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China Tom Miéville ( , born 6 September 1972) is a British
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writer and
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. He often describes his work as "
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", and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New Weird. Miéville has won multiple awards for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award,
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,
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, and World Fantasy Awards. He holds the record for the most Arthur C. Clarke Award wins (three). His novel '' Perdido Street Station'' was ranked by '' Locus'' as the 6th best
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published in the 20th century. During 2012–13, he was
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at
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in
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. He became a Fellow of the
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in 2015. Miéville is active in
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in the UK and has previously been a member of the International Socialist Organization (US) and the short-lived International Socialist Network (UK). He was formerly a member of the Socialist Workers Party, and in 2013 became a founding member of Left Unity. He stood for Regent's Park and Kensington North for the Socialist Alliance in the
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, gaining 1.2% of votes cast.


Early life and education

Miéville was born in
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and brought up in
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, and has lived in
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since early childhood. Miéville's parents separated soon after his birth, and he has said that he "never really knew" his father. He grew up with his sister Jemima and mother Claudia. His mother was a translator, writer and teacher, and the daughter of Leo Claude Vaux Miéville, whose wife Youla (née Harrison) was granddaughter of Edward Littleton, 4th Baron Hatherton.Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, ed. Patrick Montague-Smith, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 1995, p. 1264 His parents chose his first name, China, from a dictionary, looking for a beautiful name. By virtue of his mother's nationality, Miéville holds US citizenship in addition to British citizenship. In 1982 his mother married Paul Lightfoot, a maternal descendant of George Charles Mostyn, 6th Baron Vaux of Harrowden; they divorced in 1992. Miéville boarded at
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, a co-educational independent school in
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,
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, for two years. He subsequently attended
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. At the age of eighteen, in 1990, he taught English for a year in Egypt, where he developed an interest in Arab culture and in Middle Eastern politics. Miéville studied for a BA degree in
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at
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, graduating in 1994, and gained both a master's degree and PhD in
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from the
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in 2001. Miéville has also held a Frank Knox fellowship at
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. After becoming dissatisfied with the ability of post-modern theories to explain history and political events, he became a
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at university. A book version of his PhD thesis, entitled ''Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law'', was published in the UK in 2005 by
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in their "Historical Materialism" series, and in the United States in 2006 by
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.


Literary influences

Miéville's works all describe fantastical or supernatural worlds or scenarios. Miéville has said he plans to write a novel in every genre. To this end, he has "constructed an oeuvre" that ranges from classic American
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(in '' Iron Council'') to sea-quest (in '' The Scar'' and '' Railsea'') to detective noir (in '' The City & the City''). His work has been described as new weird fiction. Miéville has listed M. John Harrison,
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,
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,
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, Charles Williams,
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, and
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as literary "heroes"; he has also frequently discussed as influences
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,
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, and
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. He has said that he would like his novels "to be read for is imagined cityNew Crobuzon as
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does for London". Miéville has admitted that his books contain some allusions to Russian writers, including Andrei Platonov,
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, and . Miéville played a great deal of ''
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'' and similar
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s (RPGs) in his youth. He has attributed his tendency to systematisation of magic and theology to this influence. In his novel '' Perdido Street Station'', he refers to characters interested "only in gold and experience". The February 2007 issue of ''Dragon'' magazine interpreted the world presented in his books according to ''Dungeons & Dragons'' rules. The ''
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'' for the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons cited his novel ''Perdido Street Station'' as a source of inspiration for the game's designers. In 2010, Miéville made his first foray into writing for RPGs with a contribution to the ''
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'' supplement ''Guide to the River Kingdoms''. Miéville once described
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as "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature". Miéville is also indebted to Moorcock, having cited his essay " Epic Pooh" as the source upon which he is "riffing" or even simply "cheerleading" in his critique of Tolkien-imitative fantasy. Despite his criticisms, Miéville has praised Tolkien for his contributions to fantasy, especially in a 2009 blog post where he gave five reasons why Tolkien was praiseworthy. He has cited
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's '' Borrible Trilogy'' as one of his biggest influences, and he wrote an introduction for the trilogy's 2002 reissue (the introduction was eventually left out of the book, but appears on de Larrabeiti's website).


Politics

Miéville has previously been a member of the International Socialist Organization (US) and, until 13 March 2013, was also a member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP, UK)."Resigning from the Socialist Workers Party"
International Socialism, 11 March 2013
He stood unsuccessfully for the
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in the 2001 general election as a candidate for the Socialist Alliance, gaining 459 votes, equivalent to 1.2%, in Regent's Park and Kensington North, a Labour constituency. In January 2013, he emerged as a critic of the SWP's leadership and in March resigned over the leadership's handling of rape allegations against a leading SWP member. In August 2013, Miéville was one of nine signatories (along with veteran film-maker and socialist
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, academic Gilbert Achcar, General Secretary of the
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, fellow novelist
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, and actor Roger Lloyd Pack) of an open letter to ''
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'' announcing the foundation of a "new party of the left", to be called Left Unity. The letter, which claimed that Labour policies on austerity and the breaking of ties with trades unions amounted to a "final betrayal of the working-class people it was founded to represent", stated that Left Unity would be launched at a "founding conference" in London on 30 November 2013 and would provide, as an "alternative" to Labour, "a party that is socialist, environmentalist, feminist and opposed to all forms of discrimination". In 2014, together with
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and others, Miéville quit the International Socialist Network, a Left Unity faction, over a dispute concerning the acceptability of sexual "race play" that was prompted by discussion of a controversial art piece owned by
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. In 2015, he was announced as one of the founding editors of a "bi-annual journal of revolutionary arts and letters", ''Salvage''. He has been the director of Salvage Publications since 2014. ''October'', published in 2017, documents the dramatic events of the Russian revolution. Jonathan Steele reviewed it for ''
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''. Steele considers it an ideological though nuanced retelling: "Known as a left-wing activist, ..Miéville writes with the brio and excitement of an enthusiast who would have wanted the revolution to succeed. But he is primarily interested in the dramatic narrative – the weird facts – of the most turbulent year in Russia's history". In a letter to Joybrato Mukherjee on 22 April 2024, Miéville rejected his nomination for a DAAD fellowship, citing Mukherjee's role in the cancelling of Jewish-American political theorist
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's Albertus Magnus Professorship at the
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because Fraser signed a pro-Palestine letter during the
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, and his lack of "faith that the institution will stand against such a shameful program of repression and anti-Palestinian racism."


