^ Maltsev, Mikhail (25 October 2017). "Nadeyus' Nikto Ne Sochtet Oktyabr' Nekrtichnoy Agiografiey" [I Hope Nobody Will Count That October Is an Uncritical Hagiography] (in Russian). Retrieved 9 January 2019.
18. ^ "RPG Player's Handbook". DnD.wizards.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2014.
19. ^ "Pathfinder Chronicles: Guide to the River Kingdoms (PFRPG) Print Edition". paizo.com. Paizo Publishing.
20. ^ "Scar by China Mieville". panmacmillan.com. Retrieved 5 May 2011.[permanent dead link‍]
21. ^ "Amazon Book Review". amazonbookreview.com. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
22. ^ "'The Borribles': An Introduction by China Miéville" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 November 2006. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
23. ^ a b "Resigning from the Socialist Workers Party", International Socialism, 11 March 2013
24. ^ "BBC NEWS – VOTE 2001 – RESULTS & CONSTITUENCIES – Regent's Park & Kensington North". BBC News.
25. ^ Ansible 168, July 2001.
26. ^ Laurie Penny, "What does the SWP's way of dealing with sex assault allegations tell us about the left?", New Statesman, 11 January 2013
27. ^ Paul Kellogg "Britain: Reflections on the crisis in the Socialist Workers Party", LINKS – International Journal of Socialist Renewal (blog), 13 January 2013.
28. ^ Brown, David; Manning, Jonathon (17 May 2014). "No sex please comrades, we're British". The Times. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
29. ^ Platt, Edward (20 May 2014). "Comrades at war: the decline and fall of the Socialist Workers Party". New Statesman. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
30. ^ Walker, Shaun (21 January 2014). "Russian socialite sparks outrage with 'racist chair' photograph". the Guardian. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
31. ^ Contributors Archived 13 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Salvage.
32. ^ "China MIEVILLE personal appointments - GOV.UK". Find and update company information. 9 December 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
33. ^ "October by China Miéville review – a brilliant retelling of the Russian Revolution". The Guardian. 17 May 2017.
34. ^ "Letter to the DAAD". salvage.zone. 23 April 2024. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
35. ^ Grant, Gavin J. "China Mieville Interview". IndieBound.org. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
36. ^ "Notting Hill". BFI Filmography. Archived from the original on 29 September 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
37. ^ "Out of this World: China Miéville: what if?". britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk. 3 August 2011. Archived from the original on 3 August 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
38. ^ Fox, Rose (11 February 2013). "Unpleasant Allegations, and a Response". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on 3 March 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
39. ^ Miéville, China (17 May 2018). "A Note of Warning". rejectamentalist manifesto. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
40. ^ Zeavin, Hannah. "China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet's Boyfriend (It's Keanu Reeves)". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
41. ^ Creamer, Ella (10 January 2024). "Keanu Reeves and China Miéville to release collaborative novel The Book of Elsewhere". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
42. ^ Miéville, China (November–December 2011). "London's Overthrow". Retrieved 21 April 2016.
43. ^ "Paramount Vantage Gets 'Details'", IndieWire Archived 28 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
44. ^ "The City & the City at Lifeline Theatre | Theater review". Time Out Chicago. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
45. ^ Shunn, William (4 April 2013). "The City & the City: A Custom More Honored in Breach". Gapers Block. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
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47. ^ "The City & The City". MARIAM GHANI. 4 May 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
48. ^ "Estate - based on the story by China Miéville". Retrieved 23 August 2020.
49. ^ "Estate review: Urban folklore". SciFiNow. 11 September 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
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## Further reading

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### Books on China Miéville

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* Freedman, Carl Howard (September 2015). Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville. Gylphi. ISBN 978-1-78024-030-5.
* Edwards, Caroline; Venezia, Tony, eds. (December 2015). China Miéville: Critical Essays. Gylphi Limited. ISBN 978-1-78024-029-9.

