China Miéville

Author of Perdido Street Station

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About the Author

China Miéville was born in Norwich, England on September 6, 1972. He received a B.A. in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1994, and a Masters' degree with distinction and Ph.D in international relations from the London School of Economics, the latter in 2001. He has also held show more a Frank Knox fellowship at Harvard University. His first novel, King Rat, was nominated for both an International Horror Guild and a Bram Stoker award. His other works include Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council, Un Lun Dun, The City and the City, Embassytown, and Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories. He has won numerous awards for his works including three Arthur C. Clarke Awards, two British Fantasy Awards, the British Science Fiction Award, and the 2008 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book. He also published a book on Marxism and international law called Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law. He teaches creative writing at Warwick University. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by China Miéville

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Perdido Street Station (2000) 9,407 copies

The City & The City (2009) 6,255 copies

The Scar (2002) 5,011 copies

Kraken (2010) 3,562 copies

Un Lun Dun (2007) 3,497 copies

Iron Council (2004) 3,465 copies

Embassytown (2011) 3,416 copies

King Rat (1998) 2,018 copies

Railsea (2012) 1,679 copies

Looking for Jake and Other Stories (2005) 1,499 copies

This Census-Taker (2016) 943 copies

The Last Days of New Paris (2016) 914 copies

Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories (2015) 901 copies

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (2017) 879 copies

Dial H Volume 1: Into You (2013) 205 copies

A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto (2022) 158 copies

The Tain (2002) 121 copies

London's Overthrow (2012) 108 copies

Perdido Street Station, Volume 1: Die Falter (2003) 101 copies

Dial H Volume 2: Exchange (2014) 83 copies

Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law (2005) 83 copies

Perdido Street Station, Volume 2: Der Weber (2003) 79 copies

Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (2009) — Editor; Afterword — 79 copies

The Worst Breakfast (2016) 70 copies

The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene (Salvage Editions) (2021) — Author — 68 copies

Dial H (2015) 39 copies

John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 22: Regeneration (2020) — Author — 35 copies

The Scar, Volume 2: Leviathan (2004) 29 copies

The Scar, Volume 1: Die Narbe (2004) 28 copies

Pathfinder Chronicles: Guide to the River Kingdoms (2010) — Author — 26 copies

The Book of Elsewhere (2024) — Author — 17 copies

Polynia (2014) 15 copies

Tis the Season (2011) 13 copies

Details [short story] 10 copies

Dial H #1 (2012) 10 copies

Dial H #11 (2013) 8 copies

The Apology Chapbook 8 copies

The Rope is the World (2010) 7 copies

Dread: The Dizziness of Freedom (Antennae) (2014) 6 copies

Covehithe (2011) 5 copies

Dial H #4 (2012) 5 copies

Familiar 5 copies

Dial H #3 (2012) 5 copies

Arc: Volume 1 (2013) 5 copies

Reports of Certain Events in London 5 copies

Dial H #14 (2013) 5 copies

Dial H #2 (2012) 5 copies

Dial H #7 (2012) 4 copies

Dial H #15 (2013) 4 copies

Dial H #12 4 copies

Dial H #10 (2013) 4 copies

Jack {short story} 3 copies

Perdido tänava jaam 2. osa (2015) 3 copies

An End To Hunger 3 copies

Dial H #0 (2012) 3 copies

New Crobuzon Series 3 Books Collection Set By China Miéville (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council) (2020) 3 copies