Personal life

In the early 2000s, Miéville lived in London with his partner Emma Bircham. They were both cast as extras in the 1999 film ''
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'', which he jokingly described as a dystopian alternate history of an ethnically cleansed city. In 2013, Miéville denied allegations of emotional abuse made by an ex-girlfriend. He acknowledged having had a brief affair with the woman, but stated that her account of it was untrue. According to Miéville, he was in a non-monogamous relationship at the time, about which she was aware. Since 2018, he has taken steps to defend his privacy, following what he described as a campaign of harassment and online defamation. Miéville is married to artist Season Butler.


Writings

A comprehensive list of Miéville's work is available at the
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Fiction


Bas-Lag series

* '' Perdido Street Station'' (2000) * '' The Scar'' (2002) * '' Iron Council'' (2004)


Stand-alone novels

* '' King Rat'' (1998) * '' Un Lun Dun'' (2007) * '' The City & the City'' (2009) * '' Kraken'' (2010) * '' Embassytown'' (2011) * '' Railsea'' (2012) * '' The Book of Elsewhere'' (2024), with
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* Untitled novel (2025)


Novellas

* '' The Tain'' (2002) * '' This Census-Taker'' (2016) * '' The Last Days of New Paris'' (2016)


Short story collections

* '' Looking for Jake'' (2005) * '' Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories'' (2015)


Children's picture books

* ''The Worst Breakfast'' (2016), co-written and illustrated by Zak Smith


Comic books

* ''
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'' (2012–2013 series) – #1-#15


Other

* '' Pathfinder Chronicles: Guide to the River Kingdoms'' (2010), with Elaine Cunningham, Chris Pramas, and Steve Kenson.
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In an anthology

* "Watching God" (first publ. in ''Three Moments of an Explosion'', 2015), in ''Out of the Ruins'', edited by Preston Grassmann, Titan Books, 2021


Nonfiction


Books

* ''Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law'' (2005). Leiden: Brill. * ''Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction'' (2009), with Mark Bould. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press. * '' October: The Story of the Russian Revolution'' (2017).
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. * ''A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto'' (2022). Head of Zeus.


Essays

* "London's Overthrow" (2011). Reprinted in a shorter version as
Oh, London, You Drama Queen
, ''
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'' 2012-03-01: 42. * "Preface to a Book not yet Written nor Disavowed" (2015). ''China Miéville: Critical Essays'', eds. Caroline Edwards and Tony Venezia.


Adaptations

* In 2006 Miéville's short story "Details" (collected in '' Looking for Jake'') was adapted as a screenplay by Dan Kay, and subsequently picked up by the studio
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. * In February 2013, a stage adaptation of '' The City and the City'', written by Christopher M. Walsh and directed by Dorothy Milne, made its world premiere at Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. Miéville attended 16 March 2013 production of the adaptation. * A television adaptation of the novel '' The City & the City'' was broadcast on
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in 2018. * American artist Mariam Ghani's ''The City & The City'' (2015), is a loose adaptation of the novel '' The City & the City'' as a video artwork which "maps the conceptual framework of that novel onto the cityscape of St. Louis, melding some of the fictions of the novel's world with elements drawn from past and present histories of the city." * The short story "Estate" (collected in '' Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories'' ) was adapted into a 25-minute movie, released on August 14, 2020, that was described by a review in SciFiNow as "a 25 minute blast of striking imagery, earnest performances and intriguing themes."


Honours

Miéville has won numerous accolades in speculative fiction; he holds the record for the most Arthur C Clarke Award wins (three). '' Perdido Street Station'' was featured in '' Locus'' poll of all-time best 20th century fantasy novels, where it ranked 6th place. * Miéville's first novel, '' King Rat'' (1998), was nominated for both an
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and a
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award. * '' The Scar'' received a Philip K. Dick Award special citation. * "Reports of Certain Events in London" (featured in the anthology ''McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories'') was nominated for a 2005
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and tied for the 2005 Locus Award for Best Novelette. * '' The City & the City'' won the 2009
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Award. * Miéville has been a Guest of Honour at multiple science fiction conventions, including Orbital 2008 the British National Science Fiction convention (
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) in London and
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2006. * He was a 2018
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in Fiction.


References


Further reading


Books

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Articles and chapters

* * * * * * * Reviews ''Railsea''.


Dissertations

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External links


"Rejectamentalist Manifesto"
Blog by China Miéville * * *
"In a Carapace of Light: A Conversation with China Miéville"
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