I love monsters. China Mieville More Quotes by China Mieville More Quotes From China Mieville I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek. China Mieville geek fantasy fiction A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate. China Mieville geek would-be dark I think science fiction is very bad at prediction. China Mieville science-fiction fiction thinking When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters. China Mieville horror-stories creating writing I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure. China Mieville minimalist mean facts One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden. China Mieville weirdness fantasy fiction No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it. China Mieville prestige sex fiction 'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom. China Mieville like think fantasy london Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing. China Mieville feel writing sometimes way My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate. China Mieville looking parents me beautiful