### Scholarly articles

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* Palmer, Christopher (2009). "Saving the City in China Miéville's Bas-Lag Novels". Extrapolation. 50 (2): 224–238\. doi:10.3828/extr.2009.50.2.5. Retrieved 5 September 2021.224-238&rft.date=2009&rft_id=info:doi/10.3828/extr.2009.50.2.5&rft.aulast=Palmer&rft.aufirst=Christopher&rft_id=https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/article/33960/&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:China+Miéville" class="Z3988">
* Sandra K. Rankin; University of Arkansas (2009). China Mieville and the Misbegot: Monsters, Magic, and Marxism (Thesis). ISBN 978-1-109-20301-1. Retrieved 18 December 2011.[permanent dead link‍]
* Elber-Aviram, Hadas (2012). "The Labyrinthine City: Bleak House's Influence on Perdido Street Station". English: The Journal of the English Association. 61 (234): 267–289\. doi:10.1093/english/efs039. Retrieved 5 September 2021.267-289&rft.date=2012&rft_id=info:doi/10.1093/english/efs039&rft.aulast=Elber-Aviram&rft.aufirst=Hadas&rft_id=https://academic.oup.com/english/article/61/234/267/605904&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:China+Miéville" class="Z3988">
* Butler, Andrew M. (2013). "The Tain and the Tain: China Miéville's Gift of Uncanny London". CR: The New Centennial Review. 13 (2): 133–153\. doi:10.14321/crnewcentrevi.13.2.0133. Retrieved 5 September 2021.133-153&rft.date=2013&rft_id=info:doi/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.13.2.0133&rft.aulast=Butler&rft.aufirst=Andrew+M.&rft_id=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_centennial_review/v013/13.2.butler.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:China+Miéville" class="Z3988">
* Głaz, Adam (2015). "Reversals and Paradoxes". Extrapolation. 56 (3): 335–352\. doi:10.3828/extr.2015.18. ISSN 0014-5483. Archived from the original on 3 June 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2016.335-352&rft.date=2015&rft_id=info:doi/10.3828/extr.2015.18&rft.issn=0014-5483&rft.aulast=Głaz&rft.aufirst=Adam&rft_id=http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/extr.2015.18&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:China+Miéville" class="Z3988">
* Spinrad, Norman (April–May 2013). "Doors to anywhere". On Books. Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (4&5): 183–191.183-191&rft.date=2013-04/2013-05&rft.au=Spinrad,+Norman&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:China+Miéville" class="Z3988"> Reviews Railsea.
* Elber-Aviram, Hadas (2021). "Chapter 5: 'My home, the city' Secondary-World London". Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 165–197\. ISBN 9781350110694.165-197&rft.pub=Bloomsbury+Academic&rft.date=2021&rft.isbn=9781350110694&rft.aulast=Elber-Aviram&rft.aufirst=Hadas&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:China+Miéville" class="Z3988">

## External links

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China Miéville at Wikipedia's sister projects

* Media from Commons
* Quotations from Wikiquote

* "Rejectamentalist Manifesto" Blog by China Miéville
* China Miéville at British Council: Literature
* China Miéville at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
* China Miéville at the Internet Book List
* "In a Carapace of Light: A Conversation with China Miéville" at Clarkesworld Magazine
* Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council (2004) all make Steampunkbooks.net Archived 22 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine's list of Top Ten Steampunk Books of All Time.

Appearances

* Audio interview on his Book October with Novara Media

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* t
* e

Works by China Miéville

Fiction|

| Novels|

* King Rat (1998)
* Un Lun Dun (2007)
* The City & the City (2009)
* Kraken (2010)
* Embassytown (2011)
* Railsea (2012)
* The Book of Elsewhere (2024)

Bas-Lag|

* Perdido Street Station (2000)
* The Scar (2002)
* Iron Council (2004)

Novellas|

* The Tain (2002)
* This Census-Taker (2016)
* The Last Days of New Paris (2016)

Short story collections|

* Looking for Jake (2005)
* Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories (2015)

Comic books|

* Dial H (2012)

Film and TV adaptations|

* The City and the City
* Estate

Related articles|

* Armada
* New Crobuzon

* v
* t
* e

Hugo Award for Best Novel

Retro|

* The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White (1939)
* Slan by A. E. van Vogt (1941)
* Beyond This Horizon by Anson MacDonald (1943)
* Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber (1944)
* Shadow Over Mars by Leigh Brackett (1945)
* The Mule by Isaac Asimov (1946)
* Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein (1951)
* Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1954)

