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China Miéville

China Tom Miéville; born 6 September 1972 in Norwich, England) is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" (after early twentieth century pulp and horror writers such as H. P. Lovecraft), and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird who consciously attempt to move fantasy away from commercial, genre clichés of Tolkien epigones. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party. He has stood for the House of Commons for the Socialist Alliance, and published a book on Marxism and international law. He teaches creative writing at Warwick University.

Early life and education

Miéville was born in Norwich and brought up in Willesden, a neighbourhood in northwest London, and has lived in the city since early childhood. He grew up with his sister and his mother, a teacher; his parents separated soon after his birth, and he has said that he "never really knew" his father. He is an alumnus of the public school Oakham School, where he studied for two years. When he was eighteen, in 1990, he lived in Egypt teaching English for a year, where he developed an interest in Arab culture and Middle Eastern politics. Miéville acquired a B.A. in social anthropology from Cambridge in 1994, and a Master's with distinction and PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics, the latter in 2001. Miéville has also held a Frank Knox fellowship at Harvard.[1] A book version of his PhD thesis, titled Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law, was published in the United Kingdom in 2005 by Brill in their "Historical Materialism" series, and in the United States in 2006 by Haymarket Books.
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Other Websites:

• "rejectamentalist manifesto" Blog by China Miéville.
• BAS-LAG German Website about China Miéville
• A long and literate China Miéville Interview.
• 3:AM interview
• Part 1 of video interview with China Miéville
• Part 2 of video interview with China Miéville
• China Miéville at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• "Fantasy Remade" a Review of China Mieville’s New Crobuzon novels in n+1 magazine, (March 2006).
• Author page at Random House--also out of date.
• Author page at Macmillan - his UK publisher
• Lenin's Tomb, where Mieville is an infrequent contributor.
  • As an example of Miéville's postings there: politics of Weather part I, part II and part III.
• "Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read", an annotated book list originally compiled by China Miéville for Fantastic Metropolis
• "Debating Iron Council" at Crooked Timber
• RevolutionSF Interview
• Audio Interview with Rick Kleffel on The Agony Column Podcast

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