Dial H #13 (2013) 3 copies

Perdido tänava jaam 1. osa (2015) 3 copies

Perdido tänava jaam 3. osa (2015) 3 copies

Dial H #9 (2013) 3 copies

Dial H #8 (2013) 3 copies

Looking for Jake {short story} 2 copies

The Dowager of Bees 2 copies

Dial H #6 (2012) 2 copies

Dial H #5 (2012) 2 copies

Three Moments of an Explosion [short story] 2 copies

2007 Think GalactiCon Discussion Primer (2007) — Contributor — 2 copies

Highway 61 Revisited 2 copies

Tous les monstres (2017) 2 copies

Foundation {short story} 1 copy

Symposium: Marxism and Fantasy 1 copy

The Ball Room {short story} 1 copy

Entry Taken From A Medical Encyclopaedia {short story} 1 copy

Go Between {short story} 1 copy

Different Skies {short story} 1 copy

On the Way to the Front {short story} 1 copy

Taker 1 copy

Four Final Orpheuses 1 copy

Salvage Magazine #2 1 copy

Fin 1 copy

Dentro de tí (2013) 1 copy

The Bastard Prompt [novelette] 1 copy

Dreadnought 1 copy

After the Festival [short story] 1 copy

A Room Of One's Own 1 copy

The End, The End, The End, Etcetera Comics (in McSweeney's 33 - EGGERS) 1 copy

The Condition of New Death [short story] 1 copy

In the Slopes [novelette] 1 copy

The Crawl [short story] 1 copy

Watching God [short story] 1 copy

The 9th Technique [short story] 1 copy

The Buzzard's Egg [short story] 1 copy

Säcken [novelette] 1 copy

Syllabus [short story] 1 copy

Dreaded Outcome [short story] 1 copy

The Dusty Hat [short story] 1 copy

Demirdenizi 1 copy

Escapee [short story] 1 copy

Rules [short story] 1 copy

Estate [short story] 1 copy

Keep [novelette] 1 copy

A Second Slice Manifesto [short story] 1 copy

The Rabbet [short story] 1 copy

Listen the Birds [short story] 1 copy

A Mount [short story] 1 copy

Historical materialism : research in critical Marxist theory [Vol 10 issue 4, 2002: special issue on Marxism and… 1 copy

Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, An Autobiography 1 copy

Kraken by Mieville, China 2nd (second) Edition (2011) 1 copy

Miville Family History 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) — Introduction, some editions — 15,962 copies

Utopia (1516) — Foreword, some editions — 11,879 copies

The Gormenghast Trilogy (1967) — Introduction, some editions — 4,441 copies

The First Men in the Moon (1901) — Introduction, some editions — 2,490 copies

At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition (2005) — Introduction — 1,147 copies

The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011) — Contributor; Afterword — 827 copies

The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (2003) — Contributor — 770 copies

McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (2004) — Contributor — 671 copies

The New Weird (2008) — Contributor — 524 copies

The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Contributor — 432 copies

The Library Book (2012) — Contributor — 396 copies

New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird (2011) — Contributor — 332 copies

Sympathy for the Devil (2010) — Contributor — 285 copies

The Children of Cthulhu (2002) — Contributor — 258 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2006) — Author — 236 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003) — Contributor — 233 copies

Things That Never Happen (2002) — Introduction, some editions — 223 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2005) — Contributor — 223 copies

Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists (2002) — Contributor — 197 copies

Cities (2003) — Contributor — 194 copies

Year's Best Fantasy 3 (2003) — Contributor — 133 copies

Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism (2007) — Contributor — 129 copies

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 (2003) — Contributor — 117 copies

Hellboy: Oddest Jobs (2008) — Contributor — 107 copies

McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Contributor — 103 copies

Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (2005) — Contributor — 82 copies

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17 (1828) — Contributor — 78 copies

The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows (2015) — Contributor — 70 copies

Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (2011) — Contributor — 68 copies

The Bestiary (2016) — Contributor — 58 copies

The Mammoth Book of Future Cops (2003) — Contributor — 54 copies

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009) — Contributor — 54 copies

2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Contributor — 54 copies

Dead Letters (2016) — Contributor — 54 copies

Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats (2010) — Contributor — 47 copies

The Outcast Hours (2019) — Contributor — 44 copies

Powers: Secret Histories: A Bibliography (2009) — Contributor — 43 copies

Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology (2021) — Contributor — 41 copies

The Age of Lovecraft (2016) — Afterword — 38 copies

War With No End (2007) — Contributor — 38 copies

Granta 152: Still Life (2020) — Contributor — 37 copies

Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development 4 (2008) — Contributor — 33 copies

Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917 (2007) — Editor, some editions — 33 copies