1950s|

* The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (1953)
* They'd Rather Be Right (aka: The Forever Machine) by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley (1955)
* Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein (1956)
* The Big Time by Fritz Leiber (1958)
* A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1959)

1960s|

* Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (1960)
* A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1961)
* Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (1962)
* The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1963)
* Here Gather the Stars (aka: Way Station) by Clifford D. Simak (1964)
* The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber (1965)
* Dune by Frank Herbert / ...And Call Me Conrad (aka: This Immortal) by Roger Zelazny (1966)
* The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (1967)
* Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (1968)
* Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (1969)

1970s|

* The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1970)
* Ringworld by Larry Niven (1971)
* To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer (1972)
* The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (1973)
* Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1974)
* The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (1975)
* The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1976)
* Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (1977)
* Gateway by Frederik Pohl (1978)
* Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre (1979)

1980s|

* The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke (1980)
* The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge (1981)
* Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh (1982)
* Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov (1983)
* Startide Rising by David Brin (1984)
* Neuromancer by William Gibson (1985)
* Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (1986)
* Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (1987)
* The Uplift War by David Brin (1988)
* Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh (1989)

1990s|

* Hyperion by Dan Simmons (1990)
* The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold (1991)
* Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold (1992)
* A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge / Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1993)
* Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1994)
* Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold (1995)
* The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (1996)
* Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1997)
* Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman (1998)
* To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1999)

2000s|

* A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (2000)
* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (2001)
* American Gods by Neil Gaiman (2002)
* Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer (2003)
* Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (2004)
* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2005)
* Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (2006)
* Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (2007)
* The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (2008)
* The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2009)

2010s|

* The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi / The City & the City by China Miéville (2010)
* Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (2011)
* Among Others by Jo Walton (2012)
* Redshirts by John Scalzi (2013)
* Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (2014)
* The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu (2015)
* The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (2016)
* The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (2017)
* The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin (2018)
* The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (2019)

2020s|

* A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (2020)
* Network Effect by Martha Wells (2021)
* A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (2022)
* Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (2023)
* Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (2024)

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World Fantasy Award—Novel

1970s|

* The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip (1975)
* Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson (1976)
* Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle (1977)
* Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber (1978)
* Gloriana by Michael Moorcock (1979)

1980s|

* Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1980)
* The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (1981)
* Little, Big by John Crowley (1982)
* Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea (1983)
* The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford (1984)
* Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock / Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart (1985)
* Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (1986)
* Perfume by Patrick Süskind (1987)
* Replay by Ken Grimwood (1988)
* Koko by Peter Straub (1989)

1990s|

* Lyonesse: Madouc by Jack Vance (1990)
* Only Begotten Daughter by James K. Morrow / Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner (1991)
* Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon (1992)
* Last Call by Tim Powers (1993)
* Glimpses by Lewis Shiner (1994)
* Towing Jehovah by James K. Morrow (1995)
* The Prestige by Christopher Priest (1996)
* Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack (1997)
* The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford (1998)
* The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich (1999)

2000s|

* Thraxas by Martin Scott (2000)
* Declare by Tim Powers / Galveston by Sean Stewart (2001)
* The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin (2002)
* The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce / Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip (2003)
* Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton (2004)
* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2005)
* Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (2006)
* Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe (2007)
* Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay (2008)
* The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford / Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (2009)

2010s|

* The City & the City by China Miéville (2010)
* Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (2011)
* Osama by Lavie Tidhar (2012)
* Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (2013)
* A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar (2014)
* The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (2015)
* The Chimes by Anna Smaill (2016)
* The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North (2017)
* Jade City by Fonda Lee / The Changeling by Victor LaValle (2018)
* Witchmark by C. L. Polk (2019)

2020s|

* Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender (2020)
* Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson (2021)
* The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (2022)
* Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney (2023)

