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China Miéville

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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af China Miéville

Perdido Street Station (2000) 9,354 eksemplarer
The City & The City (2009) 6,212 eksemplarer
The Scar (2002) 4,983 eksemplarer
Kraken (2010) 3,548 eksemplarer
Non Lon Don (2007) 3,487 eksemplarer
Iron Council (2004) 3,439 eksemplarer
Embassytown (2011) 3,380 eksemplarer
King Rat (1998) 2,003 eksemplarer
Railsea (2012) 1,662 eksemplarer
Looking for Jake and Other Stories (2005) 1,488 eksemplarer
This Census-Taker (2016) 933 eksemplarer
The Last Days of New Paris (2016) 908 eksemplarer
Dial H Volume 1: Into You (2013) 201 eksemplarer
The Tain (2002) 121 eksemplarer
London's Overthrow (2012) 105 eksemplarer
Dial H Volume 2: Exchange (2014) 80 eksemplarer
Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (2009) — Redaktør; Efterskrift — 79 eksemplarer
The Worst Breakfast (2016) 70 eksemplarer
Dial H (2015) 40 eksemplarer
John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 22: Regeneration (2020) — Forfatter — 34 eksemplarer
The Scar, Volume 2: Leviathan (2004) 29 eksemplarer
The Scar, Volume 1: Die Narbe (2004) 28 eksemplarer
Pathfinder Chronicles: Guide to the River Kingdoms (2010) — Forfatter — 26 eksemplarer
Polynia (2014) 15 eksemplarer
Tis the Season (2011) 13 eksemplarer
Dial H #1 (2012) 10 eksemplarer
Details [short story] 10 eksemplarer
The Book of Elsewhere (2024) — Forfatter — 8 eksemplarer
Dial H #11 (2013) 8 eksemplarer
The Apology Chapbook 8 eksemplarer
The Rope is the World (2010) 7 eksemplarer
Dial H #14 (2013) 5 eksemplarer
Dial H #3 (2012) 5 eksemplarer
Dial H #4 (2012) 5 eksemplarer
Familiar 5 eksemplarer
Dial H #2 (2012) 5 eksemplarer
Covehithe (2011) 5 eksemplarer
Arc: Volume 1 (2013) 5 eksemplarer
Dial H #10 (2013) 4 eksemplarer
Dial H #12 4 eksemplarer
Dial H #15 (2013) 4 eksemplarer
Dial H #7 (2012) 4 eksemplarer
Perdido tänava jaam 2. osa (2015) 3 eksemplarer
An End To Hunger 3 eksemplarer
Perdido tänava jaam 1. osa (2015) 3 eksemplarer
Dial H #13 (2013) 3 eksemplarer
Perdido tänava jaam 3. osa (2015) 3 eksemplarer
Dial H #0 (2012) 3 eksemplarer
Dial H #8 (2013) 3 eksemplarer
Dial H #9 (2013) 3 eksemplarer
Jack {short story} 3 eksemplarer
Highway 61 Revisited 2 eksemplarer
Tous les monstres (2017) 2 eksemplarer
The Dowager of Bees 2 eksemplarer
Dial H #5 (2012) 2 eksemplarer
Dial H #6 (2012) 2 eksemplarer
2007 Think GalactiCon Discussion Primer (2007) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Dentro de tí (2013) 1 eksemplar
Taker 1 eksemplar
Salvage Magazine #2 1 eksemplar
Dreadnought 1 eksemplar
A Room Of One's Own 1 eksemplar
Säcken [novelette] 1 eksemplar
Rules [short story] 1 eksemplar
Keep [novelette] 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Mørkets venstre hånd (1969) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver15,840 eksemplarer
Utopia (1553) — Forord, nogle udgaver11,760 eksemplarer
The Gormenghast Trilogy (1967) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver4,365 eksemplarer
De første mennesker på månen (1901) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver2,464 eksemplarer
At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition (2005) — Introduktion — 1,140 eksemplarer
