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 More Quotes by China Mieville More Quotes From China Mieville Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. China Mieville fantastic ridiculous ideas I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god. China Mieville mad cutting dancing 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. China Mieville outcomes infinity might My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give. China Mieville writing jobs giving Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. China Mieville fighting secret winning Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person. China Mieville humans together art Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles. China Mieville kraken moments 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 pieces jobs fiction A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory. China Mieville scholar theory way We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang. China Mieville kissing inspiration life In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart. China Mieville dragons fields heart Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole. China Mieville get-well healing inspirational In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences. China Mieville names writing book Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me. China Mieville voice writing book What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages. China Mieville stories trying book We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before. China Mieville love-you animal men The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for. China Mieville fantasy creative wings I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it. China Mieville geek proud people 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 military running people I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book. China Mieville passionate book years