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Arthur C. Clarke Award

* The Handmaid's Tale (1987)
* The Sea and Summer (1988)
* Unquenchable Fire (1989)
* The Child Garden (1990)
* Take Back Plenty (1991)
* Synners (1992)
* Body of Glass (1993)
* Vurt (1994)
* Fools (1995)
* Fairyland (1996)
* The Calcutta Chromosome (1997)
* The Sparrow (1998)
* Dreaming in Smoke (1999)
* Distraction (2000)
* Perdido Street Station (2001)
* Bold As Love (2002)
* The Separation (2003)
* Quicksilver (2004)
* Iron Council (2005)
* Air (2006)
* Nova Swing (2007)
* Black Man (2008)
* Song of Time (2009)
* The City & the City (2010)
* Zoo City (2011)
* The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2012)
* Dark Eden (2013)
* Ancillary Justice (2014)
* Station Eleven (2015)
* Children of Time (2016)
* The Underground Railroad (2017)
* Dreams Before the Start of Time (2018)
* Rosewater (2019)
* The Old Drift (2020)
* The Animals in That Country (2021)
* Deep Wheel Orcadia (2022)
* Venomous Lumpsucker (2023)
* In Ascension (2024)

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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

1980s|

* Titan by John Varley (1980)
* The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge (1981)
* The Many-Colored Land by Julian May (1982)
* Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov (1983)
* Startide Rising by David Brin (1984)
* The Integral Trees by Larry Niven (1985)
* The Postman by David Brin (1986)
* Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (1987)
* The Uplift War  by David Brin (1988)
* Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh (1989)

1990s|

* Hyperion by Dan Simmons (1990)
* The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (1991)
* Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold (1992)
* Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1993)
* Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1994)
* Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold (1995)
* The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (1996)
* Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1997)
* The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons (1998)
* To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1999)

2000s|

* Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (2000)
* The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin (2001)
* Passage by Connie Willis (2002)
* The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (2003)
* Ilium by Dan Simmons (2004)
* The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (2005)
* Accelerando by Charles Stross (2006)
* Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (2007)
* The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (2008)
* Anathem by Neal Stephenson (2009)

2010s|

* Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (2010)
* Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis (2011)
* Embassytown by China Miéville (2012)
* Redshirts by John Scalzi (2013)
* Abaddon's Gate by James S. A. Corey (2014)
* Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (2015)
* Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (2016)
* Death's End by Liu Cixin (2017)
* The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi (2018)
* The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (2019)

2020s|

* The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders  (2020)
* Network Effect by Martha Wells (2021)
* A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (2022)
* The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (2023)
* System Collapse by Martha Wells (2024)

* Best Novel (1971–1981)
* Best SF Novel (1980–present)
* Best Fantasy Novel (1978–present)
* Best First Novel (1981–present)
* Best Horror Novel (1989–1997, 1999, 2017–present)
* Best Young Adult Book (2003–present)
* Best Novella (1973–present)
* Best Novelette (1975–present)
* Best Short Story (1971–present)

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Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

1970s and 1980s|

* The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien (1978)
* Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A. McKillip (1980)
* Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg (1981)
* The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe (1982)
* The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe (1983)
* The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1984)
* Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein (1985)
* Trumps of Doom by Roger Zelazny (1986)
* Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe (1987)
* Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card (1988)
* Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card (1989)

1990s|

* Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card (1990)
* Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin (1991)
* Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper (1992)
* Last Call by Tim Powers (1993)
* The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle (1994)
* Brittle Innings by Michael Bishop (1995)
* Alvin Journeyman by Orson Scott Card (1996)
* A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (1997)
* Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers (1998)
* A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin (1999)

2000s|

* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (2000)
* A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin (2001)
* American Gods by Neil Gaiman (2002)
* The Scar by China Miéville (2003)
* Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (2004)
* Iron Council by China Miéville (2005)
* Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (2006)
* The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner (2007)
* Making Money by Terry Pratchett (2008)
* Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin (2009)

2010s|

* The City & the City by China Miéville (2010)
* Kraken by China Miéville (2011)
* A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin (2012)
* The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross (2013)
* The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (2014)
* The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (2015)
* Uprooted by Naomi Novik (2016)
* All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (2017)
* The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin (2018)
* Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (2019)

2020s|

* Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (2020)
* The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (2021)
* Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee (2022)
* Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R. F. Kuang (2023)
* Witch King by Martha Wells (2024)