Global Dystopias (Boston Review / Forum) (2017) — Contributor — 29 copies

Breaking Windows: A Fantastic Metropolis Sampler (2003) — Contributor — 29 copies

Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between (2009) — Contributor — 19 copies

Realms of Imagination: Essays from the Wide Worlds of Fantasy (2023) — Contributor — 16 copies

Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins (2012) — Contributor — 15 copies

Come Join Us by the Fire: A Nightfire Anthology (2019) — Contributor — 8 copies

Bifrost n°73 (2014) — Contributor — 7 copies

DC Comics: The New 52 Villains Omnibus (2013) — Contributor — 7 copies

Terra Nova vol. 3: Antología de ciencia ficción contemporánea (2014) — Contributor — 6 copies

Bifrost n°53 (2009) — Contributor — 6 copies

Interzone 042 (1990) — Contributor — 5 copies

The New Yorker Science Fiction Issue 2012, June 4 & 11 (2012) 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Miéville, China Tom
Birthdate: 1972-09-06
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
Places of residence: Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
Willesden, London, England, UK
Oakham, Rutland, England, UK
Egypt
Education: Oakham School, England, UK
University of Cambridge (Clare College) (BA) (social anthropology) (1994)
London School of Economics ( MA) (International Relations) (2001)
London School of Economics (PhD) (International Relations) (2001)
Occupations: writer
creative writing teacher
novelist
Organizations: Socialist Workers Party (UK)
International Socialist Organisation
Socialist Alliance
Left Unity
Warwick University
Awards and honors: Frank Knox Fellowship, Harvard
Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (2008)
Guest of Honor, Readercon (2006)
Agent: Mic Cheetham
Short biography: Miéville nació en Willesden, un barrio de clase trabajadora al noroeste de Londres, donde ha vivido desde la infancia. Creció junto a su madre, que era profesora, y su hermana. Sus padres se separaron justo después de su nacimiento, de manera que Miéville suele decir que nunca ha conocido a su padre realmente. A los 18 años, en 1990, se marchó a Egipto, donde permaneció un año enseñando inglés. Allí desarrolló un creciente interés por la cultura árabe y la política de Oriente Medio.

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Discussions

THE DEEP ONES: "Familiar" by China Mieville in The Weird Tradition (March 2023)

Found: Help find title of sci-fi book in Name that Book (October 2021)

GROUP READ: Un Lun Dun by China Miéville in 2013 Category Challenge (January 2014)

Miéville bashing, anyone? in Science Fiction Fans (July 2012)

Could They Beat-Up China Mieville? in Science Fiction Fans (May 2011)

Miéville wins Arthur C Clarke in Science Fiction Fans (May 2010)

Reviews

Un Lun Dun by China Mieville

Clearly aimed at the young adult market and therefore not having the depth and scope of the New Crozubon novels - this is still unmistakably Mieville and therefore brilliantly imaginative inventive and enjoyable. Flying London buses with conductors who can really conduct electricity, Ninja Dustbins and a character who is an old fashioned diving suit filled with various forms of sealife. Echoes of Lewis Carroll with syntax, grammer and wordplay becoming integral to the development of the plot. Room for a sequel or 2 based on the ending as well.… (more)

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bookdragon616 | 193 other reviews | May 15, 2024 |

Embassytown by China Miville

Quite difficult to get into and didn't seem to really go anywhere. Will add to my re-read list and see if I change my mind.

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bookdragon616 | 214 other reviews | May 15, 2024 |

Iron Council by China Mieville

Very strong 4.5 stars. Very nearly a 5. Many reviews here are saying this is the weakest of the New Crozubon tales but I enjoyed it more the Perdidio St Station and The Scar. The plot seems better paced and driven and I for one did nit miss the long lists of place names from Perdido St Station. Highly recommended.

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bookdragon616 | 81 other reviews | May 15, 2024 |

The city & the city by China Miéville

This is a propulsive noir detective story above all else, but the dual-city setting is fascinating, highlighting as it does social constructs (almost literal) and how we can choose not to see what’s right in front of us. Like a good noir, greed and corruption are at the heart of the story, in this case it’s the corruption of global capitalism.

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