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011) — Bidragyder; Efterskrift — 815 eksemplarer
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (2004) — Bidragyder — 670 eksemplarer
The New Weird (2008) — Bidragyder — 519 eksemplarer
The Library Book (2012) — Bidragyder — 393 eksemplarer
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird (2011) — Bidragyder — 327 eksemplarer
Sympathy for the Devil (2010) — Bidragyder — 285 eksemplarer
The Children of Cthulhu (2002) — Bidragyder — 257 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003) — Bidragyder — 234 eksemplarer
Things That Never Happen (2002) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver223 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2005) — Bidragyder — 223 eksemplarer
Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists (2002) — Bidragyder — 197 eksemplarer
Cities (2003) — Bidragyder — 194 eksemplarer
Year's Best Fantasy 3 (2003) — Bidragyder — 133 eksemplarer
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism (2007) — Bidragyder — 128 eksemplarer
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 (2003) — Bidragyder — 117 eksemplarer
Hellboy: Oddest Jobs (2008) — Bidragyder — 103 eksemplarer
Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (2005) — Bidragyder — 82 eksemplarer
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17 (1828) — Bidragyder — 78 eksemplarer
The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows (2015) — Bidragyder — 68 eksemplarer
Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (2011) — Bidragyder — 68 eksemplarer
The Bestiary (2016) — Bidragyder — 58 eksemplarer
The Mammoth Book of Future Cops (2003) — Bidragyder — 55 eksemplarer
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009) — Bidragyder — 54 eksemplarer
Dead Letters (2016) — Bidragyder — 52 eksemplarer
Powers: Secret Histories: A Bibliography (2009) — Bidragyder — 43 eksemplarer
The Outcast Hours (2019) — Bidragyder — 43 eksemplarer
Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology (2021) — Bidragyder — 40 eksemplarer
The Age of Lovecraft (2016) — Efterskrift — 38 eksemplarer
Granta 152: Still Life (2020) — Bidragyder — 37 eksemplarer
War With No End (2007) — Bidragyder — 37 eksemplarer
Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development 4 (2008) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
Global Dystopias (Boston Review / Forum) (2017) — Bidragyder — 29 eksemplarer
Breaking Windows: A Fantastic Metropolis Sampler (2003) — Bidragyder — 29 eksemplarer
Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between (2009) — Bidragyder — 19 eksemplarer
Realms of Imagination: Essays from the Wide Worlds of Fantasy (2023) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins (2012) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
Come Join Us by the Fire: A Nightfire Anthology (2019) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
DC Comics: The New 52 Villains Omnibus (2013) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
Bifrost n°73 (2014) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Bifrost n°53 (2009) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Interzone 042 (1990) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer

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Juridisk navn
Miéville, China Tom
Fødselsdato
1972-09-06
Køn
male
Nationalitet
UK
Fødested
Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
Bopæl
Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
Willesden, London, England, UK
Oakham, Rutland, England, UK
Egypt
Uddannelse
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)
Erhverv
writer
creative writing teacher
novelist
Organisationer
Socialist Workers Party (UK)
International Socialist Organisation
Socialist Alliance
Left Unity
Warwick University
Priser og hædersbevisninger
Frank Knox Fellowship, Harvard
Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (2008)
Guest of Honor, Readercon (2006)
Agent
Mic Cheetham
Kort biografi
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 i The Weird Tradition (marts 2023)
Found: Help find title of sci-fi book i Name that Book (oktober 2021)
GROUP READ: Un Lun Dun by China Miéville i 2013 Category Challenge (januar 2014)
Miéville bashing, anyone? i Science Fiction Fans (juli 2012)
Could They Beat-Up China Mieville? i Science Fiction Fans (maj 2011)
Miéville wins Arthur C Clarke i Science Fiction Fans (maj 2010)

Anmeldelser

Very good discussion of the communist manifesto. The been includes The manifesto which was great fun to read and then go through Miéville’s examination. Excellent book.
 
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BookyMaven | 3 andre anmeldelser | Mar 9, 2024 |
I imagine the Salvage Collective to be white men between the ages of 16 and 25, all dressed either in khakis or military garb, having read a lot of book but not participated in much actual change. They make a good case that capitalism is killing the world (does anyone still need to be convinced?) for the first 95% of this book. The last couple pages are dedicated to a "solution." The so-called solution is Red Geoengineering. What exactly does this mean? Maybe they'll tell us in book two
 
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bookonion | Feb 23, 2024 |
China Mieville seems to be a burgeoning #bookstagram darling so upon seeing this in the local #oxfambooks I thought I’d give it a bash. It tells the story of a world both similar and dissimilar to our own - the main difference being that instead of seas there are instead unfathomable crisscross rail tracks that Railsea inhabitants use to navigate their world. We are told the story of Sham Yes Ap Shoorap, an orphaned medic’s assistant on a moletrain (for this rail-ridden land is complete with all manner of beasts including giant moles which people hunt and kill) whose life changes dramatically when he happens to witness a picture of an unimaginable idea to a Railsea citizen - a single rail track - and so his adventure to find out what this seeming phantasm is, ensues.

Although readable and entertaining, this did nothing to slow my belief that fantasy isn’t my bag. Rather than be impressed at the inventiveness of Mieville’s world I spent most of my time preoccupied with frustrations about how unnecessary and far-fetched everything was (including the long, strange names). Perhaps it is more one for YA/fantasy loving readers but it was all too fantastical for the sake of being fantastical for me. His attempt to turn it into a moral metaphor of a future portent at the end also didn’t sit well as it felt a little like trying to make it more than it was.
I don’t doubt that for fantasy fans this will be a book they enjoy and take my criticism with a pinch of salt because I’m not his audience. And despite all my grievances towards it I still give it 3/5 so make if that what you will, haha!
… (mere)
 
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Dzaowan | 95 andre anmeldelser | Feb 15, 2024 |
I go to China Miéville when I need mental healing from bad sci fi & fantasy. He's a Pulitzer level writer that chose to write weird stuff. Miéville only writes books that restructure my perception of literature or society. Everything starts from ground zero, as if no rules were created to define genre.

This less famous book equals any of his others in world building and has one of the best endings, a punchline 500 pages to set up.

I have to wonder if this Moby Dick inspired tale also contains an epic meta pun of his name sounding like Melville.… (mere)
 
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lneukirch | 95 andre anmeldelser | Feb 4, 2024 |

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Sherryl Vint Contributor
Carl Freedman Contributor
Mike Wayne Preface
Iris Luppa Contributor
Andrew Milner Contributor
Darren Jorgensen Contributor
David Lapham Illustrator.
William J. Burling Contributor
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Rob Latham Contributor
John Rieder Contributor
Eric Bailey Contributor
Matthew Stinson Contributor
Alison McKenzie Contributor
Mike Ferguson Contributor
John Wick Contributor
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Kevin Carter Contributor
Jeff Quick Contributor
Lisa Stevens Contributor
Rob Manning Contributor
Dan Scott Cover artist
Richard Pett Contributor
Neil Spicer Contributor
Jason Nelson Contributor
Joshua J. Frost Contributor
Adam Daigle Contributor
Edward Miller Cover artist, Illustrator
Eva Bauche-Eppers Translator, Übersetzer
Arndt Drechsler Cover artist
John Lee Narrator
Elisa Villa Translator
David Stevenson Cover artist
Nathalie Mège Translator, Traduction
Damian Lynch Narrator
Maurizio Nati Translator
Ashley Wood Cover artist
Frauke Meier Translator
Michael Kubiak Translator
Elisa Lazo Valdez Cover artist
August Hall Cover artist
Nello Giugliano Translator
Arno Hoven Translator
Masayuki Uchida Translator
Cliff Nielsen Cover artist
Barker Clive Introduction
Mark Moran Cover artist
Nathalie Mège Translator
Vincent Chong Illustrator
Chris Stein Author photograph
Peter Torberg Translator
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Andreas Fliedner Translator
Brian Bolland Cover artist

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Værker
107
Also by
55
Medlemmer
44,666
Popularitet
#366
Vurdering
3.9
Anmeldelser
1,868
ISBN
422
Sprog
22
Udvalgt
358

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