* Best Novel (1971–1981)
* Best SF Novel (1980–present)
* Best Fantasy Novel (1978–present)
* Best First Novel (1981–present)
* Best Horror Novel (1989–1997, 1999, 2017–present)
* Best Young Adult Book (2003–present)
* Best Novella (1973–present)
* Best Novelette (1975–present)
* Best Short Story (1971–present)

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Locus Award for Best Novella

1970|

* The Gold at the Starbow's End by Frederik Pohl (1973)
* The Death of Doctor Island by Gene Wolfe (1974)
* Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg (1975)
* The Storms of Windhaven by Lisa Tuttle and George R.R. Martin (1976)
* The Samurai and the Willows by Michael Bishop (1977)
* Stardance by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson (1978)
* The Persistence of Vision by John Varley (1979)

1980s|

* Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear (1980)
* Nightflyers by George R. R. Martin (1981)
* Blue Champagne by John Varley (1982)
* Souls by Joanna Russ (1983)
* Her Habilene Husband by Michael Bishop (1984)
* Press Enter by John Varley (1985)
* The Only Neat Thing To Do by James Tiptree Jr. (1986)
* R&R by Lucius Shepard (1987)
* The Secret Sharer by Robert Silverberg (1988)
* The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter by Lucius Shepard (1989)

1990s|

* The Father of Stones by Lucius Shepard (1990)
* A Short, Sharp Shock by Kim Stanley Robinson (1991)
* The Gallery of His Dreams by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (1992)
* Barnacle Bill the Spacer by Lucius Shepard (1993)
* Mefisto in Onyx by Harlan Ellison (1994)
* Forgiveness Day by Ursula K. Le Guin (1995)
* Remake by Connie Willis (1996)
* Bellwether by Connie Willis (1997)
* Where Angels Fear to Tread by Allen Steele (1998)
* Oceanic by Greg Egan (1999)

2000s|

* Orphans of the Helix by Dan Simmons (2000)
* Radiant Green Star by Lucius Shepard (2001)
* The Finder by Ursula K. Le Guin (2002)
* The Tain by China Miéville (2003)
* The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge (2004)
* Golden City Far by Gene Wolfe (2005)
* Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (2006)
* Missile Gap by Charles Stross (2007)
* After the Siege by Cory Doctorow (2008)
* Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link (2009)

2010s|

* The Women of Neill Gwynne's by Kage Baker (2010)
* The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (2011)
* Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente (2012)
* After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress (2013)
* Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente (2014)
* Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress (2015)
* Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds (2016)
* Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (2017)
* All Systems Red by Martha Wells (2018)
* Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (2019)

2020s|

* This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar (2020)
* Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (2021)
* Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (2022)
* A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (2023)
* Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (2024)

* Best Novel (1971–1981)
* Best SF Novel (1980–present)
* Best Fantasy Novel (1978–present)
* Best First Novel (1981–present)
* Best Horror Novel (1989–1997, 1999, 2017–present)
* Best Young Adult Book (2003–present)
* Best Novella (1973–present)
* Best Novelette (1975–present)
* Best Short Story (1971–present)

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Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book

2000s|

* Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2003)
* The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett (2004)
* A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett (2005)
* Pay the Piper by Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple (2006)
* Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett (2007)
* Un Lun Dun by China Miéville (2008)
* The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2009)

2010s|

* Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (2010)
* Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (2011)
* The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (2012)
* Railsea by China Miéville (2013)
* The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne M. Valente (2014)
* Half a King by Joe Abercrombie (2015)
* The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett (2016)
* Revenger by Alastair Reynolds (2017)
* Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor (2018)
* Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (2019)

2020s|

* Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee (2020)
* A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (2021)
* Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders (2022)
* Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders (2023)
* Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders (2024)

* Best Novel (1971–1981)
* Best SF Novel (1980–present)
* Best Fantasy Novel (1978–present)
* Best First Novel (1981–present)
* Best Horror Novel (1989–1997, 1999, 2017–present)
* Best Young Adult Book (2003–present)
* Best Novella (1973–present)
* Best Novelette (1975–present)
* Best Short Story (1971–present)

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