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China Miéville Quotes

born 1972 England

China Miéville (born 6 September 1972) is a Hugo, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus award-winning English fantastic fiction writer.

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Also known as: China Mieville, Perdido Street Station

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She felt so alien, bowed under culture shock as crippling as migraine.

The Scar (2002)

Judah knows the trow will be eradicated and their homes lost to history, but he will not be party to it, and he has tried to stand in its way.

Iron Council (2004)

That was a salvo of something against something.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

How is it appropriate to feel? she thought. Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It’s the surplus of animal fear, it’s never indicated, it’s nothing but itself.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

Neither dust nor light stirred. It was as if time had been bled dry and given up.

The Scar (2002)

Moral your artistic proclivities are not, nor fitting for a physician, though I won’t deny the skill in them. They are, I will say it, unnatural.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

Byrne was good, her expertise indispensable, her commitment to the project swiftly personal, but she could not unwind death itself. Only filigree it, in certain ways.

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

I am often asked is [my work] science fiction or fantasy and my answer is usually ‘Yes’.

It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.

When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty. We say: A government for need not greed!

Iron Council (2004)

We want the same thing, you and me. If we can mess with them, everyone’s happy. Except them. Which is the point, right?”

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

I want to know everything, he says.

Iron Council (2004)

For every action, there’s an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers—and one comes true.

The Scar (2002)

It had some allies. Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it.

Un Lun Dun (2007)

There wasn’t even any reasoning. Secrecy was just a bureaucrats’ reflex.

Embassytown (2011)

The sun shifted above them, sending shadows of the window-pane and clouds moving uneasily through the room. The lovers did not notice the day move.

Perdido Street Station (2000)

They think I’m old-fashioned? Is being against racism and hatred old-fashioned? OK, I’m old-fashioned.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

I told myself I had no choice but in a situation like that the choice you have is how you go about not having a choice.

Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

I refute that—I think that those are inevitable components, but it’s the surrendering to the impossible, the weird, that characterizes genre.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: China Miéville (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.